3 авг. 2022 г. · Catherine the Great is considered an enlightened despot by some because of her patronage of arts, literature, and education. An avid reader in ...

Catherine can be seen as an archetypal example of an enlightened absolutist, due to the nature of the empire she ruled. The Russian tsars were bound by no ...

Catherine the Great enthusiastically supported the ideals of the Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an enlightened despot, although her reforms ...

Of course Enlightenment ideas about religion influenced the gentry but Catherine established the Commission on Church Lands on February 6, 1764 to support ...

30 июл. 2020 г. · Her enlightened seigneurialism enabled a leap-start in Russian intellectual life because of a more managerial attitude to the economy, a ...

As empress, Catherine attempted to implement these ideas, with moderate success. She convened a legislative assembly to codify the laws; created over 10,000 ...

The approach that prevailed until the late 19th century was based on the idea, taken from Enlightenment writings, that there is a natural progress of ...

15 дек. 2023 г. · Diderot encouraged Cathrine to reform Russia while still alive & adopt an English-style government. Another Enlightenment figure that Catherine ...

on the German Enlightened ideas which had dominated Russian discussion of the subject since the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725). Devoted primarily to ...