Episode 101 - The early 1780’s
About this episode
The episode discusses Russian territorial expansion, provincial reforms, family matters of Catherine, a European geopolitical shift, and rumors about Grigory Potemkin.
This time around we’ll be looking at, in general, more calmness and I’ll be concentrating on just four things that will take us up to the mid 1780s Further Russian territorial expansion and a touch more provincial reform We’ll follow that with one or two family matters (not mine I hasten to add, but Catherine’s) And then in the second part of the episode we’ll look at a European geopolitical shift and the deaths of two of our major players. And then we’ll end up with the facts or rumours (you decide) that were doing the rounds regarding Grigory Potemkin Oh and as usual, there will be the odd interjection from our avian friends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Damon Boar
Topics covered
- Russian territorial expansion
- provincial reform
- European geopolitical shift
- Catherine's family matters
- Grigory Potemkin rumors
Keywords
- Russia
- Catherine
- Grigory Potemkin
- territorial expansion
- provincial reform
- geopolitical shift
- 1780s
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