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When Catherine came into power, she wanted to Westernize Russia, but she did not want to do it to be done to like her husband wanted to do it. Catherine the Great encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self- interest.
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Catherine loved books, she loved books so much she became a bookworm, bibliophile, and a writer. She believed a printed book carried power. She wanted book production and translation of
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Catherine wanted to improve Russia reputation. She encouraged to trade with others nations. Also tried to increase trade in parts of Russia .
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In the time of the Enlightenment learning became a big part of the European civilization and in many ways it became one of the most important cultural center in Europe. Now that Russia had Theatre, arts, and music she could have more visitors and foreigners come and visit the one of most dazzling cities in Europe St. Petersburg’s.
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Direct Quotation (exact words from text) Catherine acquired her title of the Great largely in terms of her accomplishments in foreign affairs. She was operating in a value system of her century, which judged the achievements of monarchs largely in terms of their frontiers and the their military victories.
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Historically, Russia has always been a country of perplexing dualities. The reality of Dual Russia, the separation of the official culture from that of the common people, persisted after the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War. The Czarist Russia was at once modernized and backward: St. Petersburg and Moscow stood as the highly developed industrial centers of the country and two of the capitals of Europe, yet the overwhelming majority of the population were subsistent farms who lived on mir; French was the official language and the elites were highly literate, yet 82% of the populati...
Isabel de Madariaga was considered an expert on Russian history, she was Professor Emeritus of Slavonic Studies at the University of London. Catherine the Great: a Short
Catherine the Great, one of Russia's most notorious leaders, never once struggled to give Russia the edge it so hoped for. She considered herself to be an enlightened leader and attempted to rule in that fashion. Her reforms transformed Russia into a strong nation for their time. She’s remembered as the greatest reformer of Russia, she continued to westernize Russia, widened the borders, and strengthened the education system. Catherine the Great proceeded to finish what Peter the Great started; she made sure that by the end of her reign Russia was westernized.
One of Russia’s finest leaders was Catherine II. Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great was a leader who used her power to benefit Russia for advancement in the future and to lead Russia to be one of the most successful countries in Europe at that time. Catherine ruled the Russian Empire from 1762 until her death in 1796, she was very focused on the political and foreign advancements of the Russian Empire. Much of what she did during her rule in the late 1700’s has assisted Russia in the advancements that they have made as a country today. Catherine II was good to her people and also cared very much about their rights, she developed laws to assist the people and to further benefit Russia as a nation.
The main challenge Alexander II faced in his projects towards modernization of Russia was a compromise between advancing his state thorough improving the lives of his subjects, without falling prey to the demand for further reforms he would be unable to satisfy. Westwood, revisiting Russian History in 1981 phrased the problem as follows: “how to advance the education of the state by educating the people, without educating the people to questions the state? ”.
In 1762, Catherine the Great was crowned Czarina of Russia. Catherine received Russia from Peter the Great in a transitional state. Although the stubborn country was gravitating towards its old culture, her leaders were pulling her into the new modern Europe, a region undergoing a historical shift known as The Enlightenment. Through Catherine’s journals, we can learn a lot about her methods of ruling Russia. She wrote that her rule by which to govern was “Do good not evil out of love for humanity.” Throughout her reign, Catherine had many accomplishments and was renowned by Enlightenment personalities such as Diderot and Voltaire. Although Catherine The Great did not initiate the Enlightenment in Russia, or complete the process, she played an essential role in helping her resistant country shift from their long-established traditions by implementing reforms that westernized Russia.
One of the most interesting, hard-working and powerful people to grace the pages of history during the eighteenth century was Catherine II, Empress of Russia. Historians have not always been so kind to her memory, and all too often one reads accounts of her private life, ignoring her many achievements. The stories of her love affairs have been overly misinterpreted and can be traced to a handful of French writers in the years immediately after Catherine's death, when Republican France was fighting for its life against a coalition that included Russia.
She was aware of the situation of women in her times, especially being a puritan woman. They were restricted to certain modes of behavior, speech
Ferguson, Carol. "LECTURE: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE ROMANTIC ERA." The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Web. 18 Aug. 2010. .
For most of recorded history, the central focus has been on men and their actions in the society they belong to. They are the military men fighting wars to expand their country’s territory or fighting against an enemy of the country. Men for the longest time ,until the twentieth century, had been in government positions. Working class men, peasants, and slaves were vital for the economy in the country they reside in as they provided the food supply for the population and worked in the various industries that supplied the country with steel, clothing, etc. Religion, such as the Abrahamic religions, centered around a relationship between man and the Divine. Imperial Russia was no exception to this patriarchal trend as was the case with mostly
Women are essentially the unsung heroes throughout history. They do not get much attention or credit in textbooks. The question that must be answered was “Surveying the course as a whole, how have women played significant, even central roles in the history this course covers?” The project outlines the progression of women throughout time in regards to the women that were not satisfied with the status quo. The women played significant roles by choosing to say something and invoke change in their society.
Petersburg itself, as well as those who reside there. Through their careful observations of society, these two authors provide the reader with a nuanced view of society and the people who inhabit it. In Gogol, we are presented with gullible public and an affected upper class through satire of the public obsession with the capacity of Petersburg for supernatural occurrences. Pushkin presents a darker, wittier view of the upper class, and delves into the imagination of the middle class Hermann as is drawn in by his betters’ affected superstition. Both pictures of Petersburg cause the reader to question the supernatural qualities attributed to the city, and wonder if the supernatural is, in fact, just another
...and that this would improve society. The role of this book was to help women shape the way women are in society for many generations.
After their defeat in the Crimean war (1853-1856), Russia’s leaders realized they were falling behind much of Europe in terms of modernisation and industrialisation. Alexander II took control of the empire and made the first steps towards radically improving the country’s infrastructure. Transcontinental railways were built and the government strengthened Russia’s economy by promoting industrialisation with the construction of factory complexes throughout...
The Enlightenment was a period of increased literacy and public interest in literature and arts that promoted learning through reason and logic (134). Romantic wr...