Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Chapter 230 042 The marriage failed because of religious issues

"But, Sylvia, this is not a reason. After all, we still like each other after we met."

Soloviev is obviously not the kind of stallion-type protagonist. So far, only Sylvia and Luisa have appeared by his pillow. Luisa is the queen of Russia. Although they can be lovers, they can't be together. Sylvia is more special to him.

She is more beautiful than the young girl. Italian girls are always beautiful, and they deliberately want to keep a little distance.

But when she saw her Michele, her eyes could not be hidden. There was still a spark of love between them.

"Be my wife, and we'll go to the countryside of Ryazan, where we have a manor, and we can live a carefree life with our daughter, and in the future we will..."

"But you know why Prince Dolgorukov came abroad. The marriage of a guard officer like you will involve religious beliefs. I will not convert from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, and if you convert..."

"It's nothing more than religion. The French have also had high priests of the 'Church of Reason', not to mention that the Italians originally believed in the polytheism of Greece and Rome."

"But your future, Michele, I love you, but I don't want to delay you because of this. If you just It's okay to be an ordinary young officer. Just relying on this face, we can settle down anywhere after you retire. But you are a person with ideas. I know you still want to do something. I can always be your lover. If you need me, I can go to your side to take care of you, but as your wife, I can't give you much help. Count Lita's words. Don't look at him as such a romantic person, but in your words, it is a double standard. "

"Really not?"

Soloviev held Sylvia in his arms. She always felt great, and she was more gentle and beautiful, but she was so considerate of herself.

"You are only 21 years old, but you are already a lieutenant colonel in the Guards, and you are not relying on your family background. I think you will have a good future. It will be more beneficial for you to marry a young, well-off, rich and beautiful bride."

"What about you?"

"If I am with you, I can help you do a lot of things. When I am not with you, I can help you get information. Prince Borghese is going to Paris. If I am in his official residence, will it be helpful to you?"

But Solovyov's greatest advantage is that he will take responsibility if you sleep with him, especially since the two of them have only been together for a few days and can't forget each other.

"I"

"Michele, don't say anything else. I won't change my religious beliefs. If you become a general or governor one day, it will not be good for you, but if you come to France and Italy, we can still be together. The wife you will marry in the future can only be in Russia, and you have no intention of changing your camp. Most Russians are so stubborn that they will never learn from the Germans to change their camp."

In fact, Italians don't like German-speaking Germans. Silvia went to Florence from her home near Milan when she was pregnant, and then went to Prince Borghese's house as a housekeeper.

And Prince Borghese went to Paris for political purposes.

"But I brought my wife with me?"

"Then you can come to me secretly, just like now, just the two of us."

"Although we are both young, we are not so immature anymore."

"But I don't think it will be so accurate every time, right?"

"From a religious point of view, Sylvia, it depends on God's will. From a medical point of view, it still depends on whether our physical characteristics can be combined. It is a bit dangerous. When I was on duty in the palace, I encountered the scene of the current Queen Mother Maria and Queen Elizabeth giving birth. Everyone was very nervous. In Russia, the more people know about the pain of a woman in labor, the more pain she may bear."

"That's a superstition in the Russian countryside, right? God wouldn't say that. Come here. The child will sleep very deeply at night. This night belongs to the two of us."

"Sylvia."

"Michele"

Soloviev's current residence in Prince Dolgorukov is actually separate from the prince's family. Going back later will not affect anything. Besides, Silvia was indeed attractive, and they had been intimate before, which was considered a reunion of old lovers, so it was not surprising that something happened.

But Silvia's behavior was indeed strange. Solovyov had seriously considered it before proposing to make her his wife. After all, it was difficult to reunite. The nature of his work made it difficult for him to go to Italy. He had thought about this issue when they could reunite this time.

But the other party refused, but the two sides would continue to keep in touch, which was not a bad thing after all.

As for getting up the next morning, Solovyov and Silvia were still together. They also walked together on the streets of Saint-Tropez, just like when they were in Milan.

"Silvia, how did you arrange your route when you returned to Rome this time?"

"You will take a boat back from Genoa. I think you should also talk to the prince about changing this journey. Only Florence is worth visiting in the middle, but that is also from a cultural level. It will be more interesting when you arrive in the Eternal City. Besides, he is a Catholic, and I know this a little bit."

"I also want to go to Rome with you, but you have to consider that the prince and his family are not in a hurry. Their trip is mainly for fun, not for traveling."

"You can come with me. We are in Rome."

Although they are not a couple, they have the feeling of a family of three.

"A trip just for us and the children?"

"That prince should be able to see it, and you accompany me to Rome, just as an inspection of the city, okay?"

"I am willing to go with you, but you have to make an appointment with Prince Vasily. We will still travel together from Paris."

Of course, the prince, who has always been a big-headed person, also knows that they should have had good memories when they were young.

"Go, Misha, the girl rejected your proposal because of religious issues. Sometimes it's like this, if you convert, you will have no future, and it's not like an old guy like me. But the girl, like my Katya, takes religious issues very seriously. While you are still young and old lovers, go to Rome and have fun." Prince Vasily knew a little bit, that is, Solovyov is not common among young people, and all the young men in Petersburg are going for the Sea King. "Thank you." "We may meet again in Rome, and if we meet again, it will be after Christmas." The old man also understood very well. After all, when these nobles were in their twenties and thirties, they could often see Prince Potemkin entering and leaving the Queen's court and curtains. Moreover, the prince also tried to date Prince Dolgorukov's wife, but whether he succeeded in the end depended on the attitude of the woman. It was somewhat interesting that such a thing happened with a young foreign noble girl, but the prince did not notice the appearance of Silvia's daughter, otherwise he would know everything.

Although Solovyov injured his arm, he recovered very quickly and could remove the stitches when he arrived in Lyon. It was just that the scar after the stitches was not very good-looking, but it was covered with clothes, so it was naturally invisible.

Silvia was very satisfied that her Michele could spend time with her alone. Although she was devout in her faith, she did things more like the ancient polytheistic way, not the way advocated by Catholicism in recent years.

There was no way, who made Italy always have strange things?

"Your faith, it's really hard for me to say."

Solovyov seemed to have met someone who believed in Venus. Think about what Caesar was like, and what Octavian did behind the scenes when he promoted morality on the surface.

"The Visconti family, could they have anything to do with Venus? The Visconti family I know are either philanthropic or loyal like you, but you are really strange. I want you to be my wife, and my family is not bad."

"But I don't plan to change my faith, I told you that. If you change your faith, I don't think anyone in Petersburg will agree, right? And you, the 'inventor', although others don't know, but I know that you have a lot of mechanical ideas, just like a living Leonardo da Vinci."

"Oh, I'm not that amazing, it's just that I come into contact with a lot of knowledge on a daily basis, so I'm like this. And I also have some knowledge that I'm not good at."

"For example?"

"Although I know the principle of the steam engine, how to make the high-pressure steam engine more efficient is a problem. I came to Europe to see the research results of the steam engine in France and Britain."

Sylvia is good at managing family finances, but asking her to listen to mechanical issues is really like listening to a foreign language.

"What are you talking about? Although I know about steam engines, what are you going to use such a big thing for?"

"Of course it's shipbuilding. About 20 years ago, when hot air balloons first appeared in France, someone invented a steamship, but because of lack of funds and obstruction from the French Academy of Sciences, the research was ultimately not completed. The Marquis went into exile abroad after the Revolution, and worked with me in St. Petersburg to study the latest steamship, which is driven by a steam engine and paddle wheels and can travel on the water without the help of wind and manpower."

"It sounds amazing, but St. Petersburg is so far away from Paris and Rome that we hardly heard any news."

Normally, if there is any movement in Russia, it should be reported quickly, even if the journey is long.

However, the display of the Tauride Palace and the navigation test on the Neva River did not seem to spread to Western European countries.

On the contrary, if there is some movement in Britain and the United States, it will soon radiate to all parts of the world.

This may be the power of media studies to cleanse the ears, right? What's even more bizarre is that Fulton's steamship was not even in the top three, and was even second in the United States, but he was considered to be the inventor of all practical steamships.

It was the unlucky American inventor and the Scottish engineer who helped him who chose to do water transportation next to the busiest road, and failed because of this bizarre behavior of transporting coal from Jiaozuo to Datong for sale, right?

"It sounds interesting. Although I don't understand mechanics, I can find a way to help you get some information. What do you think? And I will be active near Paris in the future. I will know everything that happens in France!"

Speaking of this, Silvia hugged her daughter and rubbed against Soloviev's arms.

"Michele, let me help you realize some of your wishes!"

"Forget about collecting intelligence. I will be satisfied as long as you live a happy and peaceful life with Octavia. I am now very worried that France will fight with Britain again. Once the war starts, the whole of Europe will not be at peace. If that happens, I will still have to go to the battlefield as a soldier."

His wish is that his relatives are safe and sound. No one will land in Petersburg for a hundred years. It is very safe there. Moreover, Louisa and Svetlana are in the palace. As long as Alexander's rule continues, nothing will happen.

He is very worried about Italy where Silvia and her daughter are. In fact, he hopes for world peace rather than going out to fight. If he relies on invention patents and route franchises, he will be able to accumulate huge wealth quickly. Fighting is just a preparation for being involved in war.

If he was born in the era of the empress, he might be able to find a reason to retire.

But starting from Paul, Russian officers, especially officers of the Guards, who have outstanding skills, will probably be kept in the army even if they have reasonable reasons for retirement.

Especially for an inventor like him who has invented many things, just the fact that he has transformed all the technologies he knows into physical objects makes him the chief engineer (equivalent to the rank of general) in the Russian army, and it is unlikely that he will retire.

What's more, he has practical experience in front-line troops, so he can't let him go.

"You have to be careful, Michele. I know that the war between France and Austria in Italy has been fought repeatedly several times."

"That time, I met you."

"This is our luck, but also our misfortune. Peace is better."

"Let's not talk about this for now. We are going to Rome. After arriving in Genoa, we will take a boat there."

What is this? Is it a Roman holiday?

Solovyov is very much looking forward to it, but he is also a little worried that there is no protection when he is in close contact with Sylvia. I hope Sylvia didn't miscalculate her own menstrual cycle.