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Elizabeth Petrovna in love and the struggle for power

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Elizabeth Petrovna in love and the struggle for power
14.99 €
Empress Catherine the Great not without reason said that "no one can be more unhappy than a Russian grand duchess". And although this was said about the granddaughters of the Empress, this phrase fully reflected the fate of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, who had a lot of sorrows and sorrows in her youth, just by virtue of the fact that she was the daughter of the Emperor, and, therefore, the Grand Duchess of the Russian court.

Endless attempts at matchmaking, even the desire of some nobles who pursued their own interests, to marry her nephew, Emperor Peter II, humiliation during the period of Bironovshchina and even love, which could only end in a secret wedding ...

The book tells of endless love dramas and tragedies in the families of Empress Elizabeth's father, grandfather and great-grandfather, of her difficult path to the throne, reveals the secrets of significant events at the throne of the Empress. The author also touches upon a number of tragic consequences of the reign of the daughter of the transformer, who strung Russia on its back, during her reign reduced the population of Russia by at least one-third and introduced brutal executions, which Russia had never known.
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