CSPAN Washington July 4, 2024
On the one hand, she believed that yes, from foreigners, from the west, we need to adopt what is needed, but exactly what is needed, speaking of philosophy, yes, it must be said that catherine, at the end of her life, she herself admitted this, that she in general, was not an original thinker, if you look at her notes written a year before her accession to the throne, we will see there absolutely, one might say , a utopian, ideal picture, she writes there, uh. That she wants to do only good on the throne, that she wants to eradicate despotism in russia, she wants to free the serfs from bondage...