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Listen now | Guess who Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst [present-day Saxony] was? Well, she was Catherine the Great, also known as Catherine II, who reigned between 1762 and 1796. She was born in the then Prussian [now Polish] town of Stettin. Daddy was a German prince. Although she was a princess, the family had limited wealth. Her heritage meant she was related to many other European nobility such as the Kings of Sweden. She also happened to be a second cousin of the future Peter III, future Tzar of Russia. She first met Peter, aged ten. He was probably eleven or twelve at the time. She found Peter ‘detestable’ - even at that young age.

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