Empress Catherine the Great

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Empress_Catherine_the_Great
GPTKB entity
Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Holy Roman Emperor
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Grigory_Orlov
gptkb:Grigory_Potemkin
gptkb:Stanislaw_August_Poniatowski
gptkbp:awardedBy The Great
gptkbp:birthDate 1729-05-02
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Sophie_Friederike_Auguste_von_Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Stettin,_Kingdom_of_Prussia
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Peter_and_Paul_Cathedral,_Saint_Petersburg
gptkbp:child gptkb:Paul_I_of_Russia
gptkbp:coronationDate 1762-09-22
gptkbp:deathDate 1796-11-17
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Saint_Petersburg,_Russian_Empire
gptkbp:era gptkb:Russian_Enlightenment
gptkbp:father gptkb:Christian_August,_Prince_of_Anhalt-Zerbst
gptkbp:gender female
gptkbp:house gptkb:House_of_Romanov
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Empress Catherine the Great
gptkbp:knownFor Patronage of the arts
Enlightened absolutism
Catherine the Great's reforms
Correspondence with Voltaire and Diderot
Expansion of the Russian Empire
gptkbp:languageSpoken gptkb:French
gptkb:German
gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:militaryCampaign gptkb:Partitions_of_Poland
gptkb:Russo-Turkish_Wars
gptkbp:mother gptkb:Johanna_Elisabeth_of_Holstein-Gottorp
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:nickname gptkb:Catherine_the_Great
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Memoirs_of_Catherine_the_Great
gptkbp:policy gptkb:Charter_to_the_Nobility
Legal reforms
Educational reforms
Secularization of church lands
Expansion into Crimea
Promotion of Westernization
gptkbp:portrait gptkb:Fyodor_Rokotov
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Peter_III_of_Russia
gptkbp:reignEnd 1796-11-17
gptkbp:reignStart 1762-07-09
gptkbp:religion Russian Orthodox
gptkbp:signature Catherine II signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Peter_III_of_Russia
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Paul_I_of_Russia
gptkbp:title gptkb:Princess_of_Anhalt-Zerbst
Holy Roman Emperor
Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Saint_Catherine's_Church,_Saint_Petersburg
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6