HIST 245 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 outline
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Plan a splendid coronation that demonstrates all wealth, might, and power of you as empress. Narrow minds 4000 actors and musicians and each vinet performed scenes with titles like drunkenness ignorance deceit , and showing enlightened view to ills: mindful to buy people, distributed 120 barrels of silver coins to crowd, 600k rubles. 5 of them and they also demanded compensation as factions do in terms of appointee, also enemies of each other (dashcova"s memoirs, and accused of being panin"s lover). This sort of rumor started by orlov brothers, typical. Daschova seen as part of faction, why see her distaste for orlov brothers: also russian treasury been depleted by elizabeth. Russia administration in disorder because elizabeth not spent much time worrying, concerned with keeping own power and reign intact: catherine skillful in contenting factions, first thing she does is to reward people who brought her to power.
