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Peter the Great in Berlin

26 Tuesday Nov 2019

Posted by paulskin in Events

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berlin, carlyle, fritz, geschichte, history, hohenzollern, monbijou, preußen, prussia, wilhelmine

Finally reading more of Carlyle’s History of Frederick the Great I was pleasantly surprised to find that Peter the Great of Russia begged to stay at Schloß Monbijou during his state visit in 1717 as he wanted some peace and quiet (Book IV, Chapter VII).  The Queen was apparently none too pleased and attempted to remove anything breakable (or is that poetic licence from Carlyle…). As with Königsberg I feel a strange affinity to the place, such a shame that the lovely palace by the river is now a nondescript park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The description of parts of the visit Carlyle takes from Wilhelmine of Prussia´s (Fritz´s older sister´s) memoirs so of course I had to buy a copy, in German selbstverständlich, not French, God forbid.

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