ten things...

[Francoise Rosset]

> 
> Ekaterina  II  wasn't Russian...
> 
> Katarina Peitlova-Tocci,PhDr.

Well NO ONE at the head of any European monarchy was purely anything, 
since rather than marry minor local nobility or (pass the smelling 
salts!!) commoners, one often married foreign royalty.

Apparently Victoria was particularly successful at placing her 
descendants. In 1914, those crowned heads and their little war were 
all related. I believe Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II were "Cousin 
Nicky" and "Cousin Willy" to the King of England. Even the current 
consort, Philip of Edinburgh, originally from Greece, is a 
great-great-grandson of Victoria ...

But I guess Ekaterina/Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst was probably mostly 
"German" when she married, and not one bit Russian, so Katarina is 
right too.
And it makes for a good one-liner.
-FR


Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Coordinator, German and Russian
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
Office: (508) 285-3696
FAX:   (508) 286-3640

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