Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Chapter 101 001 Welcome to the 19th century

The last decade of the 18th century was filled with major events.

In the 19th century, the aftermath of the French people's capture of the Bastille would also bring great political shocks to Europe.

However, for the people of St. Petersburg, it is just a welcome to the new year.

Soloviev's home also welcomed guests. It was the Baroness who invited Mrs. Lebrun and Julie to her home at No. 4 Laundry Lane. After all, they are both French. In this situation, it is obviously unlikely that Russian is spoken.

"Mikhail really knows how to do things, because he was chosen by the emperor to join the Garde." (Mikhail is really good at doing things, otherwise he would not have been selected by the emperor to join the Guards.)

Mrs. Le Brun always praised Soloviev, after all, he saved her daughter's reputation and marriage. Julie also married the young painter who won the Rome Prize last year. After the marriage, the young couple accepted jobs at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and planned to settle down here.

"But he has no feelings for young ladies now, at least not for marriage, if he hadn't told me in Milan."

"Mikhail loves exotic things, but Italian girls are so attractive."

Julie was on the side, and she didn't speak the same language as Yulia, but they were in agreement when they were playing with the children.

But Julie also had some troubles. When the lady was creating the "Flora Goddess" series, she contracted smallpox. She even thought that she was disfigured and would be disliked by her husband. However, after the careful care of the lady, only some shallow scars can be seen now - you know, the lady has never been infected with smallpox. She is taking care of her daughter completely with maternal love.

As for Julie's slightly bulging belly, this is also a sign of movement. But because she is taller, the lady is not too worried about her daughter.

Coming here, it is probably French expatriates, and they are all daily exchanges between female relatives, especially the issue of taking care of children. The lady is preparing to become a grandmother.

"Mikhail n'était pas pressé, il ne pouvait donc qu'attendre." (Mikhail is not in a hurry, so he can only wait.)

The lady laughed when she heard this. The Baroness was only 24 years old, and she was considering these issues as the hostess.

Of course, Solovyov didn't know what happened at home. He was visiting the Academy of Sciences. Today he was not on vacation, but came with a mission.

In front of these experts from the Department of Geology, there was a pile of excavated huge fossils, including teeth, skulls and part of the spine, that is, a head.

The experts argued endlessly about this big guy, but because the excavation site was near a mine on the east side of the Ural Mountains, and the minerals in this area, if placed in modern times, are considered typical Permian characteristics.

However, the address classification in 1800 was not even as accurate as that a few decades later, and at this time, even dinosaurs had not been identified. It can be imagined that this was a desert area.

If you look at this thing, Solovyov is actually very interested. He has always been a geology enthusiast, but more for mining. Count Bobulinsky obtained two large estates from the Tsar, in Tula and Ryazan.

The count himself was going to use his estate in Ryazan to mine, because there were coal resources nearby, so he also wanted Solovyov to take care of this aspect.

But Solovyov was more concerned about oil, especially the border areas of Chechnya and Dagestan, as well as Azerbaijan and the Persian Empire. Peter the Great did not know the mineral deposits in these places. He just wanted to expand Russia's territory to the Indian Ocean coast, not just the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.

The empress did the same thing when she was in power. During the reign of Tsar Paul, although his diplomacy fluctuated with his emotions, he never stopped expanding in the Caucasus in the south.

However, the Russian nobles gave up the southward business of scoring points and insisted on joining forces with Britain, which made the south miss the best opportunity for expansion.

The Qajar dynasty of Persia can be said to be the most unpopular among the many dynasties that ruled the Iranian plateau, and the treasures in Persia's underground are extremely rich.

Even if this is not counted, Nader Shah of Persia, as a conqueror, defeated his two neighbors, the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire. When he looted the big cities of the Mughal Empire, he obtained a lot of treasures, and the jewels alone were shocking.

Such a place should be involved from any angle.

However, Russia's attention has long been on Europe, and its actions in the Middle East have been constrained by Britain. Later, Russia's Siberian governors took advantage of it, and then the nobles and soldiers and civilians who let it go suffered in Siberia. The colonies in North America were even more "beastly management", which made people miserable. The Russian-American Company has never been in operation. Now in the Paul period, you can still see a lot of dividends to the Tsar, but it will enter a loss-making operation in a few years.

The Russians' way of doing business is really confusing. They are probably bureaucratic in their bones. It's just that the British use delaying tactics to maintain the existing system, while the Russians have always had a rigid system and don't know how to change unless it hurts.

And this can be applied to the world, but it's different according to national conditions.

When looking at this fossil, there was not even the concept of the Permian period.

The representative geological structure of the Permian period comes from the double-layer rock in the Perm region of Russia, and it was not named until 1841.

Experts believe that it is a mammal because of the canine teeth.

Experts of this era always go off topic when they talk. At this time, taxonomy has just begun, and a large number of organisms are located in many geological eras. In the research, we must also pay attention to the origin of these big guys and make effective classifications.

Considering that experts don't know about the Siberian Traps event, this large-scale extinction that almost wiped out the earth's creatures may be more terrifying than the asteroid hitting the earth.

Research has to be done bit by bit. Darwin doesn't even exist at this time. If you find an expert, the Cuvier brothers in France are more reliable in this regard, but the classification project they are doing obviously has no much connection with Russia.

They may be good at modern biological classification, and they are also good at identifying ancient creatures, but under such insufficient technical conditions, it is a bit difficult for them to analyze this ancient creature that is likely to be from the Permian period.

But Solovyov knew that the head of this thing looked like a wolf lizard, the giant beast that appeared in the BBC documentary.

This thing can be said to be a great overlord of the synapsids in the late Permian period. There is also a long spinosaurus, but that one is from the early Permian period.

He could only stare at the experts talking nonsense, and after a while, he couldn't stand it anymore.

Speaking of which, he heard from his father Baron Sergei that when relatives in his hometown wrote to him, they said that they had dug up stones that looked like monster bones.

As for the semi-illiterate relatives in the hometown, it was only after the branch that left the hometown became prosperous that the literacy rate became relatively high, and some people could write letters. In the past, priests had to write for them.

However, the country people were still very honest, and they all tried their best to describe what they saw, but they were a little exaggerated.

What Solovyov didn't know was that the type species of this wolf lizard was a specialty of his hometown in Arkhangelsk. However, large-scale excavation work had to wait until the archaeological excavation at the end of the 19th century, and many research materials were not discovered until after 1922.

These geological experts identified it as an "ancient crocodile". Although it may be correct in the definition of reptiles, it is the opposite of the truth. You were asked to go to the Caucasus, but you ran away to Siberia.

He felt bored, so he walked towards the Winter Palace. On the road of Million Street, he met Grand Duke Constantine again.

"Your Highness, good afternoon!"

"Soloviev, you are still walking in this weather, don't you have a sleigh?"

"That's for my father, his legs are not good, and the women in the family don't go out at this time."

"Yes, I saw Mrs. Lebrun enter the laundry lane on the river bank. Your stepmother is French, and they should have something to talk about."

Constantine also took a canopy sleigh from his own Marble Palace to the Winter Palace because he was traveling with the Grand Duchess and Sophia.

No matter how bad their relationship was, now that they had a daughter, they still tried to maintain a peaceful relationship. Although the Grand Duchess was still planning to escape back to her parents' home recently, with her daughter here, she temporarily showed a more relaxed attitude towards Constantine.

Constantine stopped beating his wife after having a child, it seemed that the Tsar himself had said something to him.

This prince had a bad temper, but he was still very polite to those he considered his own, especially Soloviev, who risked his life to save his life in the Po River, and invited him to get in the car again.

"You'd better get in quickly, I'm afraid the child will get cold."

He was just like Tsar Paul, a child slave, and had nothing to say about his younger brothers, sisters and nieces.

But as soon as Soloviev got in the car, Sofia started crying, and the Grand Duchess tried many ways to no avail.

Soloviev, who was a part-time babysitter at home, patted her back twice based on his experience in taking care of his younger sister, and the crying stopped.

"This child is only a few months old, but when she cries, her voice is really loud. My little sister is still like a kitten when she is learning to talk."

"Yes, although the child raised by my sister-in-law is healthy, she is not like Sofia. She grows up really fast. It has only been a month since I came back, and she has grown a lot. She is almost catching up with Maria."

Here is the second daughter born by Louisa. Solovyov has a conditioned reflex to this name. After all, when this girl sees him in the palace, as long as he is not on duty, she will be dragged to squeeze folk songs and various music. It is really terrible, and she doesn't pay wages and copyright fees!

When he was still a grenadier, he was always caught by Elena to be a model for painting.

Elena has been much quieter recently after getting married. She no longer looks for models to paint. Instead, she starts to learn German in the palace. She spends the rest of her time in the palace. The prince of Mecklenburg is tall and strong, and treats Elena very gently.

This lady still gives money, but thinking that she may leave Petersburg in the spring, it will be difficult to see her in the future, and one can't help but sigh.

Constantine came to the palace at this time because Louisa wanted to meet her sister-in-law and bring the child with her.

Alexander also wanted to meet his brother. They have a good relationship with each other. In addition, there are only women in the palace. There is not much to talk about with his cousin from Württemberg and the other brother-in-law. He can only talk to this brother who now has muscles in his head. After all, they have been together since childhood and know each other's habits very well.

Juliana is on the sled. Since she has to go to the garage first to enter the Winter Palace, there is a distance.

She is more curious about the major's practice of taking care of children. This is not what the man in charge of the family does.

"Your Highness, it's not that my family can't afford a nanny, but Amy insisted on breastfeeding. My stepmother is also interesting. She doesn't want to hire a nanny either. She takes care of her by herself. She said that Polina can walk now, so let Yulia's former nanny take care of her."

"Your little sister is named Polina?"

"Yes, I looked it up in the dictionary. If the emperor didn't value me, how could a little adjutant from the countryside be promoted two levels at this age and join the Guards?"

Konstantin likes Solovyov's simple and honest personality, even though he has many tricks. However, his father ordered this kid to go to the Putin Regiment, and he couldn't ask him to come to the Izmailov Regiment. After all, loyal and capable officers are scarce resources everywhere.

After all, this is the female name of Paul.

"I think, if my brother has an heir in the future, you should take care of him. When he can't talk, you can hold him for a while and he will be quiet. When he can walk and learn to read, there will be a good teacher."

Well, this guy Constantine really doesn't hide anything. He starts talking nonsense when he picks up something to say.

Of course, no one would have thought that when Louisa gave birth, all the children crawling out of her belly were girls.

It stands to reason that the potential lovers of the Crown Princess either went abroad to become diplomats or have not yet appeared. Several suspicious officers of the Guards nearby do not have the courage to do so now. Alexander has many mistresses outside, but Elizabeth Alexeevna is still very favored.

It is inconvenient to go out in winter, so the Crown Prince wanted to discuss the structure of the human body with his beloved wife under the pretext of the encyclopedia.

But Louisa was ill again recently, so Alexander focused his attention on other things.

1800, probably like this, started with various trivial matters and research that made no progress.