A comedy of the Ukranian sort

Tonight

To laugh out loud is insufficient. This idea is brilliant. Monty Python could do no better. Edgar Saltus of blessed memory must be snickering in his grave. He wrote The Imperial Orgy about the Russian monarchy. (Free at Google Books)

Another source, less witty than Saltus-Maybe no one learned about Catherine’s exhilarating heights and frightening lows like her Polish sidepiece Stanislaw Poniatowski. When Poniatowski was in her favor, Catherine gifted him with no less than the kingdom of Poland, installing him as ruler. But what Catherine giveth, she could taketh—and Russia hath no fury like empress scorned…Shortly after becoming King Stanislaw, Poniatowski did a supremely stupid thing and decided to start rallying for Polish independence away from Catherine. This did not sit well with his former sweetums, and Catherine forced him to abdicate as punishment for his disloyalty. Stanislaw was lucky to escape with his life. Catherine’s private life is full of dark mystique, and a number of tenuous, unprovable, and very juicy claims about her exist. Some say she kept her hairdresser in a cage to keep her wig a secret, while others insist that she advocated for having intimate relations at least six times a day; apparently her busting bedroom life helped cure her insomnia.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/zelensky-petition-statue-catherine-great-gay-porn-star-odessa