Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 6, 2025
Casting an angry glance at Razumovsky, Elizabeth said, with a sinister smile: "Swear to me, by all you hold most sacred, to find some fault in this Countess Lapuschkin which shall give me the right to condemn her to death!" "I swear it by all I hold most sacred," solemnly responded Lestocq. "And you will do well in that!" exclaimed Alexis.
She was to-day in very good humor, very happy and free from care, for Alexis Razumovsky had, with the most solemn asserverations, assured her of his truth and devotion, and Elizabeth had been soothed and reconciled by his glowing language.
This was the reason why Elizabeth resolved to marry Alexis Razumovsky; this was the reason why she, in a solitary chapel, accompanied only by Lestocq and the priest, stood before the marriage-altar with Alexis, and became his wife.
"We must at any rate give our son a respectable father," said she. "I hope we shall have a son, who will be as beautiful as his father; whom I will overload with honors, and place high above all the magnates of my court. Ah, a son! No daughter, Alexis!" "And why no daughter?" smilingly asked Razumovsky.
"What is it, Woronzow?" asked the princess, while, wholly unembarrassed by the presence of the lackey, she played with the profuse dark locks of the kneeling Razumovsky. "An invitation from the Regent Anna to a court-ball, which is to take place fourteen days hence," said Woronzow. "Ah, our good cousin is, then, so gracious as to remember us," cried the princess, with a somewhat clouded brow.
She had become empress because Lestocq was tired of being only physician to a poor princess; because Grunstein thought the position of under-officer was far too humble for him, and because Alexis Razumovsky, the former precentor in the imperial chapel, found it desirable to add to his name the title of count or prince! When St.
The eyes of the princess shone yet brighter, and with a tender glance at Alexis Razumovsky she said: "Yes, I will make him a prince and overload him with presents and honors. Ah, that is an object worth the pains of struggling for an imperial crown."
On the upper shore of this river, second only to the Neva in its perennial fascination, and facing on the Prospekt, stands the Anitchkoff Palace, on the site of a former lumber-yard, which was purchased by the Empress Elizabeth, when she commissioned her favorite architect, Rastrelli, to erect for Count Razumovsky a palace in that rococo style which he used in so many palaces and churches during her reign and that of Katherine II., the rococo style being, by the way, quite the most unsuited discoverable for Russian churches.
"Name your request once more, I have forgotten it!" said Elizabeth with vehemence. Alexis Razumovsky fell upon his knees before her, and, imploringly raising his hands, said: "Elizabeth, my empress, have compassion for my care and anxiety on your account; leave me not to tremble for your safety! Grant me the happiness of seeing you unthreatened and free from danger in your greatness and splendor!
Banished, cast off, like Lestocq. Where was Alexis Razumovsky? Ah, well for her! He stood at her bedside, he pressed her cold hand in his; he yet, in the face of death, thanked her for all the benefits she had heaped upon him. But alas! she was also surrounded by others by wild, pale, terrible forms, which were unseen by all except the dying empress!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking