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History's most compelling minds — examined through personality, cognition, and historical context.
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Voltaire
#312 · 3-26-26The most famous philosophe of the Enlightenment — wit, satirist, and fervent correspondent of Catherine the Great who called him 'the divine man of Ferney.'
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Catherinian Russia
Denis Diderot
Chief editor of the Encyclopédie and one of the great philosophical minds of the French Enlightenment — who visited Catherine's court in 1773 and argued with her for months.
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Catherinian Russia
Alexander Suvorov
Russia's greatest military commander, who never lost a battle in sixty years and crossed the Alps in winter to prove that the impossible was merely a planning problem.
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Catherinian Russia
Alexander I
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