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Since the marriage was so unhappy, there was some talk of Catherine being sent back to Germany or even worse to a convent.
因婚姻如此不幸，以致于有傳言說凱瑟琳被送回到過德國，甚至被趕到了修道院
But Catherine did two very wise things.
不過凱瑟琳做了兩件非常明智的事情
She won over Empress Elizabeth personally and more importantly she worked very hard to make herself into a Russian.
她本人在很多方面勝過了伊麗莎白女皇，更重要的是，她非常努力地讓自己融入俄國
She mastered the language, immersed herself in the Orthodox Church and read voraciously about Russia's history and customs.
她掌握了俄語，讓自己浸潤在東正教的教義中，如饑似渴地閱讀俄國歷史和風(fēng)俗方面的書籍
When Elizabeth died in 1761, the Tsarevich Peter came to the throne as Emperor Peter the Third.
伊麗莎白1761年去世后，皇儲(chǔ)彼得登基成為彼得三世
He ruled just six months.
他僅僅統(tǒng)治了六個(gè)月，
But that was long enough to make peace with Prussia and to dress the Russian army up in German uniforms.
但是足夠跟普魯士講和并且給俄國軍隊(duì)都穿上德國軍裝制服
That was bad enough! But his plan to convert Russia from Orthodoxy to Lutheranism was more than any true Russia could stand.
這非常糟糕，但是他將俄國從東正教轉(zhuǎn)化為路德教的想法是任何一個(gè)真正的俄國人都無法接受的
In July 1762, Peter the Third was arrested and forced to abdicate in favor of his wife who took the title Empress Catherine the Second.
1762年七月，彼得三世被逮捕，并被迫退位給他的妻子，也就是后來的凱瑟琳二世
Catherine certainly knew about the plot to remove her husband, but it's doubtful that she had anything to do with his death later that month.
凱瑟琳當(dāng)然清楚要把她丈夫趕下王位的陰謀，但是并不能肯定她跟那個(gè)七月末他的死亡有關(guān)
The official reason given for the unfortunate ex-emperor's demise was a fatal attack of hemorrhoids.
對(duì)這位不幸的前沙皇的去世的官方解釋是由于痔瘡
A true intellectual, Catherine saw herself as an enlightened absolutist, wielding total power over her empire for the benefit of all her people.
作為一個(gè)真正的知識(shí)分子，凱瑟琳把自己看做是開明的絕對(duì)論者，充分運(yùn)用權(quán)力造福全俄國人民
