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Diderot and the foreign colonies of Catherine II

Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, 1982
R. P. Bartlett, Diderot and the foreign colonies of Catherine II. During his visit to St. Petersburg in 1773-74, Diderot presented to Catherine II an anonymous memorandum on the foreign colonies recently established on the river Volga. The article introduces and prints the text of this paper, which was omitted from P.
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The Intellectual Formation of Catherine II

1972
ALONE OF ALL THE SOVEREIGNS who occupied the throne of the Russian Empire, Catherine II earned the unanimously high opinion of both contemporaries and posterity. Peter the Great was often cursed during his life, and some condemn him even today; Catherine II ascended the throne to the triumphal cries of all Russia, was acclaimed throughout her entire ...
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The Administrative Reform of Catherine II

Russian Studies in History, 1995
Only under Catherine II, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, was there a new, major reform in local administration, one that determined the structure of that administration throughout our prereform history up to the introduction of the zemstvo institutions of 1864.
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Catherine II, les Turcs et l’antique

Comptes-rendus des séances de l année - Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 2010
Schiltz Véronique. Catherine II, les Turcs et l’antique. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 154e année, N. 1, 2010. pp. 233-275.
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Catherine II and the Jews: The Origins of the Pale of Settlement

Soviet Jewish Affairs, 1975
(1975). Catherine II and the Jews: The origins of the pale of settlement. Soviet Jewish Affairs: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3-20.
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Catherine II as Felitsa

The article analyzes the fate of the Catherine II’s myth in Russian literature and culture in the 18th century. The author shows that G.R. Derzhavin was one of its creators. The focus is on the “Felitsa’s cycle” of the Derzhavin’s poems. Derzhavin constructed the main elements of this myth in his “strange” ode “Felitsa”, that was first published in the
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An Appraisal of Catherine and Heathcliff’s Love Relationship

Bronte Studies, 2022
Graeme Tytler
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