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Catherine the Great's Favorites: Those Who Had No Opinion of Their Own

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Catherine the Great's Favorites: Those Who Had No Opinion of Their Own
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The reign of Catherine the Great marked a glorious decline of favoritism in Russia, and the empress's name is firmly associated with her "ministers of pleasure." Young guards officers took turns in the empress's chambers, entertained her in the capital and her country residences, accompanied her on trips, and received fabulously expensive gifts, titles, ranks, orders, and estates with thousands of serfs, but they quickly disappeared from the historical stage. How was favoritism integrated into the system of government? What were the reasons for the emergence of a succession of royal favorites? What, besides close relationships with the empress, did they do in their "prominent positions"? What role did they play in court life and high politics?
The essays by Doctor of Historical Sciences Igor Kurukin, based on archival and published sources and scholarly research, explore Catherine II's chosen ones, who shared her interests and aspirations to the best of their ability but lacked an opinion of their own.
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