or ships, fortresses were built in Kherson, Kinburn, Kizikermen, Kerch, Yenikal. Two Russian armies were stationed in the southern provinces of Russia, one in Rumyantsev’s Little Russia, the other in Novorossiya, Potemkin’s. In Crimea, the former Akhtarskaya harbor turned into the military port of Sevastopol; the Black Sea military fleet was being built - battleships and frigates were being built; For construction, lumber was rafted along the rivers from Poltava, Voronezh, Belarus, iron came from Siberian factories, workers came from the inner provinces.
The capital of the new region was to be a new
_city built for the glory of Catherine - Yekateringrad or Vkaterinoslav. The Central Army of Armed Forces and workers built this city starting in 1785.
Materials were prepared for construction, and large amounts of money were allocated; 200 thousand rubles were allocated for the first expenses. Everything was done on a grand scale. They built stone houses at public expense and rented them out to those who wanted them, in order to attract more settlers. 12 factories and “shops in a semicircle, like the Propylaea or the vestibule of Athens,” were to be built, with a stock exchange in the middle, “a courthouse like the ancient basilicas.” The streets were supposed to be 30 fathoms wide, and the entire city was supposed to stretch over 300 square meters. versts, and stretch along the Dnfpr for 26 versts; 80 thousand acres of land were allocated for the city's "pastures" for livestock alone. The city's cathedral was supposed to be like St. Peter's in Rome, only an arshinchik larger. Then it was planned *to open a theater, a music academy or a conservatory, and a university university The university was supposed to teach “not only science, but also art,” and at the same time, “both for Russian subjects and for neighboring peoples, especially those who are the same with us.” Potemkin said that “according to the community of Sholsha, Greshchi, the lands of Voloshskaya, Moldova and the people of the Paradise, a lot of young people will flow there to study.” They were already talking about the observatory, about the central Latin quarter for professors and students; a university chancellery was established, salaries were given to professors and some of them were invited; Conservator, renowned musician and composer Sarti, was also appointed director. The capital of Novorossia was supposed to grow out of the ground with American speed.
In the capital of the new country, the palace of its ruler, Potemkin, was also built. At the palace there was a vast garden with two greenhouses: in one of them pineapples were grown, in the other - lemons and oranges, dates and pomegranates, laurels and oranges. Here the governor of Novorosfi gathered to receive the empress.
By 1787, when Catherine decided to visit Novorossyo, it already had a population of 700 thousand people.
\. COOKING POTEMKIN.
The first thought about traveling to southern Russia, to the newly acquired midday lands, arose back in 1780, during a meeting in Smolensk with [osifom IP,
The Austrian Emperor, who lived under the name of Count Falkenstein, promised the Russian sovereign to visit her in that place and meet with her in Kherson. But then Crimea was not yet annexed to Russia. After the annexation of Crimea, this idea became even stronger. Catherine was planning to move south in the summer of 1784, but the plague, brought to Kherson by the war, persisted then.
ZatBm this thought was revived again. According to some sources, this was the deed of Potemkin’s enemies; they wanted to overthrow the luminary in order to take his place themselves; one of them suggested that the empresses go to Novorossya and Crimea to personally verify the order prevailing there. They said that Potemkin, having learned about this, “was very frightened and even admitted that he spent 3 million rubles received for administrative purposes for his own private needs.”... But the check was postponed for 3 years; this time was enough to prepare not the fall, but the triumph of Potemkin.
In the autumn of 1784, Potemkin began making preparations for his succession to the empress.
A detailed order was sent to local governors to build palaces, build roads, plant plantations, set up brick and tile factories, dig wells, prepare and deliver materials for the speedy construction of Ekateronoslav. Dalfa was told about the preparation of the required number of horses for the highest traveler, about arrangements for dining tables along the way, about apartments for the retinue, about furniture, etc. p.