1787-92 Second war with Turkey in conjunction with Austria.
1788-89 War with Sweden. The Peace of Varela restores the status quo ante bellum.
1788 The storming of Otchakov by Potemkin, accompanied by an indiscriminate massacre.
1789 Suvarov wins the battles of Fokshani and Rimnik. Potemkin takes Bender.
1790 Suvarov takes Ismail. The Austrians sign the Peace of Sistova, but the Russians continue the war. Repnin defeats the grand vizir at Matchin.
1792 Treaty of Jassy. The Russians retain only Otchakov and the seaboard between the Bug and the Dniester.
1793 Second division of Poland. Russia obtains an enormous extension of territory in Lithuania and absorbs the rest of Volhinia, Podolia, and Ukraine.
1794 Kosciuszko is defeated by Fersen at Maciejowice and Suvarov storms Praga, a suburb of Warsaw.
1795 Third division of Poland. Russia obtains the rest of Lithuania, besides other territories which at one time had been Russian, while Poland proper is divided between Austria and Prussia. The former power also obtains Galicia or Red Russia. Courland is annexed by Russia. Its last duke, Peter Biron, voluntarily renounces it in return for a yearly revenue.
1796 Death of Catherine. Accession of her son Paul.