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Catherine the Great and the 1767 Legislative Commission
In 1767, Empress Catherine the Great convened a landmark assembly: the Legislative Commission. Drawing on Enlightenment thinkers like Montesquieu and Beccaria, she drafted the Nakaz, or Instruction, a radical document that proposed legal reforms and questioned serfdom. The commission brought together nobles, townspeople, state peasants, and non-Russian minorities to discuss legislation. But internal divisions and the outbreak of the Pugachev Rebellion doomed the effort. This episode explores what the commission hoped to achieve, why it failed, and how it shaped Russian autocracy. Featuring…
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