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for russia katherine's thirty four year reign was a period of dramatic growth the population of the empire sword from nineteen to thirty six million conquests of her reign surpassed even those of peter the great 29 new provinces were created and a hundred and forty four new towns founded the army doubled in size from a hundred and sixty two thousand to three hundred and twelve thousand the navy grew from six frigates and twenty one ships of the line to forty frigates and sixty seven ships of the line, the generals and admirals won an incredible seventy eight military victories meanwhile industrial output boomed the output of cast ie and tripled russia became the greatest producer of cast in the world overtaking the former world leader great britain the value of russia's external trade rose from more than 9 million roubles per year to nearly 46 million roubles per year state revenue quadrupled from 16 million to 69 million rubles catherine built on the foundations laid by peter the great 80 years before create a giant and powerful new russian empire many later generations would look back to her reign as the zenith of russian imperial glory, but forever mindful of the limitations of power she compared her own work to a drop of water falling into the ocean in 1796 in her 67th year, athran prepared to draft a decree on her succession she intended to pass over her unloved son pool to make her 19 year old favorite grandson alexander her heir she did not live to see it completed on november 6th 1796, gathering the great died of a stroke her forty two year old son paul became emperor in just one month it was plain to see why the empress had tried to remove him from the succession katherine the great was never wrong。
