The Age of Aristocracy History 104 / February 4, 2013
An English “country house”: Blenheim (built ca. 1705-1724)
Belton House, Lincolnshire (built 1685-88)
The Enclosure movement: consolidating agricultural property
A productive aristocracy
A fancy, free-spending German state: the Dresden palace of the Elector of Saxony
Charlottenburg palace, Berlin (built by Frederick I, Prussia’s first king)
Friedrich Wilhelm I King in Prussia, 1713-1740 The “Soldier King”
Friedrich Wilhelm’s “long fellows”
Friedrich II King of Prussia, 1740-1786 “Frederick the Great”
Brandenburg-Prussia in 1618
Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648
Brandenburg-Prussia in 1763
Frederick’s palace in Potsdam: “Sans souci”
Court culture at Potsdam
Peter I Emperor of Russia, 1682-1725 “Peter the Great”
St. Petersburg shortly after its founding in 1703
Catherine II Empress of Russia, 1762-1796 “Catherine the Great”
The Pugachev rebellion, 1773-75
Gregory Potemkin (1739-1791) The “Potemkin stairs” in Odessa, Ukraine (founded 1794)
Coffee houses
A French salon