, she told count sigur then that yes, i listened to all this with interest, but the point is that dideroteals only with paper, and i have to deal with a person, so she showed in this case. great caution , and as for foreign policy, of course, but catherine’s era is simply brilliant in this sense, offhand i remember only one point in her policy, which was criticized, including by almost all subsequent emperors, this is the division of poland , because as a result of the division of poland , a united germany appeared, powerful and aggressive enough. then for several generations it solved this problem, well, on the other hand, russia received such a peppered piece of the pie, because uprisings, polish uprisings followed one after another, and this did not strengthen, of course, in the 19th century, but by the way, she did not take the polish lands along with warsaw, alexander the first took it, she took western belarus, western ukraine, nevertheless yes. here, but in principle, of course, the policy was brilliant, outwardly, but just remember the annexation of crimea, yes, for us it was the