, the supreme privy council almost did not function, the supreme privy council was created byrine to help her manage the empire, or rather, rule monks. actually decided the most important government issues by the second members. supreme council were 6 nobles count gavrila golovkin two princes golitsyn dmitry and mikhailova two princes dolgoruky vasily vladimirovich vasily lukich and baron andrey astman 14-year-old peter had no idea what a mess things were in. in his country, the princes of dolgoruky , senior alexei grigoryevich and junior ivan alekseevich, did everything to make him aware of this and did not think. they had a clear goal of completely subordinating the emperor to their influence, so that with his help, turn the country back to the petrine order. peter had already agreed to stop the construction of the fleet. why waste money move the capital from st. petersburg to moscow around moscow are excellent places for hunting. there were only a few steps left. on november 19, 1728, the gentle ekaterina dolgorukova was declared the bride of the emperor. after 11 days, a s

pregnant and therefore did not want to appear in public, which means death emperor, when the supreme privy councilided which of the two applicants should go to the russian throne. it was princess elizabeth who did not find a single defender among the highest signs ; anna and avtovna became the empress. she was 17 years older than her cousin elizabeth. fat is ugly. she was a widow for a long time and lived in poverty in a provincial kurland. all this was enough for the sister of the empress to hate her beautiful sister, but anna did not dare to openly oppress elizabeth. she only surrounded the daughter of peter spies and reduced her salary to 30,000 rubles. in a year, for the wasteful elizabeth, these were pennies, only a few of the closest and most faithful friends among them remained near her, and mikhail vorontsov at the beginning. he just served elizabeth then became her secretary. of all those close to him, only vorontsov had any education; the rest excelled only in dancing and fox hunting. this truth did not prevent them from leading the headquarters of the state coup d'état after the death o

took over the reins of government of a vast empire so that it would not be too conspicuous, a supreme privy council was created, supposedly an advisory body under the empress, in fact, the actual government, to which both the senate and all colleagues were subordinate. ekaterina at a meeting of the supreme council , she did not appear once. she listened reports of the leaders of their chambers. yes, it's only half an hour. then she began to have a migraine, a chaotic lifestyle in a short time undermined the healthy empress, she became very stout, got a whole bunch of diseases from kidney failure to tachycardia soon to everyone it was obvious that catherine would not live long menshikov made a will from the empress, according to which tsarevich peter became the heir to the throne alekseevich, provided that he marries his daughter for less than 2 months on may 6, 1727, catherine the first died in the folk memory. she remained as a kind cheerful queen. fighting girlfriend of peter the great many expected that without the iron hand of the first emperor, russia would turn back and return to the backyard