Count Falkenstein also liked Sevastopol. Shaw extreme mir, Austrian field marshal gr. Lassi he wrote: "Sevastopol is the most beautiful port I have ever seen. It can comfortably accommodate 150 ships, in complete safety from any accidents from the sea and from the enemy, who will never dare to penetrate the bay, protected by three batteries. You can leave the bay at sea" at three winds. There is a separate harbor for merchant ships, another for quarantine, and a third for repairing and keeling ships.
“Many houses, shops, barracks have already been built, and if they continue in this way for the next 3 years, then, of course, this city will become very prosperous.” All this is very much out of step for the French envoy, and he looks terribly puzzled.
"An ordinary transfer from here to Constantinople takes two days, and sometimes even only one and a half days. Judge, my dear marshal, what unpleasant thoughts all this should lead to my brother, the ruler of the faithful, who can never be sure that these fellows will not appear, not now tomorrow - to destroy his windows with cannon shots."
"The Empress is in an enthusiastic state about everything that she sees, and at the thought of the new degree of greatness and power to which she is raising the Russian Empire. Prince Potemkin is currently omnipotent, and he is honored beyond all imagination. If I had the opportunity to move so close to Berlin, may the Prussians be as stupid as the Turks,
TAKE A TRAVEL OF EKATHERINE TO THE CRIMEA. E 8
I couldn’t resist the desire to get rid of such neighbors.”
Catherine also wanted to know who Franchie's representative, Segur, was. She asked him what he thought about it. "Your Majesty," he replied, "have made amends for the painful memory of the Prut Peace... You have subjugated the Tatars, the former enslavers of Russia... By founding Sevastopol, you have completed to the south what Peter began at the shipyard. There remains only one glorious feat for you - to defeat nature, to populate and revive all these conquered lands and the vast steppes through which we recently passed.”
A messenger from the island of Malta came to Catherine in Sevastopol: the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta sent his gifts to the Russian Empress - a palm branch with a bush of flowering flowers, decorated with trophies, as a sign of Taurida's noble victory. Catherine gave this vZtv to Potemkin, the founder of the Sevastopol harbor, and he sent it. to the ship "Slava Ekaterina".
Ambassador (of Sevastopol, the travelers visited some other cities of Taurida - Simeeropol, Karasubazar, Sudak, Old Crimea, Feodossho or Kaeu. Potemkin knew how to show off the goods everywhere. The meeting in Karasubazar was especially well organized. “Krom$” of the beautiful wide road, which he paved and leveled with the efforts of his soldiers, he and their With the help of once, a vast English garden was built on the banks of the Karasu, and in the middle of it an elegant palace was built.
It was not Armida who enchanted Rinald; on the contrary, the Russian Rinald performed a miracle for his Armida,”
A brilliant illumination was arranged here: when Catherine left the palace in the evening to enjoy the coolness of the scenery, the freshness of the water and the smell of flowers, all the hills for 10 miles around flashed with three rows of multi-colored lights; in the middle of this burning circle rose a cone-shaped mountain, on which the empress’s monogram shone with bright features. A beautiful fireworks display erupted from the top of the mountain, culminating in the explosion of 300 thousand rockets.”
In Kizikermen, after leaving the Crimea, Gosie P parted ways with Catherine, and the Russian Semiramis and her court headed their way to the other side...
Catherine died, and the palaces built for her were also empty. Less than a year had passed since her departure, and where the Holy Semiramis had feasted, the abomination of the desolate settled in. Palaces were robbed, things were taken away, damaged and worn out by mice, herds roamed in the gardens, leaks appeared in the chambers, plaster collapsed, roofs were in danger of falling. The only monuments of Catherine's stay in Crimea were the stone miles along the Crimean roads, and not much else, the triumphal gates of Bakhchisar, the fountain in Old Crimea, and the longest standing palace in Sevastopol. The old bowls still survived - from the ooze that once burned...
XX. POLITICAL TOPICS.