The history of the royal house of Russia of the 18th century, in fact, is a chain of palace coups. They shocked the country, finding a response from people of all classes and generating legends. Over time, interest in these events did not weaken, and legends often acquired amazing stability, turning into official historical versions. As something granted, the romantic circumstances of the reign of the wife of Peter the Great – Catherine I, when a crowd of guards, transformers and the Semenovites, demanded to present the scepter of the “queen -mother” in the royal residence of Russians. Opala Menshikova, the entry into the Russian throne of Anna Ioannovna, an enchanting coming to the power of the “cheerful Empress Elizabeth”, the brave daughter of Peter I, the favorite of the people and the guards, how reliable are our school knowledge about these events? Even more intriguing stories are associated with the rule of Catherine II – both with the beginning and with the completion of this really great era, as well as with a violent f …
Author
Pisarenko Konstantin Anatolyevich
Editor
Lastovkina V.A.
Publisher
Veche, 2012
Series
Great secrets of history
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