As Europe develops driven by the wind of enlightened absolutism, Russia stagnates, peasants are disenfranchised and impoverished by many levies, mining resources are unused, factories are outdated, the state apparatus is corrupt, and the army, defeated in the Crimean War, is in a catastrophic state.
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