Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to ...

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In her 34-year tenure as Russia’s sovereign, Catherine the Great expanded the country’s borders south and west, codified national law, squelched a spate of uprisings, and propagated Enlightenment ...

The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters. By Mike Ives In ...

Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (New York: Random House, 2011), 656 pp., $35.00. THE SUBTITLE of Robert K. Massie’s biography announces the book’s keynote: it is to be a ...

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Empress Catherine the Great demonstrates her powerful and enduring cultural influence over Russia in a new art exhibit at Scotland's National Museum that opened on Friday. The ...