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Catherine the Great and the question of Europe

The Compass by BBC

Mar 1, 202327:49News & Politics

It was Peter the Great who created a new capital on the Baltic, and Catherine the Great who extended Russian influence south and west. Sweden, Poland, and the Ottomans all felt the Russian expansion in a century of geopo...

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