Catherine the Great — "I came to Russia a poor princess, and I shall leave it a rich empress."

I came to Russia a poor princess, and I shall leave it a rich empress.
Catherine the Great — Catherine the Great Early Modern · Russian Empress, expansion

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Reported remark to her ladies-in-waiting

Date: c. 1762

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