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I'm traveling through Russia to learn about the most powerful European royal family since Medieval Times the Romano's  I've seen how the victories of Peter the Great One him control is the Baltic Sea tracing mashup firmly on the world stage that's who piece of Billups the Magnificent City of St Petersburg and he dragged his country Kicking and Screaming into the 18th century  Peter the Great was a hall. play is in the century following his death the end of the Snowman is it by Catherine the Great possibly the most powerful woman in history Yuma super bright and super ambitious and Russia would enjoy a golden age during her vain things that are collections place of hands of lovers  Catherines military success transformed Russia into a major European power no bad so Arruda without a single drop of Russian blood  Captain Swanson Alexander the first was to defend her Legacy when you have a collapsed into turmoil that Alexander would save the continent and the mightiest military leader age Napoleon  I did even leave Russian forces onto the streets of Paris 15 6th Road achievements to place the Gangsta turbulence backdrop that will rebellions and murders and Military disasters this is the story the Second Great age of the vamanos and age of extremes this is the 18th century Palace of Peter Hall even looking the Gulf of Finland he was founded by Peter the Great  find me to Ramon of Monex tubing given that title the other was Catherine the Great she inherited the palace when she sees the throne in 1762 they need. but I bet Catherine never did what I'm about to do 3 gallons I like it hope it's really quite small and West OK Google what's your path hey hey hey pizza has one of the biggest sets of fountains in the world the monkey all of them powered by natural spring and gravity knife home as I've expected that are 100 pounds here just in the Cascade area and I think my favorite Golden Frog  caffeine first saw Pizza hop in its fountains in 1744 all the time Peter the Great still sit Elizabeth was on the throne  Russia who's enjoying an economic boom  Pape meat the new coach of Baltic trade routes the Pizza Hut opened up Elizabeth had lots of money to indulge her taste for splendor at the palace of pizza hope she sets him off on a major rebuilding project cinnamon on Swansea Palace is the volleyballs the finest French Royal buildings like the side the French was seen by Russia's indeed since the standards is the Taste and on but this strikes me as being slightly to Lavish almost Gordy  you can't help sing the chip on the romanoff's shoulder that need to convince phone diplomats to Russia was a sophisticated European country not some backward despotism  best ready created a series of grand palaces for the Romano's that was the Magnificent Winter Palace in St Petersburg now home at the Hermitage Museum the Catherine Palace was named after Elizabeth's mother he'd succeeded Peter the Great's to the throne  but he was between heavy to move this provoked bling when Elizabeth was gone Elizabeth never married the movements of energy sament children giving away to be. By sevens but she never has an acknowledged son or daughter say she acts please have Russian Sullivan's right to choose her own successor she lighted upon her nephew any trouble was he was a full team Euro German boy who never set foot in Russia his name was called PETA Duke of Holstein Gothel grandson of Peter the Great's for his mother  Elizabeth now needed to find young Pizza applied  she settled on a minor but well-connected German princess how gusta of an host  7 1744 zophi came to Russia and adopted of Russia name yekaterina Catherine but this teenage quickly became an unhappy one Peter was disfigured by smallpox still managed to embarrass his wife by having a mistress Aspen claims that he was a twisted Voya who even tortured animals when she came to Mike's home and laws Captain said loans and dismal the somerset being at the palace of peterhof she didn't get home with the empress Elizabeth daily interested in practicing military drills with a long-suffering Entourage the Philosopher's if the French Enlightenment diderot & Voltaire this was heady stuff for a member of an old Socratic ruling family what is the most significant factors of Katherine's personality that came out when she was very young and throughout her life was she ready need to self improvement  she had this great urge to be educated and that for a woman of her time was unusual and the D emanation to find out for herself for letting as much as she could  she enjoyed the sense of being at the Forefront of European food and bring it play the straw that place you seats on the back foot  by here early thirties Captain her giving birth to a son and two Ash if those are taking lovers he was just a warm-up can't escape the future king of Poland he was witty and charming and everything that's a husband wasn't by 1761 new Play song Glory Olaf he was a Dashing Young I'll tell the officer love his relationship with Catherine very serious it's just a romantic intrigue  Cafe and Olaf agreed the pizza just wasn't up to the job of ruling the country in 1761 succeeded to the throne following in he was now the emperor what he didn't know that was this his Empress was plotting against him when Peeta actually did succeed it quickly became clear he wasn't going to survive  annoyed people send military the church and he was a disaster from from the start  what phone is the world with cash belief having educated too so she was quite sure that she could run this enormous country and she could improve it the Intrigue came to a head on the morning of the 28th of June 1762  Kevin Bacon and how bad the Pizza Hut with the news that's it was already on the way now events began to move that head loans Stephen came racing through these Palace grounds to get to parrot to be taken to say pieces but she didn't even pulls to get ready she has to have a head done in the coach on the way when she called to say this bug she was declared Sovereign and her husband pizza but he was cool nothing when he got here about what was going on he was too late he lost his crown didn't ears pieces steps down he trained for just 6 months within a few days he was well the conveniently dead officially the reason was heavily to color but it was more like a murder the nature if any of Katherine's involvement remains a mystery  Catherine was now the most power woman in the world she was the sole ruler of Russia grabbing the Frozen challenge Philadelphia  caffeine and show that she had a full moon combination soon as possible to seal her legitimacy in the Magnificent Hermitage Museum in St heat is the castle all collection is a portrait by the Danish office virgilius Erickson that captures the new empress who have combination finery Justin has a new crown and old design for the coronation and she's posting these wonderful ribs ended with the emblem of Imperial Russia the double-headed eagle what you think a napping going through her mind coronation on the one hand she was an imposter next on the other hands that something very attractively modern about this eighteenth-century woman sleeping power and success and this meant relentlessly managing every single aspect of her brand Catherine was brilliant at using her clothes to create a personal image  she managed to convey all the diff things that people expected of a Moulton female russian sovereign  as you can see in her surviving dresses at the Hermitage Museum Nina when did Catherine the Great wear this dress during the festival's of occult because she was a chief of Richmond what is uniform because of color numbers of buttons I have the color of a man's skin men's uniform sing to you  I'll send this this chase the shape of the bag that's like a man's coat decorated with the braids contestants is in the shape of sleep and of course funniest like that yes yes ordered to use only Russian silk in the customs of Russian Imperial Court to dinner this is fantastic dress of an empress also of a male army officer who Somebody Loves You list of a true Russian back in the Pizza Hut Palace Catherine can be seen wearing the Royal trousers in another trade by the gilius Erikson's military uniforms were purely ceremonial appreciation faith in Masha and the world would be earned by military success  the first great test came just six years to have rain in 1768 turkey the club wrestling Russia from the south online Russian ships could match the tubs Prussia lights no power in The crucial Mediterranean turn Black Sea region Russia's one piece of the built-in the Bolton a thousand miles away play some lamb it was now needed  who sings lover and closest advisor Gregorio love now made a bold The Proposal  Cap'n David the go-ahead  the Russian fleet was too because into a one paw is it down through the Westin France and Spain in through the Straits of Gibraltar that it would become delicious Mediterranean Fleet 8th August 1769 places left Russia on its Epic Journey finally nearly a year later in June 17th the Russian ships under the command of Gregorio loves brother Alexis took the Turkish Fleet by surprise of the coast of the title of chasma bay became one of the most famous military and gay Schmidt's in Russian history the Russians wipes out the Turkish Fleet 9030 sale play killed by the Russians Russia's staggering Victory with the public relations crew of a lifetime for Catherine now in painting side this one by Heinrich vocals she could presenter self is the true at 2 man who had built Imperial Russia  this picture celebrates a Triumph by her seat in visitor hit all the pets in the baby dolls and Hannah awesome very unhappy turns being marched through st. Petersburg and they behave in the corner he's at the grace himself being all stuid Maya this image of Catherine being carried through the Stars by saying and he says is admiring how what is doing with his hands haven't you done well and wild Catherine play the homies into battle of the ways to lead from the front  because the Russian people facing Eve deadliest the turkey this enemy was ravaging Europe and it's not a peasant no Mana it was smallpox she might catch the disease what was reached an English position Thomas Dimmesdale was achieving unprecedented success with a controversial method of smallpox chelation  the method is called variolation and it involves scratching the skin opening of the skin and in setting some parts of the disease or effective you are infecting the patient with smallpox and that oppose makes it very risky it's one of the reasons why it divided the enlightened World many mathematicians for example object to it on the grounds of probability Theory they thought that sooner or later people are going to die from this operation  caffeine decided that the risk was worth taking Dinsdale was invited to St Pete that he found a suitable sample of smallpox with which to inoculate the empress but it was all very late one night stands that was Boston to the Palace through a secret door and in Catherine he knows she was mad to do this she could have been infected she could have died Civic evidence and she was happy to run the risk she even had Olaf and has some pool you know collated to and when it became clear that everything on Wow the news was proclaiming all the people started doing it cools home and countless lives with the smallpox inoculation choose Catherine behaving like a true enlightened manik racing science banishing Superstition improving the lots of fat people  add this room in the the Museum in St Petersburg the great Progressive these well turned out young ladies on the bulls with people named Smokey Institute Maiden which Catherine founded in 1764 its stated purpose was to raise educated women good Mothers and members of family and Society it was the first proper educational establishment for women in Russia was so proud of her goals that she have these pulled traits by Dimitri Levitsky commissioned to show them off  this statue presents in the goddess of Minerva the Roman goddess of wisdom and enlightenment  a Horn of Plenty over the hand rests on an open book of legislation  and the sculptor adult shoes Catherines Crown the conventional symbol of oil power away around the back  but none of this disguise the football the enlightened leanings Catherine still had the absolute power of a despot and she was in no hurry to give it stop  I don't think Kathy would have seen a contradiction between Enlightenment values and her Palace first thought she would dispute that she was a desperate she considered that absolute power was tempered by Lowe's with in Russia by institutions within Russia which prevented Russia from succumbing two or three rules I think she thought that she was in the best position in 1767 just five years into her Reign Catherine and bulbs on an ambitious Nationwide to turn Enlightenment principles into actual laws she convene a special legislative Commission the sensitives ranging from Naples to peasants drone from all across the country  Justin Hustle which the commission a lengthy set of instructions not an option as the neck as she declared should be equal before the law the torture should be banned Liberty with a central theme full of wild cats do it then a cat's was translated into French and German  it's actually haven't already voted down plans for the neck as in particular form of system in her first draft of the NACA instruction to legislative Commission in 1767 they want to be free add this when it was red by her advice was just so far to revolutionary enlightened people in the empire was so reluctant to do anything about serfdom it took her back but it made her realize the extent to which in Russian Empire to address the continuing existence of millions of people change little better than the slaves of London's  the flights now helped fuel the greatest domestic threat to Catherine reign in 1773 a casa chameleon pucho sparked a provincial with boats did spread quickly  who the Chelsea idea was to pretend to be the Depends off each of the Third husband he's going away he gypped but now he was back he very quickly gathered around him placement does disenfranchised  do the choset that has the Jews off he would grown the subs all kinds of new lights and that they should rise up against that evil landlords they did this and in the resulting bloodbath more than 1500 novels with kills House of them women and children Panic now grips St Petersburg Define a military solution to a civilian problem soldiers and top commanders with switch from fighting tips to fighting that fellow sing that Elias areas it was nearly two years before the Revolt was finally crushed take animals in a cage and he was hanged and his bull he quoted which in Russian means the middle of the immediate Bratz was over the how is Catherine going to respond to this Rebellion depression the book of Truth Revolt was a great shock to Catherine and particularly the sense that this could happen in this country that's how much of it was out of her control and her response was to try to spread her control and so she brought him various local government reforms and wanted again it's great designed to educate the fact that people could believe that this man was the Czar of come back to life she was horrified and so was to spread her control to improve education to make sure that local government was Kirsten to abolish serfdom Kevin had set to face the lights of the serfs to keep them is he on his side in spite of a professed Enlightenment values a new wife where the contradictions of having more evidence not the summer palaces of the wealthiest noodles  the Cusco file Palace in the states the most below to the sheremetev family by the late 18th century they were the most important patrons of the Arts outside Saint Petersburg  taking that leaves from Catherine Hustle the Chevy massive Silver Palace with European Treasures like these Flemish tapestries was it was the concerts and Ultras stage 10 that made Coos cover famous knots to a wider audience than just the elite  what was it like in the 1770s when count chevre massive big concerts traditional Japanese book play wins the sorts of professional actors and musicians that we think of today set District say this if children are taken at 7:08 my family is Anya Cazuelas near Stoughton Wisconsin the Sherry massive star performer was Prosecco via kovalyova spot huseth Origins she became one of the most celebrated opera singers in Russia  Jeff and the greater self praskovia perform xclusivo  Costco via OC when the heart of count Cherry massive Sun Nicolai of the longest they secretly married these mountains over Maine and the Fellas the phone can you might take this sounds awfully romantic the beautiful praskovia study here on the stage singing felt Aria to the Countess Secret lava in the audience ever that isn't romantic it's creepy when you consider where the balance of power between the couch add un's Pascal Pia along with the rest of his 200,000 of the serfs in the world with system that was so many opportunities for exploitation particularly sexual exploitation of the female surfs of course the fullness and musicians made up just a tiny fraction of Russia's population  missed it then continued to work the fields driving the Russian economy  stayed up the boat that's a Russian army fueling the expansion of Katherines an expansion that was extraordinary in both its speed and scale Catherine Annex large stretches of Belarus and Lithuania hulin's became a Russian dependency racially she sees the Crimea just as piece of the great founded St Petersburg to secure access to the Baltic Catherine not founded the major Sebastopol and Adesa to guarantee Russia access to the Black Sea countless Russian and foreign lives were lost in the process that Kevin doesn't seem to repeat much trouble by this but the other great powers of Europe Were Trouble Catherine had to be cool to be feared  he's a British City opens from 1791 and Imperial Drive and it's Catherine the Great of Russia play the Tacoma Stanton April that she's going to tell you on the tip of the Crescent Moon meanwhile the European great powers and understand to be worried about Russia to look up Catherine's skirt what a prodigious expansion never saw anything like it says Louie the 16th of France  love close enough turkey to class the whole Turkish Army where did satisfy  I think it's inevitable that Katherine has a awful woman was targeted with sexual Slanders and she had quite a lot of lovers he shouldn't be here there isn't any truth to the rumors of her and the holes that help assistant in 1774 she began an affair with gloves officer Grigori chunkin laughing Colton my Colossus my golden Cockerel my tiger he raised to be the commander-in-chief of the Russian RV and the did leave her curulla  the chunkin with the love of Catherine life is even possible that they had a secret marriage and his influence in Jude even though she took other lovers as she goes older they tend to be gone so versus much younger than she was 60 she took a lost lover platinum's evolve he was 21 it's amazing that she still began each relationship with massive hope that this was the one and and there was not romantic early sexual Santa to go to the bedroom and take this person I could love he's going to love me  Dulce crazy the sense that that most affect companionship she used to love walking through Hearts Collection getting through a collection of cameras poring over them to look at them together platonic enjoyment that brief time and her day when she could relax I'm I'm feel that she could be herself but constantly that need to be loved Catherines of the great Passion was her palaces but unlike the grand statements that the Winter Palace and Peter Hall in commissions have a more tranquil atmosphere the Catherine Palace south of St Petersburg was originally built by the empress Elizabeth in a box the Catherine employee escocia shark attacks Charles Cameron to add on a beautiful classic T in spite onyx more in tune with having tastes will they the rooms are inspired by classical architecture that constrain boat materials like the mobile The Jasper the pool for me  laser swollen scale they are incredibly when they become cleats Catherine with her office tax Mr Cameron admiring them that she was also her to decide oh that's a cost with the cost the gallery say off of caffeine the perfect Vantage points to Lookout english-style landscape Gardens this swept Europe in the late 18th century  English garden design had become another of her passions she tried to seduce the British royal got the capability Brown to come over to Russia to work for her excessive drawings at the Gardens at Hampton Court Palace on the what was that cheap the mistaken impression that capability Brown Hood design them himself this was one of her laugh Alias capability Brown said net to Catherine the Great open gave her young lover platten's evolve apartments at Jason Stone  a grandson's came here to play that's all the the Grinch dude pool was it less frequent visitor like Peter the Great Catherine had a troubled relations life with a Vine son  pools obsession with military ritual and his lack of interest in culture and ideas that she took off the father him Catherine had of course he's upped she found her eldest grandson Alexander much more of a Kinder spirit  the classical Annex and its Gardens often a consoling ideal of older and rationality  vets in Europe the enlightenment stream was turning into a doc of else was horrified by the execution of Louis XVI in 1793  following the French Revolution to begin with us a sense that the seriousness of the French Revolution didn't dawn on Catherine  it seems to have never imagined that this could play the outcome of what she dreaded how you in a way it was that splitting up between what to lighten to let to me what she saw as possible for a ruler turn on the idea that the bolts had his is free thinking that led to this to to the collapse of over Monica oddly horrifying even in her old age Catherine what indefatigable cheap phones at 7 in the morning she drank strong coffee and then she ripped in her office till 9 she spent the morning listening to what's the afternoon meeting and going through her correspondence Palace building and patronage of the Arts take a minute she successes of her Reign it was in her commitment to the quiet study backroom work of government that Catherine was perhaps the greatest  a portrait of the empress with one of her beloved Greyhounds painted the end of her life out for a stroll as she walked her dog in this park Catherine could have look back on the life of extraordinary and cheese and the tangible remind is Alton in The Monuments oliv Alta Sequoia she had little faith in the future it takes me under her son and successor pool my neighbor and Cat and concern for the good of the Empire will be in vain she wants food because my son hasn't inherited my frame of mind on the 5th of November 1796 Catherine suffered a stroke ASAP she died  she was 67  that's every morning she's risen early as usual and gone through her pay is working for the Russian Empire to the very end  but now the throne went to her and visit some pool the day he was crowned he changed the law to the new woman would ever sits on the Russian phone again suspicion of pool and preference that his son Alexander looked to be well-founded Justin could have disinherited but you problems with that what is the any suggestion that could have given rise to some sort of she is cool succumb to this friend by virtue of a coup she was very sensitive to the fact that moments could be replaced by this method that was one danger I think that she faced the other one was it again tific conspiracy to have a conservative and an exam didn't shave any wedding this once this phone can tell to take on that mountain to take his father's place as conference at as well as undermining his mother's Legacy alienated by his fixation with religious and Military with you concerns will say Groove among the powerful God's vitamins about pools erratic foreign policy well Catherine Hood widespread affection Interpol so well that he was moved just as his father piece of the food to be  lenient in the center of St the increasingly paranoid pool built with a bidding Saint Michael's Castle it was surrounded by a moat and arms with he Apolo could look himself in every nights with his sons Alexander and Constantine but when the end came his security counted for nothing 419 Mall chasing a walking to the Royal bedchamber stop anagram false falling and purple tie to hide behind the fire screen you left his feet sticking out and they go Spurs they can spend his try to arrest him and then a fight broke out what is laser he was dead so the conspiracies went to wake up pools son Alexander a few bedrooms away Alexander about what happened to The Conspiracy set to help Alexander stop whimpering it's time for you to go  Katheryn Hudson Asatru at a future Russian Alexander the Great  Alex I have the typical male Ramon of love you. admitted she sa cats instincts he did let her independence of mind Alexander came to the phone as a time when Napoleon Bonaparte was up and do of Prussia Austria and Britain turn the Coalition against Napoleon and Alexander soon faced him on the battlefield alien was a military man himself is in Alexander Alexander in 1895 at the Battle of austerlitz he himself does he tells them to attack many Sebastian's in the Allies the austrians were killed Alexander realized the disappearing fault he was so upset about it and he had to be sedated with opium you'll so hot to make peace with Napoleon  Sonic song was summoned to tilsit in Prussia  Napoleon had two major two moms was to join the economic the prison the circle continental system and France was to get control of Russia's neighbor Poland  a2m signs that peach tree seed in the middle of a river of wobbly setting skip to sit with meeting of two equals reality  why did Joseph raped what it down because that sort of imbalance always has to be an unstable treating and you can omit it almost impossible for Russia to continue to be a member play Continental System but much more important than that it was quite intolerable for Alexander of Russia for the podium to control Providence that was never going to be except behind Napoleon's back Alexander veggie tray with France's great anime person Napoleon had had enough he decided that he could Bend Alexander to his will by invading Russia was not facing an Alexander who was older and wiser Alexander wasn't going to make the same mistake cuz that's house in 1895 this time come on his own me louder than meets Napoleon's mighty tell me head-on deeper and deeper inside the country stretching the supply lines meanwhile from the safety of St Petersburg Alexander try to govern his Empire and rally his people on September 7th 1812 the Russians on the general Catoosa finally confronted Napoleon goodnight name Oscar send it. It was now or never his forces and results flat side limits  Bubba Dean it was a huge battle involving a quarter of a million troops and commemorated in this huge panoramic painting by the artist Franz Gruber 150m long house in a purpose-built museum in Moscow  I'm going to tricks as he used to bring us a live as a painter Uncle Jesse the Russian calorie which are taken the French positions the humerus then it has its pluses he's made it look like a Mess by doing lots of heads and not same anybody in attack quick sitar we going to the funk line here these are the Russians coming up to meet the French Outlast Titanic counter-attack against the French troops also I call him a French Infantry is the check in the Russian position also French kennel sapphire in the Russian position hang on I will be missed on the podium where are we this is Napoleon and these are some of his body.  Now this is said to have been the most deadly single day sing in history what's on my name worth diet after the Bible welna put in claims that he won the battle those of also said that he defeated Napoleon's self Leo Tolstoy said that the Russian Side school tomorrow which way because the Russian army and soldiers unexperienced equal terms with a verse from army which is made up of best European trips  for the Russian troops were preparing for death they didn't want to give up Moscow  so it was a victory for the French ready exactly would you still tell me that this wasn't the Vic she finna put in What mattered was that Napoleon had failed to destroy the Russian forces 49 realize did this turn on winnable campaign  Stasi found a consolation prize near Tejano the Russians which weekend to defend most of the city was left wide open for Napoleon to take this should have been a terrific moment for Napoleon after being the country's official capital is spiritual heart still crowned in the Kremlin just start  but the Russians went in to give Napoleon the satisfaction of officially swing that sissy to him instead they just abandoned it leaving it barely Govern of them losing quickly per cow far more deadly fire  when do they close by accident the Flames devastated assisi's still largely built of wood more than 3 courses in Las Vegas destroyed Alexander the struggle against Napoleon now to come the volume to potions he declares that the salvation of his own soul rested on whether he could save Europe at 10 on the morning of March so she first 1814 Lily a year-and-a-half after the burning of mosquera Victorious was it wasn't the French returning him in Triumph it was the full sis Allied against them and their head was Alexander new phone conqueror Alexander given him five years before and he promised them that they need to worry about Paris same day he made a public declaration that the Allies would recognize and guarantee a new French Constitution and wild Provisions witness the Exotic size of Cossacks setting up camp on the Sean's Alizee Alexander's great at play Napoleon was packed off into exile  so how hot is it gone so wrong so quickly than Napoleon Safelite Alexander  well also the destruction of most gay Napoleon Hood old is his Grand Army to withdraw from Russia bus on the way back they got cold in the fridge this winter the devastated Fairbanks  then famosa near Russia and its Alloys huge Napoleon's week in forces across Europe now Paris  how play songs in list of save at this moment early at monuts like his grandmother to show the French how things were done properly truly Civilized Nation behaved in Victory Russian troops remained in power the several months dates back to 1814 quickly  this Cafe claims to be the first to take its name from Hungry Russian Shelton food Bistro what time is the width of something dangerous among the Russian troops especially some of the offices the campaign in Europe play some Elvis two countries that didn't have the pin issues practice of certain countries where the roulette didn't have unlimited powers anything you can imagine I'm sitting in busy and cafes and saying to each other mission  this meant when they go home some of them would be ready to pull the dentist change quickly next time the story is a Romano's Beach it's tragic and gay during the final scene price of a full retraction at Rasputin and face the deadliest challenge ocean

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