March 06, 2008

Catherine the Passionate

Understatement of the week: Our award goes to David Remnick, of The New Yorker, who, in a profile of Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s newly elected President, writes: “Catherine the Great was a passionate equestrienne.”

Well, uh, yes—you could put it that way.

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