Hello and welcome to part two of our coverage of the life of Catherine the Great.

We had decided to revisit these two episodes from 2016 after watching a Hulu's new Mad

Cap and a beautiful series The Great.

We thought everybody would want to brush up on their Catherine the Great knowledge and

learn what the entirely true story is.

We had originally planned to post this episode as a bonus like last week, but in light of

current world events, we got our schedule out, we crossed some things off and drew some

arrows, and we moved up another subject that we thought we wanted to cover sooner rather

than later in light of those events.

So later this week we will have a brand new episode for you.

On a woman who's story, we were very excited to tell, we just thought we were going to

tell it a little bit later than we are.

So now on with the show.

Welcome to the history tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely

coincidental.

Hello and welcome back to part two of our coverage of Catherine the Great of Russia.

We strongly encourage you to go back and listen to part one, but we provided a little recap

as it's been a little while, so you could remember what happened if you don't have time to

go back.

And here's your 30 second recap.

Once upon a time a fair and smart princess Sophia is hauled out of obscurity by being called

to Russia.

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