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Catherine was born on April 21 1729 in Germany. She was born a Princess
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Catherine Married her husband when she was only 15. Her hunsbands name was Peter III
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Catherine took her husbands throne becaause he did not meet the needs of a ruler
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She presented it with a brilliant proposal for reforms based on the ideas of Montesuieu and Baccaria.
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When Catherine expanded tyhe empire, Russia, Prussia and Austria tried to assert their influence on the country. In 1772 these land hungry neighbors took a peice of Poland in what is called the first Partition of Poland
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Catherines army crushed the rebillion
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Died in Tsarskoye Selo, or what is now Pushkin