Catherine the Great
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Catherine the Great is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 14, 2022 and July 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Catherine the Great had a secret plan to resurrect Byzantium”; “Went to the court of Catherine the Great”. It most often appears alongside George, 1812, ACX.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 14, 2022
- Last seen: July 05, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
3: Wondering why so many Russian and Ukrainian cities have Greek names (eg Sebastopol)? Catherine the Great had a secret plan to resurrect Byzantium and install her appropriately-named grandson Constantine as New Roman Emperor. Step 1 was to found a lot of new cities with Greek names. Step 2 was to ally with the Austrian Empire. Then the Austrians got distracted with other things and they never reached Step 3.
Inline links: secret plan to resurrect Byzantium
After the siege, Don Juan, for his battling, Received a further triumph for his fate: He and the orphaned Leila, carriage rattling, Went to the court of Catherine the Great And met the Queen; despite the nobles’ prattling, She took him as her lover (Byron’s hate For despots enters here with forceful trumpeting — And several jokes about this despot’s strumpeting).