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Catherine The Great Research Paper

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Catherine the Great was born in Stettin, Prussia. She was given the name Sophie Friederike Auguste by her father Prince Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbest and her mother Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. Catherine the Great started out as a minor German Princess. As a Princess she was educated by tutors. She learned three different languages; German, French, and Russian. During her free time she read a lot of books (mostly in French). Catherine worked extremely hard to master the Russian Language. She was also very ambitious and intelligent. She enjoyed novels, plays, and verses. When she was a teenager she traveled to Russia with her mother in 1744. But overall her mother didn’t have much interest in her. She later got engaged
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