Welcome to the Russian History Retail, episode 260, Catherine the Great's Lovers.

Last time, we talked about Prince Andrei Kharpski and the Chosen Council.

Today, we will look into the lives of the 13 lovers of Catherine the Great.

But before we do that, I'd just like to ask my listeners to think of some ideas about

questions you'd like to ask me for our 13th annual anniversary event, which is coming at

the end of April and April 30th, will mark the 13th year beginning of the 13th year of

this podcast.

So I'm asking people on Facebook and our Russian rulers' history podcast group to give me

some questions that they'd like answered or some opinions of mine that you'd like to hear

about.

So you can also email me at Mark Shouse, M-A-R-K-S-C-H-A-U-S-S at gmail.com, looking forward

to hearing from you.

But let's get into the episode.

This is going to be a long one.

For this episode, I'll rely on three books, Catherine the Great by Henry Triat, and

a work by the same name by Robert Massey, as well as The Secret Lives of the Zars by

Michael Farquhar.

The latter is a rather solitious book that takes a somewhat jaundice look at the Zars

of Russia.

Now, one prominent person who should be on the list, but isn't for understandable reasons,

is her husband, Peter the Third.

Imagine being a young woman full of life, sexually inquisitive, and you have a husband who's

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