When the Emperor of Japan ascended the throne, he and the Empress's only daughter, Princess Aiko, did not become the Imperial Princess and had no right to inherit. Europe has always had a tradition of women being queens, but they are not related to the royal family, and it is really difficult to ascend the throne.
China has produced a Wu Zetian for thousands of years, and Wu Zetian is still a girl from the family of an official eunuch, but today I want to talk about this is a mistress who is not born well, her parents have died, she has been married, she has been a woman who has been a lot of people, it can be described as a woman with various disadvantages, and finally became a queen, which can be described as a legend.
In 1684, a small healthy girl named Marta was born in a lithuanian farmhouse. Both parents died when I was 5 years old. She and her siblings were sent to the local priest's house. The priest looked at the little girl and thought to himself: This baby will grow into a good servant in the future.
The little girl under the fence has to do all kinds of work from a young age, including washing people's clothes (the kind of fee), cooking for the priest's family, all kinds of bits and pieces of chores, and doing everything like Cinderella. The priest thought the child was good, and sometimes when she was empty, he would teach her to read. Marta grew up like this.
Because she was accustomed to doing rough work, she was so strong and beautiful that the priest's wife, fearing that her son would fall in love with the peasant girl whose parents had both died, hurriedly married Marta to a local Swedish soldier when she was 17 years old. A week after the new marriage, the husband went to the army and never returned.
Marta became a young widow. She could only go to the army to wash the clothes of Russian soldiers. With the washing, the beautiful Marta became the mistress of Rudolf, a high-ranking Russian officer. Soon, Rudolf, perhaps bored, or for promotion, gave her to his superior, Shermi tofu.
Shermitov was the governor of Estonia, and soon after gave the mistress to Menshikov, the favorite of Peter the Great.
Menshikov
Menshikov was originally a peddler selling pancakes on the streets of Moscow. By chance, I met peter the great, a teenager who was 12 years old at the time. So a realistic version of the story of "Wei Xiaobao and Kangxi" was staged. Peter at that time was made Tsar of Russia by his eldest sister Sophia. But he was not the only Tsar, but was made Tsar along with his disabled brother Ivan.
Sophia is the regent's sister, and she has always had ambitions to be the queen of Russia, both by blood and real power, but ironically, she did not succeed in the end. She had been infinitely close to the throne, and even nearly killed her brother. But Peter, along with Menshikov, was cautious and inseparable, studied together and plotted together to prostitute himself, and finally brought down sophia, the regent sister who was weighing over his head.
In this way, Menshikov became Peter the Great's most favored courtier. He demonstrated political and military excellence. Peter was so good with him that he could wear the same pair of pants, and he often went to Menshikov's house without greeting him. Menshikov was corrupt and excessively greedy, and Peter could not pull him to a place where no one was and beat him up, but at night, like no one else, he drank with him, drunk like a mud.
Once peter went to Menshikov's house and saw Marta. Peter was immediately attracted by her graceful figure and beautiful appearance, and immediately asked her for her name. Earlier, In order to make this mistress not too dirty outside, Menshikov lost his share and gave Marta a new name, "Catherine".
Peter asked her on the spot if she would like to follow him, without looking at Menshikov at all. Marta, who had already followed many men and was very familiar with this set, saw Thatshikov and himself desperately trying to make eye contact, and immediately said obediently: "Okay."
So Marta took the top power in Russia and never had to be sent out again. Menshikov and Catherine have since become "brothers and sisters."
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Prior to this, Peter had had a brief marriage in order to be able to govern after the big marriage. Soon after Sophia came to power, Peter divorced his first wife. He liked Catherine very much because the woman could accommodate his requests and was available, including in the troops.
Peter liked to fight, and he had to find women in the middle of the war. But before Catherine, there was no sister who looked good and was willing to accompany him to ride alone and accompany the army. Catherine is different, she is a peasant girl, good health, bold, not afraid of guns and bullets, every time Peter fights she follows. Peter had 11 children with her, all conceived during the war.
Catherine also had a strength, she went to the army not only to sleep with Peter, but also to wash Peter's guards and cook for them. Sometimes she would go to the army with clothes and food, and bring family letters to the generals. Gradually, this peasant girl rose from a simple mistress to Peter's partner and think tank. She was involved in all of Peter's military operations.
In 1707, Peter built St. Petersburg. He had Catherine sent a message to prepare her, and he would crown her empress. Thus this peasant daughter, who had been married for the second time and had been the mistress of many people, thus became the mother of Russia.
After the marriage, this woman continued to support Peter in building his great deeds.
The most famous one was in 1711, when Peter took his empress dowager on a personal expedition. Yes, even if he became empress, Peter would still have to take her with him on his expedition. This time they were under siege by the Turkish army. Peter was about to give up and was almost about to surrender.
Catherine stopped him. The queen gathered all the jewels she had brought with her and the jewels on the women of the army, gave them to the enemy commander, and bought Peter a life. Although the final battle was lost, but the green mountains were not afraid of no firewood, Peter respected this wife even more from then on.
On his deathbed, Peter amended the law, designated Catherine as her heir, and personally sent his wife to the throne of the Tsarina. Ironically, what sophia, who was of royal blood and ambitious, did not do, Catherine, the second daughter of the peasant family, did.
With a strong will and a strong heart, Catherine has reached a height that has never been reached before, and has won the respect of her husband from the heart. I hope that my female readers will also have their own full lives.