in the campaign “Liquidation of the Institution of the Hetmancy and the Second Little Russian Collegium (1764)”
The monarch's secret instruction on the cultural digestion of the land: "Little Russia, Livonia, and Finland are provinces governed by the privileges confirmed to them… These provinces, as well as Smolensk, must by the easiest means be brought to the point where they become Russified and cease looking to the forest like wolves"[1].