Tag Archive: 0Catherine the Great

1776 is famous as the year that America declared its independence (celebrated tomorrow, of course), but what else happened that year?  Here’s something: Catherine the Great’s son got married. This collection came in recently.  Printed at present-day Stargard Szczeciński (Poland), it’s an account of the celebrations given in the town to welcome Catherine’s son, Paul, […]

Sheikh Mansur was a Chechen resistance fighter who waged a six-year campaign against Catherine the Great’s forces before his capture in 1791, calling upon fellow Muslims to join him in jihad.  ‘He was the first to preach and lead … the Holy War against the infidel Russians in the Caucasus …  Dropped, as it were, from the […]