Almost all Russian monarchs in addition to its own name and "serial number" were more and nickname.On the official level, it sounded respectful, honorable (John "Terrible," Alexander "The Liberator"), and "home" was quite the opposite (Nicholas "Palkin" and his great-grandson of Nicholas "Bloody").Not always, these nicknames were acquitted, but in two cases, their legitimacy is not in doubt.We are talking about Peter the Great and his youngest daughter named Elizabeth or, as it was customary to say, Elizabeth.
Empress Elizabeth, who ruled Russia from 1741 until 1761, went down in history as the "Merry".For a half-joking characteristics have very serious reasons.Ever since childhood, she differed lively, restless disposition, and was desperate minx, but she could so deftly used his innate charm that her antics went with it.Being a lovely child, she quickly turned into a young beauty, which opened early in a truly feminine qualities such as love of coquetry and luxury clothes.
Elizabeth loved to hunt, elegant balls - masquerades and other high-society activities, but the main passion of her youth to become just dancing.Charming, never discouraged, friendly, generous to a kind word, sometimes quick-tempered, but easily appeased - is, according to the memoirs of her contemporaries, was Elizabeth.Biography her, however, is not so rosy as it may seem at first glance.
At thirty-two years, Elizabeth was the first of the Russian monarchs, who came to power as a result of a conspiracy of Guards officers.This type of seizure of power was also the first of its kind.Later, these plots will be more.Strictly speaking, who, if not the legitimate daughter of Peter the Great should be referred to the Russian Empress?But the intricacies of court intrigues led to the fact that for many years it proved to be "pushed" from the throne and managed to ascend to it only by means of a military coup.Becoming the Empress, not too young and still had not married Elizabeth plunged into their favorite entertainment.For now it is not no holding back, and she could give free rein to all their female whims.
Her reign is not marked by some outstanding achievements, and indeed it was not too vigorously that the internal and external policies.But the call during the reign of "fun Elissavet" quite a disaster for Russia it would not be too fair.Elizabeth clearly inherited the leadership qualities of his great father of Peter the Great, but something that she be given credit - at least the fact that it was with her opened the famous Moscow University, and twenty years of her stay in power in Russia is notapply the death penalty.
most accurate and capacious characteristics gave it a prominent Russian historian V. Klyuchevskii, who first described the Elizabeth Smart and quite good, and at the same time a wayward Russian mistress of the eighteenth century.He mentioned that during the life of the empress of Russian customs reviled by many, but by the same traditions mourned her death almost everything.
