Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Catherine ta kashe kudi mai yawa don inganta manufofin kasashen waje. Ta fadada ikon siyasa na Rasha akan Yaren mutanen Poland-Lithuania tare da ayyuka, gami da goyon bayan Tarayyar Targowica. Kudin kamfen dinta, a saman tsarin zamantakewar zalunci wanda ke buƙatar serfs su ciyar da kusan duk lokacin da suke aiki a ƙasar iyayengijinsu, ya haifar da babbar tawaye a cikin 1773. Wani ɗan Cossack mai suna Pugachev ya ƙarfafa 'yan tawayen su yi ihu cewa "Ku rataye dukan masu mallakar gidaje!" kuma suka yi barazanar cewa za su ƙwace birnin Moscow har sai Catherine ta murkushe tawayen. Kamar sauran masu mulkin mallaka na Turai, Catherine ta tabbatar da ikonta kuma ta kulla kawance da masu martaba.Catherine ta yi nasarar yaƙi da daular Ottoman mai lalacewa kuma ta ci gaba da iyakar kudancin Rasha zuwa Bahar Maliya. Sannan, ta hanyar yin kawance da sarakunan Ostiryia da Prussia, ta haɗa da yankuna na Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, inda bayan ƙarni na mulkin Rasha waɗanda ba Katolika ba, galibi Orthodox sun mamaye yayin Rarraba Poland, suna tura iyakar Rasha zuwa yamma zuwa Tsakiyar Turai. Dangane da yarjejeniyar da Rasha ta sanya hannu tare da Jojiya don kare su daga duk wani sabon mamayewa na masarautar Farisa da kuma ƙarin burin siyasa, Catherine ta yi sabon yaƙi da Farisa a 1796 bayan da suka sake mamaye Georgia kuma suka kafa mulkinta game da shekara guda da ta gabata, kuma sun kori sabbin sojojin Rasha da aka kafa a Caucasus.  Tambaya: Da wa Catherine ta yi aiki tare?
sarakunan Austria da Prussia