Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — Remarkable Women Rulers. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Women Rulers.

Remarkable in many ways was Elizabeth Petrovna, empress of Russia, and daughter of Peter the Great. She died 157 years ago. after a reign of 20 years. While history knows her chiefly for her immorality, she left behind her monuments to her better nature, the University of Moscow and the Academy of Fine Arts in Petrograd. Empress Elizabeth’s mother was the Empress Catherine, who had been the wife of a Swedish dragoon, and became the mistress of several men before Peter jthe Great married her. Her daughter. Elizabeth Petrovna, when she ruled Russia, once became so riiortified by one of the jests of Frederick the Great that she made i war on the witty Prussian king, and until her death Russia was one of his most dangerous enemies.