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She was a German princess of lower rank, who was chosen by Emperatiz
Isabel to marry the future Tsar.
When Elizabeth died and Peter ascended the throne, he made a series
of decisions that caused general discontent. Catherine and her lover
Gregory Orlov organized a coup d'etat in which Tsarina was proclaimed.
The Empress founded the first schools for ladies and a school of
medicine for the care of their subjects. He had a great intellectual
training, he liked the ideas of the Enlightenment and corresponded with
the enlightened philosophers Voltaire and Diderot.