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Which Russian tsar was fascinated by Enlightenment thinkers and corresponded with Voltaire and Diderot?

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It was Peter the Great who was fascinated by Enlightenment thinkers and corresponded with Voltaire and Diderot, which was a major break from the age-old Russian orthodoxy that had dominated the country for so long.
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