"The Governing Senate. . . has deemed it necessary to make known > that the landlords' serfs and peasants . . . owe their landlords proper submission and absolute obedience in all matters, according to the laws r that have been enacted from time immemorial by the autocratic forefathers of Her Imperial Majesty and which have not been repealed...

and which provide that all persons who dare to incite serfs and peasants to disobey their landlords shall be arrested and taken to the nearest government office, there to be punished forthwith as disturbers of the public tranquility, according to the laws and without leniency...

Then both those who make the complaints and those who write up the petitions shall be punished by the knout and forthwith deported to Nerchinsk (Siberia) to penal servitude for life and shall be counted as part of the quota of recruits which their landlords must furnish to the army.

1. Identify the main idea of the primary source document above:
2. How do these two documents show Catherine as a somewhat contradictory or even hypocritical leader?