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🕯️👑 Catherine the Great didn’t inherit the throne—she took it. A German princess turned Russian empress, she outsmarted her enemies, rewrote the empire’s future, and managed to rule longer (and smarter) than most kings. Behind the portraits and scandals was a woman obsessed with art, philosophy, and power—and who turned chaos into an empire that glittered like frost on glass.
So close your eyes and drift into the candlelit halls of 18th-century Russia, where ambition wore silk, gossip ruled the court, and one woman became greater than her crown.
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