But while the matter was still under
grasped her arm with scant ceremony.
"We must act at once," said he. "We have been betrayed!"
Catharine was not a woman.html">woman to waste time. She went immediately to
calling out the Russian guards, appealed to them for their
thunderous cheer. Immediately afterward the priests anointed her
was saluted by the people, as well as by the soldiers, as empress
The wretched Peter, who was drilling his German guards at a
sailors at Kronstadt would not acknowledge him, and then finally
room. To him came the Orloffs, quite of their own accord. Gregory
Peter, who was powerful of build and now quite desperate, hurled
with a tremendous clutch and strangled him till the blood gushed
save to accept the result of excessive zeal. She issued a note to
violent colic. When his body was laid out for burial the
hands, staining the gloves that had been placed upon them. No one
Orloff told the truth with the utmost composure. The whole
Catharine the Great--the exploits of her armies, the acuteness of
Empire, and the impulse which she gave to science and art and
when one thinks of the woman whom Voltaire once styled "the
one could gainsay her, she led in private a life which has been
yet, though she had lovers whose names have been carefully
love deeply and intensely only once,
One should not place all her lovers in the same category. As a
herself to Gregory Orloff. She admired his strength, his daring,
he came to seem almost more brute than man. She could not turn.
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