Chapter 101 Welcome to the 001th Century

Chapter 101 Welcome to the 001th Century

Chapter 101 Welcome to the 001th Century
The last decade of the 18th century was marked by many major events.

In the 19th century, the aftermath of the French people's storming of the Bastille would also bring about huge political shocks in Europe in the 19th century.

But for the people of St. Petersburg, now is just a time to welcome the arrival of the new year.

The Solovyovs also had guests at home. It was the Baroness who invited Mrs. Lebrun and Julie to her home at 4 Laundry Lane. After all, they were both French. In this situation, it was obviously unlikely that Russian was spoken.

"Mikhail really knows how to do things, because he was chosen by the emperor to join the Guards." (Mikhail is really good at doing things, otherwise he would not have been chosen by the emperor to join the Guards.)
Mrs. Le Brun always praised Soloviev, after all, he saved her daughter's reputation and marriage. Julie also married the young painter who won the Rome Prize last year. After marriage, the young couple accepted jobs at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and planned to settle here.

"But he has no feeling for young ladies now, at least not with the intention of marrying them, if he hadn't told me so when he was in Milan."

"Maybe Mikhail likes exoticism, Italian girls are really attractive." (Maybe Mikhail likes exoticism, Italian girls are really attractive.)
Julie, on the other hand, did not speak the same language as Julia, but they agreed highly when it came to amusing the children.

However, Julie also had some small troubles. When her husband was creating the "Flora" series, she contracted smallpox. She even thought that her face was disfigured and would be disliked by her husband. However, after her husband's careful care, only some shallow scars can be seen now - you have to know that her husband has never been infected with smallpox, she is taking care of her daughter entirely with maternal love.

As for Julie's slightly bulging belly, this was also a sign of some movement. However, because she was taller, the lady was not too worried about her daughter.

Probably the people who come here are French expatriates, and they are all women, communicating with each other on a daily basis, especially about raising children. My lady is about to become a grandmother.

"Mikhail is in no hurry, so he has to wait." (Mikhail is in no hurry, so he has to wait.)
When the lady heard this, she also laughed. The Baroness was only 24 years old, and she was considering these issues as a hostess.

Of course Solovyov didn't know what was happening at home. He was visiting the Academy of Sciences and he was not on vacation today, but came with a mission.

In front of these experts from the Department of Geology was a pile of huge excavated fossils, including teeth, skulls and partial spine, that is, a head.

Experts have been arguing about this big guy, but since the excavation site was near a mine on the east side of the Ural Mountains, the minerals in this area, if viewed in modern terms, are typical Permian characteristics.

However, the address classification in 1800 was not even as accurate as that decades later, and at that time, even dinosaurs had not been identified. It can be imagined that this was a desert area.

If you look at this thing, Solovyov is actually very interested in it. He has always been a geology enthusiast, but it is more for mining. Count Bobulinsky obtained two large estates from the Tsar, one in Tula and the other in Ryazan.

The count himself was planning to use his estate in Ryazan to open a mine, as there were coal resources nearby, so he also asked Solovyov to take care of this matter.

But Solovyov was more concerned about oil, especially the border areas around Chechnya and Dagestan, as well as Azerbaijan and the Persian Empire. Peter the Great did not know about the mineral deposits in these places at that time. He just wanted to expand Russia's territory to the south to the Indian Ocean coast, rather than just shrinking it to the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.

The Empress did the same thing when she was in power. During the reign of Tsar Paul, although his diplomacy fluctuated with his emotions, he never stopped expanding in the south to the Caucasus.

However, the Russian nobles gave up the opportunity to gain points by moving south and insisted on allying with Britain, causing the south to miss the best opportunity for expansion.

The Qajar dynasty of Persia can be said to be the least popular among the many dynasties that ruled the Iranian Plateau, and the treasures hidden underground in Persia are extremely rich.

Even without taking this into account, Nader Shah of Persia, as a conqueror, defeated his two neighbors, the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire. When he looted the major cities of the Mughal Empire, he obtained a huge amount of treasure. The jewels alone were shocking.

From any perspective, we should get involved in places like this.

However, Russia's attention has long been on Europe, and its actions in the Middle East have always been constrained by Britain. Later, Russia's Siberian governors reaped the benefits, and then the nobles, soldiers and civilians who were released suffered in Siberia. The North American colonies were even more "bestially managed", making the people live in dire straits. The Russian-American Company has never been able to operate, and even during Paul's time, large dividends could still be seen being paid to the Tsar, but in a few years it will enter a loss-making state.

The Russian way of doing business is indeed very confusing. They are probably bureaucratic in their bones. The only difference is that the British use delaying tactics to maintain the existing system, while the Russian system has always been rigid and they won't change unless it hurts.

This can be applied worldwide, but it is slightly different depending on the national conditions.

When looking at this fossil, there is not even the concept of the Permian period.

The representative geological structure of the Permian period comes from the double-layer rock in the Perm region of Russia, and it was not named until 1841.

Experts believe that the canine teeth identified it as a mammal.
Experts of this era always stray from the topic when they speak. Taxonomy was just beginning at that time, and a huge number of organisms existed in many geological eras. During the research, we must also pay attention to the origins of these big guys and classify them effectively.

Considering that experts are unaware of the Siberian Traps incident, this large-scale extinction event that almost wiped out all life on Earth may have been even more terrifying than the asteroid impact on Earth.

Research must be done bit by bit. Even Darwin did not exist at that time. If we find an expert, the Cuvier brothers from France are more reliable in this regard, but the classification project they carried out obviously did not have much connection with the Russian side.

They may be good at modern biological classification and are also good at identifying ancient fossils, but under the current insufficient technical conditions, it is a bit difficult for them to analyze this ancient fossil, which is most likely from the Permian period.

But Solovyov knew that the head of this thing looked like that of a wolf lizard, the giant beast that appeared in the BBC documentary.

This thing can be said to be a great overlord of the Synapsids in the late Permian period. There is also a Spinosaurus, but that one is from the early Permian period.

He could only stare blankly at the experts' nonsense, and after a while, he could no longer bear it.

By the way, he heard from his father Baron Sergei that when relatives from his hometown wrote to him, they said that they had dug up stones that looked like monster bones.

As for those semi-illiterate relatives in my hometown, it was only after the branch that left my hometown became prosperous that the literacy rate became higher and some of them were able to write letters to me. In the past, priests had to write for them.

However, the villagers were very honest and tried their best to describe what they saw, but they were a little exaggerated. What Solovyov didn't know was that the type species of this wolf lizard was a specialty of his hometown in Arkhangelsk. However, large-scale excavation work had to wait until the archaeological excavation at the end of the 19th century, and many research materials were not discovered until after 1922.

These geological experts identified it as an "ancient crocodile". Although this may be correct in defining the reptile, it is going in the wrong direction. It was told to go to the Caucasus but you ended up going to Siberia.

He felt bored, so he walked towards the Winter Palace. On the road of Million Street, he met Grand Duke Constantine again.

"Good afternoon, Your Highness!"

"Soloviev, you are walking on foot in this weather. Don't you have a sled?"

"That's all for my father. His legs are not good, and the women in the family don't go out at the moment."

"Yes, I was over there on the riverbank, and I saw Madame Lebrun go into the laundry alley. Your stepmother is French, and they should have something to talk about."

Constantine also had to take a covered sleigh to travel the distance from his own Marble Palace to the Winter Palace because he was traveling with the Grand Duchess and Sophia.

No matter how unharmonious their relationship was, now that they had a daughter, they still tried their best to maintain a peaceful relationship. Although the Grand Duchess was still planning to escape back to her parents' home recently, with her daughter here, she temporarily showed a more moderate attitude towards Constantine.

Constantine stopped beating his wife after he had a child. It seemed that the Tsar himself said something to him that had an effect on him.

This prince had a bad temper, but he was still very polite to those he considered his own, especially Solovyov, who risked his life to save his life in the Po River, and invited him to get in the car again.

"You'd better come up quickly. I'm afraid the child will be cold."

He was just like Tsar Paul, a child slave who had nothing to complain about with his brothers, sisters and nieces.

However, as soon as Soloviev got into the car, Sofia started crying, and the Grand Duchess tried many things but to no avail.

However, Solovyov, who was a part-time babysitter at home, based on his experience in taking care of his younger sister, just patted the child on the back twice, and the noise stopped.

"This child is only a few months old, but when he cries, his voice is really loud. My little sister is still like a kitten when she was learning to talk."

"Yes, although the child raised by my sister-in-law is healthy, she is not like Sofia. She grows up really fast. It has only been a month since I came back, and she has grown a lot. She is almost catching up with Maria."

This is talking about the second daughter born to Louisa. Solovyov has a conditioned reflex to this name. After all, when this girl sees him in the palace, as long as she is not on duty, she will be dragged to extract folk songs and various music. It is really terrible, and she is not paid for her wages and copyright fees!
When he was still in the Grenadiers, he was always asked by Elena to be a model for her paintings.

Recently, after getting married, Elena has been much quieter. She no longer looks for models to paint for. Instead, she starts taking German lessons in the palace. She spends the rest of her time in the palace. The prince of Mecklenburg is tall and strong, and treats Elena very gently.
I still gave this lady money, but when I thought that she might leave St. Petersburg in the spring and it would be difficult to see her in the future, I couldn't help but feel sad.

Constantine came to the palace at this time because Louisa wanted to meet her sister-in-law and bring the child with her.

Alexander also wanted to meet his younger brother. They had a good relationship. Besides, there were only women in the palace, and he didn't have much to talk to his cousin from Württemberg and his other brother-in-law. So he could only talk to his younger brother, whose brain was full of muscles. After all, they had been together since childhood and knew each other's habits very well.

Juliana was on the sled, and since she had to go to the garage to enter the Winter Palace, there was some distance to go.

She was more curious about why the major also had to practice taking care of children, as this was not something the man of the household should do.

"Your Highness, it's because my family can afford a nanny, but Amy insisted on breastfeeding. My stepmother is also interesting. She doesn't want to hire a nanny and takes care of the baby herself. She said that since Polina can walk, she can let Yulia's former nanny take care of her."

"Your little sister is named Polina?"

"Yes, I found it in the dictionary. Without the Emperor's attention, how could a small adjutant from the countryside like me be promoted two ranks at this age and even join the Imperial Guards?"

Constantine liked the fact that although Solovyov was cunning, he was honest and loyal. However, his father ordered this boy to go to the Putin Regiment, so he couldn't ask him to go to the Izmailov Regiment. After all, loyal and capable officers were scarce resources everywhere.

After all, when transcribed, this is the female usage of the name Paul.

"I think if my brother has an heir in the future, he should be raised by you. When he can't talk, you can just hold him for a while and he will be quiet. When he can walk and learn to read, he will have a good teacher."

Well, this guy Constantine really doesn't hide anything. He starts talking nonsense when he gets the chance to talk.

Of course, no one could have expected that when Louisa gave birth, all the babies that came out of her belly were girls.

Normally, the potential lovers of the Crown Princess have either gone abroad to serve as diplomats or have not yet appeared. Several suspicious Guards officers nearby do not have the courage to do so. Alexander has many mistresses outside, but Elizabeth Alexeevna is still very favored.

It is inconvenient to go out in winter, so the Crown Prince wanted to use the encyclopedia as an excuse to discuss the structure of the human body with his beloved wife.

But Louisa fell ill again recently, so Alexander turned his attention elsewhere.

That's how the year 1800 began, amidst all the trivialities and research that led nowhere.

(End of this chapter)