Power showed its stern face to the travelers, and soon there was no trace left of the magical illusions. This was reality - crop failure, high prices, hunger.
The first rumors about this, apparently, began to reach the empress a long time ago. “Immediately upon leaving the Crimea,” writes the English envoy Fitz Herbert in a report to his court, “the empress fell into a noticeably sad mood, which sometimes turned into fits of irritability, and with the exception of short breaks, she remained in this position until her return.” Fitz Herbert explained this famously the conditions received from everywhere, “regarding poverty and the economic situation caused by the failure of the harvest, and therefore the high cost of grain.” In Tula, the governor Krechetnikov tried to calm the empress, reporting to her that everything was going well in the Tula region; but one of her companions, Lev Naryshkin, brought Catherine bread, which he had bought at the market at an expensive price, and showed what Krechetnikov’s assertions were worth. This explains that Catherine did not want to attend the ball given to her by the Tula nobility. When the ladies-in-waiting reminded her of the ball, Catherine said to them: “Can I take part in it, when, perhaps, many of the residents here suffer from a shortage of bread?” Segur and de Ligne report the same thing. Having talked about the holiday in Kuskov at Sheremetev, Segur continues: "Catherine, in turn, wanted to give balls and celebrations in the Kremlin, the splendor of which would correspond to her greatness. But everything was postponed when she learned that the people were suffering from an unforeseen severe crop failure. - "It would be indecent for the MNF to appear among "Have fun and celebrate when my subjects suffer from a crime that I should have prevented." De Ligne wrote to his friends from Moscow: “The pleasant dream has disappeared, and a sad reality has set in. The feasts stop; carts of grain are replaced by hundreds of barges loaded with oranges.”
Thus ended Catherine’s journey. And after a few months, on September 12, a messenger rode up with the news that the Turks had declared war on Russia and planted or the Russian ambassador Bulgakov to the Seven Tower Castle. In the midst of famine, it was necessary to fight for the lands acquired on the Black Morph.
About these difficult times of the people's upheaval, Prince M. M. Shcherbatov, a member of the 1767 Commission, speaks in detail in one of his articles. "Most of the state is dying of hunger. The Moscow, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Blogorodsk, Tambov provinces and all of Malorosya are suffering from unbearable famine, they are eating straw, chaff, leaves, hay, quinoa; but even this is no longer enough; for, unfortunately, the quinoa was not born, and that quarter They bought it for 4 rubles. They brought me bread from my village, Aleksinskaya, baked from crushed hay, 2 from chaff, and 3 from quinoa. He made me angry, because there was barely a quarter of oatmeal, but this one showed me that it was still good, but there was nothing worse. There are no orders for feeding the poor people, for feeding the people who make up the strength of the Empire, whose relatives and relatives are going to fight the enemy at the very same time, who are dying in the steppes, in the cold, in need and in damp dugouts without a murmur, which provides income not only for state needs, but also for luxury.”
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(Or PE a oo. Ambassador of the French king.. In the Tsar's Self..... Visiting the Empress.... oS wow I her
. Preparation of Potemkin.... Catherine's preparations for the journey.. Va.
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Prince of Russia and Count of France........
Cleopatra's fleet..... "Count Poniatowski"... Flint and: Tosif V
Meeting of two monarchs
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Sevastopol..
Political topics..... About the Way Back 4... “The Deity Revealed”.... About Voyeurism and Awakening....-.
] ESTATE K. F. NEKRASOV, th I AM MOSCOW.
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RUSSIAN ISTOBA
in Kulschmurno-byshov essays edited by V. Ya. Ulanov.
M. N. Kovalensk!y. RussyuSH scientist XUSH VK. Pages from the life of Lomonosov. Price 45 k.
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P. P. Kashchenko. Judge in the Moscow State. (XVII-XVII centuries). Price: 30 k.
N. D. Nomovskaya. In the countries of the Great Khan (pictures from the life of the Mongols). ShFna 40 k.
N. N. Kovalenskaya. The nobleman is in favor and exiled (princes Dolgoruk!e). Price 40 kopecks.
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M. A. Khrushchova. Drunkenness and taverns in ancient Rus'.
M. A. Kallash. Zinaida Volkonskaya and her time.
A. I. Sodomov. Moscow army of the 18th and 18th centuries. before the transformation of Peter the Great.
N. N. Novalevskaya. The accession of Elizabeth.
V. N. Bochkarev. Courtyard of Empress Elizabeth.
b. Courtyard of Empress Catherine.. Shakhovskaya. Abroad (Prince Kurbsky).. Mordvinov. To the city of Moscow Rus'.. Nikolsny. In Moscow orders. Moscow diplomat! I.: Bogrova. In the Supreme Secret Council.. Kashchenko. How was it treated in ancient Rus'? Tereshkevich. Sof1ya Paleolog and Elena Glinskaya.. Kun. Greek columns on the Black Sea.. Upanov. At the Academy of Sciences of the 19th century.
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