HBO's limited series Catherine the Great will introduce viewers to the ambitious Russian empress Catherine II, who reigned for an astonishing 34 years, the longest a woman has held the throne in the ...

Hulu's comedic, history miniseries The Great will drop on the platform Friday. The series is a satirical drama about Catherine the Great's rise to power in Russia. The 10-episode series stars Elle ...

Russia’s longest-ruling female leader, Catherine II — better known as Catherine the Great — was a force to be reckoned with. Coming to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III, Catherine was ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...

Featuring a pet bear, banned beards, and a mummified queen, Hulu's The Great follows Catherine II (Elle Fanning) as she plots to overthrow her husband, Russian emperor Peter III (Nicholas Hoult). But ...

And so we come to our second quality television series about Catherine II of Russia in the space of seven months, “The Great,” with a marvelous Elle Fanning as the 18th century Russian empress. (Helen ...

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“It’s a mistake to ask rich people for money,” Catherine tells a sputtering solider. “How do you think they got rich? By giving it away?” It’s just the kind of line that you know Mirren is going to ...

In HBO’s “Catherine the Great,” Mirren portrays the 18th-century Russian empress at the height of her powers. By Julia Jacobs In the first episode of the HBO mini-series “Catherine the Great,” the ...

In the June 19 column, we discussed the rise of Russian imperial power in the time of Peter the Great, with particular reference to his impact on Russian religion and political expansion into Ukraine.

Olivia Durand receives research funding from Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a postdoctoral visting fellow alongside her position at the University of Oxford. Pope Francis’s video speech to the ...