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December 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

First Partition of Poland

This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Relations of the Three Courts.IntroductionThe destruction of the

February 20, 2013 Leave a Comment

The Greats, Peter and Catherine, Make Serfdom Worse

As Russia entered the nineteenth century, the hearts of earnest men must have sunk within them.Continuing Russian Serfs Freed,with a selection

August 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

Reign of Catherine the Great – 6

Today's installment concludes Reign of Catherine the Great,our selection by W. Knox Johnson.If you have journeyed through all of the

August 14, 2011 Leave a Comment

Reign of Catherine the Great – 5

Yet here were these declaimers threatening to overrun Europe, and "Equality setting peoples at the throats of kings!"Continuing Reign of Catherine

August 13, 2011 Leave a Comment

Reign of Catherine the Great – 4

But her attention soon became diverted. She was not, as Gunning thought, insincere, only fickle; she wanted patience and continuity of

August 12, 2011 Leave a Comment

Reign of Catherine the Great – 3

Such was the tragedy of Peter III. He dies, as Catherine said, unpitied: a fool, echo her friends, who perished in his folly.Continuing Reign of

August 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

Reign of Catherine the Great – 2

After Voltaire and Madame de Sévigné, came Montesquieu, Baronius, Tacitus, Bayle, Brantôme, and the early volumes of the Encyclopædia.Continuing

August 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

Reign of Catherine the Great

This series has six easy 5 minute installments.Introduction"No sovereign since Ivan the Terrible," says Rambaud, "extended the frontiers of the

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