Russia came to be seen as one the truly great powers in Europe and, for a time, rivaled the British Empire in its conduct of foreign policy and the French monarchy for development of culture and the arts.Īnd yet most lay people, when they think of Catherine the Great at all, believe (erroneously) that she died having sex with a horse.
During her reign the Russian empire expanded and reached new heights of cultural, social, and political influence. It also tells us that the young empress, though German herself and not accustomed to many of the ways of Russia's people and political classes, was able to grasp the reins of power and hold on until her death in 1796. Petersburg for a meeting with his consultants when political enemies including those in the Royal Guard deposed him in a bloodless coup and installed Catherine (the Second) as a placeholder monarch until her minor son, Paul could assume the throne. Her husband, the Russian Tsar Peter III, had retired from St.
When Catherine the Great assumed the throne in Russia in July 1762, she was supposed to be mere widow-dressing. Catherine the Great: Enlightened Flowerpot?
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