Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

In Dresden, Solovyov could live in Prince Vasily Dolgorukov's house, but he arranged for him to live in the bedroom upstairs, and several officers were arranged to live in the housekeeper's room that had been vacated before. The Cossacks

These guards Cossacks set up tents, lit bonfires, and lived directly in the yard. Since they all had money, if they wanted to live comfortably, they could also find a place in the city to pay rent.

Although they all said that the Cossacks were barbaric, they were more civilized when they really entered the city.

It's just that when marching in the army, there are still some who prefer to steal, such as the military rations and personal belongings of friendly forces.

But when they came out to do things with the salary increase, they looked very safe.

There will be a week of rest next, and Solovyov also asked these Cossacks to go to Dresden. He sat down and had some time, and he was ready to take this opportunity to make some summaries of the current military regulations.

The failure of the anti-French alliance this time, which was defeated by the French army on the battlefield, was not only due to Napoleon's cheating.

Even on the battlefield, the coalition achieved considerable results, but the result was still a disastrous defeat. There are many problems here.

In particular, the command structure of the coalition did not perform very well.

However, it was unlikely that he would be able to calm down in Prince Dolgorukov's official residence. The prince and his wife also lived here, and they always had to entertain him in the reception room for coffee and dinner.

At the dinner table, Solovyov had to deal with questions from the couple and their eldest daughter. After leaving St. Petersburg for a long time, they had to be reintroduced into the social circle after returning.

Of course, Vasily Vasilyevich also wanted to know who had more weight in social occasions in St. Petersburg.

"You asked me this question, and I can only say that it looks no different from when you left. It doesn't look like when His Majesty Paul was here, but it looks like when the Empress was here."

"When the Empress was still here, you were still in Moscow, how could you know?"

Soloviev nodded in agreement after hearing this.

But Prince Vasily's daughter Ekaterina said: "At that time, Brother Mishka was still a lieutenant, I remember"

Prince Vasily is also a wise old man. Except that he is always constrained by his sister Praskovya, he can handle many things with ease.

It's just a daughter, at that time, she was sensible.

Soloviev remembered that he had already met this girl when he first appeared in a social occasion.

Little Katya, what exactly does she think? Solovyov can probably guess that she just has a good impression of her. When she was in the palace, she often brought big and small children with her. She was completely a nanny wearing the uniform of a Guards officer.

Of course, there are some emotional factors involved, but you must be careful when you go to Louisa in the future, after all, she is the queen.

Moreover, Solovyov personally prefers girls with blonde hair, and little Katya has dark hair. In terms of personal relationship, he treats her more like a sister, after all, she has a close relationship with her sister Yulia.

Little Katya is also more concerned about how Yulia is now.

"Brother Mishka, is Yulia okay now?"

"Of course she is very good. In a few years, she will be able to graduate from the girls' school. If you go back to Petersburg, it will be very convenient to see her."

"That's great, but I don't know how her dance homework is."

Soloviev also knows the homework that little Katya mentioned. This girl has a slender figure and is also quite flexible. It must be when she was a child playing with Yulia, the two girls liked to dance with friends.

If Tchaikovsky hadn't been around yet, I'm afraid the two of them could have called their friends, not to mention the Four Little Swans, but The Nutcracker, or some larger ballet segments, and they could have danced them out.

This girl has never been considered smart. Solovyov thought about it and realized that most of the noble ladies he had met had spent more time at home, and were always a little naive and didn't know the dangers of this world.

Therefore, the things she mentioned were generally like this.

"Okay, Katya, you can go back in a few days, and then you can meet Yulia. She is Misha's sister, so it's convenient to meet."

Prince Vasily wanted to bring the topic back. He also planned to have a good relationship with Prince Saltykov's family after returning. Fortunately, the wife of this tutor was from the same clan as him. Although she had a bad reputation in social occasions, the status of this family was too high and he couldn't bypass them.

Solovyov didn't know about the lady yet, because he had ridiculed her in person in a salon in Petersburg a few years ago, and she had always held a grudge against him, which almost ruined his marriage.

Of course, he didn't expect that little Katya was interested in him.

And who the little girl likes may change after a while.

"As for the Guards, my son Vasya is going to the Guards, so I'd like to trouble you, Misha, to say a few good words to His Highness Constantine."

"Vassily Vasilyevich, you think too highly of me. With the old prince's reputation and your own status, you just need to talk to His Highness."

"But you have to find a good place to be an officer. Being an adjutant doesn't seem to have a future. We retired generals all know that."

That's true. It's easy to be an adjutant in the Guards.

However, the lieutenants and captains in the Guards still need to be competent in the company.

After all, in an army, the company is the basic management unit, and a basic tactical unit is the company. After the Guards fought on the front line, Grand Duke Constantine would only select experienced officers to supplement them first. The previous practice of transferring noble children may not be so effective.

There is no way. When they withdrew, everyone saw that the Russian army needed a reform to improve the combat effectiveness of the army itself.

"Well, Vasily Vasilyevich, this is not too difficult. If it is the Guards Chasseur Regiment, I am the commander there after all, which is easy to handle, but after all, it is a new regiment in the Guards Regiment. To enter the old regiment, His Highness's approval is required."

This is not difficult. After a few days, we will set off on the journey back to St. Petersburg.

Prince Vasily was also very satisfied with this. This young man was very sincere in his words. He would do what he promised.

So, he entertained Soloviev and the officers of the Guards Cossacks at home for a few days. After a few days, they would set out on the road back to St. Petersburg.

Soloviev was quite good. He wanted to arrange a route back.

After looking at the map, he also knew that he would inevitably launch military operations around Poland in the future. With the level of the Prussian army and the fact that the Russian army had not signed any armistice agreement with France, it seemed inevitable to fight with the French army in Poland.

As for this journey, because there were Russian expatriates returning from Saxony on the road, they did not walk very fast.

This slow journey was convenient for Soloviev to survey the terrain along the way, especially to pay attention to the main roads. It was necessary for both sides to build traffic lines around these roads and towns.

On this road, Soloviev and Bao Hong took a small team of Cossacks to conduct a careful investigation until they reached the vicinity of Warsaw.

Speaking of which, the Poles did not refuse to entertain them just because they were Russians.

When Soloviev met Goethe, the great writer had suggested that it was not advisable to start a rebellion at this time. Although patriotic, it was not advisable to confront a huge force that one could not resist.

What he said did make some sense. Unless they could not survive, most people would just live a simple life. If you did not force them, the Poles would not rebel.

At least before Napoleon came here, the Poles were not so crazy.

Soloviev also needed to find a place for the prince and his family to settle down. It would be best to find a house of a small Polish noble, and it would be even better if there was a manor.

However, along the way, Soloviev did not find a big house, and finally settled in the house of a young local landlord.

"Vassily Vasilyevich, this is the best place nearby. The host is very hospitable and will let us stay here."

"Not bad, it's clean."

As for this tall young Polish landowner, Soloviev felt familiar, especially when he rode a horse to entertain him personally. The way he rode a horse was also familiar, especially when he was wearing the uniform of a Polish lancer.

"Thank you, young man. As guests, we should also know your name."

Prince Vasily asked this, and the other party answered very straightforwardly: "My name is Joseph Rokossovsky, the landlord of this village."

Soloviev suddenly realized the surname after hearing it, but there was no further evidence.

After all, he didn't know what his ancestors did, but there was a little black humor in that he was indeed of noble origin. Joseph was his great-grandfather, who was still a small Polish noble with some land at that time. But when it came to his grandfather, he participated in the January Uprising in Poland against the rule of the Tsarist Russia, and was eventually arrested and lost his land, which led to his decline.

Then, when it came to driver Luo, it was the same.

His family was a native of Warsaw, and three of the four generations opposed the Tsar. Then it was driver Luo who led the army to support the hometown army in the Warsaw Uprising at the risk of his life.

As for the Poles in the Home Army, I'm afraid that many of them are still obedient citizens of Poland and lackeys of the former Tsarist Russia. It is driver Luo who is a true Polish loyalist, but his position and beliefs are very different.

"No wonder. You look familiar. Like my acquaintance Constanti, he is as tall and strong as you."

"Aha, there are indeed quite a few people in our family. Speaking of which, our ancestors came from the village of Rokosovo, and there were ministers of the Kingdom of Poland in the past, and some relatives are in Russia."

"Poles in Russia?"

"Yes, even Russian nobles should have relatives in Poland, right?"

"Speaking of which, our current Foreign Minister Czartoryski is a brother-in-law of our emperor. In addition, the Saltykov family also has noble relatives in Poland."

This is true. The "Humphreyski" once mentioned that among his relatives, there are indeed genuine Polish nobles, and some other Russian nobles also have relatives in Poland.

Not to mention, even the brothers Alexander and Constantine had a pair of Polish sisters as mistresses, but Alexander's mistress was the younger sister, while Constantine's mistress was the older sister.

And Poland's attack on Moscow was almost two hundred years ago.

Speaking of which, in this era, ethnic hatred was not so strong, and most people still wanted to restore their country. If there were ethnic and religious hatreds, it was still a feature of the Ottoman Empire, and it was not so outrageous in Europe.

Otherwise, looking at the Czechs in Bohemia, they all lived well, and the Hungarian nobles did not show any signs of rebellion under the rule of the Habsburgs. The failed uprising ten years ago was still the "Jacobin" of Hungary who wanted to come, but was quickly suppressed by the Habsburgs.

Rokossovsky in front of him did not hate the Russians. When Poland was divided, the Russians did not take much, and the Queen's past operations were also very confusing. In addition, Czartoryski has always been a relatively moderate person among the restorationists, and he still has some appeal.

The Germans, on the other hand, were more hated. After all, when Poland's ancestors were still very rich, they often fought with the Swedes and German princes. Moreover, Prussia occupied the area around Warsaw, and when they couldn't defeat them, they asked for the Russian army.

Of course, that was also the dark history of Suvorov and Bagration. They launched a brutal suppression in the Braga district in the east of Warsaw, and the war was not very smooth.

Soloviev knew about this. He also knew that when his senior brother was young, he was captured by Mansur Sheikh of Chechnya. It was Bagration himself who told him. Because he was a member of the Georgian royal family and a middle-level officer, he was released by the Chechens.

But when it comes to these things, Soloviev also feels that people of this era are more civilized than some extreme guys in the 20th century, and they are more martial.

Whether it is the Poles or the Sheikh of Chechnya, 200 years later, it is called a madman.

Joseph Rokossovsky's hospitality was quite warm. His village didn't have much land, but he still used the highest standards to entertain the guests.

This was indeed different from what was promised to the Poles.