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RF2G47W5W – This 1899 illustration shows Catherine of Russia as painted by Ossani. Catherine the Great (1729-1796) was born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in Prussia. She married the future Peter IIII of Russia in 1744, and in 1762, with a group of conspirators, deposed Peter and proclaimed herself empress of Russ
An obscure German princess became one of the most powerful women in history as Catherine II the Great, empress of Russia. She expanded the territory of Russia and was known for her brilliant court, to which the greatest minds of Europe were drawn. The future Catherine, christened Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst, was born at ...
Brief Life History of Sophia Augusta Frederika. When "Empress Catherine the Great" Sophia Augusta Frederika von Anhalt Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729, in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia, her father, Prince Christian August von Anhalt-Zerbst, was 38 and her mother, Princess Johanna Elisabeth zu Holstein-Gottorp, was 16.
Sophie Auguste d'Anhalt-Zerbst (9 mars 1663 – 14 septembre 1694), est une noble allemande, membre de la Maison d'Ascanie et par mariage duchesse de Saxe-Weimar. Née à Zerbst , elle est le onzième des quatorze enfants nés du mariage de Jean VI d'Anhalt-Zerbst et Sophie-Augusta de Holstein-Gottorp .
Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst, later Catherine II of Russia (1745) This portrait shows Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-96) in 1745, the year she married the heir to Russian throne, Karl Peter Ulrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1728-62).
Nach dem Tod ihres Bruders Fürst Friedrich August von Anhalt-Zerbst erbte Katharina II. 1793 die Herrschaft Jever, die 1795 noch einmal durch die Zerbster Teilung konkretisiert wurde. Als Statthalterin setzte sie ihre Schwägerin Friederike Auguste Sophie ein. Europa zur Zeit des Siebenjährigen Krieges
Between the Elbe and the Fläming, about 20 km from the Bauhaus city Dessau-Roßlau, Zerbst looks back on 1000 years of eventful history. In the first reformed town of Anhalt, Princess Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst, the later “Catherine the Great,” grew up protected by imposing castle walls. Johann Friedrich Fasch, the court conductor of the time, also helped the town achieve ...
