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When Catherine the Great took the throne in 1762, she discovered to her dismay that no one in the chaotic Russian court had any idea how big the empire actually was. When nobody could even tell her how many towns there were, she dispatched
a courtier to buy a map-funding him with five rubles from the royal purse. History doesn't relate what ...