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1 The Age of Aristocracy History 104 / February 4, 2013

2 An English “country house”: Blenheim (built ca. 1705-1724)

3 Belton House, Lincolnshire (built 1685-88)

4 The Enclosure movement: consolidating agricultural property

5 A productive aristocracy

6 A fancy, free-spending German state: the Dresden palace of the Elector of Saxony

7 Charlottenburg palace, Berlin (built by Frederick I, Prussia’s first king)

8 Friedrich Wilhelm I King in Prussia, 1713-1740 The “Soldier King”

9 Friedrich Wilhelm’s “long fellows”

10 Friedrich II King of Prussia, 1740-1786 “Frederick the Great”

11 Brandenburg-Prussia in 1618

12 Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648

13 Brandenburg-Prussia in 1763

14 Frederick’s palace in Potsdam: “Sans souci”

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16 Court culture at Potsdam

17 Peter I Emperor of Russia, 1682-1725 “Peter the Great”

18 St. Petersburg shortly after its founding in 1703

19 Catherine II Empress of Russia, “Catherine the Great”

20 The Pugachev rebellion, 1773-75

21 Gregory Potemkin (1739-1791) The “Potemkin stairs” in Odessa, Ukraine (founded 1794)

22 Coffee houses

23 A French salon

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