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She was born on May 2, 1729 in Stettin's Old Palace. Russia was his adopted country, because he had been born in a German principality.
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At the age of fifteen, Catherine II married with her cousin, Peter III, a year older than her. She won the unconditional support of the Empress Elizabeth I, the daughter of Peter the Great, when the Court humiliated and hated her.
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On July 9 in 1762, one of the most powerful women of time ascended to the throne of Russia
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When Elizabeth died on July 13 in 1762, was the coronation of Catalina II and Pere III, was the new emperor.
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She got her lover Stanislaus Poniatowski elected king of Poland and four years later put Polish liberties and laws under her control.
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Catherine II, wanted to conquer the territories of Dniester, because the Ottoman Empire was the traditional enemy of the Russians. The war with Turkey, started in 1768, it was a victory for Catherine II, his troops were inferior in number but they were better trained.
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On November 17, 1796, when she was sixty-one years old, she was found dead in her cabinet, showing no symptoms of any illness.
