Catherine was the female love of Peter's life, Menshikov was the male. Both Catherine and Menshikov had been poor, both Lithuanian, Menshikov taken off the streets of Moscow, Catherine war booty who passed through the hands of General Sheremetev, then those of Menshikov himself, by then Russia's second greatest power, who offered her to Peter as he had offered the tsar everything, including himself, especially himself, since they first met, Menshikov...
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