"Your Majesty, thank you for your trust in me! I am willing to obey your order and serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs!!"
Duke Golitsyn immediately responded to Nicholas I. What he needed to do now was to stabilize Nicholas I, and then quietly wait for the news of the occupation of the Winter Palace and the Ministry of War to reach Tsarskoe Selo.
"Cough...cough..." Nicholas I coughed twice slightly, smiled again and said politely: "Mr. Golitsyn, the future of the empire will be left to you!"
"Please rest assured! I will definitely not betray your trust in me!" Duke Golitsyn also responded to Nicholas I with a serious expression.
Duke Golitsyn's obedience made Nicholas I trust Duke Golitsyn even more. He slightly raised his head and glanced at the time on the grandfather clock. It was already 10 o'clock in the evening: "It's getting late, so you can
Go back and rest early!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Duke Golitsyn responded quickly, bowed to Nicholas I and left.
Duke Golitsyn, who left Tsarskoye Selo, did not return home directly. Instead, he stood a few hundred meters in front of Tsarskoye Selo, as if waiting for something.
Time passed by minute by second, and soon it was around 11 o'clock.
An army with neat formation and orderly steps appeared in the dark night like a ghost, walking towards Duke Golitsyn from far to near, and stopped in front of Duke Golitsyn.
The leader of the army saluted Prince Golitsyn and said: "Your Excellency Golitsyn, the St. Petersburg Fusiliers salute you!"
Yes, it was the St. Petersburg Fusiliers that Prince Golitsyn was waiting for.
I am afraid that Nicholas I would not have thought that this army, which was originally the Tsar's most loyal force, would now join the rebellion against him.
And all this is due to the credit of Nicholas I. If he had not authorized Nicholas Orlov to clean up the rebels in the Guards, then Duke Golitsyn would not have easily extended his hand.
to this army.
Those officers who were originally loyal to the Tsar were exiled by Duke Golitsyn. The new officers were ostensibly selected from officers loyal to the Tsar. In fact, most of them were serfs under Duke Golitsyn and were influenced by Duke Golitsyn.
After receiving funding, he successfully joined the army.
Therefore, their interests with Duke Golitsyn can be said to be mutually beneficial and mutually destructive!
Mastering the junior officers of a regiment is equivalent to mastering the entire regiment.
As for those soldiers who are illiterate, they only have the right to obey orders.
However, in order to prevent the St. Petersburg Fusiliers from making mistakes during the coup, the officers "intimately" deceived them before setting off from the station. They told the soldiers that because His Majesty the Tsar had listened to the slanders of the villains around him, he wanted to
Disbanded the St. Petersburg Fusiliers.
For these soldiers who finally joined the Guards Division, disbanding the St. Petersburg Fusiliers was simply an order from them.
So, under the deception of the officer, the soldiers decided to go to Tsarskoye Selo to kill the villain who listened to the slander. Only in this way can the supreme sanctity of His Majesty the Tsar be maintained!
"Go!" Prince Golitsyn waved his hand and ordered the St. Petersburg Fusiliers to march towards Tsarskoe Selo.
At 11:45, the St. Petersburg Fusiliers arrived at Tsarskoe Selo.
"You! You! You! Get out!" Duke Golitsyn pointed at the three battalion commanders of the St. Petersburg Fusiliers and said: "You arrest according to the list I gave you before! Remember, don't let anyone go.
!”
"Yes!" the three battalion commanders responded to Prince Golitsyn in unison.
"Start taking action!" Duke Golitsyn nodded. The three battalion commanders quickly led their soldiers to arrest the nobles in Tsarskoe Selo.
The entire Tsarskoye Selo suddenly became lively, and the head of the St. Petersburg Fusiliers led a group of soldiers to follow Duke Golitsyn to the palace where Nicholas I was staying.
When they arrived at the palace gate, the guard chief responsible for guarding the palace (this person was not Prince Golitsyn) immediately saluted Prince Golitsyn and asked why Duke Golitsyn led his soldiers here.
“My purpose is very simple!” Duke Golitsyn responded to the guard commander unhurriedly, “That is to overthrow this decadent Russian Empire and build a brand new Russia!
So can you please get out of the way and don’t get in our way!”
After hearing what Duke Golitsyn said, the guard chief's expression immediately changed. He quickly took out the pistol in his waist and said sternly to Duke Golitsyn: "Your Excellency, do you know what you are talking about? Are you talking about this?"
rebellion!"
"Rebellion?" A disdainful smile appeared on Duke Golitsyn's face, "Can you tell me who I am rebelling against?"
"Of course His Majesty Nicholas I!" the guard chief responded without thinking.
"Am I guilty of rebelling against a single man?" Prince Golitsyn asked the guard commander in a calm tone.
"Of course!" the guard commander replied without hesitation.
"If rebellion is a crime, then I ask you who will judge Emperor Catherine the Great and His Majesty Alexander I!" Duke Golitsyn told the guard chief, "Did Emperor Catherine the Great also accuse Her Majesty Peter of rebelling?"
?Is His Majesty Alexander I also rebelling against His Majesty Paul?"
"That's different!" the guard chief responded, shaking his head.
"Why is it different?" Prince Golitsyn asked again: "I don't think there is any difference between them and me. It's just that they have passed away and I am still alive!"
"No matter what, I will never allow you to do this!" the guard chief replied to Prince Golitsyn.
"It's not up to you!" A smile appeared on Prince Golitsyn's lips.
Just hearing a "pop" sound, the guard commander's vision went dark and he fell to the ground.
White smoke drifted out from the muzzle of the soldier's flintlock pistol behind the guard commander.
"Hey!" Prince Golitsyn sighed and said to himself, "Why are you doing this?"
Afterwards, Prince Golitsyn entered the palace.
Nicholas I, who was still fashionable and still in his bedroom, also heard a gunshot from the outside world. He didn't understand the outside world and had a look of panic on his face.
Until there were three knocks on the door, Nicholas I majestically asked: "Who?"
"Your Majesty, it's me!" Prince Golitsyn's voice entered the room from outside the door.
Nicholas I immediately felt a lot more settled, and he quickly responded to Duke Golitsyn: "Come in quickly!"
Prince Golitsyn entered the room, followed by the commander of the St. Petersburg Fusiliers, who also followed him.
"Who is he?" Nicholas I asked Duke Golitsyn, pointing to the leader of the Musketeers.
"Your Majesty, I am the commander of the St. Petersburg Fusiliers, Andrei Nikolaev Golitsyn!" Commander Nikolaev quickly introduced himself to Duke Golitsyn.
"Who allowed you to come here?" Nicholas I asked Nikolaev loudly, "The place you should stay now is St. Petersburg, not Tsarskoye Selo!"
"Your Majesty, I called him here!" Duke Golitsyn responded calmly, "I not only called him here alone, but also called all the members of the St. Petersburg Fusiliers!"
"What exactly do you want to do?" Nicholas I asked Nicholas I solemnly.
"Your Majesty, it's time for you to abdicate!" Prince Golitsyn responded politely.
"Abdicate?" Nicholas I, who was obsessed with power, was unwilling to abdicate just like that. He shouted at Duke Golitsyn: "I will never abdicate!"
"Your Majesty!" Duke Golitsyn responded to Nicholas I in a nonchalant manner: "If you don't choose to abdicate now, then it will be difficult for me to guarantee your life safety!"
"Do you still want to kill the king?" Nicholas I shouted loudly to Prince Golitsyn.
Duke Golitsyn did not speak, but bowed to Nicholas I. This action was enough to illustrate Duke Golitsyn's attitude!
"Okay, okay!" Nicholas I laughed angrily, and his originally pale face turned slightly red due to anger, "I am really blind, appointing a guy like you as the governor of Petersburg! I didn't expect that you
You even got together with my son! When did you collude with each other!"
"Years ago!" Prince Golitsyn replied to Nicholas I.
"Alexander is so good! He kept such a deal for me without saying a word!" Nicholas I continued to question Duke Golitsyn: "Did you also arrange the original assassination to gain me?"
Trust means!"
Duke Golitsyn nodded and replied to Nicholas I: "Yes, Your Majesty! That assassination was indeed carefully prepared by me, but what you just said about me colluding with Crown Prince Alexander is incorrect!"
"Then who are you colluding with?" Nicholas I asked Duke Golitsyn, "Is there any other son of mine who wants to wish for my death?"
"Grand Duke Nikolai (Jevich)!" Duke Golitsyn said to Nicholas I with a sad face, "After you unfortunately pass away, Grand Duke Nikolay will succeed you to the throne and become the leader of New Russia.
Tsar of the Empire!”
"Where's Alexander? Where's Constantine?" Nicholas I asked Duke Golitsyn through gritted teeth.
"Crown Prince Alexander is still fighting with the coalition forces in Crimea!" Duke Golitsyn, still wearing a sad expression, Nicholas I responded: "And Grand Duke Constantine, I'm afraid he has encountered misfortune now! Gathered in Warsaw
The extremists in the region hate your children very much!"
"You bastard!" Nicholas I roared at Duke Golitsyn: "Do you know that if you do this, you will bring down the Russian Empire!"
"Whose Russia is the current Russian Empire? It is the Russia of your Romanov family!" Duke Golitsyn replied to Nicholas I in a stern tone.