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Catherine II of Russia

1729–1796

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Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, expanding the empire and modernizing its administration. A prolific writer and correspondent, she engaged with Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire and Diderot, promoting education, legal reform, and the arts, while maintaining autocratic control. Her reign marked a period of cultural flourishing and territorial growth, though it also reinforced serfdom and imperial expansion.

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Instruction to the Legislative Commission (Nakaz)
Memoirs of Catherine the Great
Correspondence with Voltaire
Correspondence with Diderot
The Antidote (a response to French critiques of Russia)
Ode to the Russian People

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