*Ø* Blogmanac November 6, 1796 | Nay to Catherine's horse story
1796 Ekaterina (or Yekaterina) II (April 21, 1729 - November 6, 1796), also known as Catherine the Great, the German-born Empress of Russia, died without having regained consciousness following a stroke that she suffered on November 5, 1796 while sitting on a commode at her St Petersburg palace.
A distant cousin of Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great reigned as empress of Russia from June 28, 1762 to her death.
Catherine is still famous for her sexual appetites and many lovers. She even had a secret room constructed, filled with paintings and sculptures depicting many sexual acts, rape, pedophilia and bestiality in realistic and graphic detail. Even the furniture incorporated depictions of giant sexual organs. However, there is no historical base for the often-told story that she was crushed to death when attendants lost their grip on ropes supporting a horse that was being lowered on her for sexual purposes.
Some have suggested that Polish emigrés might have invented the story in order to discredit her and the Russians in general, because Poland fared badly at the hands of Russian armies during her long and authoritarian reign.
1796 Ekaterina (or Yekaterina) II (April 21, 1729 - November 6, 1796), also known as Catherine the Great, the German-born Empress of Russia, died without having regained consciousness following a stroke that she suffered on November 5, 1796 while sitting on a commode at her St Petersburg palace.
A distant cousin of Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great reigned as empress of Russia from June 28, 1762 to her death.
Catherine is still famous for her sexual appetites and many lovers. She even had a secret room constructed, filled with paintings and sculptures depicting many sexual acts, rape, pedophilia and bestiality in realistic and graphic detail. Even the furniture incorporated depictions of giant sexual organs. However, there is no historical base for the often-told story that she was crushed to death when attendants lost their grip on ropes supporting a horse that was being lowered on her for sexual purposes.
Some have suggested that Polish emigrés might have invented the story in order to discredit her and the Russians in general, because Poland fared badly at the hands of Russian armies during her long and authoritarian reign.
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