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In the night, the maid withdrew. She lived alone in her bedroom, stretching her limbs and lying on the soft and comfortable dragon bed.
Although her body was very tired from a busy day of government, she could not sleep for a while.
At this moment, her blue eyes suddenly shone like stars, and her beautiful face rippled with joy.
She thought of a young man.
The young man was a 22-year-old captain with thick auburn hair. He is handsome, fit, humorous, witty, and energetic.
In that coup d'état to seize imperial power, at the crucial moment when she was leading her army to Peterhof, he untied the tassel from his sword and offered it to her.
After that, she ascended to the throne and became the empress of the generation that threatened Europe, and she was the Russian Empress Catherine the Great.
The young man whom the Empress missed was named Potemkin, a captain.
Later, this young man, who was 10 years younger than the empress, became a crucial figure in the empress's life.
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Potemkin's family served the king for generations, but was not of noble birth.
He joined the Guards Cavalry Regiment as an ordinary soldier and was soon promoted to captain in his own strength.
Potemkin was not only charming in appearance, but also proficient in musical rhythms and full of poetry books. Therefore, as long as he wants, he can always spit out lotus flowers and talk about them.
Moreover, he is also a good "voice actor" who can imitate other people's voices.
One of the empress's favorites, pleased Bo Shengshang, and introduced Bo General Kim to her. The Empress was impressed by the handsome officer who had presented her with a sword spike, and was naturally very happy to see him again.
Catherine Palace
One day, the Empress asked him to imitate his own voice. He immediately replied in the voice of the Empress, imitating it to the slightest degree, even her mantra and Germanic tone.
The Empress has always had a fondness for witty and humorous people, and after listening, she couldn't help but laugh.
Since then, Potemkin has become a resident guest at the Empress's private gatherings, and his humor and proficiency in music have always coaxed the Empress into laughing.
With his frequent contact with the empress, gossip soon spread in the palace.
The favored courtier who introduced Bo General Jin into the palace felt snubbed by the empress, and at this moment, he regretted it.
He originally only planned to use Potemkin as a gift to make the empress happy, in order to achieve the purpose of being more favored by the empress, but he did not admit it, and even threatened his own position.
So he secretly gathered several of his brothers and punched and kicked Bo General Jin. Focus on his handsome face, as they believe that his "beauty" has confused the Empress.
During the fight, Potemkin was injured in his left eye. Later, the treatment was ineffective, and he was infected, and he became permanently blind in his left eye.
The handsome boy becomes one-eyed, and Bo will never enter the palace again.
In fact, the one-eyed Potemkin was not only not disliked by the empress, but made the empress move her heart of compassion. She thinks it's because of her own reasons that he was plotted against.
She decided to appease the young man. That day, the Empress ordered him to come to see her immediately.
That night, she left him in her bedroom.
Although Potemkin was already one-eyed, he did not diminish his charm in the slightest.
It's night, ears grinding, and strings are wrapped. She shed her heavy armor, no longer a majestic empress, she was like a newlywed woman.
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Later, Potemkin was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the Empress, and he did not live up to the expectations of the Saints, and exerted his clever ability to govern the country.
In 1768, he became an attendant of the Empress.
The following year, he took the initiative to participate in the war between Russia and Turkey. He was promoted to general for his excellent performance.
Learning of Potemkin's glorious record, the Empress became more and more fond of the young man. At the thought of him, she even blushed a little and her heart beat, and the fawn rammed wildly.
Akaterina Palace in the garden
So the Empress granted him the right to correspond alone. But to the empress's bewilderment, he never used this privilege.
The empress really couldn't hold back her thoughts of Potemkin, but she couldn't let go of her majesty as empress.
So, on December 4, 1773, she took the initiative to write him a letter, euphemistically expressing her longing. She writes:
Lieutenant General and Mr. Knight,
I guess at the moment you're in the fortress getting your eyes fully trained, so you don't have time to write...
Nevertheless, I firmly believe that what you have done is out of the pure heart you have for me personally, and for the motherland that you are willing to do.
However, I need enthusiastic, brave, intelligent and flexible people, so I ask you not to put yourself in danger...
When you read this letter, you may ask the question - why did the Empress write such a letter? I can answer you now – so that you will be convinced of my attitude toward you, and I have always been so kind to you.
Catherine
The clever General Jin certainly understood the affection that flowed between the empress's words, why didn't he miss the beautiful empress? So he took a leave of absence and returned to St. Petersburg.
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After returning to the Empress, he continued to act as the Empress's "Happy Angel", coaxing her to be overjoyed. He was like a clear spring, always refreshing for the empress who was trapped in the troubled affairs of the state.
Speculation has been made that he is about to become the empress's next male favorite. Potemkin was also determined to win, and he waited for the new appointment with confidence.
However, this appointment was not issued for a long time, and the former male favorites were still frequently surrounded by the empress.
People in love are selfish. Bo will be very jealous, he will no longer enter the palace frequently, and will not make any explanation.
Subsequently, he played missing and hid in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg, intending to shave his family.
The empress realized that she had ignored the feelings of her officers. In her mind, Potemkin had a rare ability to govern the country, and she would never allow such a person to hide in the monastery.
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On that day, the Empress sent her most trusted female official to visit Potemkin at the monastery and told him that as long as he returned to the palace, the Empress would spoil him alone.
In fact, Potemkin was only putting pressure on the empress, and he did not really intend to become a monk.
Hearing the words of the female official, he was both happy and moved.
He immediately took off his monk's robe, changed into his uniform, rode back to St. Petersburg in a royal carriage.
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In this way, Potemkin became the empress's lover. 2 Deep affection, as sweet as first love.
However, the good times did not last long. Soon, Potemkin began to lose his temper again.
It turned out that when he thought that the empress had had 15 lovers, he would be full of jealousy.
He left the Empress again.
Love, indeed, is exclusive.
In order to appease her lover again, the Empress locked herself in her room alone, and wrote a letter to Potemkin entitled "Sincere Confession".
In the letter, she confessed to Bo General Kim Hara about every past relationship she had.
This is an unprecedented written confession from the emperor.
An omnipotent and powerful empress condescending to confess her past in order to make her new lover forgive her past. What kind of intense fascination is this?
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Recalling her emotional experience, the empress has mixed feelings. In particular, her strange emperor husband Peter III.
On 1 July 1745, she married the Russian Crown Prince as a 16-year-old royal princess from Germany. Later, the crown prince succeeded to the throne, and she became the empress, but behind the magnificent style, it was an unknown and painful marriage.
Although she was beautiful and beautiful, her husband did not love her, and he spent all day hanging out with other women. Married for 7 years, she is still a virgin.
So she followed her husband's example, and she also "opened" extramarital affairs with other men. From then on, she was out of control until the end of her husband's short-lived dynasty, she ascended the throne, and she indeed became the most popular empress in Russian history.
Peter III
All this has to be said to be inseparable from her unhappy marriage. In a confessional letter to Potemkin, the Empress wrote:
When I was young, fate gave me a husband who could not arouse my desires, although I should have been loyal to him...
A few lovers, a few male pets, the appearance of Potemkin, let them all be eclipsed. The Empress wrote:
Then a knight (Potemkin) appeared. With his great deeds and benevolent deeds, this hero fascinated everyone...
Rumors about the Empress's 15 lovers, she explained to Potemkin:
You will be delighted to find that there are not 15 of them, in fact only a third: the first is chosen out of necessity, the fourth is out of despair, and in my mind it is not a pleasure at all.
As for the other 3—if you can take a closer look—God understands that none of them are the product of lust and indulgence, and I don't want to live like this in the slightest.
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Seven days after the "sincere confession" was issued, Potemkin still did not return to the empress.
On the second day, she wrote him another letter:
I don't understand what you're being held back by, you don't even come over. Please, don't be timid. We are all too cautious.
As soon as I lay down, I got up again, put on my clothes, and went to the door of the study to wait for you, and I stood for 2 hours in the wind that passed through the hall. Until midnight three more... I fell asleep sadly.
Thanks to you, I... Sleepless nights... I want to see you, I have to see you, no matter what happens!
At this moment, she completely disregarded the majesty of her empress, and had become an amorous young woman who had fallen to dust.
Finally, Potemkin returned.
However, this relationship was destined to be a sadistic love from the beginning. They were always quarreling, and almost every time it was Potemkin who provoked the incident first, but it was always the empress who gave in.
Potemkin always suspected that the Empress's feelings for him would not last long, questioning and accusing her from time to time, and he himself was in great pain. And at all times, the Empress always comforted and flattered him like a spoiled child.
She wrote him countless letters of love:
My feelings for you will never change... Stop arguing... I love you......
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For the sake of her lover, the Empress made a major decision, and she wanted him to become her legal husband.
On June 8, 1774, at a secret wedding of only 5 people, she put on a wedding dress and became her bride.
At the wedding, she said to her husband with infinite tenderness: "Hug me, call my name." ”
Bo will take the bride into his arms, tender as water. He called softly, "Empress." ”
"Not true."
"Catherine."
"My wife."
Finally, the Empress nodded happily and tenderly kissed her husband.
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Neither the emperor nor the common people can escape the curse of "easy to love, difficult to get along".
After marriage, Potemkin's temper became more and more grumpy, and his suspicions became more and more serious, which once made the empress tired. Finally, this 17-year-long relationship was declared over by the Empress.
Despite this, Potemkin became the one who spent the longest time with the empress among all the empress's favorites.
For the last 15 years of his life, Potemkin had an empress's affection for him.
Potemkin did not fail to live up to the empress's affection for him. He is not only the gentle companion of the Empress on the bed, but also the brave knight on the Battlefield of the Empress, and the wise and wise minister above the Empress's court.
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