Queen Eudoxia, or Lament for the Moscow Kingdom

The last Moscow Queen, rejected by the wife of Tsar Peter I, the nun Elena, sharpened in the Suzdal Pokrovsky Monastery, and then in the Bastion of the Shlisselburg Fortress, and, finally, the "God Shoulder", considered an important and influential person during the short reign of her grandson, Emperor Peter II, these are all sides of the biography of Queen Inokini Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina. But the fate of this unfortunate woman is interesting not only by itself. In it, as in the twisted mirror, the entire Petrovskaya era reflected - undoubtedly, majestic and grand in their accomplishments, but terrible for those who happened to be next to the "king reformer". One of the main victims of the Petrovsky reign, Tsarina Evdokia is the "inconvenient" figure for the apologists of Peter. After all, the attitude towards it largely determines the understanding of the history of the entire Petrovsky era. As soon as her name is remembered, questions inevitably arise about the price of Peter"s reforms, about what happened to people, plunged into the bunch of historical changes, as well as how much we do not care and it was possible to such a decisive and irrevocable gap with traditions and heritage. The Moscow Kingdom ... All this, attracting a huge actual material, argues the longtime author of the Life of Wonderful People, Doctor of Historical Sciences Professor Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Kozsov