Boring History For Sleep | Catherine the Great 👑 Russia’s Most Unexpected Empress

Boring History for Sleep - A podcast by Velvet

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🕯️👑 Catherine the Great didn’t inherit the throne—she took it. A German princess turned Russian empress, she outsmarted her enemies, rewrote the empire’s future, and managed to rule longer (and smarter) than most kings. Behind the portraits and scandals was a woman obsessed with art, philosophy, and power—and who turned chaos into an empire that glittered like frost on glass.So close your eyes and drift into the candlelit halls of 18th-century Russia, where ambition wore silk, gossip ruled the court, and one woman became greater than her crown.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Power, politics, and bedtime royalty. 💤

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