Question

What were some of Catherine the Great's greatest accomplishments and greatest challenges?

Answer 1

Made herself Empress of Russia.

· She extended the borders of Russia, acquiring the lands of Southern Ukraine and the Crimea.

· Won several wars, namely against the Ottoman Empire.

· She slowly went about reforming the government.

· Westernized Russia.

· Took away all rights of Serfs after a couple brutal rebellions.

· She directed the building of the Hermitage Museum.

· Founded the Smolny Institute for Noble Girls, the first of its kind.

· 1776 she created a major cultural institution, the Great Theater in Moscow.

· She established the Free Economic Society (1765) to encourage the modernization of agriculture and industry.

· She promoted trade and the development of underpopulated regions by inviting foreign settlers, and founding new towns.

· University of Moscow and Academy of Science became an internationally recognized learning center under her sponsorship.

· She also increased the number of state and private schools.

· She commissioned an impressive monument to Peter the Great - the Bronze Horseman.

Answer 2

@chrisjp thank you! Would u know happen to know any of her biggest challenges while empress?

Answer 3

hmmm
let me see

Answer 4

n foreign policy, Catherine started cautiously but gave way to expansionist aims. She suppressed Polish nationalist agitation and divided the country with Austria and Prussia in three partitions of 1772, 1793 and 1794.

Her problem seemed to be that she was trying to govern an enormous country, and became fearful of change. From wanting to be an enlightened, forward-thinking monarch, she became an entrenched reactionary.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

One of her failures was allowing the boyars to increase their stranglehold on Russian peasants. She took firm action to repress the peasants when they revolted against the harsh conditions of serfdom. As a result, conditions grew worse for the peasants, and even more were forced into serfdom. The fact that she kept serfdom alive while it was dying out in other places put Russia at a disadvantage in world affairs.

Answer 7

Pretty bad in social reforms.