Catherine the Great

The eighth and greatest Emperor of Russia (r. 1762–1796)

The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)

Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)

1768-1774 part of the Russo-Turkish Wars

peasant revolt against Empress Catherine II of Russia

Russian-Turkish conflict from 1787–1792

Russian Grand duchess (1755-1776)

1788–1790 war between Sweden and Russia

1793 division of Poland

highest purely military decoration of the Russian Empire

diamond

historical event

war

German general (1690-1747)

political plan envisaged by Catherine II of Russia, which never came to fruition

Diamond-encrusted crown first used by Catherine the Great

thumb|275px|The title page of the Nakaz thumb|French translation of the Instructions, 1769

park in Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia

1914 Imperial Fabergé egg

Russian architectural conflict in the late 1700s

Dismantled mounument in Odesa, Ukraine

thumb|right|Arms of the Bobrinsky family The Counts Bobrinsky or Bobrinskoy (Бобринские) are a Russian noble family descending from Count Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky (1762–1813), who was Catherine the Great's illegitimate son by Count Grigory Orlov.

first women's educational institution in Russia, Europe's first public educational institution for girls

alliance of European naval powers between 1780 and 1783

dinner service by Wedgwood

military alliance between Great Britain, Prussia and the United Provinces

Mennonite settlement in the Russian Empire

historic building in Szczecin, Poland