“rather fight than suffer the slightest alteration of their faith or infringement of their privileges. Religion was the overriding national issue; a threat to the Catholic faith reminded every Pole that he was a patriot. When the 1766 Diet met, it firmly refused to respond to any dissident grievance. Catherine”
― Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
― Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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