Russia's most powerful empress, relying on her 23 lovers, successfully deposed her husband's regime and ascended to the throne.
During her 34-year reign, she expanded Russia's territory by 670,000 square kilometers, and on the eve of her life, she said: "If she can live to be 200 years old, then the whole of Europe will crawl under her feet!" ”
The only empress known as the Russian Emperor at the time was Catherine II, later known as Catherine the Great.
In 1742, Sophia, princess of the Principality of Anhalt-Zelbest, was only 13 years old, and her parents arrived in Berlin for a banquet at the invitation of King Felet II of Prussia.
At the banquet, Philet II was very impressed with Sophia, and presented the portrait of Sophia to the Russian Empress Elizabeth.
Elizabeth never married, choosing her heir to the throne as her nephew Peter. After seeing Sophia in the portrait, he planned to help Peter choose the Imperial Princess, so he decided that Sophia was the candidate for the Imperial Princess!
Soon after, Elizabeth wrote a letter to Sophia's parents, sincerely inviting Sophia and her family to visit Russia. This letter also determined the future of Sophia's marriage.
In January 1744, at the age of 15, Sophia embarked on a journey to Russia with her mother Johanna, with a yearning for a good marriage.
On August 21, 1745, Sophia and Peter held a grand wedding in Russia, becoming a member of the Russian Royal Family, officially renamed Catherine.
After the wedding, Elizabeth was even more eager for the two to continue the royal heirs as soon as possible, so she personally laid the wedding bed for Catherine.
Catherine waited excitedly for her husband in the wedding room, but did not expect that Peter came to the wedding room with his entourage in the night.
Catherine was puzzled, frightened and surprised to ask Peter why, but the drunken Peter replied that it would not be more interesting if the servants saw them sleeping together.
After saying this, Peter dismissed his entourage and went to sleep on his own, leaving Catherine, who was angry and aggrieved on the side. It was her humiliating wedding night.
After the marriage, Peter had always been very indifferent to Catherine, which made Elizabeth, who was very optimistic about the two of them at first, have nothing to say, and it was not long before Elizabeth also changed her enthusiasm for Catherine and became indifferent.
None of this dispelled Catherine's yearning for a better life.
She began to read books to pass the time, and after a few years, Catherine read all the military, political, humanities, and geography books in the royal family.
In 1952, seven years later, Elizabeth gave Catherine and Peter an ultimatum to Catherine and Peter in order for them to have children, and if they had no children, they would be expelled from Russia.
Faced with Elizabeth's orders, the two reluctantly married, and in 1954 Catherine gave birth to the ninth emperor of Russia, Paul I.
When everyone took the newborn Paul away and cheered and celebrated around him, Catherine, who was physically exhausted by childbirth, lay alone in the cold bed, unattended.
Catherine thought that Peter and Elizabeth would change their attitudes after Paul was born, but since Paul, Elizabeth had brought Paul with her personally, and even her biological parents could only see each other once a week.
Peter, not to mention, completely ignored Catherine and was completely immersed in the pleasures of his lovers. In this great palace, who can be their own dependence?
At first, Catherine thought it would be an honor to marry the Russian royal family, but she did not expect that now this place had become a cage for her life, and she wanted to find a way to break through this situation.
At a royal ball, the elegant Count Poniatowski broke into Catherine's heart, and Poniatovsky was also attracted to Catherine, and the two fell in love at first sight, and soon the two developed into underground lovers.
In 1758, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, and just when everyone was happy about it, Peter said to the outside world that he did not know how Catherine got pregnant, and whose child it was.
The relationship between Peter and Catherine began to deteriorate, and soon after Catherine's daughter died tragically, and peter and Catherine's relationship almost broke.
Catherine, who has always thought that the situation is under control, weeps bitterly, recognizes the reality, and since she cannot compromise with fate, she will take the initiative to change everything.
Catherine talked about how easy it was to change her fate, even if Peter in front of her was not afraid. That Empress Elizabeth is still alive, and if she wants to grasp the right to speak, she must wait, TaoGuang is obscure, and waiting for the opportunity to move.
Just as the so-called popular people won the world, Catherine began to make friends with the magnates of the royal family, constantly enveloping each of her lovers, and for a long time, the Russian royal family had Catherine's power up and down.
On 25 December 1761, Empress Elizabeth died and Peter took the throne. But not long after, Catherine gave birth to another boy, and both Peter and Catherine knew that the child was not Peter's.
The father of the child was Orlov, one of Catherine's lovers, the aide-de-camp of the King of Prussia. Peter was furious when he found out and decided to deal with Catherine severely.
However, Catherine, who had long been prepared for the royal family, did not obey his orders by virtue of Peter's few words.
According to relevant records, Peter himself was not good at governing the country, and his IQ was equivalent to that of a teenager, who did not understand military politics and was unpopular.
Catherine had long wanted to change her fate, and there was no Elizabeth in front of her, and since Peter was not capable of managing the country well, she might as well go up on her own.
On June 28, 1762, Catherine gathered her army and local people to launch an attack on Peter III of St. Petersburg in Russia, and Peter III, who had long since lost his heart, had nowhere to flee and had to sign an abdication edict.
However, after the death of Peter III due to illness 8 days after his abdication, Catherine not only overthrew the Peter regime and successfully ascended to the throne, becoming the eighth emperor of Russia, but also met one of her lovers, General Bo, in the same year.
Catherine's talents in all aspects were appreciated by Catherine, and she showed great heroism and loyalty when Catherine launched a coup d'état.
After ascending the throne, Catherine also promoted General Po to captain. Her love affair with General Po attracted the attention of Orlov, who gave her life's connections and money to Catherine in order to regain the empress's favor.
However, General Po used his connotations and talents to capture Catherine. Orlov did not expect that he originally wanted to please Catherine, but instead helped his lover, so he injured General Po in public, causing General Po to be blind in his left eye.
Since then, Orlov has lost her love for Catherine, and Catherine has also blamed General Po for his blindness, which is very distressing.
Speaking of catherine's lovers in her life, she was either a land commander or a naval admiral, each of whom was a big man with a head and a face, but Catherine later chose General Bo as her right arm, the only man she wanted to rely on for a lifetime.
Catherine loves General Bo's arrogance and dictatorship, but General Po often quarrels over things between Catherine and her lovers.
But even if they quarrel and agree, both of them feel that this has become a spice in life, and the feelings are a little deeper after each quarrel.
Catherine had a major decision for her beloved General Po to make him her legitimate husband. On June 8, 1774, Catherine and General Poe married.
However, the wedding was not so luxurious, and it ended hastily under the witness of only 5 people. Catherine originally only had to lie on her husband's arm to enjoy the sweetness, but did not admit that the marriage lasted only 17 years, and ended the marriage in the endless suspicion and temper of General Po.
Even though the two were no longer married, General Po remained by Catherine's side after the divorce. However, soon after the two quarreled again, in a fit of rage, General Bo decided to return to his hometown.
On the way home, General Po's old wounds recurred and he was unwilling to take medicine, and Catherine, who learned the news, wrote a letter to persuade General Bo to take medicine in time, but it was too late, General Bo's injuries worsened, and General Po died in 1792.
When the servants sent Catherine a bad news of General Po, Catherine burst into tears. It was not until September 1796 that the legend of Catherine's life came to a magnificent end.
Looking back at catherine's reign, in addition to the legendary love story, she also strengthened the rights and interests of the nobility politically, advocating equality for all.
Not only did it expand 670,000 square kilometers of territory for Russia, but it also opened up the outlets of the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, eliminated the Crimean Khanate, and claimed that the Crimean Khanate was her dowry to Russia.
This is a great achievement that none of catherine's previous reigning emperors could have achieved, and perhaps this is why people call Catherine the Emperor.