Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Chapter 183 040 The number of salutes can easily lead to misunderstandings

After the coronation ceremony, normal celebrations, whether in St. Petersburg or Moscow, will last for at least half a month. Muscovites don’t care. After all, many of the “upstarts” in St. Petersburg have never seen the world. It’s good to let them see the majesty of the coronation ceremony in the past three hundred years. In the future, the young tsar will come to Moscow with the young and beautiful queen to officially hold the next coronation ceremony.

The small problem is that the past few years have been too lively. There have been three tsars and two coronations in a few years, and Russia has changed a lot.

The queen only attended the banquet for a short time. After a gesture, she was carried away by the servants. According to the rules of the Queen Mother Maria at this time, the tsar and the queen mother are in the front in the court etiquette.

Soloviev has not changed his clothes yet, and he is still dressed as a maid. There is no way. After all, the schedule is very full. If he wants to remove his makeup and change clothes, Natalia will have to lock him up alone in the maid’s room.

Anyway, there was nothing good to eat at such a banquet, so it was better to be with the soldiers of the Guards, as he had the most experience in this regard.

However, he was worried about Louisa at this time. After changing his clothes, he had to go to the Queen's suite again. The task order given to him by Alexander was not lifted.

There were still some days afterwards. Louisa had worked hard today. After undressing, she lay down in her pajamas. There was only one maid on duty here, and she couldn't order others.

At night, the Guards came to change shifts, and Solovyov left the Winter Palace. He returned to the Guards' barracks and prepared to sort out his personal belongings and take them back home. After that, he would also change his duty place back to the Winter Palace.

There were other etiquette ceremonies on the second day, including offering bread and salt to the Tsar and the Queen, which was a traditional Russian ceremony, and there were a lot of celebrations afterwards.

Louisa also felt the baby moving in her belly these days. After the dedication ceremony, she returned to the Winter Palace. The doctor said that her due date is expected to be October 3, so she is not in a hurry.

The celebration will last until the end of the month, and many activities cannot be cancelled, but they have to stay away from the Winter Palace. However, citizens often say one thing, that is, the queen did not attend, probably because she is about to give birth, which is a good thing. After all, the royal family is prosperous, no matter whether it is a boy or a girl, it is a happy event for the citizens of St. Petersburg.

In this case, the celebration in St. Petersburg will also be extended.

There are also many guards on duty in the palace, but since Alexander is going to attend the event, these adjutants have gone with him, and the Queen Mother pays attention to pomp and circumstance, so she also takes away many maids, that is, the girls who usually follow Louisa, who have been around her.

"Your Highness, are you feeling better?"

"I've been unable to walk these past two days. Let me sit here. If I feel uncomfortable, I'll go find a doctor."

It was already the evening of September 30th. Louisa had been feeling uncomfortable these days. Although her diet was fine, her irritability and restlessness were getting worse.

"Should I inform His Majesty?"

"For Alexander, he is no longer the crown prince now, but our emperor. Unless my condition is particularly bad, don't stop. It's still good to ask him to attend the ceremony. Don't alarm him too much because of me. After all, the whole of Petersburg knows that I'm about to give birth. If the quack doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and delays things, that's not good either."

Louisa actually had a plan the night Alexander became the Tsar. When something big really happened, she would silently support Alexander, not to cause trouble, nor to create problems. In fact, with her eyes of reading a lot but speaking less and observing more, she could also perceive that although the queen mother seemed to have read a lot of books, she was not necessarily as smart as the French headless cake queen.

Paul once told Louisa that although the French queen had a bad reputation, she was very methodical in doing things in the court, managing the inner court, and ceremonial occasions. When Louis XVI said something wrong, it was Marie Antoinette who cleverly interrupted to avoid diplomatic disputes between France and Russia. Everyone knows her problem. France's problem at that time was already a dead end. It was the couple who lost their heads after trying all kinds of methods. Speaking of it, their family was also very miserable. At present, there is only one girl who is in semi-seclusion in Dresden.

What happened, from the trial and the referendum, shocked Paul greatly. Alexander, the young tsar who called himself a "Jacobin" and just came out of the middle school, was also concerned about what the world would do.

Louisa only remembered one thing, not to delay the overall situation because of some stupid behavior, and unless she was about to give birth, she didn't want Alexander to rush back in a hurry, but to maintain stability. Although they had been crowned, the throne was not so stable. When the new monarch ascended the throne, there were always some things to worry about.

But she neglected to notice that the doctors sent to the palace this time were not the doctors from the Naval Hospital whom Paul had trusted at the beginning. Many of the royal doctors had died or retired due to their age. The Austrian doctors of this session, although they looked okay in appearance, could not be relied upon to really perform the job.

However, on the morning of October 1, Louisa could no longer hold on. She felt that she was about to give birth, not to mention the pain in her abdomen. However, the doctor had not arrived yet, and Alexander had just attended an event. When he left, Louisa was still in good condition.

This was more troublesome. The Empress Dowager's lady-in-law, Miss Anna Pavlovna Scherer, stayed in the palace. She was still very calm. In the battle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, although the Empress Dowager was the noble person she served, she did not want to offend the Queen. Moreover, this cute little girl was easy to get along with, and she was still clear-headed.

"Hurry up and prepare the delivery room for His Highness. Get everything ready. Is the delivery table ready?"

"Anna Pavlovna, we have already arranged it last night, but the Emperor just went to the theater to watch a performance. Her Highness the Empress Dowager is also there. There are also performances in the square and the street. I am afraid it will be too late to call those doctors."

"Forget about those Austrian quacks. If it doesn't work, we will find a midwife to help His Highness get through this!"

What's more terrible is that Miss Scherer is not young anymore. She is a famous beauty, but she has never married, let alone the experience of giving birth; the maids in the palace, these girls have just been selected and have hardly touched the hands of the boys they like.

Doctors and midwives, whether famous or mediocre, experienced or inexperienced, were all stuck on the road. The Empress Dowager also liked to show off. She used a six-horse carriage, which was more grand than that of the Tsar and his wife. Fortunately, her carriage was not on the small road of Million Street, otherwise it would be even more troublesome.

Miss Scherer was still very calm. After analyzing the situation, she would ask the military doctor to come if it was not possible. The doctor of the General Corps was not bad. When the Empress was still the Crown Princess and gave birth to her second child, he was on standby next door.

But at this moment, there was also a problem, that is, he lacked an assistant. He could call a pharmacist at No. 4 Million Street, but there were limited qualified doctors and nurses.

"If it really doesn't work, I know these quacks will delay things. They swear that Her Majesty's due date is the 3rd. The Emperor has just gone to the theater and it's too late to return, so we have to go. Mikhail, I remember you have some experience in disinfection and nursing. You helped your stepmother when she gave birth."

"Ah"

This doctor is talking about things that are not related to the topic. Solovyov really helped his stepmother at home two days ago and took his younger brother out of his mother's womb. The reason was that the doctor's assistant knocked over something just after the disinfection, so Solovyov had to help after washing his hands. This matter is really famous in Vasily Island and the Admiralty.

"Don't worry about that. Even if it's a girl from an ordinary citizen's family, you have to help her. This is the doctor's code! And you have always been chivalrous. You must help in this kind of thing."

"What's wrong?"

Soloviev understood what the regiment's military doctor Mr. Meyer meant. This was because Louisa was about to give birth, and the doctor, midwife and midwife had not arrived yet, so he had to take over. However, these assistants were really unreliable, and he was forced to do it.

"If it was a normal birth, it would be fine. But if it was a low-lying difficult birth like my stepmother, and forceps were used, I was a little scared!"

His brother was safe. He trembled a little when he saw this. He was a little scared when he thought about it. After all, he was a brother with blood ties, and it was dangerous to help him.

But now he could only bite the bullet. Miss Scherer sent the relatively smart Princess Anna Sherbatova to inform the Tsar and the Queen Mother, hoping to call Alexander back as soon as possible.

Louisa could still move by herself. She felt very uncomfortable. Fortunately, Miss Scherer reacted quickly, but she was not as experienced as Mrs. Golovina, and before, the female officer assisted her in everything in the palace.

Scherer knew that Her Royal Highness the Queen could not be allowed to hold on for too long. If she did, it would definitely cause trouble or even cause death.

It was just that the military doctor was called, and there was also an aide of the Tsar among the assistants. The pharmacist was a professional from No. 4 Million Street. This combination was still a little unreliable.

And Louisa's clothes were taken off and she was put on the delivery table. It was also Ms. Scherer's quick reaction. Although she seemed to be rash and even lost her etiquette, it seemed that decency was nothing compared to human life.

Solovyov could not have thought that this was his third time on the scene. When his sister Polina was born, he helped prepare disinfection on the side. When his brother Anton was born, he simply followed and took action directly.

The first two times it was his sister and brother, which was enough to make him nervous. This time it was his beloved Louisa, so he was a little nervous.

"You are a man who has been to the battlefield, and I know your ability to disinfect, Major, please help me disinfect the surgical instruments and various tools first. The amniotic fluid has broken now, so we must be prepared."

"Okay."

Dr. Meyer is still very knowledgeable about medical skills. He believes that even his uncle in Bavaria does not know as many surgical techniques as he does. He even has some experience and has delivered babies for the wives of officers in his regiment. After seeing the situation of Her Royal Highness the Queen, he was relieved.

"This can still start. Girls, you all stand in your respective positions and prepare towels boiled in hot water. Also, Miss Scherer, you are more familiar with the girls, let them do their own thing. job.”

"Mr. Meyer, there is one thing you need to be careful about, that is, don't choke the child."

"Ah, I understand what you mean. You can even take out your own brother. I know what's going on. Fortunately, this is not the first time for Your Highness."

After Alexander received the news, his temper got worse. He took his sister Ekaterina's hand and walked out of the theater box directly. Maria saw this and followed behind.

"It seems that one thing is correct. The doctors in Austria are unreliable! At this time, the only option is to use military doctors. There are also doctors from the Admiralty Hospital. Can they come here?"

"Your Majesty, if you can go to the scene, you have to disinfect and do various treatments. Mr. Meyer, the doctor of the Guards, is there now."

"Fortunately, he is a great surgeon. God bless, I hope nothing happens."

At this time, Alexander discovered that his two sisters were more anxious than him, and they had already picked up their skirts and ran onto the carriage.

When they returned to the Winter Palace, there were only a few maids outside the delivery room. Too many people would cause chaos. They were also here waiting for the arrival of the Tsar and the Empress Dowager.

"Sonia, Lisa, how is she now?"

That is to say, Miss Volkonskaya was calm, and she reported the whole story to the Tsar himself here.

"His Royal Highness has successfully given birth to a female Grand Duchess. However, there is also a second child. His Highness does not have much strength at the moment. Mr. Meyer and Major Misha are working hard at the moment."

Alexander usually always goes to his lover, but when his wife is about to give birth, he is also very worried, especially because although Louisa's body is much better, if the mother is about to give birth, all Petersburg will know , but it may be more painful.

But his adjutant helped with the birth, and although he had heard about his affairs at home, it was worrying at a time like this.

Alexander's mind was filled with Louisa's screams when she gave birth for the first time. He heard it then and felt scared now, but he couldn't go in now, and he was not wearing sterilized clothes, and his hands were The same thing happened on the street, not to mention not wearing a mask.

What was even more nervous was that Mr. Meyer and Solovyov were present at the scene, that is, the bolder Prozorovskaya was pushing Louisa's belly after listening to Meyer's words. At this time, Solovyov The husband saw the child’s head.

"Finally, this new big girl has come out and made a meritorious service. If she hadn't pushed, we would have been in trouble."

Meyer asked Solovyov to continue, and what he saw was another girl.

"No matter what, this is a good thing."

When Alexander heard that they were all girls again, he shook his head helplessly. Although Louisa was born naturally this time, and it was a bit dangerous, that is, the military doctor, the adjutant and these big girls dealt with it quickly. He wanted to The two Austrian quacks rushed back to Vienna.

Then, there was the firing of cannons, but this time, because two children were born one after another, this caused a small problem. The people of Petersburg mistakenly thought that an heir was born. The number of salutes fired by the two girls together was also the same. A prince is almost here. They didn't know the real situation until the announcement was posted.