Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Alexander knew the doctor's diagnosis. Since Louisa was like this again, he would stay with his wife during the day except for official duties, and would kiss her goodbye before attending various activities at night.

This always made Louisa feel better. After all, her husband would come back to her, caress her back and belly, and listen to her reading newspapers and books. Sometimes, Miss Shakhovskaya and Miss Zagryazhskaya, the two Natalyas, would read the newspapers.

"Natasha, you spelled the word wrong just now"

"Yes, Your Highness. But I want to tell you one thing, that is, Major Solovyov, who is beside His Majesty, has been assigned to His Highness the Crown Prince."

"Isn't that good?"

Louisa was indeed a little surprised, but she still pretended to be calm and didn't want to involve her two sisters. It would be best if her and Solovyov's affairs were just a secret in her heart.

"Your Highness, why do you say this is good?"

"That major is very young. His Majesty often asks him to be a personal guard. If he comes to us, he will still be responsible for Your Highness's safety."

"That's right, Your Highness. You should move more and don't catch a cold."

Miss Shakhovskaya is older and more reliable. She first took the blanket and called little Natalia.

"I'll go check the tea. You stay here to take care of Your Highness."

They did this because Louisa's court has always been relatively monotonous. There are few large-scale activities, and the pomp in the palace is always simple.

This also led to the fact that sometimes a few maids would call the servants to do things.

"Your Highness, I learned a method from someone that can improve sleep."

"Natasha, how should I do it?"

"Your Highness, stretch out your feet and massage several places on the soles of your feet."

Louisa has always spoiled her. After all, she is the youngest among the maids, and she is also very smart, so she obediently stretched out both feet.

Little Natalia's hands are very slender and not very strong. If she massages the sick Louisa, it is just right. After all, her strength is small enough for Louisa to accept it, but it feels a little itchy.

"You look like you haven't eaten. Lisa was the same before."

Louisa's earliest maid, Princess Elizabeth Alexeevna Grinzen, was a weak and sickly person. Her husband was Osterman-Tolstoy. It is true that Paul did not like the young people promoted by Potemkin, but he approved the maid next to the Crown Princess to marry the young general because he was born in a famous family and actually inherited the title of Count Osterman.

However, leaving the army was a common thing in Russia, and Paul often did very strange things. He always transferred young people who were loyal to him from the army. For example, Osterman-Tolstoy, who was already a major general, was arranged by him to be a fourth-class senior civil servant of the State Council.

Louisa thought it was interesting. Among her five highest-ranking maids who were arranged by the empress and the queen after marrying from Baden, only Natalia was in good health. The remaining four were sickly like her, especially the countess with the same name as her. Count Osterman-Tolstoy had to put down his work and take leave to accompany his wife to seek medical treatment everywhere.

"Lisa is better than Maria, but she is also so thin. As for Sonya, who has a bad temper, I don't know if anyone has come to her father to propose marriage."

"Your Highness, you are lying like this and you still have to worry about us."

"You are still young. When the time comes, Your Highness and I will find a way to arrange a rich groom for you, and he is also in a high position. This is because I like you very much. You, this confused kitten, can always make us happy."

Then she sat up, obviously feeling better, and began to talk about the situation of these sisters.

"Do you know that there is a little brother from the Bludov family, who is about your age, and he actually fell in love with Anya."

Here is Anna Sherbatova, who has always been called "another me" by Louisa, because they both have fair skin, slender figures, and many similar facial features. She came to the palace before little Natalia.

"Sister Anna is really admired, but that young man is not old enough to get married, he needs to wait for a long time, so."

"And Anya's mother will definitely say that the other party's family background is not good enough. But so what? That young man is smart, can write poetry, and is loyal in love. Such a husband is really hard to find."

Even Louisa herself knew about this matter after Count Dmitry Bludov, a minor civil servant in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote a love letter to Anna.

"The young man wrote the text himself, which proves that he has worked hard to study, and he is so loyal. He writes every weekend. Anya is really happy."

The length of this long-distance love run is quite long. After all, the young count is too young, and even has to stay at Marshal Kamensky's home in Petersburg. In the middle, there is also an arrogant princess.

Louisa was optimistic about him because this child was taken care of by Alexander Turgenev, Dashkov and Weigel at the age of 16. He had just started working and a group of good brothers who appreciated his literary talent came to recommend him. I think his level must be high.

"Sister Anna has many suitors. Why would she take care of a little count who is about the same age as me? He is just a small civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We still have many single young talents."

"You will know when Aniya comes back one day. Among us, she is the one who is in good health and never seems to get sick."

This is strange. Among Louisa's maids and sisters, only two, Natalia and Princess Anna, are in better health. The rest often take sick leave, unlike those who liked to miss work around Elena before she got married. The girl formed a sharp contrast.

What makes Louisa even more troubled is that Shakhovskaya recently had a fanatical admirer, Prince Alexander Golitsyn, known as "Little Prince Golitsyn" because of his short stature. , not because the name of the family member would cause a collision.

This smart and capable young prince is Alexander's entourage. Solovyov came here because he was expelled from the palace because he was disliked by Paul and the vacancy was vacated. It is said that he acted as a mouthpiece for Count Kutaisov and Madame Chevalier.

"This Sasha, like my Sasha, is both good at talking, but he is still better at doing things."

What Louisa was thinking was that the "little" Prince Golitsyn himself had combined the best qualities of His Highness and Mishka into one, and he was also devotedly pursuing his favorite Natalya. Among the male aristocrats Among young people, there are really few such people. Her maids have already met two of them.

She hoped that His Highness would not always look for Polish women, but Louisa had always been weak, so there was nothing she could do about it.

As for Mishka being transferred to His Highness, she was a little worried, after all, anything could happen.

Moreover, Solovyov was in the Winter Palace, and he was very responsible. He inspected all the vacant palaces and halls, and things were still done in an orderly manner.

"His Majesty has gone to live in the new palace. Many rooms of the entourage here have been vacated, but they still need to be cleaned and patrolled on time. This is what I used to do, and I still do it now. I don't have any soldiers under my command. Worse than doing it for nothing.”

In fact, what Solovyov has been worried about is that someone will use the mobilization of the Guards to launch a mutiny.

The two empresses who achieved great results did so, but they both received unanimous support from the officers and soldiers of the Guards, which was different from today's situation.

In Paul's case, the soldiers have always supported him, and most of the officials are neutral or supportive of him, but a small group of pro-British people and those whose interests have been harmed are more destructive.

Normally, nothing would happen, but Count von Palen's method of action was to use the few troops they had at their disposal to attack them directly. This was something that could not be imagined easily.

Alexander has also heard the rumors, but now he is just waiting and watching on this matter. He is the crown prince and does not want to get involved. Otherwise, he will be just as unlucky and unjust as he has been the crown prince for a few years, and is also not in line with the queen. expectations.

After all, according to the Queen's inheritance decree, there are rumors that Alexander directly succeeded to the throne. However, he was easily controlled by the big nobles in the court at that time. It was relatively stable for Paul to take the throne, and he also did a lot of things that were actually necessary to cure Russia's chronic diseases. Measures, that is, a lot of Paul’s New Deal.

Alexander himself felt that he did not have the courage to imitate his father and fight against a large group of nobles.

When Solovyov was chatting with his cronies in Alexander, he also heard the Crown Prince's attitude towards the New Deal. He wanted to do it, but the actor attributes he had cultivated since childhood made him unwilling to pay too much, and even a little Rat-proof device.

Count Stroganov said in the past: "When His Highness does something, he is always full of enthusiasm at first, thinking that it is his sacred mission. Later, after encountering setbacks and the enthusiasm dissipates, he is no longer so interested." "

Even with this attitude towards women, Solovyov felt that it was a miracle that Alexander could maintain his interest in Mrs. Naryshkina for a long time.

It must be this Polish woman who is irreplaceable in some way.

The only thing that has remained constant about His Highness is that he is an actor, not just the "Northern Sphinx" but also a 19th-century Octavian, a bit elusive.

Solovyov even felt that it would be better for him to be transferred to the straightforward Konstantin. After all, he had saved his highness, and he was born among swords and guns, so his feelings were deeper.

However, Paul's personnel arrangements were very destructive, and he had to obey orders.

Now, he was sitting in a vacant attendant's lounge in the Winter Palace, analyzing the possible situation, and felt that he should report to the Crown Prince himself at the appropriate time. But the relationship between Alexander and him was not like that between Paul, Constantine, and those aunts. They were really separated by one layer.

Moreover, Solovyov couldn't figure out what this person was thinking. It would be better to talk to Luisa than to him.

Solovyov even deduced a possible fact, that is, in all the Russian coups, the next monarch participated in or knew the contents of the coup.

It is possible that Alexander acquiesced in overthrowing Paul's regime, or was ambiguous and did not make any decision.

In the case of the former, as Paul's extremely trusted personal bodyguard, he might have to lose his own life, and then he would have to consider running away and leaving the whole family to France in the event of danger.

However, Soloviev prefers the latter. Alexander's actor qualities make him always cautious when making decisions, especially in his youth, unless he thinks he has a great advantage.

However, when he thinks "the advantage is mine", he always behaves arrogantly during this period and often makes hasty decisions.

Therefore, Soloviev can infer that Count von Palen has some unspeakable secrets in Paul's new palace arrangement. And Alexander himself has not been won over by them yet.

But he has no evidence to identify Count von Palen as participating in the conspiracy group. This person has always been less sticky.

Although Alexander said he welcomed his arrival, if he really wanted to say something, he would definitely not be as good as

Among Alexander's friends, there is Count Stroganov! This count and his wife are Soloviev's sponsors and partners in cultural undertakings, and they are also the most talkative among Alexander's many confidants.

If you go to him, maybe he can help. This family has always hated all kinds of political conspiracies and did not like the pro-British faction. Finding him to talk about this matter is actually a solution.

Among Alexander's confidants, Czartoryski is the head of the three civil servants, but he is a Pole, and he always brings the private goods of Poland's restoration in Russian diplomacy.

In fact, the two who really work and are serious and diligent are Kochubey and Stroganov, and the latter later transferred to the army.

In this situation, Soloviev also thought that he still needed to find Count Stroganov.

He is the Minister of the Palace, and he can often see Paul and Alexander himself. Although his wife was pursued by Alexander, he is still a loyal supporter of his friend.

It is definitely right to find him. Soloviev quickly returned to his post as a duty adjutant, and passed by the prince's bedroom on the way back.

With such a deadly thing, his attention is now on preventing conspiracies.