Beginning: "Why did Anna need to fight Turkey?"
The next emperor after Anna Ioannovna was the newly born baby Ivan 6. More precisely, his mother-regent, Anna Leopoldovna.
But a year later, on November 25, 1741, he was overthrown, imprisoned in isolation, and Elizaveta Petrovna took his place.
In Europe, meanwhile, the war for the Austrian succession broke out. The fact is that in 1740, at the age of 55, the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Charles 6, suddenly died. They say that he poisoned himself with some kind of stale food. It seems like mushrooms.
Karl 6.
And in order to distract Russia from this conflict, an ally of France and Spain - Sweden, declared war on us.
Sweden … has … declared war on us. And then she lost Finland. And on June 23, 1743, the cousin of the Russian heir to Peter III Fedorovich, Adolf Frederick, was placed on the Swedish throne. After that, eternal peace was again concluded, and part of Finland and Karelia passed into Russian citizenship.
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After that, they lagged behind Russia. No one prevented the European states from beating and mutuzat each other while Elizabeth's subjects were exploring and developing Siberia. Which somehow suddenly became a draw …
But is it only Siberia? It was during this period that wars take place all over the planet. Under the strange name "War of the Austrian Succession", there was a seizure and redistribution of the deserted planet. And each state went to the seizure of those territories where there was no resistance - Russia to the south and to Siberia, England, Portugal, France Spain divided America, Africa, India.
Only 13 years later, in 1756, we were again drawn into the European civil strife.
The initiator was the Prussian king Frederick2. You can discuss a lot about the reasons for such impolite behavior of the king, but it is enough just to look at the map of the world to understand that all the parties to the conflict were busy re-division of the world, and only Prussia was in the center of Europe and could not expand in either direction. It seems to me that this was the reason. However, in the end, Russian troops under the command of Saltykov reached Berlin and took it.
Frederick 2.
Another strange fact that could have pushed Frederick to such a rash step is the state of Elizabeth. It is reported that around this time she was strangely dying. That did not stop her from reigning for another 6 years.
It is the death of Elizabeth that should interest us in this story.
As reported in the notorious Wikipedia, on December 25, 1761, Elizabeth died of throat bleeding due to a chronic disease unidentified by medicine at that time. This is strange. Let's say for those times it was an unidentified chronic disease. But can't you find out now what is the reason? Valentin Pikul, in his story "Feather and Epee", made the assumption that Elizabeth went too far with arsenic, which in those days was fashionable to take in small doses, just to avoid poisoning.
Let's digress from the story for a second and conduct a mini-investigation - ask the omniscient Internet what disease the symptoms correspond to.
So the symptoms: fainting, possibly seizures, burning in the chest, and throat bleeding before death.
The first thing the search engine gives out is foreign objects in the throat. for example a knife. That is, as an option - murder. It cannot be ruled out, but unlikely.
Arsenic poisoning, according to the symptoms, does not fit the word at all. What remains is tuberculosis and cancer of the throat or lungs. With tuberculosis, events develop faster, and the environment would be re-infected. Moreover, the disease is chronic.
Thus, it looks most like cancer of the throat or lungs in the last stage. But I'm not a doctor, so I look forward to your comments. Correct me.
Continuation: "Black Widow - Catherine II"
