I have been continuing on in my research on the reforms of Catherine the Great and have been highly successful in finding information on them. I am extremely fascinated by the reforms that she introduced during nher reign and the influencs that help bring about these reforms. For my essay, I am thinking of concentrating on the three main areas where she introduced reforms: economic, social and political. I will then go on to talk about what these reforms did and show how you can see her influences throug the reforms. I have also tried researching the people that influenced Catherin, namely Voltaire and Rousseau. I have found it quite easy to find information on Voltaire but much harder to find any on Rousseau.

Now further into my excursion, I have started working on creating and editing my weebly. I have found it slightly hard trying to create and choose a design for the weebly because there is just so much choice and the software is sometimes quite hard to use. I have also begun researching my topic, focusing particularly on what the enlightenment was and then how it influenced Catherine the Great. I have found a bit hard finding the information that I am looking for for my topic as most of the information isn't as specific as I need it to be. I am thinking of trying out a different search engine besides Google so as to find different and hopefully more useful information.

With starting off with this topic, I had very limited knowledge about Russia and the era of Catherine the Great. However from the background information that we have covered in class on the topic, I have been able to pick my topic for the assignment. I have chosen to study Catherine the Great's influences from Voltaire and Rousseau to the Englightenment. I chose this topic because I am fascinated and intrigued by the englightened way of thinking and wish to gain a knowledge on what influenced Catherine to rule as she did. I look forward to learning more about the regimes and laws that Catherine the Great introduced into Russia and what brought her to introducing them. I have done some limited research so far on the topic and I hope to gather a lot more as the research process continues.