Greek Project

A 20th-century reconstruction of the proposed Greek Project of Catherine the Great: in red, the "Neo-Byzantine Empire" for her grandson Konstantin, in blue the "Kingdom of Dacia" for Grigory Potemkin, in yellow the compensations for the Habsburg Empire and in blue-green those for Venice.
The colossal Pella Palace on the bank of the Neva River, constructed from 1785 onwards. The name "Pella" referenced the birthplace of Alexander the Great.

The Greek Project (Russian: Греческий проект, romanized: Grečeskij projekt), also known as the Greek Plan (Греческий план, Grečeskij plan), was an early proposed solution to the Eastern question advanced by the Russian empress Catherine the Great in the early 1780s. It envisaged the partition of the Ottoman Empire between the Russian and Habsburg Empires followed by the restoration of the Byzantine Empire centered in Constantinople.

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