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Yet, together with her formidable virtues, Cathrine the Great had certain weaknesses. Indeed the two were intrinisically combined. Determination easily became ruthlessness, ambition fed vanity just as vanity fed ambition, skill in propaganda would not stop short of asserting lies. Above all, the empress was a supreme egoist. As with most true egoists, she had few beliefs or standards of value outside of herself and her own overpowering wishes. Even Catherine II’s admirers sometimes noticed that she lacked something, call it charity, mercy, or human sympathy, and, incidentally that she looked her best in masculine attire. It was also observed that the sovereign took up every issue with the same unflagging drive and earnestness, be it Pugache’vs rebellion or correspondence with Voltaire, the partitions of Poland or her latest article for a periodical. Restless ambition served as the only common denominator in her many activities, and apparently, the only thing that mattered. Similarly, in spite of Catherine’s enormous display of enlightened view and sentiments and of her adherence to the principles of the Age of Reason, it remains extremely difficult to tell what the empress actually believed, or whether she believed anything. In fact, the true relationship of Catherine the Great to the Enlightenment constitutes one of the most controversial subjects in the histography of her reign. `Page 257
Under Catherine the Great, the Russians now began to play a decisive part in both Ottoman and Greek fortunes. In the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-74, a vast territories were ceded to Russia, giving it access to the Black Sea and the long-desired warm-water port for its navy. The sultan was forced to accept the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca, by which the tsar was acknowledged as the rightful protector of the Orthodox faithful throughout the Ottoman empire. More important, greek merchants could now trade under the Russian flag. In theory, this meant that the might of the Russian navy stood behind them.
Ever since Valdimir the Gret had converted the Orthodox in 988, religious and cultural bonds between Russians and Greeks hadbeen strong. Now the relationship was entering the realm of geopolitics too. ~ Page 106