Princess Sophie of Poland came
To Russia quite reluctantly
To marry and to change her name
To Catherine and wife to be
Of Peter, the new Russian tsar.
Then in seventeen sixty two,
In a takeover quite bizarre,
She removed Peter in a coup,
Forced her hubby to abdicate,
And put him under house arrest.
Assassination then his fate,
Catherine ordered was best guessed.
She then ruled Russia on her own,
Catherine the Great she was known.
by Ima Ryma