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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