CATHERINE THE GREAT: THE GERMAN PRINCESS WHO SEIZED AN EMPIRE
Episode 1 | Human History — Individuals
In this History episode we focus on Catherine the Great — a minor German princess who arrived in Russia at 14 with no claim to the throne and left as one of the most powerful rulers in the history of the modern world.
This episode covers the coup that removed her husband, her 34-year reign expanding Russia by more than 200,000 square miles, the legal reforms, the Hermitage collection, the correspondence with Voltaire and Diderot, the suppression of the Pugachev serf rebellion, and the contradictions of an Enlightenment monarch who never freed the serfs…
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