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Catherine II

noun
1.
Empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796).  Synonyms: Catherine, Catherine the Great.





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... generation after the death of Peter the Great, Russia fell into the hands of incompetent rulers. It only appears again as a European state when the great Catherine II came to the throne in 1762. From that time on, the western powers had always to consider the vast Slavic empire in all their great struggles. They had also to consider a new kingdom in northern Germany, which ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson


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