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Updated: June 13, 2025
Clear as crystal, says one; dexterously obscure by design, says another. "Rumor that the Grand-Duke of Lorraine," Maria Theresa's Husband, "was at Reinsberg incognito lately," Grand-Duke a concerting party, think people looking into the thing with strong spectacles on their nose! Very astonishing to Jordan. No. 3. "BERLIN, 20th DECEMBER. M. de Beauvau," French Ambassador, "is gone.
When at home, Friedrich is still occasionally with his Queen; who lives at Schonhausen, in the environs of Berlin, but goes with him to Charlottenburg, to old Reinsberg; and has her share of galas in his company, with the Queen Mother and cognate Highnesses.
And THIRDLY, what must be our main topic here, there is that of Improving the Domesticities, the Household Enjoyments such as they were; especially definable as Renewal of the old Reinsberg Program; attempt more strenuous than ever to realize that beautiful ideal.
But in the Third grand Head, that of realizing the Reinsberg Program, beautifying his Domesticities, and bringing his own Hearth and Household nearer the Ideal, Friedrich was nothing like so successful; in fact had no success at all.
It was under escort of Baltimore, "an English Milord," recommended from Potsdam itself, that Algarotti came to Reinsberg; the Signor had much to do with English people now and after.
It is almost touching to reflect how unexpectedly, like a bolt out of the blue, all this had come upon Friedrich; and how it overset his fine program for the winter at Reinsberg, and for his Life generally. Not the Peaceable magnanimities, but the Warlike, are the thing appointed Friedrich this winter, and mainly henceforth.
Improvement of his own Domesticities and Household Enjoyments," renewal of the Reinsberg Program, in short. "In the First of these objects," continues he, "King Friedrich's success was very considerable, and got him great fame in the world.
I cannot better describe it to my Most All-gracious Father than by that street in Gumbinnen where you go up to the Town-hall, except that no house here is whitewashed. The Schloss is fine, and lies on a lake, with a big garden; pretty much like Reinsberg in situation.
Stands there, handsomely abutting on the Lake with two Towers, a Tower at each angle, which it has on that lakeward side; and looks, over Reinsberg, and its steeple rising amid friendly umbrage which hides the house-tops, towards the rising sun. Townward there is room for a spacious esplanade; and then for the stables, outbuildings, well masked; which still farther shut off the Town.
One of his Letters to Friedrich has this slightly impertinent passage; Friedrich, just getting settled in Reinsberg, having transiently mentioned 'the quantity of fair sex' that had come about him there:
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