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Autumn Hughes
Ms. Collins
Eng. II: 4
October 2014
Catherine the Great: Most Known Queen of Russia
Catherine the Great was the most known Queen in Russia. The general history of Catherine the Great is unique because it left the lasting effect of the citizens of Russia upon the people that had better lives due to her. Catherine had said once, “Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.” With her as the Queen, the nation had confidence and still remembers her today ("Catherine the Great Quotes - BrainyQuote.").
Catherine II grew up in Poland, in a district called Anhalt- Zerbst. In 1744 Catherine was a very sick teenager, her treatments created conflicted between her mom and the Russian Empress. Once Catherine was known she started off as a minor German princess. On August 21, 1745, Catherine married into the Russian royal family. They were a happy couple; Peter was very immature and preferred to play with toys soldiers and mistresses than to be with his wife. Everybody began to notice that Catherine was styling
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herself after the beloved ruler Peter the Great. She was very into the art and writing. At one point in her life Catherine had exchanged letters with the French writer Voltaire, and writer Denis Diderot. Then Denis had come to Russia to visit her. In fact he was the one who gave her nickname “Catherine the Great”. As she was becoming more powerful she had written a document, known as the “Nakaz.” She was very opinionated; the wealth of the church should belong to the state. She made the church part of the state and all of its holdings, including more than one million serfs, became state property and subject to taxes ("Catherine II - Biography - Emperor - Biography.com."). Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseyevna married Peter, also the grandson of Peter the great. Once they had moved to Russia their marriage was unhappy; she suffered from a form of pleurisy. After getting better; they had their first child fine. Then when Catherine was pregnant with her second child, Anna only lived 4 months after birth, Peter did not believe that the baby was his. That had caused them to get into an argument which led Catherine to spend a lot of her time in her private boudoir. Catherine first lover was Alexander Vasilchikov; he was a Russian aristocrat who became the lover of Catherine the Great from 1772 to 1774. Next was Stanislaw August Poniatowski, at the age 26. After both of those she had an affair with Sergei Saltykov, he was a Russian officer who became the first lover of Empress Catherine the Great after her arrival to Russia. Not only did Catherine have affairs: Peter had a mistress called Elizabeth Vorontsova. She at least has 3 lovers, and all 3 children were with different men as believed ("Catherine The Great | History"). Catherine the great had a lasting effect on the schooling of Russia.
In 1763, Catherine founded Russia’s first college of medicine. This consisted of a director, president, plus eight members. The college was instructed to train Russian doctors, surgeons and apothecaries to serve in the provinces. Russia only had a few schools, Catherine also wanted to improve the education, one of many things she did was convent St. Petersburg into a boarding school for girls, the Smolny Institute. In 1786, Catherine issued the Statute for Schools for all of Russia. Every district town was to establish a minor school with at least 2 teachers; then minor schools had to have at least 6 teachers. She also didn’t set policies for the founding of Universities, because she knew that Russia lacked qualifying teachers for these foundations, but she did increase the number of grants to study abroad (“Catherine The Great :: Biography Russia Catherine
Great.’).
In conclusion, Russia once had the most known Queen that went by Catherine the Great; she had the lasting effects of the people of Russia and the ones she made better lives for. With Catherine ruling with the dedication, and many accomplishment she made the Russians lives better for today’s world.
Works Cited
"Catherine The Great :: Biography Russia Catherine Great." 2011. 17 Oct. 2014
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