Ekaterina II - Trendsetter

In June 1762 another Russian in the former coup was elevated to the throne of Empress Catherine II from its predecessors - Elizabeth and Peter III - she inherited a pile of public issues: the expansion requirements of the nobility of their privileges, peasant unrest, discontent with the army, the budget deficit, apathy higher and unrestrained self-will of the local administration, the paralysis of the judicial system, in the depths of which was not uncommon, according to a contemporary, "provolochit business 20 years, and will not find justice," the disorder, and sometimes the absence of laws. . .