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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Ever wonder how a nobody German princess ended up running the biggest empire in the world? Spoiler: it wasn’t luck or charm alone. Catherine the Great rewrote the playbook on power, mixing ruthless ambition with a dash of Enlightenment idealism—and a whole lot of political savvy. But was she a visionary or just a savvy autocrat with a knack for PR? Let’s dig in.
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