Cathari

Mediæval dualists of Slavonic origin, whose higher cla claimed especial purity. They were found in Italy 1035, and known in s. France as Albigenses. See DUALISM. Catharine I., 1684-1727. Wife of Peter the Great 1707; Empre of Ru ia 1725. Catharine II., 1729-1796. German prince , m. 1745 to Peter III., who became czar 1761, and was soon deposed and murdered; empre from 1762; noted for ability and vice. She took part in the partition of Poland, 1772 and 1793.