the ears are ringing with the dashing, attack music, or rather, pass it to the stick, hit harder, everything is fine, if only on the court, the magnificent five goalie, the ice squad is fighting a tough battle, we believe in the courage of desperate guys. where real men play, kross does not play hockey, kross does not play hockey. in june and april, snow is thrown into the sorobar, and the merry swings begin their run, the whole world is forgotten, the heart is behind... only the sky, only the wind,

only joy ahead, only the sky we only see, only joy ahead, washing away the ate, i know no obstacles, winged kocheri, fly. flies, flies, winged kocheri, fly, fly, fly, i hear a voice from the beautiful distance, the voice of the morning in the silver dew,

i hear the voices of the moaning road, my head spins like a karuzen bird, the beautiful distance, don't be cruel to me, don't be cruel to me, cruel, don't be, pure outflow, the beautiful is far away. i begin to be in the beautiful distance.

this is a podcast 20 years later, with you were its hosts alexander anatolyevich and konstantin mikhailov, our dear guests, a large children's choir named after viktor sergeevich popov. thank you very much, well, the essence. and at the same time it is not very such, because the most remarkable monument, the originality of the personality, the shades of the personality still cannot convey, and this figure was the most colorful for that era, especially, that potemkin was the favorite of catherine the great, everyone knows, that he is the conqueror of the crimea. especially

heard about the potemkin villages, of course, well, here is the character really about him somehow they forget, and the personality is very original, in general everything more readers, viewers of tv series pay attention to the status of the favorite then potemkin is equal to the favorite, meanwhile his personality is certainly much deeper, much broader than this narrow definition, let's try to figure it out, hello, this is a historical podcast, russia west on the swings of history. with you peter romanov. and sergei solovyov. today in the center of our attention is potemkin tavrichesky. grigory alexandrovich potemkin, tavrichesky he received later for the conquest of crimea. he is actually from the smolensk nobles, his father rose only to the rank of major, and died early, he was raised by his mother, but in general from the very beginning he was in... to a large extent lucky,

in any case he received his primary education at a school that existed in the german sloboda, jaagan litka, well, at that time, he was probably the most important germanist, so to speak, in russian pedagogy, because he was invited, at first he worked at the st. petersburg gymnasium, then he taught at moscow state university, and he even taught at the page corps, so this, well , indirectly, can testify to the fact that potemkin had a primary education was not bad at all, then he entered the moscow state university, in the first year he showed absolutely excellent knowledge, received a gold medal. a little later, he was among the best students presented to empress elizabeth petrovna. however, after 3 years he was expelled for laziness and not as i understand it today they would say for truancy, for non-attendance. it is necessary to add

to his character such a stubbornness of character, which manifested itself in his youth.

he entered the university and was enrolled in the regiment, and for quite a long time he served in absentia, this was accepted then and not just served, he received ranks, for example, he received a koprala with the wording for excellent knowledge of the greek language, well, in today's times it sounds rather ridiculous, of course, but i repeat, it was accepted then.

his personal merits are indisputable and somewhere the patronage of catherine, but his career was developing very successfully, so in 1769 he volunteered for the turkish wars, distinguished himself brilliantly in a number of battles, already finished these wars with the rank of major general and with st. george for bravery of the third degree, that is, he showed himself. already on the battlefield he showed himself to be quite a worthy, so to speak, fighter, it must be

said that catherine, apparently, in addition to his, so to speak, some external data, saw in him, she had many favorites, we know, this is wonderful, here is the potential of an assistant in state affairs, she did not see in other favorites and except for the orlovs at the beginning, well, except for the orlovs at the very beginning, yes, she valued him until the end of her life. potemkin, she writes: "oh my god, now i am truly my own assistant, again i need to train people for myself." well, these are the words "train people for themselves", they may of course sound, so to speak, offensive to prince potemkin, but in fact, in general, this is a fact,

catherine saw in the figure of potemkin - this diamond, and then cut it according to those parameters, according to those calculations that were. she needed, so it is not at all accidental, this couple, these two people went to the end together. for example, he understood church affairs quite well, was certainly a truly religious person, but treated religion in general quite calmly, the church quite calmly, as one of assistants to the chief prosecutor of the holy synod, he began his court career through church lines, although it was a strange idea, he seemed to have started in the horse guards units, where he took part in a coup, oh, since the time of peter the great, to jump from position to position.