The Peasant Girl Who Became An Empress | Catherine I of Russia | Ekaterina I of Russia 

Right? It makes you realise all those fairytales like Cinderella might actually have a little bit of truth to them. 🤣

Was she at all responsible for her stepson's death at his father's hands?

Aww, thank you so much! You guys are all very much appreciated as well, I love making videos for you guys to enjoy. 😊

Will Paul ii two wives be portrayed soon?

Was catherine denied getting an education by her husband?

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! ☺

I didn't know she was married before peter the great.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊 It is a lot of fun researching all the different histories from places outside my comfort zone.

I wonder if she loved her first husband at all ?

Peter definitely also had a very interesting life! I'd have to do more than one video on Peter if I ever covered him, that's for certain.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! ☺

You're welcome, I'm glad you're enjoying them! 😊

I will definitely add her to my growing list! ☺

Please do the lost 4 grand duchesses.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 😊

OMG, I'm so sorry I didn't see this comment! I'm not with it this week lol. 😂 Okay, I'm going to be cliché and say Catherine the Great as my favourite as well! I can't help it, I think she was amazing. She went from this little princess who impressed her mother-in-law but was a bit uncertain, to basically Russia's greatest ruler. Right from the start, she threw herself wholeheartedly into learning Russian, learning the culture, and making friends. She had to put up with an emotionally immature husband who didn't care for her, she overthrew him, took as many lovers as she pleased (after still providing Russia with a future Emperor), brought in culture and science, modernised the country, and opened up Russian borders to allow in people from other places. She was also sharply political, and she understand how to fight militarily, even if she never fought personally. What's not to like? ☺ Now, as for least favourite, that has to be Nicholas II as well. It's pretty difficult to not choose him! I mean, Ivan the Terrible was also not a great Tsar, but he did at least unify Russia. (Although he is definitely my second-to-last choice) Nicholas didn't have a clue about how to rule, but was also arrogant enough to assume he didn't need his advisors. He faffed about in regards to WW1, went off to lead the troops despite not having the military experience for it, AND left his equally inexperienced and unpopular wife in charge of Russia. He also chose not to get his family out of Russia when it became pretty obvious they were going to be targeted by those wanting rid of a monarchist system, and that choice led, sadly, to the deaths of his entire family. He did give support to economic reforms proposed by his government, and he did advocate modernity for his country, but Nicholas' main problem was that he didn't fully embrace 'being' an autocratic emperor, not did he give major roles within his government to the right people, which would have still strengthened his position. I don't think he was actually a bad person in himself, but he made a series of bad choices.

Hi friend.

@@DarthDread-oh2ne Hello :)

Can't blame her for how she got through life, existence for women was unequal and injust.

Don’t you think is weird having so strong feelings about someone born more than 500 years ago and that we don’t know much?

LOL she is the next one! To be fair, I think there's always a new way of presenting someone from history, so I'll try to find it. 😅

Thank you, as always! I'm glad you liked it. 😊

Wonder why only 2 children survived into adulthood? Wonder if std had something to do with it?

Hi Michelle, I'm glad you and Benjamin are doing well! Canada is probably a lot colder than here in England, but it's freezing here too (for us, anyway!) We've gone into minus temperatures (celsius), so it's officially 'winter' now LOL. No snow yet, but I'm happy as long as it's not wet! 😂 Elizabeth Boleyn would be an interesting lady to do - I hadn't planned on it, but you've given me an idea now for 'mothers of famous noblewomen', so I'll definitely put some thought into that! Thank you for the idea. 😊

I'm not sure, but I would wager it was something to do with Peter more than his wives - he had numerous mistresses and only one surviving illegitimate child from these liaisons as well, so it's likely it was more something to do with him.

@@user-fg9xz4bz3b It wasn't really unusual by this time that people had lots of kids but sadly only a few would survive. More or less everything we have either antibiotics or vaccines to, they simply didn't. Hence, many kids didn't survive their childhood for one reason or the other.

Me too, I thought it was awful how she was just tossed aside - if it had been mutual, it might have been different, but it wasn't. 😔

Catherine the Great definitely comes up more often! (And for good reason, to be fair). Ekaterina definitely laid out the framework, whether she realised it or not, to make it easier for women like Catherine II to later take the throne of Russia. I think some of it is also down to the court being made up of a lot of 'new men' at the time. Had it mostly been aristocracy, I'm not sure Ekaterina would have been allowed to maintain her position, puppet or not.

You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it! ☺Well, I'm also going to cover Catherine the Great at some point, but I think she'll need more than one video dedicated to her.

​@@HistorysForgottenPeopleYes, I loved it, keep up the great work. Yes, Catherine the great deserves a whole video dedicated to her.

Oh, she definitely is! I haven't forgotten her - it's going to be one of those enormously big videos though, when I've got a week without school holidays or something, haha. 😂

She is on my list to have a video at some point! ☺

@@HistorysForgottenPeopleYou definitely need to do a video of Catherine II a.k.a. Catherine the Great.

Not really boss. She didn’t rule in her own right like Catherine II

@@di3486 no one ruled liked catherine the ii

@@user-fg9xz4bz3b definitely

She was certainly busy!