She made a special effort to bring leading intellectuals and scientists to Russia. However, the Swedish proved too strong an… [26][27] On 17 July 1762—eight days after the coup that amazed the outside world[28] and just six months after his accession to the throne—Peter III died at Ropsha, possibly at the hands of Alexei Orlov (younger brother to Grigory Orlov, then a court favourite and a participant in the coup). The Russians intrigued with local tribes to gain control of Georgia, ruled by the Turks, while the latter encouraged the Crimean tribes to rebel against their new overlords. Money was needed for wars and necessitated the junking the old financial institutions. But Catherine left to Paul I the final version of her memoirs explaining why Paul had been the son of Peter III. It was a significant change in the balance of power. However, this conciliatory move was simply a ploy to allow them to rebuild their forces. She had her husband arrested, and forced him to sign a document of abdication, leaving no one to dispute her accession to the throne. Catherine I (Russian: ... Peter had fought his entire life to clear up corruption in Russia. Under Catherine's rule, despite her enlightened ideals, the serfs were generally unhappy and discontented. Light infantry forces were also able to operate in wooded or mountainous terrain, and were far more important than in the west, where “line” infantry (that is, infantry trained to fight in a solid line) ruled the battlefield. Paper notes were issued upon payment of similar sums in copper money, which were also refunded upon the presentation of those notes. The crown was produced in a record two months and weighed 2.3 kg. Peter III's temperament became quite unbearable for those who resided in the palace. Her son Pavel later was inoculated as well. When Sophie arrived in Russia in 1744, she spared no effort to ingratiate herself not only with Empress Elizabeth, but with her husband and with the Russian people as well. At the naval Battle of Chesme, fought off the Mediterranean coast of Turkey on July 6, 1770, a Russian force led by Admiral Aleksei Orlov overwhelmed a Turkish fleet. Peter also still played with toy soldiers. [114], In 1785, Catherine approved the subsidising of new mosques and new town settlements for Muslims. Finally, it was the Annals by Tacitus that caused what she called a "revolution" in her teenage mind as Tacitus was the first intellectual she read who understood power politics as they are, not as they should be. Her original name was Marta Skowronska, and it is not an exaggeration to say her fate was one that so many young girls of every epoch desperately desired – to marry a prince and have a wealthy and a happy life. [104], From 1768 to 1774, no progress was made in setting up a national school system. [119][120], In an attempt to assimilate the Jews into Russia's economy, Catherine included them under the rights and laws of the Charter of the Towns of 1782. The frustration affected Catherine's health. A popular insult to the empress's legacy at the time is that she died after having sex with her horse. [6][failed verification], Sophie's childhood was very uneventful apart from the duel. In the first partition, 1772, the three powers split 52,000 km2 (20,000 sq mi) among them. The life of a serf belonged to the state. Despite two early defeats, the Swedes recovered sufficiently to take on the Russian Navy in July 1790. [71] The fifth film. As Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Peter planned war against Denmark, Russia's traditional ally against Sweden. 6 November]) — sometimes referred to as an epitome of the "enlightened despot" — reigned as Empress of Russia for some 34 years, from June 28, 1762 until her death.. Catherine then sought to have inoculations throughout her empire and stated: "My objective was, through my example, to save from death the multitude of my subjects who, not knowing the value of this technique, and frightened of it, were left in danger". BLOG. And in August, Rumiantsev, taking advantage of his victory on the Dniester, defeated a Turkish force that had been mustered to eject him from Moldavia. Peter ceased Russian operations against Prussia, and Frederick suggested the partition of Polish territories with Russia. Soviet. The leading economists of her day, such as Arthur Young and Jacques Necker, became foreign members of the Free Economic Society, established on her suggestion in Saint Petersburg in 1765. Because the Moscow Foundling Home was not established as a state-funded institution, it represented an opportunity to experiment with new educational theories. [73] Naturally, the serfs did not like it when Catherine tried to take away their right to petition her because they felt as though she had severed their connection to the autocrat, and their power to appeal to her. [47], The Qianlong emperor of China was committed to an expansionist policy in Central Asia and saw the Russian empire as a potential rival, making for difficult and unfriendly relations between Beijing and Saint Petersburg. The Turks had to deal with a revolt in Greece in 1790 that undermined their ability to focus on holding back the Russians. Kosciusko’s poorly armed forces were soon forced back to Warsaw, which was besieged in late August. Catherine was crowned at the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow on 22 September 1762. The diplomatic intrigue failed, largely due to the intervention of Sophie's mother, Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. [98] In 1764, she sent for Dumaresq to come to Russia and then appointed him to the educational commission. [101] The Establishment of the Moscow Foundling Home (Moscow Orphanage) was the first attempt at achieving that goal. Awaking from her delirium, however, Sophie said: "I don't want any Lutheran; I want my Orthodox father [clergyman]." This is why some serfs were able to do things such as to accumulate wealth. [130] By separating the public interests from those of the church, Catherine began a secularisation of the day-to-day workings of Russia. He died at the age of 52 in 1791. The Panin family was led by Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718–83), a dominant influence on Russian foreign policy. The Russian … At first, she simply attempted to revise clerical studies, proposing a reform of religious schools. Catherine the Great’s (as she became) first major military adventure was conducted against a group of rebellious Polish nobles known as the Confederation of the Bar. [54] She had more success when she strongly encouraged the migration of the Volga Germans, farmers from Germany who settled mostly in the Volga River Valley region. The Ottomans restarted hostilities in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92. [citation needed]. Peter entered into an alliance with Denmark –Norway and Saxony and in 1700 invaded Sweden, laying siege to Narva. Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova (1753–1775) was another potential rival. But because of conversion of her second cousin Peter III to Orthodox Christianity, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and Charles XIII. In this month, the empress of Russia died and her successor Paul, who detested that the Zubovs had other plans for the army, ordered the troops to retreat to Russia. Petersburg." The pair governed the duchy (less than third of the current German land Schleswig-Holstein even if its part of Schleswig, occupied by Denmark, is accounted for) to obtain experience to govern Russia. She had to have her blood let by a doctor four times … She refused from the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp which had ports on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and from having Russian army in Germany. Apr 03, 2015. But in fact they wrote a Constitution which could be used by Paul without a coup in the case of Catherine's disease/death and to display the ideas of the "Great Russian Revolution of 1762" in their opinion. In addition, they received land to till, but were taxed a certain percentage of their crops to give to their landowners. [112], Catherine took many different approaches to Islam during her reign. [144], Later, several unfounded stories circulated regarding the cause and manner of her death. [115][116], Russia often treated Judaism as a separate entity, where Jews were maintained with a separate legal and bureaucratic system. But the Ottomans took Sagin Giray and took vengeance on him. In 1762 called on the army to upgrade its medical services. In the Treaty of Georgievsk (1783) Russia agreed to protect Georgia against any new invasion and further political aspirations of their Persian suzerains. On 5 August 1786, the Russian Statute of National Education was created. She recovered well enough to begin to plan a ceremony which would establish her favourite grandson Alexander as her heir, superseding her difficult son Paul, but she died before the announcement could be made, just over two months after the engagement ball. Empire. [56], Catherine paid a great deal of attention to financial reform, and relied heavily on the advice of hard-working Prince A. 5 November] 1796, Catherine rose early in the morning and had her usual morning coffee, soon settling down to work on papers; she told her lady's maid, Maria Perekusikhina, that she had slept better than she had in a long time. She launched the Moscow Foundling Home and lying-in hospital, 1764, and Paul's Hospital, 1763. By 1790, Europe was a continent in which there was great expertise in the conduct of warfare, and whose technology and organization for war was superior to those of any other societies in the world. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. [117] Judaism was a small, if not non-existent, religion in Russia until 1772. She was given the last rites and died the following evening around 9:45. Sagin Giray went to St. Petersburg, but eventually felt like a prisoner and wanted to leave. [11] The young Sophie received the standard education for an 18th-century German princess, with a concentration upon learning the etiquette expected of a lady, French, and Lutheran theology. At the time of Peter III's overthrow, other potential rivals for the throne included Ivan VI (1740–1764), who had been confined at Schlüsselburg in Lake Ladoga from the age of six months, and was thought to be insane. This allowed the Russian government to control more people, especially those who previously had not fallen under the jurisdiction of Russian law. The Treaty of Jassy was signed on January 9, 1792: the Russians returned Moldavia and Bessarabia to the Turks but kept hold of the territories to the east of the Dniester. Catherine The Great Russian Revolution Soviet Union Second World War, Stalin is a 1933x2221 PNG image with a transparent background. [inconsistent] She credited her survival to frequent bloodletting; in a single day, she had four phlebotomies. [33], During her reign, Catherine extended by some 520,000 square kilometres (200,000 sq mi) the borders of the Russian Empire, absorbing New Russia, Crimea, Northern Caucasus, Right-bank Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Courland at the expense, mainly, of two powers—the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Catherine was stretched on a ceremonial bed surrounded by the coats of arms of all the towns in Russia. Assignation rubles circulated on equal footing with the silver ruble; a market exchange rate for these two currencies was ongoing. Catherine I, peasant woman of Baltic (probably Lithuanian) birth who became the second wife of Peter I the Great (reigned 1682–1725) and empress of Russia (1725–27). [10] For the smaller German princely families, an advantageous marriage was one of the best means of advancing their interests, and the young Sophie was groomed throughout her childhood to be the wife of some powerful ruler in order to improve the position of the reigning house of Anhalt. 2. See, harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFMassie2011 (, Frank T. Brechka, "Catherine the Great: The Books She Read. [5] In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the ruling dynasties of Germany, she received her education chiefly from a French governess and from tutors. [118] Jewish members of society were required to pay double the tax of their Orthodox neighbours. Incredibly, at the beginning of September, the siege was broken by the Poles. Thus, a century after the siege of Vienna in 1683, the Ottoman Empire was in retreat, grimly hanging on to its possessions in Europe against stronger powers. For example, serfs could apply to be freed if they were under illegal ownership, and non-nobles were not allowed to own serfs. Many Orthodox peasants felt threatened by the sudden change, and burned mosques as a sign of their displeasure. She worked with Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputation in their writings. 10–12. The attitude of the serfs toward their autocrat had historically been a positive one. Prepare to become a witness of the first 20 years (1744–1762) of her life in Russia. The German-born Peter could hardly speak Russian and pursued a strongly pro-Prussian policy, which made him an unpopular leader. Possibly the offspring of Catherine and Stanisław Poniatowski, Anna was born at the Winter Palace between 10 and 11 o'clock; Born at the Winter Palace, he was brought up at, Born many years after the death of Catherine's husband, brought up in the, Queen Catherine appears as a character in, The Empress is parodied in Offenbach's operetta, Lubitsch remade his 1924 silent film as the sound film, The British/Canadian/American TV miniseries, Her rise to power and subsequent reign are portrayed in the award-winning, Catherine (portrayed by Meghan Tonjes) is featured in the web series. Russia inflicted some of the heaviest defeats ever suffered by the Ottoman Empire, including the Battle of Chesma (5–7 July 1770) and the Battle of Kagul (21 July 1770). Potemkin had the task of briefing him and travelling with him to Saint Petersburg. 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