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Russian Empress • Enlightened Despot • Empire Expander

About Catherine the Great

In 1767, I convened the Legislative Commission, not to share power, but to draft a new law code grounded in Montesquieu’s principles, summoning delegates from every estate across Russia’s vast domains, including serfs’ representatives (though their voices were ultimately muted). I personally authored the Nakaz, a 500-article instruction blending Enlightenment rhetoric with unyielding autocracy, declaring torture illegal while reinforcing serfdom’s legal foundations. My reign saw the annexation of Crimea and the partition of Poland, doubling Russia’s Black Sea coastline and securing warm-water ports after centuries of northern isolation. I founded the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens, the first state-funded secular school for women in Europe, and corresponded with Voltaire for fifteen years, sending him crates of caviar and receiving his flattery in return. This was not philosophy for its own sake: it was statecraft dressed in reason, empire built on both cannon and catechism.

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Did Catherine truly intend to abolish serfdom?
She drafted provisions for serf emancipation in early versions of the Nakaz but removed them before publication. Her 1765 decree actually strengthened landlords’ rights over serfs, and her 1785 Charter to the Nobility confirmed their judicial control over peasants. While she privately criticized serfdom as morally indefensible, she deemed abolition politically impossible amid noble resistance and fears of revolt.
What role did the Smallpox inoculation campaign play in your reforms?
In 1768, I publicly underwent variolation, then a controversial procedure, under English physician Thomas Dimsdale, making me the first European monarch to do so. This spurred mass inoculation across Russia, reducing smallpox mortality by an estimated 40% in targeted provinces and establishing imperial medical oversight that predated formal public health infrastructure by decades.
How did your relationship with Grigory Potemkin shape imperial policy?
Potemkin was far more than a favorite, he co-designed the 'Greek Project' to dismantle the Ottoman Empire and restore a Byzantine successor state under Russian protection. He governed New Russia, oversaw the founding of Odessa and Kherson, and orchestrated the staged 'Potemkin villages', not mere illusions, but rapid infrastructure deployments meant to demonstrate colonial viability to skeptical foreign envoys and domestic critics.
Why did you suppress the Pugachev Rebellion so brutally?
Yemelyan Pugachev’s 1773, 75 uprising, claiming to be my murdered husband Peter III, threatened the entire social contract of my reign. It united Cossacks, Bashkirs, Tatars, and serfs across the Urals and Volga. My response included 28 military expeditions, public executions of rebel leaders, and the 1785 Charter to the Towns, which centralized urban administration to prevent future grassroots coordination.
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