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Catherine the Great attempted reforms to benefit her people, but her actions were flawed in some important ways. The authority and power of the nobility increased at the expense of the serfs, and the condition of ordinary people deteriorated.

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=Alexander II abolished serfdom in 1861, this angered landowners.=

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Alexander II of Russia

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