Titlebook: Catherine the Great; A Profile Marc Raeff Book 1972 Marc Raeff 1972 Catherine the Great.Eastern Europe.history

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In the Imperial Mannerrolled and spontaneous movements of population, the search for adventure and wealth, the longing for effective protection against incursions by unruly neighbors, the historical memory of past political and spiritual unity, the expectation of a great political and economic international role, the des

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Church Affairscern for the people—and this also relates to questions of .—is a characteristic trait of Catherine’s reign. This does not yet mean, however, that Catherine achieved her goal everywhere and in everything. Nonetheless, it was the enlightened rationalism to which Catherine paid homage, and nothing else

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Portrait of an Enlightened Autocrat techniques of the administrative apparatus and also made some changes in the social organization of the estates. However, neither his administrative nor his social reform altered the basic principles upon which the Russian political order of that time rested. Though Russia had been provided with Sw

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The Intellectual Formation of Catherine II posterity. Peter the Great was often cursed during his life, and some condemn him even today; Catherine II ascended the throne to the triumphal cries of all Russia, was acclaimed throughout her entire thirty-five-year reign, and is praised to our day; she continues to stimulate the historian’s symp

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The Empress and the Philosophences of Diderot’s acquaintance with Catherine, his trip to St. Petersburg and stay there, and, generally, his relationship with the Russian Empress—a relationship between a philosopher and an empress who liked to talk philosophy. The scholar has at his disposal Diderot’s own letters from St. Petersb

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Educational Reformsy changing the very mission of the public school. The school up to then had only taught; the new school had to .. To use Betsky’s. words, Catherine’s “main intention” at that time “l(fā)eaned toward not so much having sciences and the arts spread among the people as implanting gentle manners in their he

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Voices of the Land and the Autocrats also realized that the era of Catherine was not only a . of Peter’s but also constituted a sharp . with it at the same time. They even thought up a vivid metaphor for the contrast, and it became common currency among writers of Catherine’s age: “Peter created Russia’s body, but Catherine endowed i