Explanation: Catherine the Great, Tsarina of the Russian Empire, had a... somewhat notorious libido. Certainly, she picked her court favorites according to which ones she opted to take as lovers! Such behavior was immensely scandalous in 18th century AD Europe - and since Catherine was far too powerful to simply remove and humiliate, as less-well-placed women would have been, she was the subject of a number of unsavory rumors, including one enduring which endured after her death regarding her sexual appetites and a horse. Very crude.
There is no truth to this rumor, but it still gets passed around as 'popular history' from time to time.
