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Catherine II the Great used the philosophies that were coming out during the Age of Enlightenment. She was regarded as one of the "enlightened despots," along with Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria. Although she was one of the first monarchs to realize they ruled with some obligation to take care of the country and its people, she still found time to carve Poland up and annex most of it to her empire.

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