Catherine the Great Part 1: Romancing the Throne | 58

Even The Royals

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.4 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

They don’t call her The Great for nothing. There’s a reason Catherine the Great is the star of TV series, movies, and an overall pop culture icon. Bold, ambitious, and famous for her double digits list of lovers, Catherine seized control of Russia and ruled the country longer than any woman in history. But her career didn’t start off without a hitch. At first, she was just a shy princess from a no-name duchy. But when her new husband Peter rejects her, Cat has to forge new paths to power…and love.

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0:00.0	Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad-free right now.
0:04.1	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.6	A quick note about our show.
0:09.0	We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your high school history class,
0:12.7	so some details and scenes are dramatized.
0:15.6	And unlike Catherine, our language isn't always great, so please be advised.
0:27.8	Okay, Eresha, I got a question for you.
0:28.7	Yes.
0:33.2	Have you ever felt like you had to choose between your career and love?
0:43.2	It's just so funny because it's the premise of at least 75% of rom-coms, I feel like, in some capacity.
0:44.2	Yeah, of course.
0:46.4	No.
0:48.2	I mean, no, sadly.
0:48.9	I wish.
0:50.6	What would you choose?
0:51.9	My career.
0:57.2	Lady Gaga said it best. Your career will never wake up one day and tell you it doesn't love you.
0:58.5	There it is.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:04.2	Well, Catherine the Great found herself in this spot, many times, actually.
1:10.7	Over her three-decade reign as Empress of Russia, historians believe Catherine had 12 different lovers. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen,
1:13.5	the woman loved love, you know? Yeah, can't blame her for that. I know. Maybe the only thing
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