those suffering from measles; When she was little, her grandchildren dictated letters to their mother to their grandmothers, and these letters gave her great pleasure; she only asked “that they do the work themselves”; in turn she answered them. Nevstk had to give advice on how to treat children, and how good it is to “leave them alone to play on the carpet - children are always very happy with their fate when they are left in the wild.”
All this did not stop Catherine from having fun, just as her “pocket ministers” were having fun. Along with serious, business letters, she wrote other, more frivolous ones. So on April 1, she composed a comic letter, supposedly from Mr. M. to his friend Mr. N., in the form of a correspondent in the newspapers; in this message she described, for fun, her stay in Kev: "Since the empress arrived here, she has suffered from insomnia and lack of appetite; they say that she is only occupied with the thought of her upcoming coronation in Tauris. Preparations for this ceremony are of enormous proportions. The crown will be delivered from Vienna, where The jewelers of the office of His Majesty, the German Emperor, worked on it. The whole world knows that this crown was made from precious stones that were given out by the Vladimir treasury... The French envoy, Count Segur, wants to be present at the above-mentioned festivities, and in general he has recently discovered some disorder... There are a myriad of newspapers here; in the hotels, however, there are no tables or chairs; foreigners are given neither plates, nor knives, nor forks at dinner. One wit noted the other day that the Russian court is in the same advantageous position as crayfish in the shallows.
This is how Catherine teased herself and her
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I had to stay in Kev for three months, wait for the rivers to open, and I could move on. water; In addition, Potemkin tried to detain Catherine longer in Kyiv, so that his agents would have better time to prepare everything for the reception of the empress in his viceroy. Catherine took advantage of this time to get to know this city of shrines. She carefully walked around all the shrines, “they were in both caves and applied to all the relics,” Khrapovitsky wrote, and after visiting the caves she wrote to Grimm: “By the way, I must bow to you on behalf of Grand Duke Vladimir, whose relics are here in the Pechersky Monastery.”
In general, she was dissatisfied with Little Russia.
She "was struck by the unprepossessing appearance of the buildings in the provinces, which were under the jurisdiction of Rumyantsev. Especially in Yuev, she found that the streets were dirty and dirty, but paved, and the buildings were generally in poor condition and devoid of any grace. She was annoyed to see that they did not care about the decorations that she met at the trade union in other, less significant cities. She herself did not want to talk about this with the field marshal, and instructed Mamonov (the favorite) to make her displeasure feel. He carried out the delicate task with the utmost caution, and hinted to the field marshal that the empress expected to find a city like Kev in a better condition. The Hero of Cahul listened respectfully and patiently.
He shouted to the Zamfyans and said: “Tell Her V-vu that I am the field marshal of her troops, that my duty is to take cities, and not to build them, and let them decorate them.” That same evening, Rumyantsev’s words were accurately conveyed to the empresses. This great monarch, sleepily struck by the spirit of the attack, stopped, thought for a moment, and said to her favorite: “He’s right.” But let Rumyantsev continue to take cities, and let my dBlo build.”
Segur, for his part, explains the matter through the intrigues of Potemkin: "The field marshal did not receive any means to control Little Russia. His work progressed slowly; his soldiers wore old clothes, the soldiers in vain sought promotion. I. All favors, all the encouragement fell on the army over which Potemkin commanded."
POTEMKIN.
Somewhat apart from the whole world, not in the palace, but in the Pechersk monastery, not among the courtiers, but among the monks, Potemkin settled in Kev. He came here from the south, from the Crimea, where everything was being prepared for the reception of the Empress; he was waiting for his time to show Semiramis Sver all the wealth of the midday region, at the head of which he stood.