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Old Munnich undertook to save him, by one, by two or even three different methods, "Only order me, and stand up to it with sword bare!" but Peter's wits were all flying miscellaneously about, and he could resolve on nothing. Peter and his Czarina never met more. Consideration is: "To Holstein?
That is very well, you are now in a good way! Only go on, and I will help you to find me guilty, if it be only of simple high-treason. It will then be left to the mercy of your empress to declare me convicted of threefold high-treason! Go on, go on!" But Munnich showed himself less unruffled and sarcastic in the face of his judges.
"Hem! perhaps it would have been better for me to have been already taken ill, for if this plan should miscarry, and the regent discover that I was in the palace to-day, how then? Ah, I already seem to feel a draught of Siberian air! But no, it will succeed, and how would that ambitious Munnich triumph should it succeed without me!
It was a cold November night of the year 1740. The deserted streets were hushed in silence, and no one of the occupants of the dark houses, no one on earth, dreamed that this carriage, whose rumbling was only half heard in sleep, was in a manner the thundering herald of new times and new lords. Munnich had chosen his time well.
"The back doors are in all cases of the greatest importance," said Count Ostermann, earnestly. "Through back doors one often attains to the rooms of state, and had your palace here accidentally had no back door for the admission of us, your devoted servants, who knows, your highness Anna, whether you would on this very night become regent!" "On this night!" suddenly exclaimed Munnich.
"Munnich being gone to his own Town-Mansion, and Regent Anne sitting in hers in a huddle of undress; little accessible to her long-headed melancholic Ostermann, and too accessible to her Livonian maid: with poor little Anton Ulrich pouting and remonstrating, but unable to help, this state of matters, with such intrigues undermining it, could not last forever.
They spoke of past times, of the happy days when the Empress Anna yet reigned, and when all breathed of pleasure and enjoyment at that happy court; and perhaps it was these recollections that rendered Biron sad and thoughtful. He was absent and low-spirited, and his large, flashing eyes often rested with piercing glances upon the calm and smiling face of Munnich.
It was in this posture of affairs, about a month after it had begun, that Winterfeld arrived in Petersburg; and addressed himself to Munnich, on the Prussian errand.
But you are in the right. The regent has deeply offended you. How could he dare refuse to make you his generalissimo?" "Ah, it is not for that," said Munnich with embarrassment; and, seeking to give the conversation a different turn, he continued "ah, see, Count Ostermann, what a terrible animal is crawling there upon your dress!"
No proof or conviction was required; Munnich had said it, and that sufficed; the Dolgoruckis were annihilated! But Natalie Dolgorucki still lived, and from the bloody scene of her husband's execution she repaired to Kiew. There would she live in the cloister of the Penitents, preserving the memory of the being she loved, and imploring the vengeance of Heaven upon his murderers!
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