i will simply quote quotes from the work of georgy vernadsky, he is a famous historian, he was involvedhat he cited statistical data, and in number... well, in general, of course, this caused irritation, because well, there is one enlightened empress and mother empress, she is in charge, she can take care, she must do this, and the most important thing, of course, while the masons were engaged in a kind of small world, this is one thing, but gradually they began to be very tough to criticize, well, yes, if at the beginning of the reign they were brought to power, ideas expressed in the manner in which radishchev expressed them could be combined with ideology, with the sentiments of peasant rebellion, and we would eventually get the great french revolution, and of course, catherine , based on all this taken together , she decided that, roughly speaking, it was time to put an end to this flourishing of freemasonry, although formally, formally, she did not prohibit it, so you remembered shved. suspicion about the swede, well, the freemasons, well, well, listen, the freemason kutuzov fought

order to understand how influential the freemasons were, i will simply quote from the work of georgy vernadsky, he is a famous historian, he was involved in freemasonry, and so he wrote that... he gave statistical data on the number of masuns in the state apparatus under catherine, which means that in 1777, out of eleven members of the imperial council, four were freemasons. in catherine’s court staff, out of 31 chamberlains, 11 were masons, and they were headed by gaffmeister elagin. about the same picture in the senate: there are masons. catherine was actually brought to power, including by people who were related to freemasonry, just remember the same panin, the same elagin, then later catherine thought, including why, to what time the decline of freemasonry dates back to the same time as in principle, the tightening of the screws during catherine’s reign, firstly, the pugachev uprising, and then the event of the great french revolution, there is one more nuance, this is the gradual displacement of other examples of freemasonry in russia by swedish freemasonry, more strict. requiring more m

understand how influential the freemasons were, i will simply quote a quote from the work of georgy vernadsky, he is a famous historian, he was involved in freemasonry, and so he wrote that he gave statistical data on the number of masuns in state apparatus under catherine, that is, in 1777, out of 11 members of the imperial council, and especially, in my opinion, great irritation was caused by the fact that when there was a famine that gripped the moscow region, the authorities did not react to it in any way, and the masons began to collect funds for the starving, helped, and he also stood behind this for centuries, well, in general, of course , this caused irritation, because well, there is one enlightened empress and mother empress, she is in charge, she can take care, she should. to do this, and the most important thing, of course, while the masons were busy with a small world, that’s one thing, but gradually they began to criticize catherine very harshly, well, yes, if at the beginning of her reign catherine was actually brought to power, including people related to freemasonry, it is en