The Memoirs of Catherine the Great

by Catherine the Great

  Shepelev, Chinovnyi mir, 346.

  Ibid., 341–42.

  In 1736, the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp established the Order of St. Anna in honor of his wife, Anna Petrovna, and it was added to Russian orders by Empress Elizabeth I, Anna’s younger sister, in 1742.

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