Catherine and he had become lovers; no one told Catherine's husband, the Grand Duke Peter. Catherine saw Orlov as very useful, and he became instrumental in the 28 June 1762 coup d'état against her husband, but she preferred to remain the Dowager Empress of Russia, rather than marrying anyone.
It’s a democracy.
People vote for a party and this party is governing the country.
Because the third estate wanted to to reduce the power of the clergy, but the church was one of the most important things to society. Hence the church having it's own country (the papal states)
Colonization or colonialism
