herself... in complete isolation, because due to financial problems , sheremetyev had to close the vostanka he built for proskovia. those who were torn from their families, washed, taught to read and write, forced to play on stage, were now returned to the estate as arctic foxes, laundresses, and janitors. sheremetev did not assign anyone to the sahel to livestock, but the talents who had recently shone on the stage were now playing the roles given by birth. perhaps if the empress had shown sympathy for their love, everything would have been different, but after the events in france, katerina did not allow anyone liberties; she once bypassed sheremetyev. the soviet environment demanded from nikolai sheremetyev's marriage to an aristocrat. even catherine became involved in the search for a wife for the count, and in order to avoid marriage at the behest of the queen, sheremetev resigned . his age was approaching old age. once he fell ill, he wondered what would happen to proskovya if he died? and nicholas’s attorney went to malarosia, where many polish nobles lived, and heraldic books were n