Sentence examples for become empress from inspiring English sources

Catherine, however, would not have become empress if her husband had been at all normal.

In 1742 17411, Old Style) he helped her overthrow Emperor Ivan VI and become Empress Elizabeth.

Catherine, named Sophia until she converted from Lutheranism to Orthodoxy, was an insignificant 18th-­century German girl who rose to become empress of Russia.

Ottone, a nobleman, discovers that his lover, Poppea, has taken up with Nerone, partly, at least, as a bid to become empress.

A juicy and suspenseful life of the minor German princess whose ambition, wiles, luck and strategic marriage helped her become Empress of All the Russias.

Here he presents a sweeping narrative of the minor German princess (1729-96) whose ambition, wiles, luck and strategic marriage helped her become Empress of All the Russias.

When she became Empress, Catherine ruled by relying heavily on Peter's former court favorite, Alexander Menshikov.

When the latter died (1730), Ivan V's second surviving daughter, Anna, became empress.

The factory's prime was reached when Catherine II the Great became empress in 1762.

After his death she became empress, extending the Russian empire south and westwards.

The peasant girl who became empress is holding court in a very modern Chinese setting.