Catherine the Great - Reforms, Rebellion, and Greatness - Extra History - Part 4

📜 History of Catherine the Great, Part 4
Catherine had great ambitions to reform Russia according to her own highest ideals, but she soon found that the reality of governance made those ideals difficult to achieve. She also found herself tangled in war, rebellion, and (scandalously) smallpox.

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[Adamantium]

Catherine: I'm _surrounded_ by _idiots._

[TurlasThe]

"I am...the LAW!" -Catherine the Great

[axle]

*When you study about the History of other countries when you don't even know everything about your own*

[nostalgiakarlk.f.]

I love how their "arms" are just forcefields with invisible blood vessels running throughout.

[dantobarbarian]

I remember a story in one of my old history textbooks about Catherine. How she asked her assembled cabinet advisors how many Provinces does Russia have and nobody having a clue, and she giving money to a servant to go to the national library to buy a globe or geographic book so they can map them out one by one... really incredible woman!

[redeemaugustine]

7:08 that moment when Extra Credit's Art style makes it look like Catherine's Hair is bleeding.

[ZetHololo]

As a Russian it is very sad for me that you glance over all of that Serf business. The situation was much more complicated than you could think. Majority of the victorious military were officers of high classes, as were those who put her in power. She resented her decision of further enslaving serfs all her life, but as a diplomat she just could not do that. She just couldn't take away the serfs from the people that supported her reign, and made anything she did possible. She made a choice, and chose to support high classes by all means. It resolved into the bloom of literature (AND literacy!), music, law, education, development of Russian language as we know it,  and countless other things, but in turn it meant slavery for commoners. It is a great tragedy of her character and a great tragedy in Russia. This politics, took over by her successors would, in centuries to come, flame into the bloodiest revolution of all, red as the hot rage of yesterday's slaves.

[paulokhayat]

you didnt adress one problem with inoculation. nobody has arms.

[HappynHungryMapping]

"Partition of Poland"
**sheds single tear**

[mosespray]

She was smarter than 99% of the people of her time, and very self-assured. It's no accident she became a legend.

[paulc]

0:07 So majestic. She truly is an Empress.

[UDontTakeMeSeriously]

She....she started vaccinations? That's actually huge if true

[brennerthelegomaniac]

1762: Holy crap! It's SMALLPOX!

2019: What's smallpox?

[rubyc]

Anyone else keep thinking the C on her top is a massive belly button

[alias]

Your format in teaching history is so addictive, I never thought I'd care about Russian History. How wrong I was!

[DensetsuVII]

Can we PLEASE get plushy revolts? I would buy the hell out a little plushy head-nomming fire revolt <3

[extrahistory]

Now that she ruled Russia, Catherine set out to reform her country according to her grandest ideals. This proved... difficult.

[Thecommander]

Fun fact: There were many people who claimed to be Peter III throughout Catherine's rein. The people never let her forget that she got her husband killed.

[FunnyMemes-drse]

Damn... Catherine seems like an anime character that has jumped from the modern times to the Russian past... she was too smart and made too logical solutions than past nobles in Europe! Respect for the great rulers of the past...

[autogun]

Well, looks like this Baltic Fleet's journey ended more successfully than in 1905...