2006-11-20 12:29:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
She was a patron of the arts. The Hermitage Museum, which now occupies the whole Winter Palace, started as her personal collection. She also founded the Smolny Institute for noble young ladies. She wrote a manual for the education of young people. She established the Imperial Ballet School. Today it is known as the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
2006-11-20 19:05:34 · answer #1 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was a patron of science, too. She gave the great Swiss, Leonhard Euler, a living as her Court mathematician. Because he did not need to work, he was able to make more discoveries in mathematics than anybody ever had before.
2006-11-21 07:05:27 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She manage to get the warm water port that Peter the great didn't get, she try to have reforms, which a lot of peasants end up becoming serfs.
2006-11-20 20:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by JF. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She killed her husband (although it was never proven), and took the throne of Russia, though she herself was Prussian.
She expanded the empire until she ruled 1/7th of the world.... quite an achievement for a woman of her time.
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2006-11-20 20:38:41 · answer #4 · answered by newbiegranny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋