We have already expressed dissatisfaction at the submissive style used in addressing the Russian empress.

The Russian empress endeavoured to turn their thoughts elsewhere.

Andrew Marr spoke to Dame Helen Mirren about her new role as Russian Empress Catherine the Great.

What could this Russian empress have done to me, that could call for revenge on my part?

Let me in some degree replace to you the fortune of which the Russian empress has robbed you.

The death of the Russian empress, Anne, made it improbable that Austria would be protected on that side.

Knyphausen(979) diverted me yesterday with some anecdotes of the Empress's college of chastity-not the Russian Empress's.

I hope that my godmother, Maria Theresa, and the Russian empress, will soon afford me more enlarged opportunities.

They were rendered perfectly inoffensive; Elizabeth had not killed them, she had only buried them alive, this good Russian empress!

I am sure the ice palace of the Russian Empress, in Cowper's poem, was not a more superb piece of architecture.

She went down stairs presently in this rich attire, looking like a Russian empress, in all the glory of her youth and beauty.

Guard yourself, princess, against this Russian diplomacy, and, above all things, be on your guard against this ambassador of the Russian empress, Alexis Orloff!

Workers mount a statue of 18th-century Russian empress Catherine the Great onto a pedestal in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa August 29, 2007.