Elizaveta Petrovna. Brilliant Empress
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About Elizabeth Petrovna there was an opinion as a frivolous coquette, luxurious balls and fun theatrical performances. Meanwhile, the first beauty of the state, as contemporaries called it, was not at all simple.
She never sought power. But the will of the case headed the guard and climbed into the Russian throne. And it turned out to be more successful on it than many of its predecessors.
Of the twenty years of the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna Twelve were peaceful. This Russian story did not know for a long time. The country abolished the death penalty and limited to the use of torture. The first Russian banks appeared. Domestic customs duties - a symbol of the country"s fragmentation - passed into the past.
Love and interest of Elizabeth to the sciences, painting, music contributed to the development of domestic culture and enlightenment. In 1755, Moscow University was founded, and in 1757 - the Academy of Arts. Opera art, ballet and the theater are firmly included in everyday life. A guitar, mandolin, harp appeared in Russia. It is with Elizabeth that French has entered the fashion. Elizabethan Baroque - an architectural style for which the lightness and ease of forms, grace and wealth are characteristic.
The loud victories of Russian weapons were forced to talk about Elizabeth as a vertex of European destinies and returned to Russia, after the death of Peter I, the status of the Great Power.
About the brilliant reign of Elizabeth, which has become the graceful basis for the "Golden century" Catherine II, is our new book
She never sought power. But the will of the case headed the guard and climbed into the Russian throne. And it turned out to be more successful on it than many of its predecessors.
Of the twenty years of the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna Twelve were peaceful. This Russian story did not know for a long time. The country abolished the death penalty and limited to the use of torture. The first Russian banks appeared. Domestic customs duties - a symbol of the country"s fragmentation - passed into the past.
Love and interest of Elizabeth to the sciences, painting, music contributed to the development of domestic culture and enlightenment. In 1755, Moscow University was founded, and in 1757 - the Academy of Arts. Opera art, ballet and the theater are firmly included in everyday life. A guitar, mandolin, harp appeared in Russia. It is with Elizabeth that French has entered the fashion. Elizabethan Baroque - an architectural style for which the lightness and ease of forms, grace and wealth are characteristic.
The loud victories of Russian weapons were forced to talk about Elizabeth as a vertex of European destinies and returned to Russia, after the death of Peter I, the status of the Great Power.
About the brilliant reign of Elizabeth, which has become the graceful basis for the "Golden century" Catherine II, is our new book
Author:
Author:Chernova Marina Nikolaevna
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Fiction
Paper:
Paper:Gray
Series:
Series: History Travel Guide
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-94776-956-2
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