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Claiming that he was Catherine's late husband, Peter the Third, a Cossack named Yemelyan Pugachev
一位名叫葉梅連·普加喬夫的哥薩克人聲稱自己是凱瑟琳的前夫彼得三世
took advantage of Catherine's war on the Ottoman Empire to march on Moscow with a force of disillusioned peasants, old believers, and Cossacks.
利用了卡瑟琳向奧斯曼帝國進軍的機會，率領著一隊幻想破滅的農民，東正教信徒和哥薩克人向莫斯科開始進軍
He made it as far as Kazan.
他最遠到達了喀山
But after that, Catherine was able to defeat his forces.
在這之后，凱瑟琳開始取得優勢
He was brought back to St. Petersburg, and he was drawn and quartered. Nice!
他被送回了圣彼得堡，他被淹死并開膛分尸
To populate her growing empire, Catherine encouraged just about every people but the Jews, and the Jews were already there, to move in.
為了向不斷擴張的領土填充人口，鼓勵除了猶太人之外的所有人移入新領土，因為猶太人已經在那里了
In 1768, even before her string of military and diplomatic victories, there were more than 100 German colonies on the Volga River alone.
1768年，在取得軍事和外交勝利之前，單在伏爾加河就已經有超過一百的德國殖民地了
Thus, Russia's population nearly doubled from 19 million, at Catherine's accession, to 36 million at her death.
這樣，俄國人口幾乎從凱瑟琳登基時的一千九百萬翻了一番，在她去世時達到三千六百萬
In her later years, Catherine became more conservative.
在晚年，凱瑟琳轉向保守主義
Perhaps this was only natural given her decades of experience with surly peasants, whining nobility, and European power politics.
也許考慮到她同乖戾的農民，不滿的貴族還有歐洲列強打了這么幾十年交道就可以理解這件事了
She had tried hard to fixed what ailed her adopted country.
她努力革除她所接納國家的弊病
Her successors would not have more success.
她的繼任者不會取得比她更大的成功
Nor was Catherine pleased to see the American and French Revolutions partially inspired by her Enlightenment mentors
凱瑟琳也不愿意法國和美國的革命受到她的啟蒙思想導師們片面的影響
