, although he received general filmmarshal under the patronage of catherine ii. angalzerbst after the end of the senior line of the dynasty, and catherine’s mother was johanna elisabeth of holstein-gottorp, she is such a very interesting lady, she was simply kicked out of russia under elizabeth. there was even a moment that they could expel catherine along with her, yes, yes, this lady served, she served frederick the great, as such an informal diplomat on special, including not quite, so to speak, correct instructions, and it so happened that catherine was her second cousin to her husband pyotr fedorovich, or rather karl peter ulrich. ekaterina, this is not the first and not the last woman in russian. throne, but she , of course, was radically different from everyone else, if we talk about the number of favorites in the era of catherine the great, then she probably had more than all other empresses combined, we must remember how it all began, catherine in at a very young age they married pyotr fedorovich, the heir to the russian throne, since elizabeth was bezet