menzikoff's

Updated: May 3, 2025

After the ceremony had been performed in the chapel, the emperor and empress went from the chapel into Menzikoff's palace, and remained there until the time arrived to repair to the palace of the Czar. Then a grand procession was formed, and the married pair were conducted through the streets to their own palace with great parade.

Jacob Abbott - Peter the Great

She had several of her kindred, and a great many acquaintance in the army, who were in considerable posts, to all of whom she exclaimed against the loose behaviour, as she termed it, of Edelia, and represented her charities to the prisoners as the effects of a wanton inclination: this she doubted not but would come to prince Menzikoff's ears, and perhaps incense him enough to cause her to be privately made away with; for as she imagined nothing less than the most amorous intercourse between her and Horatio, she thought it unadvisable to declare the passion she had for him, till a rival so formidable, by the advantages she had over her in youth and beauty, should be removed.

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Conditions of success in life The selection of agents Building a house Secret of success Peter's youth Le Fort and Menzikoff Merchants of Amsterdam Le Fort in the counting-house He goes to Copenhagen He becomes acquainted with military life The ambassador Le Fort an interpreter He attracts the attention of the emperor His judicious answers Gratification of the emperor The embassador's opinion The glass of wine Le Fort given up to the emperor His appointment at court His subsequent career Uniforms Le Fort's suggestion An embassador's train Surprise and pleasure of the Czar Le Fort undertakes a commission Making of the uniforms He enlists a company The company appears before the emperor The result New improvements proposed Changes Remodeling of the tariff Effects of the change The finances Carpenters and masons brought in New palace Le Fort's increasing influence His generosity Peter's violent temper Le Fort an intercessor Prince Menzikoff His early history He sets off to seek his fortune His pies and cakes Negotiations with the emperor Menzikoff in Le Fort's company Menzikoff's real character Quarrel between Peter and his wife Cause of the quarrel Ottokesa's cruel fate Grave faults in Peter's character

Jacob Abbott - Peter the Great

The prisoners expectations raised: a terrible disappointment: some of the chief carried to prince Menzikoff's palace: their usage there. Horatio set at liberty, and the occasion.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.