Most People Won't Remember Why Catherine II Was Called Catherine The Great...

They would only remember a particularly fallacious rumor:

According to a quick Google search, by the way, showed that she died of a stroke, not the magnificent and possibly horrifyingly hilarious ending that we all just kind of accepted as a fact.

And of course, I have to put this in or I'll never be able to find this picture in the later years: Horse Fucker.

If you performed an image search for "Horse Fucker" and came to this blog, WELCOME!