The Jesuits, 1534-1921 A History of the Society of Jesus from Its Foundation to the Present Time
CHAPTER XXI
THE RUSSIAN CONTINGENT
Frederick the Great and the "Philosophes"--Protection of the Jesuits--Death of Voltaire--Catherine of Russia--The Four Colleges--The Empress at Polotsk--Joseph II at Mohilew--Archetti--Baron Grimm--Czerniewicz and the Novitiate--Assent of Pius VI--Potemkin--Siestrzencewicz-- General Congregation--Benislawski--"_Approbo; Approbo_"-- Accession of former Jesuits. Gruber and the Emperor Paul --Alexander I--Missions in Russia 636-664