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| | Vera Proskurina, Davis Center, Harvard University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The eighteenth century was, for the most part, a time of female rule in Russia. |
 | | The "translation of empire" (translatio imperii) in Russia also followed this pattern: Catherine II ordered the translation of the Æneid into Russian and attentively followed Petrov's progress. |
 | | Catherine the Great, with her broad legislative activity and extensive expansionism in foreign policy (wars with the Ottoman Porte, seizure of the Crimea, Poland's partition), attempted to associate herself with classical masculine models of imperial power, inherited by European monarchies, in order to sanction her rule. |
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