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State that does not have art gallery it is not a state, but a pathetic village!

Paul, tormented by a long-standing dissatisfaction, was comforted with thoughts of his superiority over a mother one day and confessed:
- I internally feel that everybody loves me.
Worse it cannot be, ' replied the mother. - A very dangerous fallacy to think that you all love. Get ready, my son, enduring and universal hatred...

The news of the fall of the Bastille aroused in the Russian people General rejoicing, though not Parisians destroyed the Bastille, and the Russian themselves brick by brick smashed the Peter and Paul fortress.

Nikita Ivanovich Ryleev, the Metropolitan chief of police, was stupid obvious. "To declare homeowners with a subscription,' said he, 'that they in advance it in three days, informed the police - someone in the house has to be fire". In the book, Radishchev, which he was allowed to print, Ryleev did not understand, and probably didn't even read it. Not penetrated, probably, in the epigraph of "Telemagic", from which the creeps pulls: "Monster oblo, mischievously, huge, stozevno and lay..."

The spectacle of two squadrons of the black sea was great.
- A large fleet, but why is it needed here Russia?
This grunt Fitzherbert Potemkin replied:
- And then to no one about it no longer asked...

Russian Ekaterina often called in his carriage for conversations of Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov or count Stroganov. Considering them friends, she was Frank with them:
- After the peace Treaty, Europe has set on me the stamp of good luck, when I have allowed politicians to the secrets of their success: I reign over the Russian, and Russian - the greatest nation in the world. Everything that happens is not from me, this is due to the great destinies of Russia! If I didn't do anything, and from morning to night beat baklushi, Russia still would move its historic way, how goes the glory in the multitude of my worries...

Foreign ambassadors noted the powerlessness of the Russian people with such rabid indignation, as if their monarchy Nations flourished in the bliss of freedom and equality!

The beauty of the landscapes was remarkable. Bronnitsy with temples on the mountain made the evening like a fairy tale. Bezborodko proved Fitzherbert that Bronnitskaya hay is the best hay in the world:
- I would myself have eaten, but then the beast is not enough...

One after the other passed into oblivion first, Voltaire, and later Diderot. Thinkers left disturbing the peace, when Catherine, having fame, didn't need their support and praise, now with them dead, you can not stand on ceremony.
- Every century, declared that she produces three or four geniuses created by nature solely in order to deceive all of humanity...
However, expressing them his Regal disdain, the Empress was smart, bought for St. Petersburg libraries of Diderot and Voltaire. ... France! The main source of freedom of thought, a storehouse of revolutionary insights.

The human species is weak. Everyone wants to get rich without doing a damn thing. Oh no! In my reign, nor the Lombards, nor the lottery will not.

Bezborodko built himself a cottage in Polyustrovo; Golden domes of the Smolny was clearly shining on the other Bank of the Neva, but here, on the banks polustrovski were constructed walkways for swimming. Bezborodko spent hours on the balcony using a telescope given to him by Admiral Greig, looking for another victim - younger and slimmer. Once spotted it through the lens of the figure the perfect addition, and long hair Neva Naiads rippling black wave. Called to the footman:
- Osip! Call the one with the mane.
The footman ran to the footbridge. Returned confused:
- Not to persuade, though you burst.
- Yes, if they told you that money won't regret it?
Said. Only they do not agree to go, and that's it.
Oh, cruel! exclaimed Bezborodko.
- The cruelty is terrible, agreed the footman. - Because with hair that long he's a deacon bathed...

To destroy the bureaucracy has now become impossible, because the destruction of it will have to charge the same bureaucrats. But even destroying the old bureaucracy, they will immediately generate new, more voracious, more resilient and tenacious... it's not better if it is Viper's den and not touch?

To overcome difficulties - is not this the meaning of life?

Lived in a century of enlightened absolutism, she was a smart woman, educated. Of course, she did not complain of the court of fools:
- If one fool stone in the river I'll throw, then forty-Voltaire I do not know how to get him out.