In this excerpt from his five-volume "Course", Kliuchevsky provides a description of Russian court life in the 18th century, a narrative of the coup d'etat that brought Catherine II to power, a portrait of the empress herself, and an analysis of her foreign conquests and her internal initiatives.
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