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Footage:
Rise of Empires: Ottomans (2020)
Napoleon (2023)
Charlemagne (2021)
Catherine: The Ascension (2016)
Catherine (2014)
Catherine: The Pretenders (2019)
Catherine the Great (2019)
Vikings (2013 2020)
Viking (2016)
Cyril and Methodius. The Apostles of the Slavs (2013)

Music:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clemency of Titus
Europe Universalis IV Soundtrack Voyage
Europe Universalis IV Soundtrack New King Arrives
Europe Universalis IV Soundtrack Ride Forth Victoriously
Europe Universalis IV Soundtrack Battle of Lepanto
Imperator Rome: Soundtrack Mediterranean
Europe Universalis IV Soundtrack The Empire Divided
Europe Universalis IV Soundtrack At The Gates of Constantinople
Europe Universalis IV Soundtrack Off To War


Literature:

Sergey Ivanov, Catherine the Great’s Byzantium, Quaestio Rossica 9, June 2021
Ragsdale, Hugh. “Evaluating the Traditions of Russian Aggression: Catherine II and the Greek Project.” The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 66, no. 1, 1988, pp. 91–117.

Catherine's letters (In original French):
https://catcor.seh.ox.ac.uk/texts/

Catherine II. (1787). Zapiski kasatel’no Rossiiskoi istorii v 7 ch. [Notes on Russian
History. 7 Parts]. St Petersburg, Imperatorskaya tipografiya. Part 1. 416 p.
Catherine II. (1878). Pis’ma Imperatritsy Ekateriny II baronu Mel’khioru Grimmu
(gody s 1774 po 1796) [The Letters of Empress Catherine II to Baron Melchior Grimm
from 1774 to 1796]. St Petersburg Tipografiya Imperatorskoi Akademii nauk. 734 p.
Catherine II. (1901). Sochineniya imperatritsy Ekateriny II na osnovanii podlinnykh
rukopisei v 12 t. [The Writings of Empress Catherine II from her Genuine Manuscripts.
12 Vols.]. St Petersburg, Izdatel’stvo Imperatorskoi аkademii nauk. Vol. 2. Dramaticheskie
sochineniya. 547 p.

00:00 Intro
00:36 Russia in the XVIII Century
01:33 The Ottoman Empire in the XVIII Century
02:33 Catherine
04:43 The First War
05:47 The Greeks and the Southern Ambitions
07:50 Hellenic Fashion
10:50 European Diplomacy
13:14 The Plans
19:57 The Second War
21:28 Catherine's "Byzantium"
24:49 Legacy of the Greek Project
26:33 Outro