elizabeth petrovna, here, under her complete control, and elizabeth petrovna married him to the futureat. true, the first-born in this ideal family, according to elizabeth petrovna's plan, was born only after 9 years of marriage, in the fall of 1754. such great hopes were placed on pavel petrovich, the great-grandson of peter the great, that his grandmother, the empress, personally took care of him upbringing, but soon rumors began to spread around st. petersburg that the real father of the heir to the russian throne was not the illegitimate husband of grand duchess ekaterina alekseyevna, and her lover was sergei soltykov, the brother of our hero pyotr soltykov. rumors that paul i was illegitimate were even fueled by catherine ii herself, and in the end they outlived both her and paul i. they told the following historical anecdote. came up with a new version that confirmed that paul i was indeed born from peter ii, but alexander ii did not lose his head, crossed himself again and said: "thank god, we are... legal, then it is logical to assume that if pyotr soldykov allowed himself to t

however, according to the words experts, under elizabeth petrovna the attitude towards witchcraft was no longer as severe as under her father and grandfather. the empress saw such acts as ignorance and stupidity rather than malicious intent. and in most cases it ended with church repentance, although anything could happen. here is a story that even the moscow gazette wrote about. in 1752, the serf irina ivanova confessed that she had put a live frog under her mistress's pillow, and later another dried one, which she had gotten from a local sorcerer. during the interrogation, ivanova confessed that she wanted to kill her mistress in this way. well, everything worked out with the lady, but the serf herself was exiled to orenburg. but this is from... history is perhaps an exception, even serfs were not often reproached for witchcraft. the landowner ovdoti polevanov once found out that two of her young girls, that is, domestic servants, maids, were slipping the mistress, that is, charmed salt, to her. naturally, they reported it to the police, the girls were detained, they endured several

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

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the fact is that at that time the favorite of empress elizabeth petrovna. was ivan shuvalov, and hissin, alexander, headed, imagine, that very secret chancellery, it is quite possible that alexander saw in soltykov a rival who threatened the well-being of his cousin ivan, and therefore his alexander's well-being, and preferred, of course, to get rid of the rival, but the accusation of witchcraft is just a convenient excuse, that is, chamberlain pyotr soltykov ultimately really fell victim to court intrigues, which. provoked, after the death of elizabeth petrovna, the new emperor peter ii remembered the namesake and took pity on the former chamberlain. in december 1761, he gave the following order, to take soltykov from the solovetsky monastery and send him to his smallest village, which could only feed him, to keep him in the same village soltykov under strict guard and not let him out. no strangers were allowed to come to him from the village anywhere allow and do not give letters to write, that is , it seems he pardoned, it seems not quite, although returning alive from solovki is

a little later, he was introduced to empress elizabeth petrovna among the best students. however, after 3 years he was expelled for laziness and not as i understand, in modern times they would say for truancy, for non-attendance, at least the official wording was like that, yes, yes, yes, such and such. speaking about potemkin, we need to add to his characterization such obstinacy of character, which manifested itself from his youth and in particular. apparently, it is connected with his expulsion from the university, well, the official wording, as you absolutely correctly said, yes, for not being in classes, but modern researchers believe that - most likely there was a conflict, we are definitely not we know from the documents what kind of conflict, since the wording is standard, it's a template, simply and this is partly confirmed by the fact that when he later inspected the university, one of the teachers was introduced to him, to whom potemkin remarked that, in fact, because of you, i was expelled, to which the teachers responded that , in fact, it was deserved then,

i cannot help but say about elizabeth petrovna, because in 1761 she essentially allowed gambling cardded them into commercial games, allowed to play commercial games it is necessary to know the rules, that is, this is the so -called. got acquainted with the officers, who in general mother to buy the estate, here in fact put him in the condition that it is necessary to pay off debts, and he resorted to cheating techniques, but still played unhappily, yes here are the famous verses of his repentance, yes, that in the luxury of entertainment i spoiled my already blameless character, spoiled, corrupted, in the darkness of the skarets fell, the gambler mod by weight found himself. to consume, yes, i ruined him with a vicious life, instead of using his talent to his advantage , he wrote about it, then he was able to get out of it, he settled down considerably, let's say, yes, he settled down considerably, that is, when he went up the hill, so to speak, he avoided punishment, he became , in general, a person to whom they often resorted as an arbitrator, in general, in his house they noted su