During that era, the laws of succession were rigidly enforced. The most intriguing aspect of the story is the fact that Catherine had no moral or legal right to the Russian throne. After scandalous love affairs and the mysterious sudden death of her husband, Peter III, Catherine ascended the Russian throne. At the urging of her ambitious mother, Johanna, Sophie married Peter III, the only grandson of Russian legend, Peter I. Pius and idealistic, the young Sophie shed her cloak of innocence to become Catherine The Great.
From a small coastal village in what is now Poland, Sophie Augusta Fredericka traveled to Russia at the age of fourteen.
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