Catherine ii Sentence Examples

The Zaporozhian Cossacks, sent by Catherine II.

His dreams of freeing the Christians from the yoke of the infidel had to be abandoned, and the conquest of the northern shores of the Black Sea was postponed till the reign of Catherine II.

The system of serfdom attained its fullest development in the reign of Catherine II.

Amongst them were the serfs on the lands formerly belonging to the church, which had been secularized and transformed into state demesnes by Catherine II.

The attitude of the northern powers, however, and especially of Russia, towards Poland was beginning to excite the sultan's liveliest suspicions; and these the accession, in 1762, of the masterful Catherine II.

He was now too old to be in any one's way, and that, no doubt, was the reason why Catherine II.

In 1603 it passed to the house of Anhalt and was later the property of the empress Catherine II.

The principal building, the palace, or Khan-sarai, was originally erected in 1519 by Abdul-Sahal-Ghirai, destroyed in 1736, and restored at Potemkin's command for the reception of Catherine II.

Early in 1767 the malcontents, fortified by the adhesion of the leading Catherine II.

It was the second Turkish War of Catherine II.

Kepler's extensive literary remains, purchased by the empress Catherine II.

Founded by Catherine II.

There are a museum and monuments to Dolgoruki, conqueror of the Crimea, and to the empress Catherine II.

There is a very great difference between Catherine II.

The military Order of St George was founded by the empress Catherine II.

This compact engaged Denmark to join with Russia in upholding the existing Swedish constitution, in return for which Catherine II.

Nine months later, on the 13th of September 1770, Bernstorff was dismissed as the result of Struensee's intrigues, and, rejecting the brilliant offers of Catherine II.

Reared in the free-thinking atmosphere of the court of Catherine II.

A second palace, the Alexander, was built by Catherine II.

The Church was broken up by the successive partitions of Poland, and those parts of it which fell to Russia were, notably under Catherine II.

Sweden and The renewed efforts of Catherine II.

His opportunity came in 1788, when the political complications arising out of his war with Catherine II.

At the urgent entreaty of the comte d'Artois in 1791 he quitted Paris for Coblenz, accompanied Artois to Vienna, and was sent to the court of St Petersburg the same year to enlist the sympathies of Catherine II.

The art of letter-writing had cultivators in Abbade Costa, Ribeiro Sanches, physician of Catherine II.

Stettin was the birthplace of the empress Catherine II.

In 1670 it was seized by the rebel Stenka Razin; early in the following century Peter the Great constructed here a shipbuilding yard and made Astrakhan the base for his hostilities against Persia, and later in the same century Catherine II.

In 1766 Euler with difficulty obtained permission from the king of Prussia to return to St Petersburg, to which he had been originally invited by Catherine II.

A little back from the sea stands a fine bronze statue of Catherine II.

A work on the copper mines of Hesse (1767) earned him a European reputation, and in 1783 he accepted from Catherine II.

Here, living in royal state, he put himself at the head of the counter-revolutionary movement, appointing ambassadors, soliciting the aid of the European sovereigns, and especially of Catherine II.

Impervious to Russian influence, he remained true to his original nationality, and by his undisguised aversion to everything in his adopted country and his passionate, childish admiration of Frederick the Great, he made himself so unpopular that within a few months of his accession, in December 1761, he was dethroned and assassinated by the partisans of his ambitious and able consort, the famous Catherine II.1 During the long reign of Catherine II.

Thenceforward, partly from prudence and partly from penury, Vergerines cared only for the maintenance of peacea not too easy task, in opposition to the greed of Catherine II.