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From Documents of Catherine the Great: The Correspondence with Voltaire and the Instructionof l767 in the English Text of l768, W. F. Reddaway, trans. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931), pp. 216-17, 219, 231, 241, 244, 256 258.
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Catherine II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Catherine II (Russian: , Yekaterina II Velikaya ), also known as Catherine the Great , born 2 May [ O.S. 21 April ] 1729. She was Empress of Russia from 9 July [ O.S. 28 June ] 17...
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Born on April 21, 1729, in Strettin (now Szczecin), Poland, into the family of Prince Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbst, Catherine was christened Sophia Augusta Frederica. ... CATHERINE THE GREAT (EKATERINA ALEXEEVNA)
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Catherine slipped deeper and deeper into autocracy - all the while maintaining the facade of an enlightened ruler. The ruin of the Orthodox church, which had begun under Peter the Great, was continued under Catherine, who seized its wealth and turned its prelates and priests into state employees.
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Catherine the Great was born Sophie Auguste Frederike. She was a German princess. She married Peter III at the invitation of Peter III's mother, Elizabeth I. At the time of her marriage, she took the name Catherine and became a member of the Russian Orthodox church.
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The best Catherine the Great reference on the web. The story of Catherine the Great, from her childhood as a German princess to her rise to power as Empress of all the Russias. ... Catherine the Great: A Monarch for the Ages...
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Catherine the Great (1729-96), empress of Russia (1762-96), the second of that name, who continued the process of Westernization begun by Peter the Great and made Russia a European power. ... Later Conservatism Peasant unrest culminated in a great revolt (1773-75), led by the cossack Yemelyan Pugachov, that raged over much...
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Russia's Catherine the Great looks on whilst husband Peter plays with toy soldiers. ... The daughter of, as a French ambassador called her father, a prince of "quite exceptional imbecility", Catherine the Great faced a number of obstacles on her road to the Russian throne.
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