... the daughters of the nobility and bourgeoisie. In modelling the Institute on the latest pedagogical theories she showed a concern for the education of women as active (though not equal) contributors in the process of civilising society. An international essay competition on the question of serfdom was intended to show that the empress held strong abolitionist views and to stimulate thinking in the same direction: the prize essay, recommending abolition, was chosen ... by Catherine in 1765. By her own very public example of inoculation against smallpox (in contrast to the royal families ...

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