Politik
Catherine the Great
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Suzdal Prison Castle
Her 1766 order established the state prison inside the monastery.
Spuren in anderen Städten
- Sankt Petersburg
- Alexander Palace
- Sankt Petersburg
- Bobrinsky Palace — The palace’s family history and collections commemorated the empress from whom the Bobrinsky line secretly descended.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Bronze Horseman — Commissioned Falconet’s Bronze Horseman monument to Peter I.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Free Economic Society Building — Established/patronised the Free Economic Society (1765), Russia’s first learned NGO; she approved the charter, motto and funding for its Petersburg premises.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Hermitage Museum
- Sankt Petersburg
- Hermitage Theatre
- Sankt Petersburg
- Marble Palace — Commissioned the Marble Palace as a gift for Grigory Orlov.
- Kasan
- New Jerusalem Bishops’ Residence — She ordered and financed the residence as compensation after the archbishop’s wrongful prosecution.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Sankt Petersburg
- Summer Garden — Commissioned Felten’s famous Neva-side iron grille (1770s–84); personally took Smolny Institute pupils on a public promenade here in 1773.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Tauride Garden — Park of Tauride Palace (already linked); after Potemkin’s death Catherine bought the palace and stayed there in spring/autumn to keep his memory.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Tauride Palace — Commissioned the Tauride Palace for Grigory Potemkin.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Winter Palace — Imperial residence; began the Hermitage art collections in the Winter Palace.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Смольный институт — Founded the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens (Smolny Institute) by decree 16 May 1764 — Europe’s first state girls’ school; later housed in Quarenghi’s building.
- Sankt Petersburg
- Чесменская церковь — Commissioned the Chesme Church to mark the Chesma victory.
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