Brother Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Russia is a major power; it should live up to its international responsibilities.

— David Lidington

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage.…

— Robin McLeavy

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

— Katharine Anthony

I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as…

— Tina Fey

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him…

— Tina Fey

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

— Clement Attlee

“Your letter has drawn me from the solitude in which I had shut myself up for nearly nine months, and from which I found…

— Catherine the Great

I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we…

— Jessie Buckley

Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you…

— Cassandra Clare

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters…

— Margaret MacMillan

“STALIN He learned to write in the language of Georgia, his homeland, but in the seminary the monks made him speak Russian. Years later…

— Eduardo Galeano