Raskolniks or Nonconformists in the second half of the 17th century, rebel stryeltsy under Peter the Great, courtiers of rank during the reigns of the empresses, Polish confederates under Catherine II., the " Decembrists " under Nicholas I., nearly 50,000 Poles after the insurrection of 1863, and later on whole generations of socialists were sent to Siberia; while the number of common-law convicts and exiles transported thither increased steadily from the end of the 18th century. [Please select]
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'I take you at your word, and mine shall you be, most lovely of empresses.' [Please select]
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Stories were whispered of how differently the two Empresses behaved in these difficult circumstances. [Please select]
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Claudianus, the court poet, described them expressly as having sparkled on the breast and forehead of empresses in bygone days. [Please select]
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The Polish aristocracy was absolutely incapable of governing its own country, which fell an easy prey to the intrigues of Frederick the Great and the two Empresses, Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine of Russia. [Please select]
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