This leader established the Assignation Bank to issue paper money, established the State Hermitage art museum near Lake Ladoga, and ordered that Pugachev's Rebellion be suppressed while receiving advice from Grigory Potemkin.
This leader gave a decree establishing the Pale of Settlement, an area of the empire in which Jews would be coerced into living safely, and grew up in the governor's house in Stettin as part of the house of Anhalt. This leader established the Assignation Bank to issue paper money, established the State Hermitage art museum near Lake Ladoga, and ordered that Pugachev's Rebellion be suppressed while receiving advice from Grigory Potemkin. For 10 points, identify this so-called "enlightened despot," a German-born empress of Russia known for her correspondence with Voltaire.
This leader gave a decree establishing the Pale of Settlement, an area of the empire in which Jews would be coerced into living safely, and grew up in the governor's house in Stettin as part of the house of Anhalt.
Catherine the Great [or Catherine II of Russia] &lt;MPG&gt;