Dear friends!
For your convenience, we have prepared a generalized story about the reign of Catherine II - "The Empire is expanding."
What did Catherine want and what could she achieve in domestic politics? How did the role of the nobility as the backbone of the Russian Empire change? How was Catherine able to achieve the impossible - to solve ALL foreign policy tasks facing the country? And finally, what kind of person was Catherine? What personal qualities allowed her to become Catherine the Great?
Watch and listen to Vladimir Medinsky's story on Russian history of the 18th century on the Lectorium Dostoevsky channel.
Timecodes:
00:00 Catherine the Great: The Empire expands uncontrollably
04:12 Dictatorship of the nobility: what goals did Catherine want to achieve in her domestic policy
07:58 The Law of Oblivion. Ioann Antonovich and the special operation to enthrone him
14:36 ​​Ekaterina's legislomania: Senate reform, Legislative commission, provincial reform and .. what is the result?
26:13 Political economy of the 18th century. Introduction of paper money, inflation and debt. Export, Import and the Problem of the Sovereign Merchant Marine
34:13 What did Russia's favorites cost?
39:18 European refugees. Migration policy and why is it beneficial to be German?
42:35 Where to get taxes? Secularization of church lands and the policy of religious tolerance in the Golden Age of the nobility
56:51 Multiparty Poland. How did the empire expand, and why did the West unquestioningly recognize the independence of Crimea?
01:08:15 An eyesore or an allergen? Why the West does not like Russia?
01:11:49 Privileges of the Crimean Tatars and a new war with revanchist Turkey
01:15:42 Who wanted to dismember Poland? Reunification of Russian lands
01:17:54 Revolutionary France. Catherine's Aggressive Phraseology and Military Neutrality
01:19:39 The empire is expanding: defending Georgia, confronting Persia. Annexation of Chukotka and border posts on the ocean coast
01:24:00 Results of the reign of Catherine II
01:37:05 Chaadaev, Klyuchevsky, Khomyakov and other historians about the reign of Catherine II
01:39:55 What kind of person was Catherine the Great?
01:58:16 "We must fight not with consequences, but with ideas"
02:06:13 What would not have happened without Catherine II?
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