The Age of Aristocracy History 104 / February 4, 2013

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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