Czar Peter the Great (1682-1725)
-modernization of Russia
-Europeanization
-driven by military reforms
Catherine the Great (r. 1762-1796)-German princess
-married to Peter III in 1745
"An autocracy, which good and philanthropic qualities in the Sovereign, ruling autocratically, do not check is an evil."
-Strengthening absolutism
-Russian nationalist
-pursued aggressive foreign policy
-Why "enlightened"?-new law code for Russia
-issues the Nakaz or Instruction
-reforms
-Diderot
-Diderot
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