Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 84. Catherine II of Russia.a portrait by Rosseliii) (After
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I by Russia I iTerritories taken by Prussia o REIGN OF CATHERINE THE GREAT 467 his misfortunes. This extension of the rule of the Muscovite tothe Euxine was a matter of moment to all Eastern Europe ; for now,as Freeman says, the road through which so many Turanian in-vaders had pressed into the Aryan continent was blocked forever. On the West Catherine succeeded, by intrigue and the mostshameful disregard of the law of nations, in greatly extending thelimits of her dominions. This she effected at the expense ofPoland, the partition of which state she planned in connectionwith Frederick the Great of Prussia — who suggested the crime— and Maria Theresa of Austria. On the first division, whichwas made in 1772, the imperial robbers each took a portion ofthe spoils. This act of brigandage was consummated in spite ofthe efforts of patriotic Poles for reform, the anarchical conditionof the Polish state being the pretext of the despoiling sovereignsfor their action.^ It is difficult to ap

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