Catherine the Great

In this biography of the 18th-century occultist, a scholar provides the historical facts as well as the controversy. Cagliostro was well-known across Europe, and knew the rich, famous, and powerful, such as Catherine the Great. He elicited strong reactions from others, including the Church, which had him imprisoned. Was he a total fake Professor... 

Why had Cagliostro been so confident he could dazzle cold Saint Petersburg and its notori- ously ruthless empress, Catherine the Great ... 

Freemasonry in Russia Isabel de Madariaga, Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great, Newhaven and London, 1981, pp. 522—530. 

Euler, Leonhard (1707—1783). Swiss mathematician who lived in St Petersburg over 30 years during the reign of Catherine the Great. 

One could say that Catherine the Great, being Prussian born and an avid correspondent with several of the Encylopedists, including Voltaire, came by her mania for rational order honestly. 

As the prerogative of royalty, purple has created a mystique for amethyst that elevated it above other types of quartz crystals. Coveted by Catherine the Great and embedded in the British Crown Jewels, amethyst was once considered a... 

---