Royal joy. Vulgar and intimate joy of empress. Unusual sexy fads of the great personalities of domestic history

Each person is unique. Even the most similar to each other twins have differences, if not in appearance, then in preferences and character. And these preferences are very interesting. Today we will talk not just about love for various dishes or clothing, it will be about the sexual preferences of the most famous personalities of our history. However, we will not affect banalities, and we will discuss only the most unusual sexy fads of great people.

Russian state rulers

It was this Russian emperor that canceled the serfdom, in honor of which he was called the "liberator". But besides its political success, Alexander II became famous for his intimate connections, which, most often, were very short-term. Only Catherine Dolgoruky became a bright exception, in which the emperor fell in love without memory. Then she was only 16 years old. Many years later, after Alexander II's legitimate wife, Maria, died, the lovers secretly got married. It was a small excursion in history. An unusual is the fact that for 15 years, when Alexander and Catherine were together, they indulged in sexual joy only on a very tough couch, extremely rarely using the bed. How tells one of the preserved letters of Catherine Dolgorukka, precisely there, the lovers fell in madness of passion, rushing, caressing each other.

Since they spoke about the emperors, remember and Peter III, her husband Catherine II. He possessed a very unusual oddity, for which, some historians consider his sexual orientation to unconventional. The fact is that Peter III could not reach the erection until his wife put on a male military uniform, and not any, namely enemy, that is, (for that time), the form of a German soldier.

Do you know that many historians and experts believe that two Russian ruler died from syphilis - Ivan Grozny and Lenin!

Great creators

All the well-known writer - the proletarian Maxim Gorky, was faithful to high ideas not only in relation to the debris, but also in sex issues. No, of course, he did not refuse him, however, in the youth, when his peers had already opened the wonderful world of sexual pleasures for themselves, Maxim behaved a little differently. He also headed into "public institutions", but did not take active participation in the actor, instead, he watched everything, walking down to the wall and ... singing the folk songs.

He believed that, thus, would be able to help redeem the sins with all those who betrayed Orgies in his eyes. Gorky thought he could distract them from a dirty classes and send to the true path of purification and love, but not to sex, but to the Fatherland.

Another great Russian writer, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, walked a supporter of rather aggressive sex.

Turgenev, even compared it with the Marquis de Garden himself. Such inclinations of the writer were confirmed by his second wife Anna Digid. According to her, among other things, the spouse asked her in detail to describe all the sensations she experienced, having sex with him. She also highlighted that Fyodor Mikhailovich was insanely excited from the fact that the young Anna found him a sexually attractive man.

Conspiracy is revealed! We died! "With such an exclamation of Knyagin Vorontsova-Dashkov burst into the bedroom of Catherine and froze on the threshold. The Empress washed in Lohanka his lace cuffs.
- The sovereign, what are you doing?!
- You do not see, I'm erased. What surprises you? I was also prepared not to Russian empress, but God forbid, in the wife of some German prince. Therefore, I was taught to wash, and cook ...

The future empress of the enormous Russian Empire Ekaterina Great was born not in the luxurious palace, but in an ordinary German house and received a bourgeois education: she was really taught and removed, and scaring.

Her father, Prince Christian-August was the younger brother of the Splitter German Prince, but because of the constant lack of money was forced to go to the service. And Sophia-August-Frederica Emilina, as called in childhood, Catherine, despite the royal origin, played on the city square along with the children of the Burgers, received from the mother to slaughters for poorly well-studied boilers and respectfully kissed the hem of dresses of the rich citizens, if they went into house.

John-Elizabeth Golstein-Gottorpskaya and Christian August Angultie Czyrrst - Parents of the future empress Catherine Great.

The mother of Catherine, John-Elizabeth was a woman with power and rampant. It was even said that the real father of Catherine was not anyone else, as Frederick himself was great. He also offered the candidacy of the young princess Sophiene to the wife of the Russian Prestroll Leader Peter, when he suffers, that Empress Elizaveta Petrovna is looking for a bride for his nephew, who intends to leave the throne.

So the future of Catherine Great looked when he arrived in Russia, being a simple German princess Sophia by Augusta Frederica. Portrait of Louis Caravaca Brush

So a small German princess with a dirty urban streets hit the Russian Imperial Palace. Having received the name of Catherine in Baptism, the future spouse of the Seelenechar began to study with the best court teachers and fabulously succeeded not only in Russian, but also in the art of Flirt.

Inheriting from the mother, the irrepressible sexual temperament, Catherine lasted its seduction under the Russian yard. Even before the wedding, she was so openly flirting with the court don-Zhuan Andrey Chernyshev, which in order to avoid the rumors of Elizabeth was forced to send a poor graph abroad.

Great Princess Ekaterina Alekseevna at the age of 16 (1745). Picture of the Groot

As soon as Catherine was sixteen, Elizaveta Petrovna hurried to marry a German princess with Peter, giving her clearly to understand that her only duty was to give birth to the heir.

After the wedding and the magnificent ball, the young finally took the marriage chambers. But Catherine woke up, as he lay down - a virgin. Peter remained cold to her both in the wedding night and for many months after. The reasons for such an attitude to the spouse are searched in infantality and dementia Peter, others - in his tragic love.

Peter III with Catherine II

Peter fell in love with Freillan Natalia Lopukhin, whose mother was a personal enemy Elizabeth. Lopukhina-senior was the beloved State-lady Anna John and in every way pleased with the Empress, humiliating the daughter-in-law, Zesarevna Elizabeth.

Preserved historical joke. Balls often satisfied in the house of Lopukhins. Invited there and Elizabeth. One day, Lopukhin bribed the maids Elizabeth and offered them a sample yellow brocade with silver, from which Zesarevna sewed his dress to the ball.

When Elizabeth entered the living room, there was an explosion of laughter. Walls, chairs, chairs and sofas in the room were the most yellow with silver parol. The humiliated Cesarer rushed out of the palace and shouted for a long time in his bedroom.

Natalia Fedorovna Lopukhina. Engraving L. A. Sryakova.

Some authors explain the hostile attitude towards the Lopukhina by Elizabeth Petrovna by successful rivalry in amur affairs. Subsequently, trying to explain the causes of her opals comprehended by her, contemporaries recalled another case:

Once Lopukhin, famous for his beauty, and therefore, who excited the jealousy of the sovereign, decided, on frightly or in the form of Bravada, to appear with a rose in her hair, while the sovereign had the same rose in her hairstyle.

In the midst of the Bala Elizabeth made the guilty of becoming knees, ordered the scissors, cut off the criminal rose along with the strand of the hair, to which she was attached, and by turning the guilty of two good slaughters, continued to dance. When she was told that the unfortunate Lopukhin lost her feelings, she shrugged: " Nushto her dura! "

Empress Elizabeth I Petrovna Romanova

When Peter asked for his reigning aunt, the permit to marry her daughter Lopukhina, Elizabeth decided to take revenge. She accused Lopukhin in state treason, and the court sentenced the unfortunate countess for the death penalty. Elizabeth softened his "great grace". The leopard-elder was shadowed with a shame on the Troitskaya Square, cut her tongue and exiled to Siberia.

After this tragic story with the mother of his beloved Cesarevich Petr clogged by the mind. But Catherine did not seek to like his spouse: she quickly found consolation in the embrace of the Swedish envoy of the Graph of Polenberg. Empress Elizabeth closed his eyes to the relationship of young: she was needed a heir, but Catherine could not get pregnant.

Meanwhile, in bed of eighteen-year-old Zesarean, one favorite replaced the other: Cyril Razumovsky, Stanislav understood, Zakhar Chernyshev (brother explained abroad Andrew), Lev Naryshkin and the Saltykov brothers who knew in love. Their mother, nee Golitsyn, was famous for the entire Petersburg drunkenness and debauchery in the soldiers' barracks - rumored that she had three hundred lover among the Grenadiers of the Empress.

Lion Aleksandrovich Naryshkin is the famous courta balagen and spent of Peter III and Catherine II.

A few years later, the marriage happened to the miracle - Catherine became pregnant. Sergei Saltykov openedly boasted that it was his father of the future heir, and was expelled from St. Petersburg. Later in Sweden, he dismissed the terrible rumors about the breakdown of the Russian Zesarean and assured that she herself was hanging on her neck, prescribed a date, and he, they say, cheated and did not come than forced Ekaterina to suffer from suffering.

Elizaveta Petrovna was so glad to the good news that he gave a pregnant daughter-in-law a hundred thousand rubles and many jewels. The poor German Princess, which was in Russia with three dresses and half-hearth nasal headscarves, began to silence the money of the Russian treasury.

Born baby spoiled Paul and immediately selected from a young mother. However, the son of Ekaterina was not interested and never loved him. It is still unknown who was a real father of Paul - they call Zakha Chernyshev, and Lion Naryshkin, and other loans Tsarevna. Amazing facts are celebrated among guesses: Paul is extremely similar to his official father, Peter Fedorovich - what the story does not joke ...

Peter III and Paul I

After the death of Elizabeth, Peter III climbed the throne and said that for the depraved behavior, Catherine's coil into the monastery, and he himself marries Elizabeth Vorontsova, his mistress. But by that time, with the help of Favorites, Catherine splaved a huge network around Peter.

Chancellor Panin, Prince Baryatinsky, Lover Ekaterina Grigory Orlov and four of his brothers organized a plot against the emperor. But then someone from the conspirators of Strestil and decided to warn the emperor - Peter did not give him the words of meaning, for which he paid not only by the throne, but also lives.

At the courtyard of Catherine II in Russia, Favoritism became a new post, as at the court of Louis XIV in France, and bed careers were recognized as people who served the Fatherland and the throne. For their love efforts, they received palaces and considerable financial resources from the Russian treasury.

The bedroom Elizabeth Petrovna by inheritance for a long twenty years passed to her succession Catherine.

But Catherine was a passionate woman and could not live without a man. In her palace was a special room with a huge bed. If necessary, the secret mechanism divided the bed of a bed into two parts - a favorite remained at the hidden half, and at the second Empress, who did not cooled from love merits, took ambassadors and ministers.

Catherine has a weakness to huge, gigantic growth, men with a sensual face. Represented potential lovers to Empress Chancellor Panin and Countess Bruce, which, at the courtyard, called the "tube lady."

Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Panin was the permanent lover of Catherine - he was a smart, not demanding, not jealous. It was in the bedroom of the Empress no more than once a week, and in his free time in his harem, consisting of a fortest-out concubine - every day he acquired a new girl, and annoyed crushed to friends or sold.

For Catherine, he chose the tall soldiers who do not differ in mind so as not to create his rivals. Once Panin and Countess Bruce recommended Handsaws Potemkin.

Catherine was embarrassed by the fact that the Lieutenant general is just one eye (the second in the seizure of jealousy once knocked him Grigory Orlov), but the Countess convinced Catherine that Potemkin goes crazy from love to Empress.

Empress Ekaterina II and the Light Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin-Tavrichesky

After the night, the love of Catherine produced Potemkin to Lieutenant-General, gave him a magnificent palace and a million rubles for its arrangement. So in one night there was bed careers in Catherine.

But the imperial gifts of Potemkin seemed a little - one day he demanded that Catherine would make it a member of the State Council. Catherine was horrified:
- But my friend is impossible!
- Perfectly! Then I'm leaving for the monastery. The role of your content is not suitable for me!
Catherine cried and left behind the table. In the room of Favorites Potemkin did not come. Catherine baked all night, and the next morning Potemkin was appointed senator.

Once Potmkin left for several days on business in St. Petersburg. But the empress could not be left for a long time. Once in the Tsarsko Selo Palace, Catherine woke up at night from the cold. It was winter, and all the firewood in the fireplace burned down. She slept alone - Potemkin was on business in St. Petersburg.

Catherine II in the Tsarskoil Park on a walk. Picture of the artist Vladimir Borovikovsky

Without finding a master's shirma, Catherine entered the corridor, according to which a stiffness was shifted with knitting firewood on his shoulders. From the type of this young Hercules of a huge growth, carrying firewood as a cracker, Catherine captured the Spirit.
- Who are you?
- Court Estimate, Your Majesty!
- Why did I not see you before? Separe a fireplace in my bedroom.

The young man became delighted with such a grace of the Empress and spread a huge fire in the fireplace. But Catherine is unhappy:
- Do you really not understand how to warm the empress?
And the plot finally understood. And the next morning he received an order about the suggestion of his hereditary nobility, ten thousand peasants, the command never return to St. Petersburg and change the surname to heat - in memory of how he warmed the empress.

In old age, Ekaterina reached full debauchery. He was not enough for hefty men - and she turned her passion for a young gypsy gypsy donated to her.

Countess Natalya Aleksandrovna Zudova (nee Suvorov) - the only daughter feldmarshal Suvorov who gently called her "Sweller".

In court, rumors went as an empress turned with his maids and young peasants. At the final examination in the Smolny Institute, Empress drew attention to a beautiful graduate, which turned out to be a daughter of Suvorov.
- Give your daughter to me in favorite.
Heard about the adventures of the Empress, Suvorov replied:
- Mother, die for you - die, and I will not give your booms!
The angry empress sent an old man with her daughter in their estate, forbid to appear at the courtyard - which was needed by Suvorov.

In the absence of Potemkin, Catherine had many lovers: the Ambassador of the Bezborodko and his secretaries of Zavadovsky and Mamonov, the nephew of the midwife Zorich, officers Guard of Corsaqs and Tails, finally, the provincial Yunets Alexander Lanskaya.

Twenty-year-old Lansky accidentally saw Potemkin and presented to the Empress. A young man possessed an angelic appearance: Filled bears huge blue eyes, blond curls, light blush on cheeks and coral lips. He would like a girl if not a huge height and wide shoulders.

Alexander Dmitrievich Lanskaya. Portrait of the brush D. G. Levitsky (1782).

The attention of Catherine he accepted as a mother's care, besides, he was too faithful to his state to refuse to refuse to Empress. The positions of the imperial superrite, he was ashamed, but over time, it was attached to Ekaterina with all his heart. The Empress touched such reading the love of an innocent young man, who did not know the women at all.

Her aging heart was jealous of Sasha so much that Catherine was locked by a lover in several rooms, surrounding the unheard of luxury. The Empress has awarded Lansky county title, huge lands, tens of thousands of peasants. But the in love with the young man did not need the ranks and wealth - probably, he was the only favorite favorite to the Empress as a woman. And the Empress stated Potemkin:

- My soul, I'm going to marry Lansky.
- What did he deserve such an honor?
- He never changed me.
Potemkin lowered his eyes. He himself checked Catherine almost every day with different women.

A month later, Lanskie run down in bed. And not one court doctor could not put an accurate diagnosis. Catherine knew that her beloved was poisoned on behalf of Potemkin. Catherine wrote to her friend:

"I, sobbing, I have a misfortune to tell you that General Lansky has not become ... and my room that I loved before, turned into a blank cave now."

Virgilius Erixen. Catherine II in Touré.

After the death of the beloved Empress went through the palace as the shadow. She abandoned all state affairs and did not accept anyone. It was so not like her ... Apparently, the love she did not know in his youth, she climbed her in old age.

The only topic for which the conversation of the Empress was supported, was about Alexander Lansky, the only place she attended is his grave. She spent on the grave of Lansky in longing and tears many hours. Potemkin was in rabies. He jealous - and to whom, to the dead man? In the attacks of anger, Potemkin circled, like Korean, among the Guards officers. Finally, he chose at Alexander Yermolov, made him his adjutant and sent to Catherine.

His calculation was justified: Yermolov took the room of the favorite, which was empty almost half a year. Still, Catherine was a woman, and the thrust loving overpowered in her the sorrow of the loss. Noticing that one of the Freulin would retire with Yeromlov, Catherine ordered the soldiers to carve an aristocrat to blood in the presence of the rest of the eleven Freinin - so as not to be awesome.

Alexander Petrovich Yermolov, Favorit Catherine II, Lieutenar General, Camger.

High and slim blonde, with a good color of the face, Yermolov paid attention to his beautiful outfice, and only wide, flat nose, for which Potemkin nickned him " lE Negre Blanc."I spoiled his face.

Yermolov was too stupid, brazen and narcissist, and he also loved to play and flew often from the empress in playing houses and to prostitutes.

Potetkin himself, disappointed in Yermolov, successfully arranged his rapid fall. The Empress willingly get rid of the boring favorite, offering him on June 29, 1786 to go abroad on a journey. Not possessing the greed of other pets, Ermolov received a relatively little: 4 thousand shower and about 400 thousand money; He also did not care about the enrichment of all his relatives, as others did.

His place soon took another Adjutant Potemkin - Alexander Mamonov.

Graph Alexander Matveyevich Dmitriev-Mamonov (1788)

"Conduct Sasha" - so called Mamonov Empress. But Sasha became increasingly disappearing somewhere. He was not both the ill-fated night, when Tired Catherine returned from the Council's meeting. She waited for his midnight, but met playfully:

- Where are you, the gracious sovereign, was missing?
- Mother-sovereign ... - His tone and facial expression did not foretell anything good. "You have always been kind to me, and I am frank with you." I can't more than carry my responsibilities from your majesty.

Catherine's face has changed:
- What's wrong, you did not want to joke?
- No, Your Majesty. I loved the other and ask your gracious permission to marry her. Her name is Princess Shcherbatova.

What can answer an aging, who lost the former attractiveness woman, when a young lover says that he loved another, good and young?
- I let you marry. Moreover, I will arrange your wedding herself.

"... Before the evening, Her Majesty herself knew the collapse of the graph A. M. Mamonov with Prince Shcherbatov; They standing on his knees, asked for forgiveness and forgive" The fiance was granted a 2250 shower of peasants and 100,000 rubles and ordered the other day after the wedding to leave St. Petersburg.

Settling in Moscow, Dmitriev-Mamonov was pleased with his fate first, but in a year he decides to remind himself Catherine, he writes muddy letters to her, asks her to return his former favor, allow to come to St. Petersburg. The answer of the Empress soon convinced him that his hopes were in vain.

The legend that Catherine from Jealousy sent to Shcherbatoy disguised in the female attachment dress, which severely carved it in the presence of a husband, does not correspond to reality.

The bright prince Plato Alexandrovich teeth - the last favorite of Catherine II.

Meanwhile, a new and last favorite reigned at the palace - since 1789, a dizzying career of 22-year-old second-Rothmistra Platon Zubov begins. He was inherited from his brother, Valerian Zudov, the ex-lover of the Empress for a long time.

June 21, 1789, with the mediation of Statt-Ladies Anna Nikitichna Naryshkina, Spouses Ober-Schenka Alexander Alexandrovich Naryshkin, teeth, " through the top spent"Has a special reception at the Empress, and since then, every evening spent with her.

Three days later, June 24, the teeth received 10 thousand rubles and a ring with a portrait of the Empress, and in ten days, July 4, 1789, was produced in the colonel, granted to the outbreak of her imperial Majesty and settled in the palace, in the fuel Adjutant rest, who used to occupy Count Dmitriev-Mamonov.

The surroundings hated him, but the Empress shoved by the alms of his last favorite: on October 3, 1789, the teeth received a appointment of the Cavalgard Corps with production to the Majory General, on February 3, 1790, he was granted the Order of St. Anne, in July 1790 - Prussian Order of Black and Red Orlov and Polish White Eagle and St. Stanislav, September 8, 1790 - the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, on March 12, 1792, was produced in Lieutenar General and was appointed to its Imperial Majesty General Adjutant.

Plato Alexandrovich teeth - a bright prince of the Roman Empire, the Chief of the First Cadet Corps, Ekaterinoslavsky, Voznesensky and the Tauride Governor-General.

Diploma of the Roman Emperor Franz II, dated January 27 (February 7), 1793, senator, secret adviser Alexander Nikolaevich teeth and his sons, General Adjutant, General-Lieutenant Platon, Major General Nikolay, Camera Junker Dmitry and Major General Valerian Alexandrovichi, built, with their descendants descending, in the graph of the Roman Empire dignity. The adoption of the title and use in Russia in Russia was followed by the highest perception.

Platon of teeth was arrogant, arrived and loved only one thing in the world - money. Having received unlimited power, he mocked Zesarevich Pavlom, completely confident that the throne would not get. Potemkin conceived was to kill a new favorite, but did not have time - died.

"Prince G.A.Potemkin-Tavrichesky. With a rare engraving of the stewards.

The war with the Turks undermined the health of Potemkin, he picked up with malaria in the Crimea. Catherine shook him again with ordinary orders and signs, but first of all the money, which, however, he never had in prosperity, because he generously distributed them.

When the war was over, he once again visited Petersburg. Before the referee, he fell ill. He fainted, chuckled. Suddenly, he decided that he would certainly visit Nikolaev - he himself founded this city and loved him very much; He believed that the Lesnoy Air will heal it. October 4, he tried on the road.

Before leaving, he, no matter how hard it was, wrote news Catherine: "My favorite, my almighty Empress. I have no strength to withstand my suffering. Almost the salvation remains: leave this city, and I gave an order to deliver me to Nikolaev. I do not know what will happen to me. " October 5, 1791, on the second day of the road, Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin died. He was 52 years old.

"The end of the prince G.A.Potemkin-Tavrichesky. From Engravings of the Aging

The Empress rided himself for a long time and looked around, made a magnificent funeral with a former favorite and commanded two monuments to establish him. During the reign of Catherine from the Russian treasury, Palaces and jewels on nine million rubles and forty thousands of peasants switched from the Russian treasury.

After the death of Potemkin, in which Platon Alexandrovich's teeth did not play, however, the prominent role in state affairs, the importance of the Zubet every day increases. Many of those positions are transferred to him who have previously occupied Potemkin.

On July 23, 1793, he was awarded the portrait of the Empress and the Order of St. Andrew First-Called, on July 25, 1793, he was appointed Ekaterinoslavsky and the Tauridian Governor-General, on October 19, 1793 - General-Feldschmeister and Operator's fortifications, October 21, 1793 - Chef of the Cavalgard Corps, On January 1, 1795, he was granted the Order of St. Vladimir I degree.

Portrait of Prince Plato Alexandrovich Zudov. Lamp Senior I.B. 1790s.

All cases peered three of his secretaries: altesty, mushroom and ribas. The count of the teeth, on August 18, 1795, receives a huge estate in the non-confined Polish regions - Shavel economy in 13669 shower of fortress peasants with income of 100 thousand rubles. And soon, after the annexation of the Kurlyandsky Duchy, the Duccian Palace Ruintal (Rundale Palace), built Rastrelli, was granted tooth.

By the end of the reign of Empress Catherine II, the bright prince Platon Alexandrovich teeth became the carrier of the next loud title:

« feldshmeister General, Over the fortifications of the general-director, over the fleet of the Black Sea, Voznesenskaya Lightweight Connection and the Black Sea Cossack Cossack Army, the General Adjant, the Cavalgard Corps of the Chef, Ekaterinoslavsky, Voznesensky and Tavrichesky Governor, State Military College Member, Imperial Educational At Home Honorary Charity, the Imperial Academy of Arts Honorary Amateur and Organs of Russian St. Apostle Andrei, St. Alexander Nevsky, St. Vince Vladimir I degree, Royal Prussian Black and Red Eagle, Polish White Eagle and St. Stanislav and Grand-Room Holstetsky St. Anne cavalier».

This last favorite Catherine II was a member of the murder of Emperor Paul I.

Catherine II. Artist Fedor Stepanovich Rockots.

On November 16, 1796, as usual, Catherine, getting out of bed and drinking coffee, went to the toilet room, and despite the usual one was detained there.

The duty chamelner of the Empress Zakhar Zotov, having rewicked the unkind, quietly opened the door of the toilet room and saw the body of Catherine prostrated on the floor with horror. Her eyes were closed, the complexion of the crimson, the throat came from the throat. The empress was moved to the fence. With the fall of Catherine launched his leg, her body was so rejuvenated that six people had a room for her strength to raise it on the bed. Therefore, on the floor, the Red Safianny Mattress was laid and put a dying empress on him.

In the Empress, hemorrhage in the brain, on the terminology of the XVIII century - "apoplexic strike" was happening. According to the Camera Fur Sectional Journal - this kind of chronicle of the life of Her Majesty, - " suffering continued continuously, the rehabilitation of the womb, hoards, at the time the eruption from the larynx of dark sputum».

Despite the fact that Catherine did not come into consciousness, the Camera Furiere magazine reports that the Empress was confessed by the confessor, the Holy Taine was introduced and was cooled with Metropolitan Gabriel. True, it remains incomprehensible as it can confess and will take the person lying unconscious ...

Meanwhile, the doctors continued to be koving over the immibration that used to be Empress Catherine - her body: they applied the Skansky kneughters to the legs, pumped plow powders into their mouths, let out "bad blood" from hand. But everything was in vain: the face of the Empress was bugger, he was pissed by a pink blush, her chest and stomach were increful and descended, and the court lacques wipe the spectrum of mouth, the hands, then his legs corrected her.

Doctors predicted that death will come in 3 hours of the next day, and indeed, at this time the Ekaterina's pulse is noticeably weakened. But her strong organism continued to resist the impending death and retressed until 9 o'clock in the evening, when Life Medica Rogerson announced that the Empress ends, and the Happy Paul, his wife, the older children, the most influential dignitaries and room servants were lined up on both sides of the Safyanova Mattress.

At 9:55 minutes, the Great Catherine sighed for the last time and, alongside, the Most High appeared to the Most High. For everyone we will be there: and those who have titles occupy a whole paragraph, and those who do not have anyone ...

Catherine combined high intelligence, education, state wisdom and commitment to "free love". She is known for its connections with numerous lovers, the number of which (according to the list of authoritative Ekaterinovd P. I. Bartenheva) reaches 23.

Catherine's love connections are marked by a series of scandals. Thus, Grigory Orlov, being her favorite, at the same time (according to the testimony of M. M. Shcherbatov) coited with all its Freillins and even with his cousin 13-year-old sister.

The favorite of the Empress Lanskaya used the exciting means to increase the "male force" (consorteda) in ever-increasing doses, which, apparently, to conclude a court doctor Waita, and was the cause of his unexpected death at a young age. Her last favorite, Plato Zuben, was a little more than 20 years, while the age of Catherine at that time had already exceeded 60.

Historians mention a lot of other scandalous details ("bribe" in 100 thousand rubles, which paid the Preamkin to the future favorites of the Empress, many of which were his adjutants, the testing of their "male strength" with its Freillians, etc.

The perplexity of contemporaries, including foreign diplomats, caused enthusiastic reviews and characteristics, which gave Catherine with their young favorites, mostly devoid of any outstanding talents. As N. I. Pavlenko writes, " neither Catherine, nor after her, the breakdown did not achieve such broad scale and was not manifested in such a frankly defiant form. "

It is worth noting that in Europe "debauchery" Catherine was not so rare phenomenon against the background of the general promotion of the morals of the XVIII century. Most of the kings (except, perhaps Friedrich the Great, Louis XVI and Karl XII) had numerous mistresses. However, this does not apply to the reign of queens and empress.

Louis XVI.

So, the Austrian Empress Maria Teresia wrote about " disconnection and horror"They instill such persons like Catherine II, and this attitude to the latter shared her daughter Maria-Antoinetta.

As K. Valishevsky wrote in this regard, comparing Catherine II with Louis XV, " the difference in the floors to the conclusion of the centuries, we think, will give a deeply unequal character with the same actions, depending on that whether they were made by a man or a woman ... In addition, Louis XV lovers have never affected the fate of France».

There are numerous examples of how the exceptional influence (both negative and positive) were provided by the Favorites of Catherine (Orlov, Potemkin, Platon of Teeth, etc.) on the destiny of the country, starting from June 28, 1762 and up to the death of the empress, as well as On its internal, foreign policy and even for hostilities.

As N. I. Pavlenko writes, in favor of Favorita Gregory Potemkin, who envied the glory of Field Marshal Rumyantsev, this outstanding commander and hero of Russian-Turkish wars was removed Catherine from the command of the army and was forced to retire in his estate.

The other, very mediocible commander, Musin-Pushkin, on the contrary, continued to lead the army, despite his missions in the military campaigns (for which the Empress itself called him, "the Bulgarian") - due to the fact that he was "favorite on June 28," one of Those who help Catherine capture the throne.

In addition, the Institute of Favoritism negatively acted on the Mrava of the Supreme Nobility, which was looking for benefits through a new favorite, tried to hold in lovers to the Soviet "of his man", etc. Sovremennik M. M. Shcherbatov wrote that Favoritism and the breakdown of Catherine II contributed to the fall of the morals of the nobility of the era, and the historians agree with this.

Catherine Great

Very loved the sovereign this word. And not only loved, she deserved him right. For "greatness in everything" - the motto of this extraordinary woman! But we will not touch her state actions, this is not our task, although we, of course, know that this is a great state mind, and a wonderful politician. We are more interested in the alkali side, especially since it covered with such myths, such legends that it is time to divide the "grains and pleules", because the fiction and rumors are pleasing to the light and the memoirs runs. Which only the flight on our mother, the empress was not erected, her excessive sensuality taking for niformania and sexual pathology! Until now, some believe that she really built the company's company and crossed men among them with a particularly large phallus among them, for which their goals were singing special covers, emphasizing the form and beauty of the critical organ. It's not that century you wandered, expensive gossip! This was indeed from the Europeans of the XIV-XVI centuries, when it was fashionable to wear men to their organ so-called saccs, sometimes unthinkable sizes, because the cult of phallus flourished. Well, maybe the men of Siberia and so far there are some sheets there, so it's not from fashion, one of the desire to protect the male nature from the frosty climate.

D. G. Levitsky. Portrait of Catherine II in the form of legislation in the temple of the goddess of justice. 1780

Whipped about some stallions that would not have been found for the Tsaritsa not for riding. And the famous English writer and psychologist Dian Azzkerman in his new book "Natural Love Story" authoritatively declares that such a fact took place in the life of Catherine Great and as if a special design of the stallion was attached to security.

All this is wild nonsense, dear reader, something, of course, was, but to such a degree of perversion, the case never reached. Although, of course, we will not argue, with her love joy in full bloom bloomed, golden planes were shining for long and many years, introducing all humanity into amazement, because Never, the Institute of Favorites did not reach such glory, shine, power and greatness!

Favorite Empire! Did you see this?

And for the beginning of the pedigree: was born on April 21, 1729 in the small German principal, the Anhalt Crebst Princess Sophia Augustus Frederica. Her parents are Prince Anhalt Czyrrste and Princess Goldshtinskaya. In 1744, arrived in Russia during the coronation of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, and in 1745 it was combined with a marriage with great prince Peter III.

In 1762, after the death of Elizabeth Petrovna and the Short Board of Peter III, went to the Russian throne. In February 1796, he died at the age of 67. Reigned 34 years.

He loved the order and moderation in everything, excluding love joy, there was no measures. And so the whole life followed this "golden middle" confusion. Moderation in food, almost asceticism in alcoholic beverages, the maximum number of hours at the desk, followed by public affairs with literary activities. Experts not very highly appreciated the literary creativity of Catherine II, we do not undertake to judge it, let's just say that it was rather diverse genre. Here and the plays: Comedy "Oh, Time", "Mrs. Vorchekina", "Deceiver", and fairy tales for children written in educational purposes for her grandchildren, but intended for widespread: "Tale about Tsarevich Chlorine", "Tale of Tsarevich Fabia. " Even the libretto for the opera wrote the Queen, and the most famous "Fedul with children", the Fabulus tells about the Poor Fedul's Peppets, who remained a widow with 15 children. Surprisingly, the opera was put in the St. Petersburg scene, and the music written by Caperemister V. Pashkevich music to her.

Many believed that Catherine had wonderful dating and subtle mind. This is how the French Messenger Segure writes about her: "She possessed huge diving and subtle mind. It combined qualities, rarely found in one person. Prosal to pleasure and hardworking, easy to house and is hidden in politics. Ambolism is infinitely, but she knew how to direct him to prudent goals. Passionate in hobbies, but constant in friendship. Majikye to the people, good and condescending in society. It has always been admitted to her importance, the greeliness was decent. " The French envoy Count Segure states: "It was a majestic monarchine and a kind lady."

The appearance of Catherine, in any case, in the youth and years of maturity, attractive: "She had an eagle nose, an adorable mouth, blue eyes, black eyebrows, a nice look, a charming smile."

Portrait of Catherine Great, given in love with a man, similar to the original, except ... Eye. Some believed that Ekaterina's eyes are Great gray. Maybe, therefore, indecisive historians, entangled in the disgraceful estimates of the eyes of the Eye of the Eye, went on a compromise and wrote: "She has blue eyes with a gray pain." That is gray-blue or bluish gray. Do not be surprised, dear reader that is not so easy to determine the color of the eye of the reigning monarchs. Even with ordinary mortal eyes have the ability to change their color, depending on the mental state of its owner. Recall that there are still disgraceful estimates of the color of the eyes of Grigory Rasputin. Green - They say one, others - the blue, third are gray, the fourth are azure, and the fifths say: "Eyes at Rasputin whiten with such deep eyes that the eye themselves is not visible."

Return, however, to the queen Catherine Great.

She got up early, although a few later "early birds" Anna John, who ordered at six o'clock in the morning. Catherine got up at seven - seven thirty in the morning. Until nine hours worked at the desk.

At nine in the morning, he returned to the bedroom and accepted with reports. When favorites are, all officials with a bow come out. For the favorites of the door of its highness are always open. Then the Queen goes into a small restroom, where it combines the Palace Hairdresser Kozlov. Her hair is dense and long and do not answer the Russian proverb at all: "The hair is long, the mind is short." When she sits down before the toilet, they fall to her to the ground. Tsaritsa's personal apartments are great and equipped with a great taste: "It's impossible to imagine anything sophisticated and more magnificent restrooms, bedrooms and Boudar of Her Majesty. The restroom is all furnished with mirrors decorated with gold frames. The bedroom is surrounded by small columns, from top to bottom with solid silver, half of the silver, half of the purple color. The background of the columns form mirrors and painted ceiling. All three rest are luxuriously removed by bronze and gilded garlands around all columns. "

In this little restroom, it is cumming up. Her suit is simple: Moldavian simple dress with wide sleeves. There are no jewels on the dress. Jewelry and ribbon with the Order of Catherine she only puts on the solemn techniques. In the press days, a simple suit will be changed to a red velvet dress, which Catherine called the Russian dress. She generally loved to demonstrate all Russian, even with some exaggeration. All her maid, unlike other queens, only the Russians. During the fulfillment of her toilet, four chambers of Junger are surrounded. Recall that at this time Elizavet Petrovna was surrounded by forty Freinin. All chambers of Junger are old Virgin and, of course, ugly.

Stay in a small restroom - this is the time of great reception. Yes, and the room itself resembles the reception. She is packed by people: here are the grandchildren who came to say hello to her grandmother, several close friends, the Courthouse of Naryshkin, Matroee Danilovna, amusing the sovereign with his jokes, through which the queen will learn about the St. Petersburg gossip, which was not alienated.

Catherine Palaces are great. Here and winter, in which her son of Pavel, and Ekateringof, built by Peter I, in honor of his wife Catherine, completed by Elizabeth, Petrovna, who turned it into a two-story one-storey in each floor with twenty-room. Saving the first floor in modesty and asceticism, as Peter loved, it turned into luxurious salons with walls, upholstered white velvet with flowers and satin ton. Everywhere, as in the museum, magnificent paintings in heavy gilded frames. This palace was particularly close to Elizabeth Petrovna. Here she died.

Catherine The second loved to stay in the Hermitage - large and small. Hermitage hit the nasty of the hall and galleries, the richness of the situation, many mirrors and paintings of great masters and a magnificent winter garden, where greens, flowers and birds singing - at any time of the year. Here at the end of the palace was a beautiful theater hall. She is half a challenge, without lies, with the benches located in the amphitheater. Twice a month, solemn performances occur here, on which the presence of the entire diplomatic corps is required. On other days, the number of viewers did not exceed 20 people, and the actors complained that they were playing almost without public.

In addition to Russians, the French actors were written out of France, who were constantly in bewilderment: how can you play in an empty hall? There was an intimate small Hermitage here, in the apartment of which only the closest circle of people and the intimacy of which kept the well-traded lacquer da female Pereksihina, but unhealthy Solve was chosen: they say, unbelieving orgies are made there. So what? The kings and kings are also needed private life. Still live at once! Edak and under the nervous disorder can fall. Louis XV, who faded to his pompadur to his purely physical disgust, when a great woman was crying from the coldness of the king, fleeing at night from her bed on an uncomfortable couch allegedly from the heat, also had his "deer Park" - a small, but a superbly furnished structure in which Grew for him young prostitutes. Louis XIV "Deer Park", however, did not have, but his apartments were always connected by some secret corridors and secret stairs with the shakers of his mistresses. Heinrich II drew a subterranean corridor from his palace to Diana Palace Poitiers for unhindered communication with her.

In short, there is nothing new in these secret apartments. And there is nothing to be surprised at one foreign ambassador, who already after the death of Catherine opened two small rooms in the Winter Palace, located behind the bedrooms of the Empress: the walls of one of them were taken from the top of the Donom, very valuable miniatures in the gold frames depicting a voluptuous scenes. The second room was an accurate copy of the first, but only all the miniatures were portraits of men who loved and knew the Empress.

In 1785, Catherine leaves the Hermitage and moves to live in the Winter Palace. Her personal chambers are on the first floor and very small. Climbing the small staircase, you need to enter the room where the table for secretaries takes almost everything. Nearby there is a restroom with windows that go on the palace square. Here Catherine makes a toilet. This is a place of small exit. There are two doors in the restroom: one leads to the diamond hall, the other is to the Bedroom Catherine. The bedroom is communicated in depth to a small restroom, where the entrance is admitted to everyone, and the left-handedness with the working office of the queen. Behind him goes the mirror hall and other receptions of the palace.

From here the queen is sent to church for worship. At certain days, all foreign ambassadors had to participate in this. By the way, about the ambassadors. Foreign ambassadors existed in Russia. But at first they were one of them and their affairs were random. But already under Ivan Grozny in Russia there was a permanent ambassador of the Queen of English, and in Petra I, the Institute of Ambassadors increased. They represented strong powers, seeking friendship with Russia. In St. Petersburg there were embassies of Denmark, Holland, Austria, Saxony, Brandenburg, Sweden, England and France.

English Ambassador Koksa here so describes the Tsaritsa Catherine of the Great Church in 1778: "After the dinner, a long series of courty of both sexes reached out, the empress went alone, moving forward to a quiet and solemn step, with proudly raised head and indifferedly bowing on both sides. At the entrance, it stopped for a few seconds and spoke to the foreign ambassadors who were attached to her hand. The sovereign was dressed in the Russian outfit: a light green silk dress with a short loop and a corsage of golden brocade with long sleeves. It seemed very imminent. Her hair was low branched and slightly sprinkled. Headdress all the union by diamonds. The individuals of it is very majestic, although the growth is lower than the average, the face is complete advantage and especially attractive when she says. "

The Empress allowed himself to relax only in the evening and after lunch. After lunch was engaged in embroidery, while her secretary Petsky read it out loud. In the evening - theater, balls and masquerarads, as well as a card game, to which there was a big hunter and, who later banned her son Paul, and the Merry Tsaritsy Yard became just as boring, like Versailles during the reign of the secret wife of Louis XIV Mother Montenon.

This Hange, the daughter of a fake, born in prison, raising the extramarital king children, which he initially hated, so she briefed him in confidence that he claimed an open proclamation of himself by the French Queen. But how did you have boredom from this "cold snake"! There are such people to them and the son of Catherine Paul refers, who have the ability to extinguish the sparkle of God in everything. Catherine, filled with life and fun, on the contrary, he was inflated. Her balls and masquerads are very interesting and deprived of the most famous court etiquette. Subscribed even was allowed not to get up in its presence. Thanks to this impedition, the atmosphere on its balas became a relaxed, fun was natural. Masqueradam paid great attention. If so that Ekaterina Great from his aunt Elizabeth Petrovna, so this is a passion for masquerads. That they took place regularly, twice a week, with a large pump and a huge number of guests. The invited was up to 1000-1500 people. Get an invitation card to Masquerada Elizabeth Petrovna, who were held in the palace, who were at the corner of the sink and the Nevsky Prospect, was considered to be a big honor. There were all the main chambers leading to the greater hall. All wooden decorations and threads were painted with green, and the panels on the wallpaper are gilded. On the one hand there were 12 large windows and as many mirrors, the most huge, which only you can have. The hall for their huge makes a tremendous impression. It moved countless masks in the richest costumes. All the chambers were richly lit, ten thousand candles. There were several dance rooms for playing cards. In one of the rooms, Empress played in Pharaoh or in Picket, and at ten o'clock in the evening was removed and appeared in a masquerade suit, remained in it until 5-6 in the morning. Catherine Great limited the number of mascaras, they were committed once a week, and their duration - only until two o'clock in the morning. As for the costumes, Elizabeth, having an unusually slender leg, invariably appeared in the male dress, each time in another: once she was a page, another time - the French Musketeer, and then the Ukrainian hetman. Catherine, who did not have elegant legs of Elizabeth Petrovna, the male outfit did not wear out of masquerad, but if necessary, fishing or horse riding, but on the masquerades appeared in women's dresses, but such closer and poor, that the desired incognito always succeeded, and Courtnic brought to curious cases.

A certain court recorded in his diary: "Fit women's mask, dressed very simple and not very neat, and puts the silver ruble on the map. The ATTECK objection dry: "It is impossible to put less Chervonets." Mask, not to mention a word, pointed out the image of the state truck on the ruble. "To her every respect," said Freignold, kissed the portrait, but at the rate of this little. " The mask suddenly screamed: "Va-Bank". The Bansomet became angry, threw a deck of cards, which he kept in his hands, and, feeding another ruble, said with the annoyance: "Better buy yourself new gloves instead of these, leaky." The mask has shocked and moved away. The next day, Freigold learned that it was Catherine. "It's good your chrome major," she said to one of the Rodantores. - I almost fucked me. "

You can not doubt the impunity of such an act. Catherine excellent had a sense of humor. Old General Shch. Appeared once Catherine. "I still didn't know you," the Empress said. The general did not quite successfully replied: "Yes, and I, Mother of the Selfary, did not know you so far." "I believe," Ekaterina objected with a smile. - Where and know me, poor widow! "

A widow, of course, will remain for all thirty-four years of his reign, but by no means poor, and most importantly, not lonely. The rude word "lover" is not very suitable for those men whom Catherine allowed to itself. She adored her favorites, which for three decades the reign was enough, from 12 to 26 pieces, but their qualitative significance is much higher than, say, her predecessor Elizabeth Petrovna. With Elizabeth, they served exclusively with love jits, with Ekaterina they served not only to her, but also the Power. Favorit Catherine is always rich, impressed, deify. He is imputed to the duty to have personal advantages.

And if some "sine bird", which fell on the attention of the Empress, well, they simply do not possess them, he should be instantly acquired by them: love literature, to learn any foreign language, play on the musical instrument and adore music, and also Know the palace etiquette and be able to gracefully express. "We all studied little by little, something and somehow," these words of Pushkin are more suitable for Catherine Favorites. She skillfully created from the modest possibilities "magnificent", "great" and even "ingenious" personalities, which are not sin to surround the empress.

However, before the true genius and talent, Catherine leaned without unnecessary diffirabs and honored without idle colorful words, for it was able to distinguish gold from the glass. Such a favorite in loss of his love for him became all his life with a sincere friend, a friend, the adviser in all matters, from love to state, became her first assistant. It happened to the prince of Potemkin.

The favorite of Catherine is all extolled to heaven, of course, more from the desire to please the Queen than from sincere feeling. He gets a big position, and if he is also vain, he will allow him a little to manage the state. But only a little! I did not want to share the power of Catherine. This is not Anna Austrian, who, before the madness, falling in love with Cardinal Mazarini and secretly marriage with him, became almost his servale that did not have his own voice. Case time, and fun hour, as they say. And Catherine Fun from the case was distinguished very weighty. "I will right with the state, and you perform what I consider you to give or take it," as it would be offered to her favorites. But it is impossible to say a hundred percent that Mother Tsarina has always been free in his feelings. There were times when her public affairs suffered greatly from her mood.

In 1772, Ekaterina II for four months did not read anything and almost did not touch the papers, since she was busy with the affairs of the Orlich family.

"I received great sensuality from nature," writes Catherine in his notes. Of course it is. Only in scientific medical terminology is called or sex hysteria, or nymphomania. "The Nymphomaniac Ekaterina has never been," says the historian researcher K. Valishevsky. Practice speaks completely different. No matter how we call the unlimited sensuality of Catherine, the conclusion is one - it has exaggerated, and therefore it is abnormally from the point of view of an ordinary person. Give the sensuality of your such giant sizes, to feel it with such cynicism, looseness, with the complete absence of elementary female shame, which is already in the nature of the woman itself laid, is it not pathology?

Pick up your gender, your great title, your mind, your genius, finally, and a high mission, satisfying the animal instincts - is it not a crime before mankind? - It says too jealous moralizes. In a scientist, we read about the pathological phenomenon of satiriasis in men and nymphomania in women, when they are in the authority of the so-called lust and when they are not able to do nothing else, only the satisfaction of their sewing physical passion. Is it so with Catherine? Yes, in the last years of life, during the age of aging, it could be found these fault features, when lowland orgies were arranged in the secret room of the Hermitage, but mostly her love dust, externally, was quite affordable.

Yes, the state treasure has suffered great from the appetite of the Favorites. And who will calculate the damage moral? After all, the moral foundations were noticed. Many dignity of that time indicated the negative phenomenon of "Favoritism". So, the prince of Shcherbatov in a letter to a friend openly stolen this shameful phenomenon in Russian life, because the royal courtyard, legally cultivated adultery, contributed to the fall of the morals in Russian society, since the society from the courtyard took an example.

Catherine not only did not hide his relationship with lovers, but obviously preached them, ascended to the pedestal, made a kind of cult. Otherwise, why would she have all the walls of the Small Boudar to decorate magnificent miniature portraits with the image of their long-term and short-term lovers, as a museum rarity, for everyone to see. The cynicism of it in the question of morality and morality does not know equal, and this is with all the tweeter visibility of the commemoration of moral norms. Recall how sharply she opposed the free morals of French actresses or which passionage struggled against the traditional wash of women and men in one bath.

The appointment to the post of favorite was performed very quickly, although not without a certain ceremony. All young officers who really had or believed that they had a beautiful figure, and in particular, excuse us for an obscene-free frankness, an impreaming phallus that at the then fashion for tight white co-rates it could not be discovered, could count on a special service in the Palace Apartments of the Queen. She loved to take place in private rooms among two rows of highly beautiful handsome, exhibiting their delights proudly. Courtty laughed: "Palace apartments were a place where the lower part of the body was especially valued." Many surnames found their hopes on any young relative, who fell in a retinue of the Empress, if, in their opinion, his addition deserved the attention of the vigilant's tsaritsa.

At evening reception, the court suddenly noticed that the Empress was viewed on some lieutenant. The next day, he was expected to increase in the service - he was appointed a flaggy-adjutant of the Queen. Position of the Flegel Adjutant is the road to Alcove Catherine II. In the afternoon of a young man, a short note called for a palace. He is undergoing a medical examination at the Leib Medicism of the Russian Englishman Rogerson - Precautions are far from exemption to the health of the Empress.

After all, Catherine could not allow the mistakes of its predecessors - Ivan the Terrible and Peter I, who, without a special precaution, were given to love joy, without thinking about his consequences. About the venereal disease of Peter I historians and chroniclers, in order not to detract from the greatness of the genius, it was shyly silent. A total of two and dare it to break this taboo: Stepan's emigrant in 1903 and a modern writer Valentin Lavrov. The latter not only about this incident mentions, but also in details goes: with whom and when.

Yes, and other historical examples in this regard are far from comforting. The royal courts of the advanced countries of Europe were infected with venereal diseases. The surgeon of King Louis XV Peyron was treated by the court letters from syphilis.

Louis XIV was sick with syphilis and hardly cured in early youth. And than just did not treat him for the past seven months, the court doctor washed: washed the body of ant alcohol, forced to drink blood bond and some mysterious elixirs whose recipe was kept in a big secret. I barely cured, because the saving penicillin was not there.

Heinrich VII doctor treated him from Syphilis medicine based on mercury, which was kept in deep secret.

The Great Friedrich II, who was not specifically by Donuan, managed to get a heavy form of syphilis from a prostitute and remained fruitless for life.

Cardinal Dubua Surgeons were forced to remove generally genitals, since the unclean, the solar syphilis gave a dangerous ulcer on the bladder. The courtesy were maliciously illuminated: "A great man will relieve the light without his male dignity."

Queen Elizabeth ran away from Vienna, because her husband infected her with tryrper. The infinite number of once sick with this disease is an incorrigible Donjan, the French king of Heinrich IV, in whose democratic alcohol, visited the most different ladies: aristocrats, curtisanka, actresses and many peasant girls, everything they say not quite objective chronicles, up to eleven thousand, because this is overly sensual The king had a weakness to the female floor in all his diversity: from secular ladies and prostitutes to the monastery inclusive. And these "black" pious quiet, God served, loved especially: the necessary pennants they contributed to his sexual intercourse. Well, I received the "award" from such a nun Katerina Verdun - syphilis in severe form. Nasil cured.

The father of Catherine Medici was sickly a heavy form of syphilis, who was not in a straight form, but in a chill offspring, including the Queen Margo and the son of Charles IX. Venusal diseases at the courtyard - this is the Beach of the Renaissance era, no wonder the King Francis I was so deadly afraid to get infected that, being a very hurricane to love jellows, forced his mistresses, regardless of their public situation, even famous secular ladies, before going to his bed , Pass the humiliating procedure of gynecological research from the court doctor. Some husbands like fire were afraid of venereal diseases that their wives could pick up in the bed of the king.

So, after a medical examination of the Favorite, Catherine entrust the concerns of Bruce Countess, whose task was to take care of the appropriate chosen wardrobe. The next stage of the tests, he passes with the alkal lady of Mrs. Protasova, and then he already, proven, washed, dressed in the finest shirts and naskovo-trained palace etiquette, spend on the cooked apartments. He is expected here comfort, unprecedented luxury, servants. Having discovered the desk of the written table, he discovers 100,000 rubles in it (a permanent tariff for sexual services with newly minted favorites).

Then the empress is solemnly carried out in the bedroom. In the evening, cheerful and satisfied, the Empress appears before the gathered courtyard, leaning on the hand of the favorite. According to her, the courtesy will know whether he left in his position. If not, he will be released with God and even the premium 100,000 rubles will not be taken away. Recall expensive readers that he could buy three thousand fortress girls for these money.

But the favorite is approved. Exactly at ten o'clock in the evening, having finished the game in the card, the empress is removed into his extermination, where, after her, the favorite striking the mouse. From now on, his future depends only on him. If the empress is pleased with his services, he will remain in his "golden cell" for so long, as the queen wishes, if, of course, unforeseen circumstances will not happen for a somewhat rarely resignation, which has repeatedly happened to the empress.

From the moment of his approval, he will accompany the Queen, in all its departures and outputs. When departing, his apartments will be near the apartment of the Queen, and the beds will be disguised as a huge mirror, which, with a special spring, can move aside, and now the double married bed is ready.

The position of Favorite is very well paid. Much more than any other posts. The lover is waiting for the unheard of wealth and the honors of the royal, and if he is ambitious, then fame. He can not worry about his future. If after some time they will point to the door, it will leave not with empty hands. He will take with him a given estate, palaces, furniture, utensils, some thousands of the soul of peasants, he will be allowed to marry, go abroad, in a word, will be happy until the end of life. It is estimated that Ekaterina's favorites of Ekaterina distributed 800 thousand tents of the Earth together with their peasants inhabiting them and 90 million money. The position of Favorite, thus, became an official government agency. The fact that the first Russian queens started, the fact that Elizabeth Petrovna introduced with some courage, it was brilliantly improved, elevated, introduced in the rank of honorary rank of Catherine II. With which disarming simplicity and naturalness, it takes the services of the favorite, without making it any mystery, even before the grandchildren. The evening in her apartment is going to be a friendly female: the son Paul with his wife and children and favorite. They drink tea, joking, talking about family matters, then the family is delicately saying goodbye, the grandchildren kiss a grandmother's handle, she is in a cheek, and remove, leaving the favorite alone with the queen.

Everything is defissible, as in a respectable family. Nobody never expressed at the court on this occasion no censure. Only foreigners were outraged, believing that Catherine compromises and their acts, and his great name. She herself sincerely did not see anything disrupant.

Well, and what about this, that Catherine attributed the bed to the highest pedestal, created a cult of sensual love? She was not only sensual by nature, but also an educated woman, well-read, besides, where the cult of bed had its historical traditions. "You will go to bed and your right to acquire" - says the ancient German saying. And sex insatiability was one of the features of this era that served three cults: food, drinking and sexual enjoyment. And if Ekaterina was extremely moderate in food and drinking, then love was given to the whole passion, which was capable of.

The Empress fakes and jealines their favorites. Usually they are not allowed without her knowledge to leave the palace. Exceptions, of course, were. There was such an exception to Grigory Orlov, openly changing the queen with his numerous mistresses and leaving it often for all weeks. More exception was the prince of Potemkin, the only one who retained his independence and, having ceased to be a lover Catherine, became her friend, an adviser, the face absolutely necessary and valuable. But other favorites were forced to reckon with their dependent position and do not forget that it is reluctant to be incredible and unmatractable. So, Mamonov only once received permission to go to the house of Ambassador of Count Segure himself, but the Empress was so worried and jealous of her lover that her carriage was melted back and forth in front of the embassy windows, to the wise perplexity of amazed guests.

It would be best for Catherine so that the favorite absolutely merged with her "I". Observed the same interests, tastes and desires.

That is why she was so eagerly engaged in their upbringing. And when Europe was wrapped in other monarchs of Europe, Ekaterina Great, Masson stated: "Her morals were exquisied and loose, but she always retained some external decency."

And other monarchs? With the Viennese yard, the favorite is the usual matter: he performed the role of the maid, lover and a friend. Mrs. contains him and pay him a salary. He is always with her, during the toilet replaces the maid, at dinner - a friend, for a walk - satellite, in bed - husband. I blame the Great Ekaterina, we forget that the European Queen has missed the position of Favorite in everybody before it. I did not make secrets from our relationship with favorites either Elizabeth English, nor Maria Scottish, nor Christina Swedish.

Stake's impertion The lover of the king was higher than the legitimate spouse. Mrs. Montespan, the lover of King Louis XIV, had twenty rooms in Versailles on the first floor, and the queen was only eleven, and then on the second floor. In front of the palace of the Prussian King Friedrich II Ballerina Barbarini was an honorary guard, to its services, as to the Prarevy, were Freillins, and the honors rendered to it were truly royal. The markers of Pompadour, the mistress of the King Louis XV, and the King of Friedrich II, nor the Queen of Maria Teresa, nor our Catherine did not consider the Great for themselves to rewrite with her.

Heinrich IV had Gabriel, who felt so the queen that only her death would prevent this official appointment. Henry II appealed to the Ombolian Diana, Heinrich II, about which his wife Ekaterina Medici said: "This smoke is ruled by the state."

Accused Catherine Great in irrepressible sensuality? But how many Erosovanov kings reign in Europe, giving an example, "worthy imitation", with his subject? From Louis Xiv begins the parade of the Favorite. With Friedrich-Wilhelm II, the entire courtyard was one great home tolerance. Everything was embodied by both their wives and daughters in bed a king, and it was considered the provision of the highest mercy on his part. The favorite "dish" Louis XV were girls, to seduce whom did not make a lot of work because for his joy the girls were tamed like a geese on slaughter.

And in general, the whole life of this king is a solid chain of immoralities and obscenities. It is difficult to raise morality in subjects. They tried with might and main, wanting to promise each other in perversity and sadizma. Count Gaufeld indulged in debauchery openly, in front of everyone, the uncerencelessness in his eyes of his own wife. In her presence, they gave birth to women in the castle, forced his wife to be a witness of his nightly baud. Husbands needed their sexy sadism on patience to test. When the wife of Count Gaufeld gave birth to a dead child and her life was in danger, then the husband did not find anything better for her consolation, as it immediately, in her eyes, copper with her best girlfriend the Countess Nesselrod.

He forced his wife to obey all his lustful desires, all the disgusting depraved receptions, who had learned from prostitutes, and to top it all infected it with a venereal disease.

Watto. French theater.

In France, a certain veneraa Becker for seven years has supported the intercourse with the children of school age from eight years. The judicial authorities became interested in them when a pregnant thirteen-year-old girl pointed out the father's name. In prestigious houses of tolerance, customers as a special dessert - quite expensive, however, they demanded children.

It is known that Ivan the Terrible madly loved his first wife Anastasia. And how many times did he changed her? Chronicles have done that after her burial he, in the deepest grief, already on the eighth day after her death, was brought to unbridled debauchery.

And so for centuries. Here is the report of the Board of Trustees of the Committee of the St. Petersburg House of Mercy for 1908: "The twelve-year-old prostitute specialized in unnatural satisfaction of the lust of Erosovanov." Under the unnatural implied oral contacts. The ninety years ago, as in the saddest in the sexual development of the state, how was the Socialist USSR, where the sexual problem was forbidden, now on television is a program about the advantages of oral sex as a higher degree of sexual pleasure. The program is called "about it" and presented in such a way that people engaged in traditional sex should feel infallible.

Sexopathologist Ellis Govlock, exploring the sexual matter in society, writes: "The depravant is inevitably waiting for a complete moral drop, he comes in his desire to the most recent sex perversion."

But, in fact, what is "sexual perversion"? Who determines the criteria for the permitted and unauthorized? And here we, dear reader, in complete bewilderment: it turns out, there is no such criterion. "One loves watermelon, another pork cartberry." The fact that the Europeans have lied for refined debauchery, in primitive tribes, due to their animal instinct, is considered the most natural and most natural. The theory of relativity and here makes itself felt.

So, in Australia, young boys and barely established girls back in the XIX century, starting with ten years, coited completely freely. The very act of sexual convergence does not attach any bad value. Often, parents copulated with children, and girls had to spend the night with guests accepted by the tribe.

Northern Peoples still have a custom as a sign of special favor to the guest to give him his wife for the night. Almost early as children's age, Polynesian girls behave, according to the concepts of the European, with unbridled promiscuity: they are constantly given or sold with the consent of their parents. And when the novelter eaten, the novelty eaten, the navigator of the Cook arrived on one of the African Islands, he was amazed by the view of local men, by the offering navigators of their wives, sisters and daughters. While Europeans are severely punishing the newly demanded if it turned out to be a malfunction.

In short, everything is relative! And give us the will, we would not be one Einstein, and a thousand Nobel awards provided only in one brilliant statement that everything in the world relatively.

We will not, so too strict in Catherine Great, but we will try without emotions, calmly deal with her lovers.

The most difficult and burdensome for Catherine II was her favorite of Grigory Orlov. He was the second son of the remaining five (four sons died at an early age). His father, also Grigory, married 53 years old on the sixteen-year-old Device Zinovieva. All sons lived in complete agreement and loved each other. With Gregory Orlov Tsaritsa, then there was still a great princess, the case has reduced. And it was like this: after one unpleasant scene with her husband, Peter III, with whom we already know, Catherine lived worse, it opens the window to cool down a little bit from a quarrel and breathe. And then her view falls at Gregory Orlova. And this instant decided everything: a retaliatory look of a beautiful young man pierced her, like an electric current. The historian about this event tells this way: "One thought about him filled in her heart the emptiness that was formed as a result of the departure of the graph of the concepts-friendly from St. Petersburg. Grigory Orlov very soon and not without pleasure noticed what a strong impression he made on the young princess. So it was originated between Catherine and Orlov Intrigue, which went in the usual move. Night dots covered Gregory forbidden dates in the rooms. "

In short, the sacred place is not empty. I drove understood, the eagles appeared. We are just in any way we will not take, in what kind of rooms Gregory Orlova intimate dates took place? He lived then in the apartment at the corner of Nevsky and washing. Princess was difficult under the watchful Okom Elizabeth Petrovna to visit there. In the palace, too, it does not hurt with love, there is a circle of eyes and ears. But one way or another, Catherine with Gregory Orlov, still in-depth places for love merits were found, and successfully, if she became pregnant from him soon. And since with her husband, no bodily contacts have not happened for a long time, the pregnancy had to hide, the benefit of the dress was then wider. But gentle God saves. Catherine to hide her pregnancy from aunt aunt, she sat all the time, explaining this sickness of the legs. A few months continued to hurt a foot while the time of birth did not come. And it was in 1762, already in the reign of Peter III, whom to deceive - to spit.

And many times will give birth to Catherine Great, the only thing is not a little by breaking the record on the extramarital children of Elizabeth Petrovna.

In general, Catherine is great, something about nine illegitimate children gave birth, including those who immediately died at birth, gave the next baby or Mrs. Protasovoy, his trusted maid, or Mrs. Deloschina, Alcove his lady, or the Trusted Power Sukurina. That big maneuvers had to hold the queen to give birth safely. This is later when Peter III, her husband, forcibly pressed, could have been a queen not shy to walk with a swollen tummy, but the fruits of love merits often and in the presence of her husband appeared. Then this very shkurin was invented by such a maneuver: as soon as the queen generic fights feel, the house of Skurin was burning. Peter III - we know, we know such a passion of the kings, she and Ivan the Terrible was covered, and Peter I, - was removed to extinguish the fire. The house was adjusted by the owner himself. And while Peter III quenched the fire, the queen was safely resolved from the burden.

Mother Ekaterina The Great always followed both her upbringing, and for the further fate of her kids. Each of them received the estate, money in a bank, education and ... surname. Well, of course, not the royal, though. But quite decent. The names arose or from the name of the estate, as it was with the son of Catherine and Grigoria Orlov - Bobrinsky. He got the last name from Bobri's estate giving him, and one million money was put in the bank in his name. To other children, parents will not be so generous. This Bobrinsky has a lot of blood by Empress drove. Ungrateful scoundrel, this son was. Sent abroad, boasted to foreigners with his illegally high origin, the great queen is compromising, in the cards there are huge amounts losing, Mother to pay forcing. In general, the worthless son was crushed, although he was almost in a gold wheelchair, the father with his mother secretly, in a closed carriage, often visited Schucchin. Nothing from the Great Mother did not take, but from the Father, the rage irrevocable and quick-tempered. He was sent to the roll, in the province to stare, but the legitimate son of Queen Paul, who all called Mother Matushka, messed up for the impaired youth, Bobrinsky, called for the court, elevated to the graph and even "for anything" awarded him to the Holy Order Anna.

The second son has a tutor was Ribas, a scientist husband. The child was given to the Cadet Corps and, especially his royal origin did not advertise. But it was the Mystery of Polishiniel: everyone knew where he came from, and had much more attention to him than other children in this cadet corps.

The next son is a galaktion - remained for a long time in the palace, and he was often seen by the rooms running around the rooms. Then, when he grew up, he was made by an officer and sent to England to receive education. But the formed Galaktion was not wanted, but began, like his senior brother, drinking and walking and in the youthful age died. The fourth son is Ospin, a modest and quiet, who received, as we already told you, their surname for the observed serum, this Paul, was a pack, but also died early.

Losers and worthlessness were all the sons of Queen and Orlov. But the daughter of Natalia succeeded in glory. Natalia Alekseevna Alekseeva, she wore such surname, like Natasha Rostova, there were no shards of the vain, there was a beautiful blonde, a good mother and wife of the Russian general. It was believed that her life albeit modest, quiet, but very late and happy that a person, actually, and necessary.

One daughter, rumored, from Potemkin, was brought up, imitating his sixth niece.

Among the historians, the dear reader, walked Molva, as from Brother Gregory Orlova, Alexey, Ekaterina II, too, had a son. But there are no accurate data on this topic, so one vague assumptions. Actually, in the manifold of extramarital children of Catherine, it has no significant importance: one more, one less, what's the difference! All will bring up, people will give, the estates and the last name will give.

Grigory Orlov, on love joy the fast, will be the father of several other children from the Empress Freint. Two his illegitimate daughters from Freinin are known, about which the father did not care at all, so one of them, perturbed by such an attitude of his father to his own, decided to look for justice from the sovereign. I somehow slept her in the garden and rushed to your feet, complaining of my father, from whom I didn't know anything in infancy, and I didn't get the god, the dowry did not even die with the hunger. Catherine's great according to his kind nature, of course, this girl, triggered Orlov with her Freilina, supplied, but, frightened such scenes (EDAC, all the extramarital children of her favorites will begin to breed her in the garden and bid), forbidden to let me in the park of unauthorized persons, When she walks there with dogs. So the Mironova was lucky, that she had listed the queen in the park to this order, it would be a little later, to deceive her beloved Grineal in prison ducts.

And Grigory Orlov straight reached in his love adventures, did not give any rest to married women, eternally falling into the incident stories. So, once Senator Muromsov found his wife in bed with Gregory Orlov and raised a loud noise, demanding a divorce. Catherine was forced to intervene again and pushing his mouth with a horror spouse, giving him a wonderful estate in Livonia.