In 1752 suave seducer Sergei Saltykov spiced up the life of this future empress
In her memoirs, Empress 
Catherine II spread rumours that he was the actual .... Jump up ^ Great Catherine: 
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and cultural life of Europe, carrying on the work begun by Peter the Great.