Catherine the Great was the Russian ruler who was admired by the philosophes during the revolution. She reigned from 1762 to 1796.
Her mother was Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp.
One hobby was reading. She read plays and such from the enlightenment.
Catherine the Great had two children, Anna Petrovna and Tsar Paul I. See attached links for pictures that I could find...
she was Lutheran but then when she married Peter she had to convert to the Russian Orthodox church. She approved of religios toleration.
Catherine the Great was the Russian ruler who was admired by the philosophes during the revolution. She reigned from 1762 to 1796.
Enlightened Absolutism
Her mother was Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp.
One hobby was reading. She read plays and such from the enlightenment.
Catherine the Great had two children, Anna Petrovna and Tsar Paul I. See attached links for pictures that I could find...
she was Lutheran but then when she married Peter she had to convert to the Russian Orthodox church. She approved of religios toleration.
Catherine the Great allowed the boyars to increase their strangle hold on Russian peasants. She took firm action to represent the peasants, and as a result the conditions for the peasants worsened.
According to Enlightenment philosophes, government could be changed when it no longer served the interests and rights of the people. They believed in the principles of popular sovereignty and that individuals had the right to overthrow a government that oppressed them. This idea influenced revolutions such as the American and French Revolutions.
Catherine II of Russia, also known as Catherine the Great, had two children, Paul of Russia and Alexis Bobrinsky. Alexis Bobrinsky was born out of wedlock. she also had a daughter who died as a baby Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna
i would have to say dark blue because it is a classy, yet elegant, tom boyish kind of color.
The beliefs of the philosophes were that they were the ones that were bringing the light of knowledge to their fellow creatures in the Age of Enlightenment.
The Philosophes were a group of writers and thinkers who formed the core of the French Enlightenment, which was one of the factors of the French Revolution.