Catherine came to power through a political coup against her husband that lately turned deadly. Probably not, though public opinion held her accountable for his assassination. Did Catherine the Great kill her husband? Though Catherine gave birth to three children who survived to adulthood, some historians believe that Peter fathered none of them, likely due to impotence or infertility.
Desperately unhappy, Catherine began to take lovers. The arranged marriage was a complete mismatch, largely due to Peter’s personal failings-Peter was neurotic, stubborn, and an alcoholic. Upon her conversion to Russian Orthodoxy, she took the name Yekaterina (anglicized as Catherine). In 1745, at the age of 16, she was married through a dynastic arrangement to her second cousin, the prospective Tsar Peter of Holstein-Gottorp. Was Catherine the Great married?Įmpress Catherine II of Russia was born Princess Sophie of Prussia (now Poland). Read on for the real story about how Catherine lived and loved.
With the monarch’s story hitting television in HBO’s Catherine the Great, we took it upon ourselves to sort fact from fiction when it comes to her personal life. Yet thanks to misogyny, jealousy, and a poisonous court culture, Catherine was accused of practically every form of sexual deviance you can dream up-like bestiality, nyphomania, and voyeurism, to name a few. Even in her lifetime, Catherine was known for her string of male lovers, many of whom were significantly younger than her, and some of whom reaped political and financial benefits from their arrangement. Yet other legends are less savory (and less factual), namely the legends concerning Catherine’s infamous life between the sheets. However, Catherine wasn’t simply a great conqueror-she was also an enlightened intellectual and a forward-thinking trailblazer, a woman who championed vaccination, uplifted female artists, exchanged letters with leading philosophers like Voltaire, wrote memoirs, and penned the first works of children’s literature published in Russia. In the plus column, the longest-reigning empress of Russia transformed her empire into one of Europe’s great and enduring powers, annexing over 200,000 miles of land, building over 100 new towns, and fostering a golden age of development for the arts and sciences. Maybe if they focused a bit more on global reach and not just their home country, they may have been more popular but alas.Legends abound about Catherine the Great-the good kind and the bad kind. They are almost irrelevant next to the big western developers. People complain that Microsoft don’t put much effort into Japanese developers but why should they? After being screwed over during the 360 era? And why are the Japanese developers putting 0 effort when they can easily port a digital copy? Ultimately a platform can easily survive without Japanese games because they are not what they used to be. And why is that? They release their games on PlayStation and PC but they can’t launch a digital copy on the Xbox store? A digital copy that doesn’t cost that much investment? And the fact that Xbox is almost identical to PlayStation and ports are very easy. Literally the only country that doesn’t buy Xbox and that can’t launch their games on Xbox. And if you think about Japanese developers are the only ones that can’t launch their games on Xbox. These guys are just taking advantage of us.
So I really don’t blame Microsoft for saying fuck it. People even started to know that the game will arrive to PlayStation with some exclusive content. And how did those Japanese developed repay them? They focused on releasing more “complete” versions of those games Microsoft funded 6 months later to PlayStation. It’s really funny how Microsoft poured so much money and effort into Japanese developers during the 360 era. In turn I Just Completely ignore their games despite having all three consoles and pc. Yeah Japanese developers completely ignore Xbox.
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