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From the age of ten, Peter III was partial to drink. - Catherine II of Russia
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Catherine II of Russia or Catherine the Great (Екатерина II Алексеевна [Yekaterína II Alekséyevna] (21 April 1729 {2 May O.S.} – 6 November 1796 {17 November O.S.}) reigned as Empress of Russia for more than three decades; born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst. She was the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Joanna Elisabeth of Golstein-Gottorp.
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Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst
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Empress Catherine II
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Catherine II
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Ekaterina II of Russia
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Catherine the Great
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Catherine II, Czarina of Russia
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia
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Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst
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Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst
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Ekaterina Alexeyevna of Russia
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Catherine Romanova
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Catherine Alexeievna Romanova
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Ekaterina Alexeyevna Romanova
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Yekaterina Alekseyevna
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Catharine II.
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Catharine II, the Great
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Catharine II the Great
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The Governing Senate. . . has deemed it necessary to make known... that the landlords' serfs and peasants . . . owe their landlords proper submission and absolute obedience in all matters, according to the laws that have been enacted from time immemorial by the autocratic forefathers of Her Imperial Majesty and which have not been repealed, and which provide that all persons who dare to incite serfs and peasants to disobey their landlords shall be arrested and taken to the nearest government office, there to be punished forthwith as disturbers of the public tranquillity, according to the laws and without leniency. And should it so happen that even after the publication of the present decree of Her Imperial Majesty any serfs and peasants should cease to give the proper obedience to their landlords . . . and should make bold to submit unlawful petitions complaining of their landlords, and especially to petition Her Imperial Majesty personally, then both those who make the complaints and those who write up the petitions shall be punished by the knout and forthwith deported to Nerchinsk to penal servitude for life and shall be counted as part of the quota of recruits which their landlords must furnish to the army. And in order that people everywhere may know of the present decree, it shall be read in all the churches on Sundays and holy days for one month after it is received and therafter once every year during the great church festivals, lest anyone pretend ignorance.
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