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What kind of foreign convicts did they want to populate the Russian expanses?

Count Potemkin suggested to Catherine II that convicts be sent to the British government for the development of the Black Sea steppes. The queen was seriously carried away by this idea, but it was not destined to come true, and English convicts were sent to Australia.

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