¥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)