Tsarina Catherine

Tsarina Catherine II (sal. 1762-1796), who was born as an insignificant and penniless German princess, was the absolute ruler of her huge country when she passed away; The empress who expanded the borders of her empire, created her strategy, and developed her institutions; She is the tsarina who led her homeland towards Western art and culture.

To do this, she had to change her religion and convert to Orthodoxy and overthrow her husband, Tsar Peter III, the grandson of Peter the Great, with a coup. He continued by deepening Peter the Great's understanding of adapting the military and administrative innovations in the West to his country; ensured the development of art, culture, education and medicine in his country; He established hospitals, schools and orphanages. St. He laid the foundation of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and laid the groundwork for great artists such as Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov. He followed the intellectual movements in Europe with interest and corresponded and met with important intellectuals such as Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and Grimm over the years. When the epidemic broke out, he set an example for his people, who had a tradition of lining up in church and kissing the icon, by having the country's first smallpox vaccine. In an Eastern country where women were in the background, she managed to be the lover of a few, the friend of some, the mother of many and the leader of all.

The rule of Mustafa III, Abdulhamid I and Selim III, which coincided with the reigns, is one of the most important factors in the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, which made the Ottomans lose Crimea, forced the Ottomans to open the Black Sea to the Russians, and gave them the authority to protect their Orthodox subjects, was signed during his reign. After the legendary biography he wrote for Peter the Great, who made Russia a great state, Robert K. Massie tells the story of Catherine II, who "added power to this state", with the same deep knowledge of Russia and the power of her writing.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 696

Size: 15.5 x 23

First Printing Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language: Turkish