Journalist Lee Randall talks to Godfrey Evans, Principle Curator of European Applied Art at National Museums Scotland, about the fabulous collections amassed by Catherine the Great during her reign, superlative examples of which can be seen in the exhibition Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress at National Museum of Scotland. Presented in partnership with the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, this unique exhibition is showing only in Edinburgh, from 13 July - 21 October 2012. To find out more, visit www.nms.ac.uk/catherine.