Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Chapter 506 018 Russian troops move unimpeded in Finland

Nikolai performed well at Solovyov's house, although the difficulty of Solovyov's "Tsarskoye Selo" was quite difficult for children of his age, even for relatively good students.

He gritted his teeth and persevered, and when Miss Scherer took them back, he also asked some questions.

"How good is His Highness's academic performance? It's all here. You'd better go back and show it to Her Highness the Queen Mother."

"Is there any progress?"

"At least if you can persist in these courses, you are doing well."

Seeing that Nikolai had already boarded the carriage, Solovyov continued.

"At least I said that in order to learn military science well, you need to master geography, mathematics, physics and chemistry. This makes His Highness very interested and willing to learn. As for teaching military science, there is no need for me to continue to be the master, right? "

"That's natural, Earl. After all, you are also an active soldier, and you are always on mission."

"I'm not far away. I have to take care of my wife here and complete some writings at the same time. After all, the Minister of War doesn't want people from the staff to interfere too much in frontline affairs."

The Petersburg court was not surprised that Solovyov was so open about fishing. Arakchiev indeed kicked Sukhterun and his team aside after they completed their plans.

Volkonsky, who had been acting as foreman to the general and Alexander's personal military adviser, would naturally be in Petersburg.

But for other people in the General Staff, except for the intelligence department who was recruited by Arakcheyev, other people could not play any role. Suhtrun himself no longer served as the Chief of General Staff, but Went to the front as Director of Munitions.

Solovyov took his wife to live in their manor on the pretext that his wife was pregnant and needed someone to take care of her.

In fact, Katya's health is very good. Apart from the beating and kicking of the fetus in her belly, she is considered to be in the best condition among the inexperienced young mothers and does not really need her husband to take care of her.

She even knew that her husband was passionate and lustful. Being able to do this in front of her showed that he loved her very much.

"Mishka, don't always accompany me, you can go to Petersburg."

"Although I have many problems, I am different from those young people in the Guards. I always have my own principles. No matter what, I have to wait for a while. And I like you so much, even if you are still a little girl. ”

"I'm going to give you a child, and you still treat me as your child."

"That's why I like you. And you lie down first. Olga, come and support your belly. Either the fetus is well nourished in your belly, or you are pregnant with twins."

In this way, Katya pushed her butt up obediently, but she still had to do some "clearing" for her. In the past two days, she had entertained several highnesses, and she had eaten too much, which would inevitably lead to constipation. Solovyov takes care of his wife as if he were taking care of a child. He is even afraid that she will sometimes make stupid mistakes because of her cleverness and make herself sick.

"Yes, I have to eat more every day. I will love this child very much in the future. As for the future, we will have many children."

Hearing this, although Solovyov knew in his heart that Katya loved him very much, but if she continued like this, she was still young. Judging from the fact that Russian women often still have babies in their forties.

In terms of the family's financial situation in the future, it seems that we still need to fight more and earn more money. If not for the stepmother who is very kind to her and still insists that half of her father's property should belong to him, the eldest son who brings the most income to the family, in exchange for To take good care of these younger brothers and sisters, traditional inheritance disputes among Russian aristocrats will occur.

After all, there are always widowers who marry younger wives after the death of their wives. There are always such things in the family, from Petersburg and Moscow to Smolensk, Tula, Ryazan and Tambov, and not even This kind of thing happens in some small places that are too inconspicuous.

In short, he also felt that he was under a lot of pressure. After all, he was the eldest son in the family and the burden was not as big as usual.

After Lubricating Katya's intestines with glycerin and grease, Olga had to take her to squat on the toilet. He couldn't take this part with him.

Anyway, in Katya's mind, it seemed that the entire process from pregnancy to childbirth was no big deal, but according to Russian tradition, the fewer people who knew about it, the less painful it would be.

Besides, it’s still early in the day.

He went back to the study and waited for the housekeeper to come with some letters.

"Master, all the letters I received in the past two days are here."

"These postmen, thank God they didn't deliver the wrong letter. Our country's postal system still needs to be improved. At least they must be literate."

"Who says it isn't? There is a letter here from Prince Bagration. Sir, you have also ordered that there are letters from several gentlemen that need to be taken care of. When you arrive, you must bring them to you as soon as you arrive in the study. ”

"Yes, you have worked hard too. Vasily, you can go down and rest. I have nothing to do here. Wait, I need to send someone to look after my wife."

"After all, she is also a young lady who came to my house. Now she is your wife. I understand this."

"When Mr. Belzoni comes back, if I'm not at home, you should give him this letter. It's a plan to transform the plots of land by the lake. He needs to see if the design of these water conservancy facilities is up to standard. In addition, I should be out these days, so I have to arrange things at home."

"Yes, sir."

After Solovyov asked the butler to go down, he opened Bagration's letter, which always involved the latest situation of the war in Sweden.

The Russian army's progress was indeed very smooth. Prince Gorchakov and Tuchkov quickly captured several important strongholds along the way, but the progress was too smooth.

In the letter, Bagration mentioned that the 20,000 Swedish troops gave up a series of places on the border line with almost no resistance. Except for the Svartholm Fortress, the Russian army had almost no battles.

Such a strategy is not surprising. If the Russian army wants to extend the front line, the Swedish army may still have some opportunities.

The Russian army has focused on advancing to Abo. Bukhoden even concealed one thing: the Russian rowing team, under the command of General Shepelev, surrendered almost without a fight. 50 galleys and gunboats were burned. Although the Russian army besieged Sveborg and several other fortresses and was thinking about advancing to Abo (Turku), Bukhoden was still writing a letter to the Tsar to show his merit.

In any case, the situation is not good. Bagration wrote to his junior brother in the hope of explaining this situation.

It happened that Solovyov's family was near the Russian rear military station and could also understand the situation in the front.

Speaking of which, Alexander at this time felt that he could stand up again, but he also made progress and did not micro-manage the front line.

But Bukholden's trick was to rely on his own information to show that the Russian army had won a series of great victories and could even end the main war in April, which was more or less true.

The US military entered Baghdad and would not be very good in the future. What the bureau chief said was still very accurate, and the boomerang from the Russian army should come soon according to previous estimates.

However, Solovyov also knew that Bagration wrote to him to remind the Tsar himself through the General Staff.

But he himself was not suitable to show up, so he used his special location near the military station to prepare to inject water according to the real situation, and he had to reflect the real situation.

But he could not be the one to convey this information, so he thought of Arkady, Suvorov's only son. Alexander could still hear the information from him.

After all, Arkady's daughter-in-law was from the Naryshkin family, which was also a family close to the royal family, and he was about to take office as the commander of the 9th Division on the right bank of Ukraine.

Arkady actually didn't experience too many battles. He just participated in the war against France. Because of his father's relationship, he was quickly promoted and was not even subject to the constraints of the military rank promotion system. He was already a lieutenant general.

To be honest, Russia's military merit system is more or less favorable to the noble families. They can be quickly promoted to colonel or even general based on their father's military merits, while those from small and medium noble families and those noble children who volunteered to serve in the front often suffer in this regard, and sometimes it depends on the monarch's preferences.

As for Solovyov himself, he had to fight a battle to be promoted to lieutenant general.

In addition to writing a letter to Arkady, he also wrote a letter to Christian.

What's more surprising is that the progress of his eldest sister Yulia and him seems to be particularly fast. The prince of Mecklenburg often goes to the girls' school, even if he just came out of the hospital and the bandages were just removed.

You know, he was injured by French shells during the retreat from Heilsberg and almost became disabled, but this did not affect his ability to pick up girls.

He has been in the palace recently, speaking through these two young and somewhat passionate young generals, and Bukhoden can't deal with them.

After all, one is the brother-in-law of Her Highness Elena, and the other is the son of the Grand Marshal. Their identities are too noble, and even ordinary people can't afford to offend them when they speak.

However, Solovyov has some considerations about the consequences.

Bukhoden may have conspired with Arakcheev, but Alexander will have some evaluation after seeing the reports of these people.

But Solovyov also underestimated a little, that is, Alexander's desire to establish achievements.

After receiving Bukhoden's report and the Russian army's front line arrived at Abo, Alexander also announced that Finland would become part of Russia as a Grand Duchy.

This formula still sounds very familiar, and speaking of it, if Helsingfors (Helsinki) was placed in Novgorod, it might not even be under the control of the Russians.

This approach did make one thing clear, that is, Alexander really needed something to boost morale and consolidate his rule.

Then, the Swedes were the ones who were unlucky now, but Gustav IV had to bear the consequences. He refused Russia's advice to remain neutral and was still planning to attack Denmark and Norway, so he was hit hard at this time.

The Tsar now saw that the Russian army had won, but he was also worried about the memorials of several young generals, saying that Buchholden had concealed some facts on the front line and the battle in Finland would not end so soon.

But this "actor" thought about the fact that both Prince Christian August and Arkady were friends of Solovyov, and the relationship between Solovyov and Bagration, and he knew that someone was complaining about the blockage of the direct communication route from Vyborg through his junior brother who lived on the shore of Lake Ladoga, and reminded what was happening in the front.

At this time, Alexander did not make a fuss. He also knew that Shepelev's ship was burned, but there was no mention of it in the letter of victory reported by Bukhoden.

But after the announcement of Finland's annexation to the Russian Empire, such a big news, other aspects also need to be blocked.

Even if there is a snag later, it is self-inflicted.

Therefore, these two memorials did not receive any response.

However, Alexander also felt that Solovyov should not be left idle. Since the Operations Department did not need to undertake any work because of Arakcheev's actions, in addition to giving Nikolai regular lessons, he still had to increase his intensity.

For example, the railway construction in Tsarskoye Selo is almost finished, and someone is needed to inspect it again, and even a steam locomotive needs to be run on it.

Richard Trevithick, a mining engineer hired from the UK, has completed a railway steam locomotive in Lugansk, and naturally he needs to find a place to test it.

This type of vehicle has been running on the tracks inside the mine for more than two years, and its efficiency is still relatively high, so it has also been taken seriously.

The first railway steam locomotive that should have appeared in the UK, but because of the high salary offered by Count Vorontsov, it coincidentally appeared in the mines in Lugansk after poaching people.

The feasibility of the railway track has been tested for horse-drawn carriages before, and now it should be prepared for the operation of steam locomotives.

Alexander, who has always been good at face, can't wait to show his skills in Tsarskoye Selo according to the railway planned by Solovyov for Paul when he was still the crown prince, and to hold a celebration ceremony after announcing the annexation of Finland to Russia.

If you talk about these tricks, he still has the most here.

After seeing this situation, Solovyov knew that he could not stay at home for too long. However, his stepmother needed to rest after giving birth to a child, so he could let her brothers and sisters come to live here and take care of Katya at the same time.