The origin of Catherine's eldest son, Paul, is a mystery, as he may have been the biological son of Peter III, as well as the birth of Ye II and his first known lover, the Russian nobleman Satykov.
Sadikov certainly would not be Ye Er's only lover, nor would he be the last. Regarding the number of Ye Er lovers, from a dozen to three hundred, various theories vary. The biggest rumor in the brain hole is this one: the female emperor is a lover of human and animal lovers, like stallions, and when she was 67 years old, she was crushed to death by a horse because she was doing something indescribable with a horse.
However, this rumor has been dispelled, the female emperor died of a sudden stroke, and she has no special hobbies for human beasts at all. But it is undeniable that Ye Er was indeed mercurial, and until his old age, he was surrounded by a group of small fresh meats, and we were all fighting with the Heavenly Emperor's Crane Control Mansion.
The private life of the female emperor provided her hostile forces at home and abroad with a wealth of rumor-mongering materials, how to sensationalize and how to come. In the story Henry VIII was beheaded by his wife Anne. In The Case of Boleyn, the author concludes that he wants to physically eliminate a woman, such as orchestrating Anne. Boleyn's fornication with her brother led to her public beheading; if the opponent was too strong to be physically destroyed, then the "Spiritual Victory Method" was used, such as orchestrating a man-beast affair for Catherine the Great. Whether it was hundreds of years ago or hundreds of years later, the trick of "slut humiliation" has been tried and tested.
Ye Er's real famous and historically noteworthy lover, in addition to the aforementioned Sativov, was also king Stanisław of Poland. Poniatowski, the Russian nobleman Gregory. Orlov and the Russian commander Gregory. Potemkin.
2. King of Poland
Stanisław. Poniatowski, commonly known as Stanisław II, was born into a Polish aristocratic family, three years younger than Ye II. Originally, his family sent him to St. Petersburg in order to enlist the support of Russia in order to abolish the then Polish King August III. But when the boy entered the Russian court, he left his political mission behind and instead hooked up with the crown princess of the time, later Empress Catherine II.
Polish fresh meat: count you out!
Unexpectedly, this debt also made Stanisław II crooked, and after the death of King August III of Poland, he was helped by Catherine the Great to the throne of Poland. It is said that the female emperor was quite generous to the lovers of the past, even if there was a new love in the back, he was not stingy with the land, titles and power given to the old love. But when the Polish lover became king, he wanted to carry out reforms and seek to get rid of Russian control, which was beyond the bottom line of the female emperor.
For example, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, who are born as male pets, but want to grasp the actual power, then you have to weigh your own weight first. In 1772, the polish lover annoyed the female emperor, and the fate was naturally not too good, and in 1772, the female emperor, on the grounds of suppressing the rebel forces in Poland and protecting the religious camp to which she belonged, together with Prussia and Austria, directly divided 30% of the land of the "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" at that time.
At this point, Stanisław II's Polish monarchy had not yet been completely lost, and he was nominally still the King of Poland. Unwilling to do so, he also engaged in some small actions such as "constitutional reform", the female emperor did not say a word and began to fight, and in 1793, together with Prussia, he divided up most of the land of the "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" for the second time.
Stanisław II was originally brought to power by the Russians, but the reform did not work well, the counter-rebellion was not good, the Poles and the Russians were offended, the foreign war was only beaten, and the great rivers and mountains were dismembered. By 1795, by the time Of the third partition of Poland by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, the territory of the "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" had been completely wiped out by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The king could no longer hold on, and Stanisław II was forced to abdicate and live in semi-house arrest in St. Petersburg, where he died of depression three years later.
3. Lovers and allies of life and death
Ye Er's taste for men is probably more like the one that is full of masculinity. Artillery Officer Gregory. Orlov, in the interval of the Seven Years' War, returned to St. Petersburg for renovations and was able to get to know the Crown Prince and his wife. Regarding russia's "Seven Years' War" in conjunction with France and Austria, and the fat beating of Prussia, the final scope of the impact involved the Americas and Asia, which can be called a prequel to the world war (Introduction, please poke: Thirty-first, the fighting peoples also had an era of yin and yang. ）
Orlov: The enforcer of the Empress's seizure of power
The wandering officer, who was five years younger than the crown princess, quickly captured her heart, and the two secretly developed an underground affair, and are said to have given birth to an illegitimate child. Ye Er and Orlov were together, just because they admired each other, or whether they were interested in each other's military attaché identity, I couldn't be sure. As it turned out, Orlov's decisiveness and courage, as well as his connections in the Janissaries, played a crucial role in Ye Er's seizure of power. Without him, there would be no Catherine the Great.
After Ye Er ascended the throne, he did not marry Orlov, who lived and died together. Perhaps she thought the same as Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen of England, that the shadow of captivity and death hung overhead like the sword of Damocles, and no one but herself could believe it. Kingship is the only thing that can protect itself, where is it willing to give half to others? Lovers can't share, and neither can son Paul.
The passion of the desperate world can not withstand the desire for power and the consumption of time, and it is easy to suffer together, and it is difficult to be rich and noble. However, they also maintained good relations, and Orlov was knighted and advised on the reform of the empress. After ten years of love, five years later, 43-year-old Orlov married his cousin. I don't know if it was out of love or out of unwillingness, he waited for her for fifteen years, but the only thing that the lonely people loved most was themselves.
4. Wen Tao's favorite
Gregory. Potemkin is the largest of the female emperors. If Orlov is the pusher who put Ye Er on the throne, then Bo Jiangjin is a military master and a good general who has achieved the hegemony of the female emperor.
Potemkin
In the coup d'état launched by Ye Er and Orlov, Potemkin also participated, and he received a small reward for it. The time when the female emperor really noticed him was in the Russo-Turkish War between 1768 and 1774, when General Kim was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army for his outstanding military merits. After the war stopped, two people with a age difference of ten years began to fall in love. Incidentally, Potemkin was blinded in one eye, supposedly blinded during a fight with the Orlov brothers, suggesting that the empress was not entirely face-controlled.
It can be said that Potemkin used his superb political ability and strategic vision to replace Orlov's position in the heart of the female emperor. He drew up a plan for her conquest of Crimea and completed it in seven years; he laid down a powerful spy network in the Balkans; he even sought for her grandson to inherit the glory of the Byzantine Empire (Russia's ties to Byzantium go back to the marriage of Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, to the last Byzantine shire lord).
Not only that, But Potemkin also carried out a series of military reforms, building arsenals, repairing ports, and building a fleet in the Black Sea, which began in another Russo-Turkish War that began in 1787. The cleverness of Potemkin is also reflected in the fact that in his personal interactions with the empress, he always maintains a clear mind and is not arrogant and proud. The empress just said, "Without love, I can't go on for an hour", and Bo General Jin immediately reflected that he could not accompany him in his years of expeditions, so he quickly looked for a young and handsome officer and sent it to the empress.
Of course, Bo General Kim is not perfect, the blueprint for the empress's hegemony is too grand, no matter the people's strength, regardless of the cost, and he will also engage in the face project such a small trick. In order to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of her accession to the throne, the Empress toured The Crimea in the south, and for the joy of the lovers, Potemkin arranged some beautiful houses and extras along the way to cover up the actual scene of a large area of withering. The term "Potemkin Village" later spread in Western Europe, satirizing those who made superficial remarks.
Ye Er had called him a "dear husband" in a letter to Bo General Jin, so some people felt that the empress and him were secretly married. In short, this relationship has surpassed carnal desires, whether it is platonic love, open marriage, political partner, both people take what they need. In 1791, the exhausted Potemkin died in front of the Empress, the Empress's new lover, and also her last lover, the 25-year-old Platon. Zubov soon replaced Potemkin as "Governor-General of Ukraine".
"Red face" with white hair
Waiting for idle changes but the old people's hearts, but the old people's hearts are changeable.
5. Mistress of Peter III
Introducing so many of Ye Er's lovers, it seems impossible to talk about Peter's mistress without talking about them. Peter's most famous mistress, counting to be Elizabeth. Worenzova, this is not because Peter is clean, in fact he has not cleaned himself after that GBP surgery. It's just that the winner is the king and the loser, who has the kung fu to record the lace news of a loser?
Elizabeth. Vorontsova became famous because she happened to be Peter's last mistress and witnessed the process of the coup d'état of the female emperor. Originally from the Russian magnate Vorontsov family, she entered the palace to serve as a maid for Ye Er, and somehow fell into Peter's eyes. Speaking of european court maids, most of themselves are noble ladies, and they are also the most likely to fly up the branches to become phoenixes, such as some of Henry VIII's mistresses and several empresses, who have been the maids of former queens.
Peter first ascended to the throne, had just gotten rid of his powerful aunt and tasted the sweetness of power, and for a while he was fleeting, so he was about to depose his wife Ye Er within a few months of becoming emperor, so that he could marry his mistress Elizabeth into the door.
Russia's cold palace, but it was really cold, the wind was from Siberia, and Ye Er was absolutely unwilling to go. Can she not hate Elizabeth?
After the success of the coup until Peter's violent death, peter in captivity made many small requests to Ye Er, such as moving the bed in his original room, he needed his violin and his dog, he wanted the original private doctor to serve, Ye Er agreed to them one by one. Only for Peter's request to see Elizabeth, Ye Er refused, and the two wild mandarin ducks never saw each other again from the beginning of the coup until Peter's death.
Elizabeth. Vorontsova was later forced to marry someone else and died depressed. Fortunately, the female emperor did not retaliate against her family, and several cousins of her family have been active in Russia's diplomatic field.
Of course, this is also thanks to Elizabeth's cousin, Catherine. Vorontsova. Catherine. Volnzova was one of catherine's few close female friends, she was fascinated by literature and art, was a female intellectual in early Russia, and the female emperor was like-minded because of common hobbies, and the two were close enough to plot a coup d'état to seize power. After the success of the coup, Catherine. Rather than indulging in politics, Vorontsova was ordered by the Empress to lead the Institute of Science and the Arts in Petersburg.
The Voronzova sisters, elizabeth who was sacrificed on the left, and Catherine, an ally of the female emperors, on the right
It has to be said that the Vorontsov family is superb in its means, putting the two girls in the family into the camps of Peter and Catherine respectively, and no matter who wins, the interests of the family will be maximized. As for sacrificing the happiness of a female member of the family, it is only a "trivial matter."