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Updated: June 28, 2025
Sophia at the height of her power Military expeditions The Cham of Tartary Mazeppa Origin and history His famous punishment Subsequent history The war unsuccessful Sophia's artful policy Rewards and honors to the army The opposition Their plans Reasons for the proposed marriage The intended wife Motives of politicians Results of Peter's marriage Peter's country house Return of Galitzin The princess's alarm The Cossacks Sophia's plot The commander of the Guards Prince Galitzin Details of the plot Manner in which the plot was discovered Messengers dispatched The sentinels The detachment arrives Peter's place of refuge Sophia's pretenses The Guards Sophia attempts to secure them They adhere to the cause of Peter Sophia's alarm Her first deputation Failure of the deputation Sophia appeals to the patriarch His mission fails Sophia's despair Her final plans She is repulsed from the monastery The surrender of Thekelavitaw demanded He is brought to trial He is put to the torture His confessions Value of them Modes of torture applied Various punishments inflicted Galitzin is banished His son shares his fate Punishment of Thekelavitaw Decision in respect to Sophia Peter's public entry into Moscow He gains sole power Character and condition of John Subsequent history of Sophia
We had a hasty glance, however, of some poems of Tasso, in his own autograph. We then went to the Palazzo Galitzin, where dwell the Misses Weston, with whom we lunched, and where we met a French abbe, an agreeable man, and an antiquarian, under whose auspices two of the ladies and ourselves took carriage for the Castle of St. Angelo.
"The impudence of the wretch," she exclaims, "is beyond all bounds! She must be mad. Tell her if she wishes any improvement in her lot to cease the comedy she is playing." Prince Galitzin, Grand Chancellor, exerts all his skill in vain to force a confession of imposture from her. To his wiles and threats alike she opposes a dignified and calm front.
The subordinate officer who had the immediate command of the detachment which marched out to Obrogensko was punished by being first scourged with the knout, then having his tongue cut out, and then being sent to Siberia in perpetual banishment, with an allowance for his subsistence of one third the pittance which had been granted to Galitzin.
The Cossacks had never before been allowed to come into Moscow; but now, Sophia having formed a desperate plan to save herself from the dangers that surrounded her, and knowing that these men would unscrupulously execute any commands that were given to them by their leaders, directed Galitzin to bring them within the walls, under pretense to do honor to Mazeppa for the important services which he had rendered during the war.
A still more striking though less ghastly freak of fancy was that perpetrated by the Empress Anne of Courland, who, on the occasion of the marriage of her favorite buffoon, Galitzin, caused a palace of ice to be built, with a bed of the same material, in which she compelled the happy pair to pass their wedding night.
"The day before Prince Galitzin was expected, I visited Sophia for the last time. She was a great deal better, and much pleased by the expected arrival of her minister. She even gave me some commands, but when I left her I did not execute them. I would not have my reign sullied by any of her mandates.
"Apollo and the Muses do not yet intend me to become the prey of the bony scytheman, as I have yet much to do for you, and much to bequeath, which my spirit dictates and calls on me to complete before I depart hence for the Elysian Fields; I feel as if I had written scarcely more than a few notes." The initial performance of the first of the Galitzin Quartets took place in the spring of 1825.
The punishment of Prince Galitzin was banishment for life to Siberia. He was brought before the court to hear his sentence pronounced by the judges in form.
Madame de Hell refers to Parthenit, where still flourishes the great hazel under which the Prince de Ligne wrote to the modern Messalina, Catherine II.; Gaspra, the residence for some years of Madame de Krudener, the beautiful mystic and religious enthusiast who exercised so powerful an influence over the Czar Alexander; Koreis, the retreat of the Princess Galitzin, the soul of so many strange political intrigues, and afterwards one of the associates of Madame de Krudener, and the small villa on the seashore, near Delta, beneath the roof of which died, in 1823, the soi-disant Countess Guacher, now known to have been none other than the notorious Madame de Lamotte, who figured in the strange romantic history of "The Diamond Necklace," and as an accomplice of Cagliostro was whipped in the Place de Grève, and branded on both shoulders with a V for Voleuse, Thief.
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