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Why Catherine the Great's 'greatness' doesn't grate

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageWho, exactly, was Catherine II, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia?Catherine II by Fyodor Rokotov. The Hermitage/ Wikimedia Commons.

The current Hermitage exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is subtitled – quite rightly – The Legacy of Catherine the Great. As per the gallery’s blurb, it:

showcases one of the...

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