Russian empress.
"As Empress, 1762-1796, she worked toward westernization, expansion, and made St. Petersburg a cultural rival with Paris."
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings."
