1729-1796+Catherine+the+Great

Catherine the Great



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 * Longest Russian Empress to rule.
 * Ruled after the Seven Years War.
 * Colonize Alaska, Russian America.
 * Made Russia richer with it's fur trade.
 * Never fully colonized Alaska, just the coast.
 * in 1830 the Hudson Bay Company made trade post near the sounthern corners of Russian America which made fur trade even harder.
 * Eventually after many years of war they made a treaty with the Hudson Bay Company allowing them to travel through Russian Territory.
 * in 1867 the Russian sold Russian America to the Americans for 7.2million because the contest for fur was too intense.

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