63 History of the Russian state in the image of its sovereign rulers, Vasily Vereshchagin, 1896

Empress elizabeth petrovna. 1741-1761. During the reign of elizabeth petrovna, german influence ended and, as under peter i, russian people came to the forefront, the honest razumovsky, the russian philanthropist shuvalov, bestuzhev-ryumin, the university and the academy of arts were opened, the russian theater appeared, russian literature developed, finding strength in lomonosov, banks were established, trade was strengthened, the borders of the empire were expanded. Prussia was on the brink of destruction in the war with russia. Date: 1896.