... Voltaire, Frederick the Great, and Friedrich Melchior Grimm. We will be adding new metadata and letters over the coming years. Launch Catalogue. Please see ...

Russian Enlightenment · 1 Early developments · 2 Catherine the Great. 2.1 Foreign policy; 2.2 Politics; 2.3 Culture; 2.4 Economics; 2.5 Catherine and Voltaire ...

30 ијл 2020 · Her famed engagement with the philosophes, especially Voltaire ... Grayscale print of Hermitage Theatre under Catherine II showing crowd watching ...

The young princess formally converted to Russian Orthodoxy and took the name Ekaterina Alexeievna (Catherine). ... Catherine enlisted Voltaire to her cause,and ...

30 ијл 2024 · As minister he had unlimited powers, even after the end of their liaison, which lasted only two years. Potemkin must be given part of the credit ...

4 мар 2014 · Nearly 250 years ago, Empress Catherine II “the Great” played a similar hand when she attempted to impress the West while ruthlessly ...

28 јан 2015 · Ekaterina II, “Iz Nakaza.” Reddaway, Letter XV (29 May/ ( June 1767), in Documents of Catherine the Great, 17-18. 4. While this seems like a ...

The book is the history of Russian Freemasonry in the 18th century, primarily in Catherine the Great's reign. Freemasonry started to develop in Russia in ...

A timeline relevant to the correspondence of Catherine and Voltaire is included at the end of the book. ... "Catherine the Great, Ekaterina Alexeevna, 1729-1796, ...

9 май 2022 · Konstantin Akinsha and Matthew Olshan translate a poem about Voltaire and Catherine the Great by Boris Khersonsky.