Russian Enlightenment | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Russian Enlightenment


00:01:12 1 Early developments
00:02:16 2 Catherine the Great
00:03:58 2.1 Foreign policy
00:06:57 2.2 Politics
00:10:34 2.3 Culture
00:14:33 2.4 Economics
00:17:06 2.5 Catherine and Voltaire
00:32:50 3 Education
00:35:20 4 Arts
00:36:20 4.1 Opera
00:38:47 4.2 Other music
00:40:11 5 Freemasonry
00:41:29 6 Aftermath



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The Russian Age of Enlightenment was a period in the 18th century in which the government began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences, which had a profound impact on Russian culture. During this time, the first Russian university was founded, a library, a theatre, a public museum, as well as relatively independent press. Like other enlightened despots, Catherine the Great played a key role in fostering the arts, sciences, and education.  
The national Enlightenment in the Russian Empire differed from its Western European counterpart in that it promoted further modernization of all aspects of Russian life and was concerned with abolishing the institution of serfdom in Russia. The Pugachev Rebellion and French Revolution may have shattered the illusions of rapid political change, but the intellectual climate in Russia was altered irrevocably. Russia's place in the world was debated by Denis Fonvizin, Mikhail Shcherbatov, Andrey Bolotov, Ivan Boltin, and Alexander Radishchev; these discussions precipitated the divide between the radical, western, conservative and Slavophile traditions of Russian thought.  Intellectuals often used the term prosveshchenie, promoting piety, erudition, and commitment to the spread of learning.