Enlightened Absolutism

I am the only one who did NOT participate in the criminal partition of once-mighty Poland:

I worked hard and lived modestly as the "first servant of the state."

"Now that I know men, I prefer dogs" and "guns are the most convincing argument for the rights of kings."

I founded the Smolny Institute to teach women and was inoculated for smallpox to set an example for my people

I made too many reforms too fast. My epitaph read. "Here lies ________, who failed in all his endeavors."

I centralized the bureaucracy and taxed the lands of the nobles, lands that were previously exempt from taxation

I founded the General Hospital in Vienna and allowed religious freedom to my subjects

I created a commission to study comprehensive legal reforms BUT scrapped the plan following Pugachev's serf Rebellion

I had about 20 lovers during my lifetime. One of them murdered my husband so I could rule instead

When the French government banned Diderot's Encyclopedia, I offered to publish it instead

I captured a 'Warm Water Port" on the Black Sea from the Ottomans

I simplified the law code and abolished torture BUT preserved serfdom and the prominence of the army:

Cameralism is the idea that subjects should obey their monarch who should serve them in return. The best example is:

I married my second cousin. When she grew ill, I didn't visit her. When she died, I did not attend her funeral.

I captured Silesia in the War of Austrian Succession

I had Lord Potemkin give visitors tours of fake villages full of actors so they'd think my serfs happy.

The "most human of the Habsburgs;" Hosted a 6 year old Mozart performance at the Schonbrunn Palace in 1762

I expelled the Jesuits, cut back on religious holidays, and dissolved 'unproductive' monasteries.

I increased the power and privilege of my noble subjects while the condition of serfs worsened