Question by Debnessness™: How did Catherine the Great of Russia treat her conquered people?
Someone please please please please please please please please please please tell me!
I’m working on questions about Catherine the Great of Russia for a “Meet the Press” thing for my history class. One of the questions that we have to have answered (out of the 30 or so we are suppose to have) is that question.
Its one of the only ones I have left!
Thanks in advance and Happy Halloween!
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Answer by Matty Mo
She treated her people as if they were endentured servants. She taxed many of them until they starved.
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LodiTX says
First, it was unnecessary for Catherine to conquer the Russians and she didn't. She married into the imperial family and when her husband became czar she seized power from him, imprisoned him, and later he was killed by her lover and his brothers, the incredibly sexy, violent, and loyal Orloffs. This is not to say that she didn't put down any revolutionary activities harshly, but no more so than anyone else would.
She was an educated and enlightened woman who wanted to improve the lot of the Russian people, but accomplishing these wishes was limited by the aristocracy and the boyars.
Following the French revolution, which caused many European royal families to be afraid lest it spead, she was less inclined to be merciful and open.
ghost says
She believed it was destiny for some to rule, and others to be servants. She wasn't exactly making leaps and bounds towards freedom for the serfs unfortunately.