Catherine the Great of Russia visits a peasant village. The Empress took a deep interest in the condition of her people. During her Majesty’s royal progresses it was the custom of her favourite, Potemkin, to patch up miserable villages into a State of apparent prosperity

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Catherine the Great of Russia visits a peasant village. The Empress took a deep interest in the condition of her people. During her Majesty’s royal progresses it was the custom of her favourite, Potemkin, to patch up miserable villages into a State of apparent prosperity

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