Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . he Peter the Great • , j , i , j changed the manners, customs, andlaws of the Russians, and lives in their memory as theFather of his Country. 281. The history of Russia from the time of Peter theGreat down to the close of the century may be peters suerapidly sketched. During the greater part of ssors. this time the throne was filled by women. There was firsthis widow, named Catherine I., who continued the policyof her great husband. Her reign, h
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . he Peter the Great • , j , i , j changed the manners, customs, andlaws of the Russians, and lives in their memory as theFather of his Country. 281. The history of Russia from the time of Peter theGreat down to the close of the century may be peters suerapidly sketched. During the greater part of ssors. this time the throne was filled by women. There was firsthis widow, named Catherine I., who continued the policyof her great husband. Her reign, however, lasted but fortwo years, when she was succeeded by Peter II., the grand-son of Peter the Great. His death, three years afterwards,brought to the throne a niece of Peter the Great, namedAnne. She ruled till 1740. Then came Ivan VI., an infant,who, after a few months, was deposed by Elizabeth, daughterof Peter the Great, who filled the throne till 1762. Elizabethleft her empire to her nephew, who became Peter III. In a fewmonths, however, he was murdered, and his wife was raisedto the throne as Catherine IL, surnamed the Great (1762).. 408 MODERN HISTORY. 282. Catherine II. was, next to Peter the Great, the ablestDoings of ^nd most successful of the Russian gy j^gj- yigorous gcncrals, Potcmkin and Su-warrow \soo-drr6\, she won greatly from the Turks, andachieved the conquest of the Crimea, thus getting rid ofthe last trace of the old Tartar dominion, and at the sametime obtaining free access to the Black Sea. 283. But Catherine II. won still more by her share inPartition of what is Called the Partition of Poland, thoughPoland. ^]^g means by which she won was a gross vio-lation of the law of nations. The scheme for dismemberingthe kingdom of Poland is supposed to have originated withFrederick the Great of Prussia, and he and Catherine ofRussia and the Empress-Queen Maria Theresa, Quefen ofHungary, entered into it. The Pol^s wpre so^weSi^enedthat the
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