The one we are used to call "Catherine the Great" is actually Sophia von Angalt-Zerbst-Dornburg. She was born in Poland, which was then part of Germany. Her parents are German and Polish.
Det: She hardly knew Russian, and managed to make four grammatical mistakes in a word of three letters (writing as ischo, not what you thought).
Det: And I don’t see any reason for her addiction to non-parnocopytes to make conclusions about the sexual disobedience of the Russians!