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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CATHERINE ALEKSYEEVNA ON THE THRONE. (Feb. 1725—May 1727.) Who is to succeed Peter?—Presence of mind of Catherine—Energetic efforts on her behalf of Menshikov and Tolstoy—The higher clergy won over to Catherine—The Grand Duke Peter's Party—Debate in the Council Chamber—Violent scenes—Catherine proclaimed Autocrat —Attitude of Moscow and the Army of the Ukraine—Conciliatory attitude of the new Empress—Troubles with her servants—Influence of Menshikov—Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein—His early career and character—Institution of the Verkhovny Tainy Sovyet, or Supreme Privy Council—Domestic affairs—Distress of the people—Financial shifts—Prosecution and degradation of the Archbishop of Novgorod —Condition of European politics—Predominance of England—Causes of her hostility to Russia—Diplomatic contest between the two States —Attitude of France—The Hanoverian Alliance—English fleet despatched to the Baltic—Indignation of Catherine—Russia joins the Austro-Spanish League—Prussia—Denmark—Uncertain attitude of Sweden—Condition of that power—Chancellor Horn—Russian intrigues at Stockholm—Sweden joins the Hanoverian Alliance—Polish affairs—The Courland question—Maurice of Saxony elected Duke of Courland—Intervention of Menshikov—Yaguzhinsky in Poland—Corruption of the Poles—The question of the Russian Succession—Popularity of the Grand Duke Peter—Illness of the Empress—Critical position of Menshikov—He goes over to the Grand Duke's Party— Counter-conspiracy of Tolstoy—Last moments of Catherine—Disgraceful scene in the Antechamber—Arrest and banishment of Tolstoy and his accomplices—Death of Catharine I—Her character. And now the question arose, who was to be the successor of Peter the Great—a woman or a boy ? To all appearance the boy, that is to say the Grand Duke...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780548050071
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 739 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548050074
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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