Where did Catherine the Great rule?

Catherine the Great was the last reigning Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796—the country’s longest-ruling female leader. The period of Catherine the Great’s rule is considered a Golden Age of Russia._x000D_

Was Catherine the Great a Pro-Vaxxer?

_x000D_In a letter sold at MacDougall’s auction house in London on December 1, 2021, dated April 20, 1787, the Russian empress instructed a governor-general to ensure that a precursor of the smallpox vaccine, called variolation, was readily available in his province for widespread access. The letter was sold along with a portrait of the Empress by Dmitry Levitsky for $1.3 Million.