Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Chapter 48 048 It seems that things always develop in a strange direction

Count Bobulinsky started to run the manor, not as unrestrained as when his mother was there. In fact, there is no essential difference in strategy. After all, the emperor's brother hopes that everyone will do things.

If it was just the manor, it would be fine. Now the business scope of his "Bobricky" company involves so many aspects that it has given people a feeling that it is a "limited liability company". This path now seems a bit narrow.

Anyway, he was handsome when he was young, and he has not become a greasy uncle now. If you say that time is a butcher knife, or it is a wild donkey running wild, you have to wait until after 1802.

When it comes to donkeys, it has to be said that because the Queen and the Crown Princess used donkey skin to make glue blocks for postpartum care, his sideline business, which was originally intended to please his sister-in-law and niece-in-law, has become a popular trend in St. Petersburg.

Then, people gathered on the street where he opened his company. This time there were really a lot of people.

The palace did not pay attention to whether the business of the younger brother-in-law/Uncle Alexei was booming. The five grand duchesses were here to watch their younger brother and eldest niece.

Mikhail was only eight months old, and he started crying when his sisters watched him like this.

And the little one, Tonya, ate and slept, slept and ate, and occasionally cried a few times, which was a good thing.

The old Count Stroganov who came to the palace said to the queen: "Grand Duchess Yevdokia is so quiet, but it is a good thing. You also know the situation in my family. Sometimes the child keeps crying, which is easily the pain of the infant stage." He did not say much, because his eldest daughter died of such pain in infancy.

"Yes, how is your daughter-in-law Sonya doing recently?"

"She is also, because these methods were all told to her by Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess when she entered the palace. Now, we held a salon at home, and when we congratulated the Grand Duchess, we mentioned donkey skins, and then they were sold out."

"Alexei received too many orders, and he only prepared a little for relatives and friends. Now he is in big trouble and has to ask me for the exclusive rights of donkeys in St. Petersburg."

I have never heard of anyone eating donkey meat in Europe, but there is more venison. Besides, whether it is the hunting ground in the palace or hunting outside, you can still see a lot of deer, and it is more convenient to hunt, and venison is still more nutritious.

Soloviev really couldn't stand the environment in St. Petersburg where he couldn't do anything, so he urged the Guards Chasseur Battalion to go out for training. Before he left, he told Count Bobulinsky that there were some ways in this regard, but the donkey meat needed to be formed into a cooking process.

This is quite embarrassing. The Italian chef brothers invited by Count Bobulinsky are short and fat, and the other is tall and thin. One wears a red hat and the other wears a green hat. If you know you are chefs, you will be thought to be crazy Italian plumbers in New York, and you will ask where Kuba and the princess are.

They were very resistant to "donkey meat pizza" at first, but it is still meat after all, which is much more normal than adding some evil things to pizza, and it is not completely unacceptable.

So donkey meat pizza appeared. This is because the count misunderstood Solovyov's statement. He said that he wanted to make snacks such as donkey meat fire baked in round cakes. As a result, after the count misunderstood, he invited Italian chefs to make a bunch of Italian dishes, and changed the ingredients of beef and pork into donkey meat.

Fortunately, the texture and taste of donkey meat are not bad, so the two did not go crazy on the spot, but pinched their noses to accept it. After all, the boss is the only brother of the Tsar and a well-known big man in St. Petersburg.

Their restaurant is all about slaughtering and skinning donkeys, and then providing donkey meat. In addition to supplying the count's own territory, all the fresh meat comes here. The storefront is located on the embankment of the Moika River, and there are places where young officers often go nearby.

But if people knew that donkey meat made this pair of Italian chef brothers, AUV, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, after all, the skills are also chef-level, and there is no problem of religious constraints.

If you look at Spain and Mexico, there are so many donkeys, it would be a pity not to eat them, and donkey skin can also have such a wonderful effect from another perspective, always causing new fashion.

Luisa was asked by Paul to take more walks in the palace after she can exercise. If she wants to relax, she can also go to Count Stroganov's house or the residence of some other court ladies accompanied by her maid. Changing to a new environment is good for the body and is also conducive to giving birth to the heir of this empire in the future.

After the succession law was changed, it was quite beneficial for male heirs to inherit in order, if it was in accordance with Peter the Great's rules.

That was really "he is an emperor, I am also an emperor", the form of the edicts designed by the two of them were highly consistent, and it almost benefited the Courland rich Queen Anna, who let the inheritance rights be transferred back to the lineage of Peter the Great's brother. In the eyes of Queen Elizabeth Petrovna, this free pick-up was not as reliable as giving it to her nephew.

Then, after Peter III succeeded to the throne, he opened his eyes and untied the big nobles. The queen also wanted to please these nobles when she succeeded to the throne. This three-pointer was a trap for his wife and children. One wanted to please the big nobles. The nobility maintained their rule. Although they gained unprecedented prestige, the nobility The tail is too big to be lost; and this is the true son of Tsar Paul, not to mention his foreign policy and diagnosis and ideas of intellectual decline, which are correct but prescribe the wrong medicine. The core of the New Deal is to loosen the bonds of serfs and restrict the nobility. They were all forced out by this biological father.

As far as Paul's level is concerned, he is infinitely higher than his father. At least he is no longer careless and does not dodge. He can still sit in the position of czar for a few more years. However, as time goes by, his bad temper and narrow-mindedness have faded. Still a big problem.

Now the palace is very harmonious. Louisa has passed the first hurdle, and Uncle Alexei is really thoughtful. In addition to nourishing supplies, he also got some jewelry from Persian channels.

It's just that the current jewelry mainly relies on the luster of natural gemstones. The thoughtful earl obtained gemstones from India. Indians like emeralds and rubies very much.

"Your Highness, these are all presented by Count Bobulinski."

"This Uncle Alexei, he has been different in the past two years, and he has become better at running things."

"I don't think that's the case, Lisa. He's just lucky."

Although the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both from a small country in the southwest of the Shinra, they are very proficient in Russian when they come to the palace.

"Marya Fyodorovna, noble queen mother, why do you say this?"

"When Her Majesty the Queen was still here, he went out to play and play around all day long. Being called back from Paris softened his temper. At that time, the favor he showed to him was sometimes even more favored than to Her Majesty. When the money was not enough, The pocket money of 80,000 rubles was given at one time, and the rewards were never cut off. Although I was only in Gatchina at that time, I spent a lot of money on your uncle. Now, I have calmed down and started running the manor and company by myself, but you have to see that he relies on his subordinates. Managers, sometimes, some people are the true darlings of fate.”

For Paul, daily life is work. Anyway, he likes to mess around. Regardless of whether he is right or wrong, he always enjoys it.

Count Bobulinski is lucky, but he also knows how to take care of the palace. As for these gemstone earrings, they are not big objects, but they can reflect his feelings.

And this can be regarded as his habit of trying to please his nephews, nieces and nephews-in-law. Even the second nephew-in-law who is locked up at home, the unlucky Saxon princess, has a share. There is no such thing as "all the sisters" stories.

"But you guys have to choose carefully to see which one suits your hearts."

Queen Maria said so and left the nursery. The Crown Princess also asked the servants to take everything to the children's room. It happened that all five sisters-in-law were there, and even the youngest Anna wanted her share. .

She is only 3 years old, not even old enough to wear earrings, but a pair of rubies were chosen for her.

Children are happy when they look at shiny things, and the rest is for these unmarried girls to choose.

However, when Alexandra mentioned getting married, she started talking about what her father had told her. He was reluctant to let her marry far away. She even grabbed her daughter's hands and started crying. She really didn't look like a tsar.

Such rich emotions are more suitable for the Austrian court. Although Maria Theresa's husband is a playboy, completely different from Paul who is devout and rarely has an affair with his mistress outside, his care for his children is quite different. Highly consistent.

If he were a HRE Emperor and an Austrian Archduke, and more responsible for his family, there wouldn't be so many bloody dramas in Habsburg Austria.

"Sister, what kind of person is Archduke Joseph?"

"I have only seen portraits. He did write me letters, but I didn't feel anything. The words were all dry. Such wording and sentence construction cannot be said to be beautiful writing. It is said that he is a loyal and honest young man, but this It’s not interesting either.”

"It's better than His Majesty the King of Sweden!"

Ekaterina is indeed a tough one. This name was not given in vain, and she once again pointed her guns at the King of Sweden.

"But if this happens, I don't know what to do. Louisa, what do you think?"

In the Russian court, the princess was now being called by her original name again. It seemed that only the Pauls and Alexander were calling Elizabeth or Lisa.

"Don't worry this time. If you really don't like it, the worst possible thing is to tell your father that you and Grand Duke Joseph are not suitable. Although you need a noble character, you also need to have some fun. Just say that His Highness wants to build an aquarium in the bay. He wants to create a fairy tale world." But she didn't want to talk more, and instead talked about Alexander's plan to build an aquarium to please her. This idea seems to be a new idea created by the palace architects. I don’t know where it came from.

When it comes to the world of fairy tales, there are always plots about princes and princesses.

They are real princesses, but reality is different from fairy tales. There are many plots in the palace.

Recently, a fat man from Bourbon came to live in Petersburg with his niece and brother's family, claiming to be Louis XVIII. In the past, the court of Versailles in France and the Schönbrunn Palace in Austria were actually much more exciting than those in Russia.

At the very least, although the queen killed her husband, she still cared about her son and grandson. When Paul arrived, he paid more attention to family ties. He also began to consider whether his daughters could marry well. After all, with the aristocratic families who intermarry in the country, Differently, if you are not satisfied after the marriage, as the tsar, he can still intervene in the marriage and let the wronged party marry another or remarry.

After all, this involves diplomatic relations, and one cannot easily regret the marriage. Regarding the marriage faced by Alexandra, there is only one situation in which the marriage can be ended when both parties are present. That is, after the crown falls, the woman can file for divorce because she cannot give birth to an heir in exile.

However, considering that Archduke Joseph is not involved in the issue of succession to the throne, this does not apply.

At this time, it was Elena whose mind was spinning the fastest again who said something shocking.

"We have no way to decide. The candidate was proposed by the Emperor of Austria. If it is not Archduke Joseph, but Archduke Karl, it is not unacceptable. Although I heard that the Archduke is frail and sick, he is still one of the top generals today, Sasha Sister, you are so beautiful, shouldn’t you be worthy of a hero?”

Probably because she recently heard the loud-voiced young Duke of Mecklenburg talking about military affairs in front of her, she thought of Archduke Joseph having such a brother. What was especially outrageous was that he was not too young, but so far, In the topic of noble marriage between countries, he seems to have never been even a spare tire.

Even his rookie brother, Archduke John, has been put on the list of potential marriages by the courts of various countries. He was adopted by a descendant of the Duchy of Teshen and has such a good reputation that there is almost no news about this.

"That must be the case. Hmm, a woman will only affect the speed at which I draw my gun."

Yekaterina didn't know where she learned it from. Her tone was very similar to that of Prince Dolgorukov who saved her, but her words sounded like the one who stood guard at the gate of the Tsar and served as a guard to Elena. Mr. Captain, who has been a model for a long time, can tell.

"Katya, if there is a Greek drama, you might be able to dress up as a man and play the leading role. This is very much like what those two gentlemen can do."

Yekaterina's current attitude towards Prince Dolgorukov is that she has a slight affection for a big brother. However, this tone was obviously not what they wanted when Prince Mikhail was on duty as a Guards Hussar. We often met in the palace.

This plot, because there are too many variables, is really like a wild donkey running wild, not knowing which direction it is going.