and, accordingly, on november 9, 1940 , he spoke out against biron. beron was sent to that very prison that you have already mentioned. peter the great, so he had a very strong influence on elizabeth petrovna, and at ... anna leopoldovna was warned about the impending conspiracy by a number of foreign ambassadors, osterman, who was very sensitive in this sense, he had a very good nose and he even tried to talk to anna leopoldovna, but she rejected all this, saying that it couldn't be because elizaveta petrovna was my friend, and in general she was not a very decisive person, which is true. which was true, but she did not take into account the energy of the leaflet, which uh, well, according to the memories, according to the stories, he came to elizaveta petrovna, who was still hesitating, and brought her two drawings, one depicted elizaveta in the crown, the other drawing depicted her in the cell in a monastic cassock, well, and he told her, in in general, choose, either you... on the throne, or you'll be there, all your comrades , cavaliers, cavalier

, and minikh is sent to prison, which he himself, and he was an engineer, designed, so to say, for birony meet on the road, and look at each other coldly, one carriage goes to prison, the other goes... to the palace. peter ii. on the throne, he is overthrown by catherine. the future catherine ii. catherine is against her son paul becoming the heir. and only after catherine's death does paul come to power, and he is also killed. that is, this whole chain demonstrates how turbulent and... lawless, in essence, that era was, yes, i would still tolerate a coup against paul i out of the brackets, because unlike this, we will talk about this now, the clan nature of the palace coups that took place from 1725 to 1762, the coup against paul is still different, because paul managed to anger an entire social stratum, not individual clans, paul really angered the majority of the nobility, which either participated in the coup or joyfully welcomed it, well, if ... remember, so to speak, minshikov, well, the very beginning of the reign of catherine i, then here foreigners fully supported menshikov and

several interesting young men with biron collars. dr. ayres and parsons, gram mites, annapolis zionists, sage editors, a few of whom were taking notes and all the other species of literati. greeley was in ecstasies. whenever anything particularly good was said, which seemed to be once in about 5 minutes, he would flounce about like a fish out of water, or like a tickled girl. okay, now, obviously this is a much more distinguished crowd than that. none of that kind of downmarket. if anyone wants to play the horace greeley role. talk to me later. well, we'll figure that out anyway. so that connection is obviously very exciting to me, and it's absolutely wonderful to be here and said that. oh, let me turn to the topic of tonight's lecture. emerson said there was one thing that we saw it with a kind of incredible relish our whole lives. and that was to forget ourselves, to be surprised that over a propriety, he said, to do something without knowing how or why. and there was this sense in which the capacity to surprise and even more the capac