Striking up a kinship with Voltaire, Russian Empress Catherine the Great led the country into what famous era?

Catherine the Great led Russia into the Age of Enlightenment. The great Russian Empress was a proficient reader, with a collection of 44,000 books, and was a patron of the arts, so much so that the Winter Palace's Hermitage Museum holds her personal art collection. Catherine also started a pen pal friendship with Voltaire, who'd written a biography of Peter the Great.

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