Russia’s Catherine the Great or France’s Joséphine, e.g. Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

RUSSIA (noun)
1. a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
2. formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
CATHERINE (noun)
1. empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)
2. first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII’s divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)

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