in fact, in general, this is a fact, catherine saw this diamond in the figure of potemkin, and then cut it according to the parameters, according to the calculations that she needed, so it is not at all accidental that this couple, these two people, went to the end together. potemkin, was distinguished by a rather serious breadth of views, he, for example, was quite well versed in church affairs, was certainly. a person, but he treated religion in general quite calmly, the church quite calmly, as one of the assistants to the chief prosecutor of the holy synod, he church line at first began a court career, although a strange idea, it seems he started in the horse guard units, he took part in the coup, oh, since the time of peter the great, to jump from position to position, but here it was fully deserved, since from his youth he was interested.

church life, he was interested in spiritual matters, knew the sacred texts well, and took part in the development of the secularization policy of catherine ii, not in the leading roles, of course, but he was one of the conductors of this policy. and here it is also necessary to add that apparently, catherine's sympathy for potemkin, mutual sympathy, arose back during the coup, he was one of the two people who led the horse guards, who were generally hesitant, their commander was a prince of german origin. i am loyal to peter, for which he was later beaten up and humiliated by the soldiers, so he, together with another of his comrades, of a higher rank, in my opinion, a lieutenant or sub-lieutenant, he led the horse guards, accordingly, to swear allegiance to catherine, then took part in the campaign against peter ii and the holsteiners, yes, which then led to the arrest and abdication of peter ii, fought also, as you quite rightly noted, bravely, and was noted by no one.

if not for general field marshal pyotr rumyantsev for bravery, and later he and rumyantsev would have quite a complicated relationship, rumyantsev was somewhat envious of potemkin's rise and they had different views on the conduct, non-conduct, strategy of military operations, but this would be later, rumyantsev gave him a brilliant characterization precisely during these very military operations, when he, who also instantly took off several ranks forward, there are several chenov in the tab...

we don't have any correspondence left from catherine's side, she burned the letters, because she was in a rather difficult position at the time. i'll add that as far as catherine's era is concerned, of course there are very different stages, different periods, which we don't always take into account or understand. well, if we talk about the very beginning, then in foreign policy, because the main idea here was that...

in general, russia became the initiator of some kind of pan-european doctrine, it tried to to implement, before that russia simply responded to initiatives from one or another european capital, here it, without even fully implementing this idea, it brought such chaos into the ranks of opponents, this was important, well, but then they just attribute this to potemkin... to a significant extent, the eastern system came to the fore, so to speak, because, strictly speaking, with all the changes in the various historical situation, for russia, as if in priority at some point one thing prevailed, in at another moment, it was different, so there were three such pain points, so in the west it was

poland, in the north it was sweden, in the south it was this crimean khanate and from there a lot of troubles came, without...