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Terror of Peter. His Vacillating and Feeble Character. Flight to Cronstadt. Repulse. Heroic Counsel of Munich. Peter's Return to Oranienbaum. His Suppliant Letters to Catharine. His Arrest. Imprisonment. Assasination. Proclamation of the Empress. Her Complicity in the Crime. Energy of Catharine's Administration. Her Expansive Views and Sagacious Policy. Contemplated Marriage with Count Orlof.
Catharine devoted herself anew to the improvement of her subjects in education and all physical comforts. Prince Gregory Orlof had been for many years the favorite of the empress, but he was now laid aside, and Count Potemkin took his place. Catharine now divided her extensive realms into forty-three great provinces, over each of which a governor was appointed.
One of her women entered with her, Orlof seated himself in front, a groom sprang up behind, and off they set, at headlong speed, for St. Petersburg. The distance was nearly twenty miles, and the horses, which had already covered that distance, were in very poor condition for doubling it without rest. In his haste Orlof had not thought of ordering a relay.
I wished to go to Constantinople with the Russian fleet, but as Admiral Orlof, would not meet my conditions, I retraced my steps and went to Rome under the pontificate of Ganganelli. "A happy love affair made me leave Rome and go to Naples and, three months later, an unhappy love made me return to Rome.
He was soon seized with violent colic pains. The assassins then threw him upon the floor, tied a napkin around his neck, and strangled him. Count Orlof, the most intimate friend of the empress, and who was reputed to be her paramour, was one of these murderers. He immediately mounted his horse, and rode to St. Petersburg to inform the empress that Peter was dead.
Peter's remains were exhumed placed beside those of Catherine lying in state, to share all the honors of her obsequies and to be entombed with her; while Alexis Orlof, his supposed murderer, was compelled to march beside the coffin, bearing his crown.
As a result, at five A.M.. on July 9, Alexis Orlof suddenly appeared at Peterhof, and demanded to see the empress at once. Catharine was fast asleep when the young officer hastily entered her room. He lost no time in waking her. She gazed on him with surprise and alarm. "It is time to get up," he said, in as calm a tone as if he had been announcing that breakfast was waiting.
It is known that he was visited by Alexis Orlof and another of Catherine's agents in his "pleasant" retreat, who saw him privately; that a violent struggle was heard in his room; and that he was found lying dead with the black and blue mark of a colossal hand on his throat. That the hand was Orlof's is not doubted; but whether acting under orders from Catherine or not will never be known.
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