Question

I just need something more specific on how Catherine II became Empress...please?

Answer 1

All I know is "After the death of the Empress Elizabeth on 5 January 1762 (OS: 25 December 1761), Peter, the Grand Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, succeeded to the throne as Peter III of Russia, and Catherine became Empress Consort of Russia."

Answer 2

Hello @Darry&Gator this site might help http://www.nndb.com/people/575/000078341/

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great here you go! :3

Answer 4

So, is this how she became empress? Catherine II became Christian. She wrote memoirs representing herself as having made up her mind when she came to Russia to do whatever had to be done, and to profess to believe whatever she was required to believe, in order to be qualified to wear the crown. The conformity of her character made her have a high chance that at fifteen she was mature enough to get used to "worldly line of conduct". Her father, who was a Lutheran, was very mad because Catherine became Christian. He gave her books of controversy to protect her Protestantism. She read them, and to other advisers who told her that the Russian crown was well worth a mass, or that the differences between the Greek and Lutheran churches were mere matters of form. On the 28th of June 1744 she was received into the Orthodox Church at Moscow, and was renamed Catherine Alexeyevna. On the following day she was formally betrothed, and was married to the archduke on the 21st of August 1745 at St. Petersburg.

Is this how she became empress @JessicaBBY @linda3 and what is the "worldly line of conduct"

Answer 5

The consistency of her character throughout life makes it highly probable that even at the age of fifteen she was mature enough to adopt this worldly line of conduct. I hope this helps