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On 29 August 1756, Frederick the Great invaded Saxony, igniting the Seven Years' War in Europe. Prussia survived a suicidal war against three empires not merely through tactical genius, but through allied paralysis and a stroke of Russian luck.
On 9 July 1762, Catherine rode into St Petersburg in a borrowed Guards uniform, won over three regiments in a morning, and forced her husband, Peter III, to sign away the Russian throne by nightfall. He was dead within eight days; she reigned for the next thirty-four years.