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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