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The next day an officer, at the head of a body of the Guards three hundred in number, was dispatched from the monastery to demand of the Princess Sophia, at her palace, that she should give up Thekelavitaw, in order that he might be brought to trial on a charge of treason. Sophia was extremely unwilling to comply with this demand.
Sophia at the height of her power Military expeditions The Cham of Tartary Mazeppa Origin and history His famous punishment Subsequent history The war unsuccessful Sophia's artful policy Rewards and honors to the army The opposition Their plans Reasons for the proposed marriage The intended wife Motives of politicians Results of Peter's marriage Peter's country house Return of Galitzin The princess's alarm The Cossacks Sophia's plot The commander of the Guards Prince Galitzin Details of the plot Manner in which the plot was discovered Messengers dispatched The sentinels The detachment arrives Peter's place of refuge Sophia's pretenses The Guards Sophia attempts to secure them They adhere to the cause of Peter Sophia's alarm Her first deputation Failure of the deputation Sophia appeals to the patriarch His mission fails Sophia's despair Her final plans She is repulsed from the monastery The surrender of Thekelavitaw demanded He is brought to trial He is put to the torture His confessions Value of them Modes of torture applied Various punishments inflicted Galitzin is banished His son shares his fate Punishment of Thekelavitaw Decision in respect to Sophia Peter's public entry into Moscow He gains sole power Character and condition of John Subsequent history of Sophia
Thekelavitaw, the commander of the Guards, selected six hundred men to go with him to Obrogensko. They were to go in the night, the plan being to seize Peter in his bed. When the appointed night arrived, the commander marshaled his men and gave them their instructions, and the whole body set out upon their march to Obrogensko with every prospect of successfully accomplishing the undertaking.
The commander-in-chief of the Guards at this time was a man named Theodore Thekelavitaw. He had been raised to this exalted post by Sophia herself on the death of Couvansky. She had selected him for this office with special reference to his subserviency to her interests. She determined now, accordingly, to confide to him the execution of her scheme for the assassination of Peter.
Thekelavitaw was brought to trial in the great hall of the monastery, where a court, consisting of the leading nobles, was organized to hear his cause.
There was, of course, nothing now for Thekelavitaw to do but to return, discomfited and alarmed, to the Princess Sophia, and report the failure of their scheme. In the mean time Peter had fled to the Monastery of the Trinity, the common refuge of the family in all cases of desperate danger. The news of the affair spread rapidly, and produced universal excitement.
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