In recent episodes we've seen how various major events - the war with the Ottomans, the first partition of Poland, Smallpox, Pugachev, and the Moscow plague outbreak, occupied every waking hour of Catherine the Great's life.

But did they? 

Well in today's epsiode we are going to discover that the answer to that question was a resounding 'no'

There's no listener discretion required for this one - play it loud and play it often! 

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