Catherine the Great was an Enlightened monarch, and attempted to make Russia a Western European nation.
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France, Britain and Russia
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Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia
¨ What Eastern European nation lies nestled between Russia (to the east), Poland (to the west), Ukraine (to the south) and Lithuania (to the north)?
Russia, in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905
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Yes. Before the Soviet Union collapsed it was the largest Eastern European nation not a part of the Soviet Union. However after the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine became the largest Eastern European nation (excluding Russia), and the largest European nation wholly in Europe.