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Catherine the Great

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Among the rulers of Russia, Empress Catherine II, or Catherine the Great (1729–1796), occupies a special place. A German by birth, who had no dynastic rights to the Russian throne, she seized it in a coup and ruled the vast empire autocratically and firmly for thirty-four years. Her reign is called the “golden age” of the Russian nobility. Two victorious wars with Turkey and one with Sweden, the annexation of Crimea and the development of Novorossiya, the partitions of Poland, as a result of which the Orthodox Ukrainian lands became part of the Russian state — all of these are also brilliant achievements of Catherine’s “golden age.” But there are many mysteries in the biography of the empress herself. The famous researcher of the Russian 18th century Olga Eliseeva tells about many of them in her book, including the conspiracy of 1762 and the true role of various characters in it, the mystery of the death of Emperor Peter III and the involvement of his wife in it, Catherine's numerous affairs and her secret marriage to Potemkin, her views on the burning issues of Russian reality and real policy on peasant and other issues, correspondence with philosophers and relationships with Freemasons, vividly and fascinatingly, using all surviving (including archival) sources.
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