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The Critically Acclaimed 1934 Historical Drama Of The Life Of Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia From 1762 Until 1796, Directed And Produced By Josef von Sternberg From A Screenplay By Eleanor McGeary, Particularly Notable For Its Expressionist Art Design And Lighting, Starring Marlene Dietrich As Catherine II, Sam Jaffe As Peter III, John Davis Lodge As Count Alexander Suvorov And Louise Dresser As Empress Elizabeth -- Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Black/White, 1934, 1 Hour 44 Minutes.) #TheScarletEmpress #MarleneDietrich #JohnDavisLodge #SamJaffe #LouiseDresser #JosefVonSternberg #CatherineII #CatherineTheGreat #EmpressOfRussia #RussianEmpire #RussianHistory #EnlightenedDespots #TheEnlightenment #RussianEnlightenment #MovieStars #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Hollywood #CulturalIcons #PopIcons #SexSymbols #SexIcons #ClassicalHollywoodCinema #AmericanCinema #CinemaInTheUS #Germans #DVD

Catherine II, Empress Regnant of All Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader, most commonly known as Catherine the Great (Russian: Yekaterina Velikaya) (May 2, 1729 - November 17, 1796) was born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia. She came to power following a coup d'etat when her husband, Peter III, was assassinated. Under her reign, Russia was revitalised; it grew larger and stronger, and was recognised as one of the great powers of Europe. In both her accession to power and in rule of her empire, Catherine often relied on her noble favourites, most notably Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Alexander Suvorov and Pyotr Rumyantsev, and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding rapidly by conquest and diplomacy. In the south, the Crimean Khanate was crushed following victories over the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish wars, and Russia colonised the territories of Novorossiya along the coasts of the Black and Azov Seas. In the west, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king Stanislaw August Poniatowski, was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest share. In the east, Russia started to colonise Alaska, establishing Russian America. Catherine reformed the administration of Russian guberniyas, and many new cities and towns were founded on her orders. An admirer of Peter the Great, Catherine continued to modernise Russia along Western European lines. However, military conscription and the economy continued to depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. This was one of the chief reasons behind several rebellions, including the large-scale Pugachev's Rebellion of cossacks and peasants. The period of Catherine the Great's rule, the Catherinian Era, is often considered the Golden Age of the Russian Empire and the Russian nobility. The Manifesto on Freedom of the Nobility, issued during the short reign of Peter III and confirmed by Catherine, freed Russian nobles from compulsory military or state service. Construction of many mansions of the nobility, in the classical style endorsed by the Empress, changed the face of the country. She enthusiastically supported the ideals of The Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an enlightened despot. As a patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment, a period when the Smolny Institute, the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe, was established.

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