David Frum

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At the most intense moment of Catherine's love affair with Prince Potemkin, he accused her of unchastity. To defend herself, she wrote him a detailed account of every love affair in her life to that point. The account survived, which is why historians know so much about her. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 29, 2022

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Catherine the Great never visited Odesa. She was of course originally German, who got the top job in Russia by marriage followed by assassination. There's a gripping biography of her by Robert Massie https://t.co/f5eKSKG0iF — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 29, 2022

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The political and intellectual partnership with Potemkin endured to his death, but the love affair did not. It was after they drifted apart that Catherine took up with the more numerous series of lovers for which she became famous/notorious. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 29, 2022