Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great
Empress an Autocrat o Aw the Roushies
Reign	9 Julie 1762 – 17 November 1796
Coronation	12 September 1762
Predecessor	Peter III
Successor	Paul I
Empress consort o Aw the Roushies
Tenure	25 Dizember 1761–9 Julie 1762
Spouse	Peter III o Roushie
3 illegitimate childer Issue
Paul o Roushie
Full name
Sophie Friederike Auguste
House	Hoose o Romanov Hoose o Ascania
Father	Christian Augustus, Prince o Anhalt-Zerbst
Mother	Johanna Elisabeth o Holstein-Gottorp
Born	Mey 2, 1729(1729-05-02) Stettin, Pomeranie, Kinrick o Proushie, Holy Roman Empire
Died	November 17, 1796(1796-11-17) (agit 67) Saunt Petersburg, Roushie
Burial	Peter an Paul Cathedral in Saunt Petersburg
Signature
Religion	Lutheranism, then Eastren Orthodox

Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, kent as Catherine the Great an aw (Roushie: Екатерина II Великая‎, Yekaterina II Velikaya), Empress o Roushie (2 Mey [O.S. 21 Aprile] 1729 – 17 November [O.S. 6 November] 1796), wis the maist renouned an the langest-rulin female leader o Roushie, reignin frae 9 Julie [O.S. 28 Juin] 1762 till her daith at the age o saxty-seiven. She wis born in Stettin, Pomeranie, Proushie as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, an came tae pouer follaein a coup d'état an the assassination o her husband, Peter III, at the end o the Seiven Years' War. Roushie wis revitalisit unner her reign, growin lairger an stranger than iver an becomin recognisit as ane o the great pouers o Europe.