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Catherine II was one the greatest Tsarina (woman ruler of Russia). She, like Peter The Great, would modernize the nation. In 1762, she murdered her husband Peter III, who succeeded Elizabeth. She centralized the power and continued the policy of Autocracy. She did however abolish torture and the death penalty. But serfs were forbidden to leave their lands. She did grant religious tolerance. She became known as an "enlightened despot". She corresponded with Voltaire and invited Diderot to come to her court. She encouraged the arts and the sciences as well.

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  • Catherine II was one the greatest Tsarina (woman ruler of Russia). She, like Peter The Great, would modernize the nation. In 1762, she murdered her husband Peter III, who succeeded Elizabeth. She centralized the power and continued the policy of Autocracy. She did however abolish torture and the death penalty. But serfs were forbidden to leave their lands. She did grant religious tolerance. She became known as an "enlightened despot". She corresponded with Voltaire and invited Diderot to come to her court. She encouraged the arts and the sciences as well.
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  • Catherine II was one the greatest Tsarina (woman ruler of Russia). She, like Peter The Great, would modernize the nation. In 1762, she murdered her husband Peter III, who succeeded Elizabeth. She centralized the power and continued the policy of Autocracy. She did however abolish torture and the death penalty. But serfs were forbidden to leave their lands. She did grant religious tolerance. She became known as an "enlightened despot". She corresponded with Voltaire and invited Diderot to come to her court. She encouraged the arts and the sciences as well. In 1773, Pougatchev, a Cossak cavalier, formed a revolt against Catherine. His supporters were mostly discontented serfs, rebellious nobles and cavaliers. He set up a small court and claimed to be Peter III. He besieged certain cities. But in 1775, Catherine sent her army after him. He was captured and brought to St-Petersburg (the Russian capital) in an iron cage and he was executed. While political revolutions were taking place in France (1789–1792), Catherine II maintained an autocracy. She used her powers of censorship to ensure that no such revolution would take place in Russia. In 1796, she had a stroke and died soon afterward.
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