Catherine II
Catherine II was a very important and quite vital part of Russia's history. If it had not been for Catherine the Great that particular country would no doubt still be ruins. During her reign she managed to turn Russia from economically poor, nearly third world country that it was into a mapped, wealthy, productive, and modernized country. Catherine started the turning around of Russia very soon after her coronation in September of 1762. As Russia was primarily agricultural she decided to use this as a way of gaining the country wealth. And, upon deciding that improvement techniques were vital, she sent experts out to study various soils and propose suitable crops for specific areas. Also she used England as an example for ways of farming and allowed grants for farmers to learn those ways as well as but English inventions built for better farming. With this she encouraged modern methods of breeding animals such as: cattle, sheep, and even horses. Soon she came to the realization that more workers were needed under populated areas, therefore advertising in forei
Later Catherine turned toward education. There were very few schools in Russia, so she made up boarding schools for girls, The Smolny Institute, out of a convent. She sent for a guy from Oxford and put him into the educational community. She also issued a statue for schools in all of Russia. From then on, every district town was to hold a small school with two teachers, and provincial towns were to have a major school with six teachers. Next her mind looked toward mining, so she sent geologists to find some of Russia's hidden ores. At some point in time, she found the first School of Mines in St. Petersburg; complete with an underground mine to train in. During this whole time she only had her mind on the good of Russia, and the expansion of it. She gave permission to anyone to start a new factory, except in either of the two capitals, which were already overcrowded. Soon as it was common for a has-been peasant to be running a whole textile plant, many of the other industries started to emerge. Industries such as: pottery, linen, leather goods, and furniture.
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