¥Reign
1762-1796
¥Russia wins
back the western lands from Lithuania and Poland
¥Polish
partitions – 1772, 1793, 1795 (western boundary minus
¥ East
Prussia, Galicia, and Bessarabia
¥Capture of
all southern steppes (Turkish wars) from Dniester to KubanÕ rivers (i.e., superior agricultural farmland)
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