CHAPTER XXV.
REIGN OF CATHARINE II.
From 1765 to 1774.
Energy of Catharine's Administration .-- Titles of Honor Decreed to Her .-- Code of Laws Instituted .-- The Assassination of the Empress Attempted .-- Encouragement of Learned Men .-- Catharine Inoculated for the Small-Pox .-- New War with Turkey .-- Capture of Crimea .-- Sailing of the Russian Fleet .-- Great Naval Victory .-- Visit of the Prussian Prince Henry .-- The Sleigh Ride .-- Plans for the Partition of Poland .-- The Hermitage .-- Marriage of the Grand Duke Paul .-- Correspondence with Voltaire and Diderot..