A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon
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In this war, Prince Potemkin, the favorite and prime minister of Catharine, greatly distinguished himself; also General Suwarrow, afterwards noted for his Polish campaigns. In this war Russia lost two hundred thousand men, and the Turks three hundred and thirty thousand, besides expending two hundred and nfty millions of piasters. The most important political conse- quence was the aggrandizement of Russia, whose dominion was established on the Black Sea. Catharine, having acquired, either by ar...ms or intrigues, almost half of Poland, the Crimea, and a part of the frontiers of Turkey then turned her arms against Persia. But she died before she could realize her dreams of conquest. At her death, she was the most powerful sovereign that ever reigned in Russia. She was succeeded by her son, Paul I., (1796,) and her remains Avere de- posited by the side of her murdered husband, while his chief mur- derers, Alexis Orloff and Prince Baratinski, were ordered to stand Ht her funeral, on each side of his coffin as chief mourners.
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