and here, of course, the figure of minich, a talented engineer, an associate of peter. although in his later years, in my opinion, since the twenty-first year he was in russian service, he played a major role in the construction of the ladosha canal, the most important, most important engineering structure of that time, which greatly simplified navigation, this is the merit of mini, the merit of minich, but he is a talentless commander, during the reign of anna, beron just pushed him out of intrigues, he really wanted to get into the cabinet of ministers, he really wanted, he was not allowed there, they gave him a field marshal. he also really wanted to get it and was sent to fight the turks, as he fought the turks, this separate history: he later called himself the pillar of the russian empire, this is the pillar of the russian empire, as a result, in general , he wasted a huge number of soldiers during his campaigns in the crimea, during the wars with turkey , the war with turkey, respectively, in the moldavian principalities, eh, in general, the commander was clearly