But guess who doesn't get told this? Vergennes, the ambassador! Now, he's part of the King's Secret, so he should be in on all the secret diplomacy. But now we have three diplomacies: the official one, the secret one the king wants, and the secret one the foreign minister wants. *facepalm* (which I wrote before your comment to that effect)
she ended up with a major rebellion, the Pugachev rebellion, in 1773, in which a Cossack was pretending to be her husband Peter III and claiming to be tsar Whaaat.
All right, that is a gripping description of the coup! Although this sentence is ominous... For the first and last time in his life he had shown that he was everything that his most devoted admirers believed him to be.
Re: 1764-1772 Foreign policy: Sweden: Gustav's coup (1772)
*facepalm* (which I wrote before your comment to that effect)
she ended up with a major rebellion, the Pugachev rebellion, in 1773, in which a Cossack was pretending to be her husband Peter III and claiming to be tsar
Whaaat.
All right, that is a gripping description of the coup! Although this sentence is ominous... For the first and last time in his life he had shown that he was everything that his most devoted admirers believed him to be.