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Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Mother. Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (17 July 1715 – 2 May 1775), was a German princess, a member of the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels . Born in Gotha, she was the fifteenth of nineteen children born from the marriage of ...
Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (8 August 1734 in Alt Stettin – 3 March 1793 in Luxembourg), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and the last ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst.
- 16 March 1747– 3 March 1793
- Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp
Description. Fredericka, was the daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1691-1732) and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. In 1734 she married John Adolphus II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685-1746). Her younger sister, Augusta, became Princess of Wales on her marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1736.
In 1742 princes John Louis II and Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg inherited Anhalt-Zerbst. After Christian August's death in 1747, his widow Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp governed the country for her son Frederick Augustus until 1752.
- Principality
- Upper Saxon
- Catherine II: Enlightened Despot
- Serfdom
- Education
- Religion
- Administration and Intellectual Life
The period of Catherine’s rule (1762-1796), the Catherinian Era, is often considered the Golden Age of the Russian Empire and the Russian nobility. She enthusiastically supported the ideals of the Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an enlightened despot. As such, she believed that strengthening her authority had to occur by improving the liv...
An admirer of Peter the Great, Catherine continued to modernize Russia along Western European lines. However, military conscription and economy continued to depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. Catherine confirmed the authority of the nobles over the serfs in...
Catherine believed a “new kind of person” could be created by inculcating Russian children with European education. However, despite the experts’ recommendations to establish a general system of education for all Russian Orthodox subjects from the age of 5 to 18, excluding serfs, only modest action was taken. The Moscow Foundling Home (Moscow Orpha...
Catherine converted to the Russian Orthodoxy as part of her immersion in the Russian matters but personally remained largely indifferent to religion. Her religious policies largely aimed to control populations and religious institutions in the multi-religious empire. She nationalized all of the church lands to help pay for her wars, largely emptied...
Catherine did not advocate democratic reforms but addressed some of the modernization trends. In 1775, she decreed a Statute for the Administration of the Provinces of the Russian Empire. The statute sought to efficiently govern Russia by increasing population and dividing the country into provinces and districts. In 1785, she conferred on the nobi...
When "Empress Catherine the Great" Sophia Augusta Frederika von Anhalt Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729, in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia, her father, Prince Christian August von Anhalt-Zerbst, was 38 and her mother, Princess Johanna Elisabeth zu Holstein-Gottorp, was 16.
Friederike Auguste Sophie, Fürstin von Anhalt-Zerbst, geborene Prinzessin von Anhalt-Bernburg (* 28. August 1744 in Bernburg; † 12. April 1827 in Coswig) war eine deutsche Landesfürstin und Schwägerin der Zarin Katharina II. von Russland (1729–1796). Sie verwaltete vom April 1793 bis Oktober 1806 die Erbherrschaft Jever . Leben.
