Elizaveta Petrovna. Aphrodite in power

The book belonging to the pen of the famous historian Evgeny Viktorovich Anisimov, in essence, is essentially the first biography of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, beloved daughter of Peter the Great. The author reconstructs the entire Elizabethan court, all its environment, the life of the whole country in its aggregate. That is why so much is said about those who surrounded Elizabeth for all 20 years of her reign - Bestuzhev -Ryumin, Shuvalovs, Razumovsky, Vorontsov and others. Therefore, the intrigues of the court, the foreign policy picture of Europe, the opponents of Elizabeth and its allies during military campaigns are described in such detail. The time of Elizabeth Petrovna on the Russian throne is a motley mosaic of Russian life of the XVIII century. But the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna is also twenty years of the history of Russia, which absorbed the discovery of Moscow University and the foundation of the Academy of Arts, the victory of Russian weapons in the seven years of war. The author understands why Elizabeth