Catherine the Great

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>>2724545
BIG

>>2724585
HORSE

Friedrich II got his ass kicked hard and Prussia had to be bailed by two literal miracles. Meanwhile Catherine, while being a huge bitch personally, had very little setbacks and, for one, never had to surrender her capital.

is she the greatest woman ruler ever, /his/?

>>2724610
>is she the greatest woman ruler ever, /his/?

She's up there with Elizabeth I and Hatshepsut.

>>2724589
COCK

Red pill me on that whole Prussia miracle thing? What would've happened if she lived and why were they at was with each other..

>>2724761
>Russia on the verge of eternally BTFO'ing Prussia
>Suddenly Empress Elizabeth dies
>Her successor is a huge Prussiaboo
>He fucking withdraws all the Russian troops from Prussia and makes white peace
>Couped and replaced with Catherine six months later

Wasn't she a big skank?

>>2724545
I honestly don't get why she is known as an enlightened despot. She didn't really modernize Russia in any way. If anything she made the serfs worse off. She had a really solid foreign policy, but that doesn't make her an enlightened ruler. So I would say she was a very good year, and may have personally held enlightened views, but this didn't translate into enlightened polocies.