Madariaga gives her opinion that ‘Nowhere else in Europe did Freemasonry play such a significant a role in the development of the cultural life of three or four generations as it did in Russia’.
Freemasonry is alive and well in Russia today after being almost inactive for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, except for a brief reappearance in the early 20th century.
This paper concerns early Freemasonry in Russia mainly during the rule of Catherine the Great from 1762 to 1796 and her son Paul I and grandson Alexander I, and it discusses the reasons why it was proscribed.
NB Names of known or alleged Freemasons are shown in bold italic letters.
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2006 - CATHERINE THE GREAT AND FREEMASONRY IN RUSSIA - Robert Nairn.
