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Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (9 March 1663 – 14 September 1694), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Ascania and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar. Born in Zerbst, she was the eleventh of fourteen children born from the marriage of John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp.
Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.
Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst may refer to: Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729 – 1796) who became Catherine the Great . Princess Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (1663 – 1694).
Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (9 March 1663 – 14 September 1694), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Ascania and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.
The future Catherine, christened Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst, was born at Stettin in the Prussian province of Pomerania (now Szczecin, Poland) on May 2, 1729 (April 21 according to the calender in use at the time).
When "Empress Catherine the Great" Sophia Augusta Frederika von Anhalt Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729, in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia, her father, Prince Christian August von Anhalt-Zerbst, was 38 and her mother, Princess Johanna Elisabeth zu Holstein-Gottorp, was 16.
Catherine II, Russian Yekaterina Alekseyevna orig. Sophie Friederike Auguste, princess von Anhalt-Zerbst known as Catherine the Great, (born May 2, 1729, Stettin, Prussia—died Nov. 17, 1796, Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg, Russia), German-born empress of Russia (1762–96).
