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27 - 244, 4. Russia seeks to separate itself from the dependence on England: Catherine II. ( 1761 - 1796 )1) After Williams, the English envoy and confidant of the Grand Duchess Catherine, had left the Russian court - he soon committed suicide in spiritual contemplation - his successor, the Mason Keith, struck in his abilities other ways to influence Russian politics in the narrowly-named him a Prussian spy at the Russian Court. Keith misses the importance of the Grand Duchess Catherine and approaches her father, the politically immature and mentally retarded heir to the throne Peter III, whom he explores in order to communicate the results of Frederick the Great and his own government. This short-sighted policy of the English representative soon avenges itself, because during the short reign of Peter III. Frederick the Great was able to save his Prussian- and close-country-friendly policy from destruction, but England did not yet bring tangible advantages. However, when, after Peter III's fall, Catherine II took over the sole control, she demanded that Keith's dismissal be carried out by the English government, as he had played a leading role under Peter III in the anti-national Russian 4th sense. 1) A large part of the events to be discussed here deal in detail, with a thorough substructure of sources, mainly from the engliechgz archives, Diebrich Gerhard, England and the rise of Russia, Munich l933, with a strong emphasis on trade policy, although Russia is somewhat in the background in favour of an overly close-country-friendly presentation. 2) La Cour de Rusie ¿1 7 a cent ane 1723-1783, Berlin 1860, p. 184, 3) Bilbassoff, History Katharina II, vol.1, Berlin l891 4) Čečulin, Vněšnjaja politika Rossii v načalě cartvovanija Ekateriny ÍI., 1762-1774, pp.-Peterburg 1896, p.147.