The international environment affects the domestic environment, and the domestic environment also causes the international environment to undergo turbulent changes. Especially for a country like France that plays an important role in the European continent, the words and deeds of President Jérôme Bonaparte directly affect
changes the diplomacy of the entire European continent.
While France is in a turmoil over the issue of constitutional amendments, a drama of chaos and chaos is taking place in Germany.
The German region, which has never calmed down since the February Revolution, is finally about to face the final decisive battle. Prussia and Austria, the fateful compatriots in the German region, are fighting for the dominance of Germany.
The source of all this is closely related to Jerome Bonaparte.
After the suppression of the Hungarian revolution, when the ambitious Schwarzenberg began to plan to return to Germany, the Kingdom of Prussia coincided with the establishment of the Three Kings Alliance to resist the Austrian Empire's ambition to regain dominance in Germany.
However, Prussia was not very ambitious at that time. King Frederick William IV of Prussia only wanted to unite with Austria to divide North and South Germany using Saxony as the boundary.
For a Protestant country like Prussia, an excessive Catholic population would lead to a serious dilution of the Protestant population ratio, thus triggering a sectarian crisis. Separation of the North and the South was the solution that was most beneficial to Prussia.
While Schwarzenberg pretended to agree with Prussia's plan to separate the north and south and the Three Kings Alliance, he encouraged Prussia to suppress the revolution in the German region.
Prussia agreed to Austria's plan, the Frankfurt Confederation, which had supported Prussia as the emperor of Germany, was dissolved, and the revolution led by the middle class was suppressed. Prussia used bayonets and blood donations to make the Germans completely lose hope in it.
Prussia, which lost the support of its middle class and the National Guard, could only rely on the Alliance of Three Kings to survive.
However, the Kingdom of Prussia did not know that Schwarzenberg was secretly wooing German princes and "foreign forces" while Prussia was suppressing revolutions in German regions.
The German princes were persuaded by Austria to use the fear of revolution, and Jérôme Bonaparte of the French Republic was "deceived" by Schwarzenberg in exchange for part of the territory of the Rhineland. (Schwarzenberg believed that he had successfully deceived Jérôme.
.Bonaparte) Nicholas I of the Russian Empire also acquiesced. [Content of Chapter 148]
After currying favor with the great powers and the German vassal states, Schwarzenberg began to stir up trouble. He used the principality of Hesse and Kassel as an excuse to invade Prussia on a small scale. In order to maintain its authority, Prussia had to protect Hesse and Kassel.
The name of the Parliament of the Principality also added chips. [At that time, Prussia was dominated by liberals]
Prussia's support move completely angered the German princes. After a year-long confrontation between the two sides and spending nearly ten million francs (converted), Schwarzenberg finally invited all the German states except Prussia on September 2, 1850.
The foreign German princes went to Frankfurt to attend the German Confederation Congress.
Almost all German princely states participated in the Confederation Congress.
On October 15, after Austrian Prime Minister Schwarzenberg signed a military alliance with Bavaria and Württemberg [Chapter 252], he rushed to Tsarskoe Selo outside the Russian Empire to meet with Nicholas I.
At this time, Schwarzenberg, who was sitting in the carriage, did not know that the storm caused by Jerome Bonaparte was heading towards him.
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More than 20 kilometers south of St. Petersburg, there is a residence. This residence was a summer villa built by Peter the Great in 1717 for his wife, Empress Catherine of the Russian Empire.
The villa took seven years to be built in 1824. The two-story mansion with 16 main rooms and the surrounding gardens was completed and opened. In order to emphasize the significance of the new royal territory, it was soon called Tsarskoe Selo.
In 1741, after Peter the Great's daughter Elizabeth Petrovna ascended the throne, she also took a fancy to this place that carries memories. Under her authorization, Petersburg's best architects built this slightly more complex place.
The simple manor is expanded.
After the foundation laid by two generations of tsars, the following generations of tsars completely turned this place into a place for daily settlement and rest. In order to create a beautiful environment, the tsars of all generations did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to invite designers to design around Tsarskoe Selo.
A garden rises up around Imperial Village. Tall shrubs and lush green lawns make the entire palace dotted with greenery. The changing seasons add a touch of beauty to Imperial Village.
However, all beauty is always an embellishment of power. As the residence of the Tsar, Tsarskoe Selo had a more important role, which was to exercise the power of the entire Tsarist Russia.
The developed transportation network allowed visitors to move faster, and the nobles living around Tsarskoye Selo could better assist the tsar in governing government affairs. It can be said that the entire Tsarskoye Selo was the nerve center of this huge empire.
This country with a vast territory and tens of millions of people was in its heyday. Tsar Nicholas I and his soldiers and sycophants ruled the country with a ruthless iron fist, whipping all sizes in the empire with bayonets.
nationality.
Any nation that is unwilling to surrender to the empire will be taught a lesson by the bayonet. It can be said that no one in the direction pointed by the bayonet will not be frightened.
However, who could have known that this huge empire with a vast territory and a population of tens of millions would become the laughing stock of the entire Europe in a few years.
Who could have known that a few decades later, the two names of Empire and Tsarskoe Selo, which had run through the Romanov dynasty, would become dust in history along with the Romanov dynasty.
After the February Revolution, the Romanov dynasty fell. After the October Revolution, Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin City.
The royal family and Tsarskoye Selo were reduced to ashes under historical circumstances. The name of the poet who was once monitored by the Romanov dynasty for a long time will replace the Romanov dynasty and become the eternal memory of the Russian nation.
As long as Russia still exists, the name Pushkin will always remain in the memory of the people.
Of course, in this era, the Tsar's reputation is far greater than that of Pushkin, and the Tsar living here will also not know his destined fate. Now Nicholas I is wearing a traditional black-breasted military uniform of the Russian Empire, lying attentively
Map of Europe on the desk.
The map was densely packed with arrows and troop numbers written in Russian. Nicholas I slowly moved his hand southwest from St. Petersburg, and soon moved to the Balkans.
As his finger continued to move southward, Constantinople lay beneath Nicholas I's finger.
"Constantine..." Nicholas I murmured, tapping Constantinople on the map with his finger. His expression was particularly solemn and had a sense of sanctity.
While Nicholas I was mumbling to himself, the knock on the door of the palace attendant came from outside the room.
"Who?" Nicholas I asked the attendant outside the door in a majestic voice.
"Your Majesty, Minister Neserrode has arrived at Tsarskoye Selo! He said he has something important and wants to see you!" The palace attendant outside the door said to Nicholas I respectfully.
"Take him to the Amber Room!" Nicholas I replied.
The palace attendant took the order and left, and met Karl Neserrode, the Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire, at the Catherine Palace.
From 1822 to 1850, for nearly twenty-eight years, the Russian court changed countless ministers and chairpersons.
But the foreign minister has always been firmly at the helm of Russian diplomacy.
In addition to the trust of Emperor Nicholas I of the Russian Empire, Neserrodie herself also possessed considerable abilities (here, it means that Neserrodie was even more reactionary than Alexander I.).
[Karl-robert-nesselrode, karl-robert-nesselrode (1780-1862), count, diplomat. Germanic origin, attended high school in Berlin, joined the Russian Navy at the age of 16, and later transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Tsarist Russia
Appointed Russian Foreign Minister during the reign of Nicholas I (1822-1856)]
The palace attendant humbly said to the veteran Foreign Minister Karl Neserrode: "Your Majesty will meet you in the Amber Room!"
"Thank you very much!" Karl Neserrode expressed his gratitude slightly to the palace attendant.
Under the leadership of the palace attendants, Karl Neserrode entered the Amber Room of the Catherine Palace. The walls of the Amber Room were covered with amber, including blood amber, gold amber, large and small, and so on.
Some were put together into picture frames, some were glued to the wall, shining from lemon yellow to golden red, the brilliance was breathtaking, and the whole room seemed to be shrouded in gold.
In the center of this golden shroud, Emperor Nicholas I of the Russian Empire was sitting majestically on his throne, looking at the palace attendants and Karl Neserrodie like a mortal in god's clothing.
The longer Nicholas I stayed on the throne, the more he liked to use this method to declare his majesty and sanctity to the nobles.
His long term in power made him extremely familiar with the awe-inspiring and unethical character of the entire Russian nation. From serfs to nobles, they only loved the tyrant who kicked their butts with spurs.
Nicholas I believed that if one day he became weak, the nobles would kill him without hesitation and then put his son Alexander II on the throne.
The coup has become a "curse" for this country.
However, Nicholas I's use of the sanctity of the Amber Hall's blessing can only frighten people who do not know Nicholas I. For Karl Nesserrodie, who served Nicholas I for more than 20 years, Nicholas
This approach has long since become obsolete.
In order to coax this moody emperor, Karl Nesserrodie could only look at Nicholas I in horror, as if he had seen a ghost.
Karl Neserrodie's expression brought a smile to Nicholas I's face.
"Minister Neserrode, I wonder what news you have brought me?"