Enlightened Despot:
Leaders who embraced the Enlightenment reforms and tried to reconstruct the state in order to make it more rational and uniform.
Peter I (The Great
Catherine I
Peter II
Anna
Ivan VI
Elizabeth
Peter III
Catherine the Great’s Reforms:
Legislative
Economic
Territorial
Social
Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji
(1774)
1. Direct outlet on the Black Sea
2. Free navigation rights in the Black Sea
3. Free access through the Bosporus
4. Annexation of Crimea
5. Made Russia the protector of the orthodox Christians living in Ottoman Empire (Set up future conflict with France – the protectors of Roman Catholics in the Ottoman Empire)
Pugachev Rebellion
(1773-1774)
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