She was pen pals with Voltaire , a hard-working single mother who always kept a lover ? 12 of them over the years. She rewrote Russia?s laws, expanded its borders and powers, made America?s John Paul Jones briefly an admiral in her navy and became Europe?s greatest art collector. A gown in the Kremlin Armory testifies to her amazing waist ? whisper-thin when she was young.
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