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Enlightened despot, -Serfs burned manor houses -murdered land owner -…

- - - - flute with him
  - - - disliked Frederick's poetry
        
        tried to escape
        
        captured in jail
- - - - lasted 34years
      - frame a constitution
      - wrote eassay about reforms
        
        end the use of torture
        
        convention delegates
        
        debated for months
        
        dismissed
        
        stop capital punishment
        
        abolish serfdom
  - - - little improvement for life of peasants
        
        an rebellion centered on Pugachev
        
        :
  - - - Catherine accepted Frederick II’s suggestiion
      - avoid war with turkey
      - Joint occupation of Poland’s territory
    - - Poland's hopes were ignored
      - Austria, Prussia, and Russia divided Poland's land
      - First partition in 1772
    - - Expansion achieved through diplomacy rather than war
      - Russian Empire expanded significantly
      - About 200,000 square miles of Turkish and Polish lands were gained
    - - Avoiding War with Turkey
        
        Instead of a costly war with the Ottoman Empire, Poland was partitioned
        
        While seeking a path to the Black Sea, war was avoided