While her success as a monarch lies at the heart of the various bestiality rumors circulated about her, so too does her overthrow of her husband, because both were viewed in her lifetime and beyond as unnatural - women of that era were held to be biologically inferior and thus incapable of leading nations with any success, and wives were put on this Earth to be subservient to husbands, not to dethrone them.
Yet to do all this, the former German princess had to first wrest control from her insane husband, which she did by staging a coup and declaring herself empress. Under her, the country prospered, schools were established, laws enacted, wars fought and won. History regards Catherine as a powerful ruler who saved Russia from almost certain invasion and annexation by her stronger neighbors. Exactly when and where the story about Catherine’s death having been caused by a horse originated remains unknown.Īs one of her biographers wrote, the “implications of the horse story appear aimed at undercutting Catherine’s claims to greatness, by aggressively asserting that her primary motivation was unbridled sex, the excesses of which resulted in her monstrous death.” Pornographic poetry and gossip about Catherine’s excessive appetite for sex - especially her alleged fondness for the barnyard variety - circulated in Russia (and throughout Europe) during Catherine’s lifetime. An autopsy conducted the next day determined the cause of death to be a cerebral hemorrhage. As her servant summoned help, Catherine lapsed into unconsciousness from which she never awakened and died at 9:45 PM the next day. About three hours later her chamberlain, curious that he had not been summoned as usual, found her barely conscious on the floor of a closet adjacent to her bedroom. On the morning of 5 November 1796, Catherine arose, drank coffee, and sat down to write. The truss holding her equine paramour broke, crushing Catherine to death beneath the poor beast.Ĭatherine the Great actually expired alone and of natural causes.
According to legend, Russian empress Catherine the Great died while attempting to engage in sexual intercourse with a horse.
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