Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Among the five daughters she raised, Ekaterina was the most favored.

When she was a child, she was also the cutest among the sisters, so it was understandable that Queen Mother Maria doted on her, but now she looks like a dragoon.

However, because of his good figure and youthfulness, he naturally looks energetic.

Before she got married, she could still choose her share of the dowries left by Paul to her five daughters.

The sisters will naturally be jealous of her. When Alexandra and Elena got married, Paul ordered the servants to choose them. When Maria got married, although the Queen Mother gave her a list, it was only symbolic. The transfer was still It depends on the palace's arrangements.

There is an element of Queen Mother Maria's partiality in this. The two older daughters are more popular with the Queen. The things they choose are not bad, they are all left by the old lady, and the dowry is quite generous.

Maria and Ekaterina were raised together, but Maria's treatment was different from that of Ekaterina. Her list was all prescribed by the Queen Mother.

Ekaterina still has to choose the remaining good things.

It's no wonder that after Anna became the Queen of the Netherlands in history, she was not very kind to her niece. She was very jealous of her fourth sister.

When she got here, she could only choose her father's remaining jewels, which had been stolen once in Brussels and the palace suffered a fire.

Ekaterina had the right to choose freely among the treasures left by her father to the five sisters, and she could even exceed the stipulated portion.

That is to say, she had been raised with Maria since she was a child, so she dragged her sister over to see her.

"This is the treasure house that dad left to us. We just have to choose something. We have to leave some good ones for Aniya, so as not to have to"

"My mother has always given you the best. And when you wanted to marry in China, your mother agreed. However, Misha, who was unlucky, and his friends were still sad about his death for a long time. ”

"Me too. If he hadn't been so reckless and insisted on arguing with General Tuchkov, this might not have happened."

Yekaterina still missed the late Prince Mikhail Dolgorukov a little, and she realized it, so she told Maria directly.

"Speaking of which, among the young officers who swore allegiance to my brother, Prince Peter died of illness, Misha is no longer here, and..."

When Maria heard what Ekaterina said, her face turned pale with fright, and the pockmark on her face became more obvious.

"Stop talking, I'm afraid something will happen again. I hope all men live well, so that we can be happy."

"That husband of yours is good, with a simple mind and no independent opinions. He should be with you for a long time. But Maria, good sister, if you go back to Weimar, I will miss you too. But how many sisters do we have?" The distance is not too far, and we can always communicate. If you come to Paris, I will naturally be happy. "

"It's just that it's not what you think. This guy Mishka, he is your fiancé's nephew, but he is opposed to this marriage. I believe him, but he has been worried about you."

"Mikhail. This guy seems to have a latch on his mouth lately. If you ask him anything, he always gives a 'standard answer' to answer. It's getting more and more boring."

Ekaterina said this, and Maria also felt it.

"Speaking of which, I kept giving him hints, but he just didn't take the bait and it was hard to ask anything."

"Sister, you still like him. He has a wife, and even his lover has moved to live at home. He is so proud that he also has a lover in Paris. What's the point of liking such a carefree 'Flower General'? In the past, he He was asked to come by Sister Lina when we were traveling with our sisters, and he acted as a guard honestly. If you could have succeeded before, you would have captured him long ago. "

"He's a little too carefree, but he's very talented."

Maria's eyes were almost starry-eyed, and her expressions changed enough in this moment.

"Even if you like his talent, you shouldn't have fallen in love with him at that time, sister, before you were even engaged, right?"

Ekaterina also felt strange. It seemed that she was the more infatuated one and could not forget her dead ex-fiancé, but her sister seemed even more outrageous.

Someone finally exposed Maria's thoughts, and now she blushed again and changed her expression.

"It doesn't matter even if it's like this. He won't follow me when I go to Weimar. My brother gave him a title, made him a general, arranged for him a wife, and promoted him and gave him medals. Obviously, he wants to be reused. Then I will also There is no extravagant expectation, as long as he doesn’t forget me.”

When she said this, she saw a jewelry box. After opening it, she saw a beautiful gemstone necklace.

"It's so beautiful. It seems like it was worn by grandma before. Look at the decoration."

Girls all like jewelry. When Maria praised her like this, she was a little jealous of the fact that her fourth sister was the most doted on. The queen mother must have left a lot of good things for her to choose from.

"Yes, even the crystals and diamonds inlaid on it are beautiful."

"You should choose this for the wedding. Mishka's cheap uncle will definitely be fascinated by you."

As for how to get obsessed?

What Maria said, just look at Ekaterina's slender neck, and then look at her breasts.

Well, I have never given birth to a child, and my body is innocent, but the scale is similar to myself, and I still have a promising future.

It seems that within the Russian royal family, it is also recognized that Napoleon is very lustful.

Catherine herself has also accepted her fate. In addition to wanting to choose someone she likes to marry, another important goal is to choose a place to be the queen.

However, considering the current market situation, that is, Paris and Vienna.

Emperor Franz is very unlucky in his wife's place, and several of them have died one after another. No matter from which aspect, it is definitely not appropriate to go there.

As for Berlin, although the relationship between King FW and Louise has begun to become somewhat subtle, King FW is relatively useless after all, and it is difficult to restrain himself when he sees his wife. In addition, those veterans are united around him for the queen, the daughter-in-law who married him, so he can only accept it - even if Louise was really pushed down by Napoleon, it is still the same, not to mention that this kind of thing is more or less a figment of the imagination.

Now, that is Paris.

Napoleon knew that the small artillery had no problem, and he had successfully fired shrapnel shells many times, so he began to consider the issue of his successor.

If there is a young foreign princess who is willing to become his wife and give birth to his children, a son will naturally be the first heir.

If it is really difficult to achieve this goal, he should consider the son of Louis and Hortans.

As for the marriage with Russia, it is naturally part of his goal. It can even be said that the Franco-Russian marriage looks terrible.

Even if France and Russia tear their faces in the future, unlike the stingy Austrian, the Russian royal family has always been very active in protecting the interests of their relatives.

It is a guarantee, but not much. After all, it sounds outrageous that Russia is fighting a bunch of countries for a relative.

But there are also benefits. It is really not appropriate for anything to happen between Russia and France.

After reading it, Catherine just randomly selected some, and it was not too much.

After all, there is a younger sister Anna. Although she is younger, some people have begun to mention her marriage.

But after reading it, Queen Mother Maria still felt that it was not enough.

"That's all?"

"Yes, mother, that's about it."

Empress Dowager Maria obviously disagreed with Catherine's idea. She knew the dowry list her husband left for his daughters, and Alexander kept adding to it, so that her granddaughters could use it when they got married in the future.

The first one was Constantine's only daughter Sonya. She had met the little king of Sweden and seemed to get along well with him.

After that, there were Alexander's daughters. Although there was no son, these girls, except for those who might marry in China because there were no suitable foreign princes and dukes of the right age, also needed to be carefully arranged.

Nicholas and Mikhail would also marry in the future, and they should have daughters. In short, this treasure house was always adding things to it.

Catherine chose too few, and as a mother, this was indeed outrageous partiality.

She was also quite critical of her daughter-in-law. Fortunately, Louisa went to hide away and raised her children, and sometimes took care of her sister-in-law. At least there was no big trouble.

The Queen Mother herself did not know that her actions would bring disharmony to her daughter's family.

With a stroke of her pen, she put some other jewels left by the Empress into her daughter's dowry.

Then, there was the ceremony in St. Petersburg.

The people who came to propose marriage on behalf of Emperor Napoleon of France were Armand Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza, and General Lauriston, who, coincidentally, were also the current ambassadors to Russia and the next ambassador in Napoleon's plan.

On the Russian side, Alexander was at the ceremony, but the main responsible persons were Prince Bagration and Soloviev, although it was Grand Duke Constantine who was responsible for handing Catherine over to the French side, the situation looked very delicate.

Caulaincourt looked at it and felt a little confused. His Majesty's eldest nephew was against marriage, but he was assigned this job.

As for Prince Bagration, his long face has always been unfriendly to the French side.

But there is nothing wrong with his identity, after all, he is Catherine's cousin-in-law.

Now Bagration's face was even more drawn. From his wife's side, Ekaterina was also his cousin. This girl was going to marry to France, so naturally he was not very happy.

"Misha, I am lucky compared to you. You are going to Paris with the wedding procession, but I am fine, I will go directly to Odessa."

"We are going to Paris, and our whole family plans to visit relatives. This is good, my stepmother feels embarrassed at home, so only Katya and I are here."

"How is Yulia's matter?"

"Prince Mecklenburg agreed, but Christian wants to get married, and we have to come back from Paris."

"Then I have to take him to Odessa. The Moscow Grenadiers are the main force of the newly established Southern Grenadiers Division, and they will be very useful when fighting those Turks."

"Well, then our whole family will go to Odessa, and Katya wants to buy a manor there."

This is good. Christian is not the legitimate son of Mecklenburg. If he gets married in Odessa in the south, he doesn't need to make it so grand.

Although the wedding is always important and the family has to prepare a generous dowry for Yulia, it cannot be too conspicuous.

Solovyov is well aware of the principle that things will turn into the opposite when they reach the extreme, so he is now cautious.

Ever since Speransky mentioned to him that Alexander intended to make Adela his second wife, he had been on guard.

Now, as a lieutenant general who rose to prominence through military merit, he was trusted by Alexander and held an important position, and even the marriage partners of his sisters were of a higher standard.

But he was still very worried. If something went wrong, it would be very troublesome.

Even his current status was very important to Alexander. Once someone opposed it.

He also looked at the Minister of Police, Balashov, who was closer to Alexander now.

When von Palen targeted him before, it was because he was the chief battalion commander of the Putin Regiment. As Paul's personal guard, it was not convenient for them to assassinate him.

Now his status is much higher than that time. Although he is a third-class military officer, his position is actually arranged according to the status of a second-class military officer, that is, a general of infantry.

Balashov is also a general of the aide-de-camp. He is obviously on the side of the conservative aristocracy. If it involves political struggles, it is likely to cause trouble.

This time it was not a matter of moving. If he was accidentally involved in the political struggle, unless he had outstanding military achievements, even if Constantine pleaded for him, he would inevitably face some trouble.

By the way, although he still retained the position of teacher of the two Grand Dukes Nicholas and Mikhail, their education was now in the charge of professional teachers at the Imperial Village Middle School.

The students of the Imperial Village Middle School, a total of 32 people in the first period, including the two Grand Dukes, now attended the ceremony before Catherine's wedding.

Nicholas also dragged a little curly-haired man and a little glasses as his little follower. The height difference was indeed very obvious.

Little curly-haired Solovyov was afraid that he would be amused again. Nicholas's little follower was Pushkin. If it was spread out, it might be quite funny to write about it in history books in the future.

However, considering that Pushkin had been acting so arrogantly, Nicholas could tolerate it and wanted to use him for his own benefit. This arrangement was more reasonable.

Nicholas, like Alexander, had a bit of a talent collection habit.

The next ceremony will be held in the Amber Palace, and the magnificent palace gate will now be opened. (End of this chapter)