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Catherine the Great © Catherine II was Empress of Russia for more than 30 years and one of the country’s most influential rulers.

At No. 1, in the broad Unter Den Linden, stands the Wilhelm I Palace; and in it, last week, the wife of Wilhelm II took up her residence, as she recently threatened to do (TIME, July 18).