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CATHERINE II

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CATHERINE II
(1762 - 1796) ""Catherine The Great"", Czarina of Russia who murdered her husband Peter III and proclaimed herself Czarina (1762). She added huge tracts of land to the Russian Empire, while suppressing the peasants and serfs within her realm. Handsome manuscript D.S. ""Ekaterina"" 1p. tall 4to., [n.p.], Oct. 31, 1765, an Imperial Decree in Russian, in part: ""...We command Court Councillor Stepan Zinonev to keep in his stewardship the French Theatre and all that belongs to it..."". Boldly signed and in particularly clean condition.