... times throughout her reign, Catherine had struck down the Ottoman Empire, created the "Nakaz" of 1767 and annexed nations such as Crimea, Poland and Ukraine, and had added 200,000 square miles of land to Russia. In 1774, a Don Cossack named Yemelyan Pugachov had set out to claim the throne as the dead Peter the Great, which Catherine had crushed, and in ... ...

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