Catherine the Great. The Fatal Love of the Empress

Catherine tried to understand what was wrong, why she no longer wanted to keep this man around? Had she fallen out of love? No, she still loved him, but suddenly she began to realize that he was like a heavy burden on her feet, she couldn't float with him.

And strangely, this burden was pulling her not just down, but specifically towards Peter. What she had been trying to escape for so many years, to distance herself from, to emphatically refuse, she was now forced to acknowledge as her own.

But inside, a protest was growing: why should she hide instead of shining?