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18 giu 2024 · Catherine the Great, empress of Russia (1762–96) who led her country into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe. With her ministers she reorganized the administration and law of the Russian Empire and extended Russian territory, adding Crimea and much of Poland.
18 giu 2024 · Because Russia under her rule grew strong enough to threaten the other great powers, and because she was in fact a harsh and unscrupulous ruler, she figured in the Western imagination as the incarnation of the immense, backward, yet forbidding country she ruled.
18 giu 2024 · Russian Empire. Map of Russian expansion in Asia, 1533–1894. The annexation of Crimea from the Turks in 1783 was Potemkin’s work.
23 giu 2024 · The following is a family tree of the monarchs of Russia .
19 giu 2024 · Catherine the Great | Reviews in History. Book: Catherine the Great. Simon Dixon. London, Profile Books, 2009, ISBN: 9781861977229; 447pp.; Price: £25.00. Reviewer: Professor James Cracraft. University of Illinois. Citation: Professor James Cracraft, review of Catherine the Great, (review no. 881) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/881.
4 giorni fa · Peter I ([ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich,; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.
1 giorno fa · Catherine successfully waged two wars (1768–1774, 1787–1792) against the decaying Ottoman Empire and advanced Russia's southern boundary to the Black Sea. Russia annexed Crimea in 1783 and created the Black Sea fleet.
