Quotes About Catherine II

With the help of Dutch traders, by 1750 the cigar eventually made its way to Holland and then to Russia. There, Empress Catherine II had her cigars decorated with delicate silk bands so that her royal fingers would not become stained while she smoked. This simple yet ingenious device would subsequently inspire the cigar bands that we know today.

Podczas pobytu na dworze carycy Katarzyny II wielki szwajcarski matematyk Leonhard Euler wda? si? w dyskusj? na temat istnienia Boga. Aby pokona? przeciwników, poprosi? o tablic?, na której napisa?: (x + y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2, a wi?c Bóg istnieje! Nie mog?c zakwestionowa? adekwatno?ci wywodu, którego nie rozumieli, i nie chc?c okaza? swojej niewiedzy, oponenci przyj?li ten argument za rozstrzygaj?cy.

In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed.

Jews were emphatically second-class subjects of the Tsar. A Pale of Settlement, outside which Jews were not supposed to reside, had been established by Catherine II in 1791, though it was not precisely delineated until 1835. It consisted of Russian-controlled Poland