Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

Chapter 493 Charlotte and Nicholas' meeting
Solovyov's memorial reached St. Petersburg very quickly. He sent it in November, when St. Petersburg was facing a diplomatic decision, namely the issue of relations with Sweden.

Alexander was also very annoyed. The King of Sweden was unwilling to withdraw from the anti-French alliance and also hoped to gain benefits in Norway. It was difficult to persuade him.

However, when he saw these documents, Queen Louise happened to be visiting here with her daughters. Naturally, he couldn't get angry, and he still had to make a gesture.

Especially since his wife and Queen Louise brought their baby girls with them, he couldn't afford to have that impression.

"Your Majesty, King Gustav has said that he will not abandon Britain and has rejected the suggestion of diplomatic negotiations."

"Badberg, you've worked very hard. This kind of thing is always hard to avoid. We can find a time to hold a meeting later. You can call all the key officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"There's no need to follow the British way of seeing the monarch and walking backwards when leaving, especially since I'm sitting at the door with a French window behind me."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After all, Badberg had once been his teacher, so Alexander still maintained a certain respect for him.

As for Queen Louise in front of her, she couldn't let the guest leave now, and she pretended that this incident had never happened.

In fact, Prussia could still get some benefits back from Sweden. Those towns along the coast of Pomerania that belonged to Sweden could belong to Prussia. Therefore, the queen pretended not to hear it and was still holding Louisa's youngest daughter, Lisa.

Of course, children obviously love such a spectacular pair of white grapefruits.

Since their real names actually overlap, the official name Queen Louise gave to Louisa was also her name in Russia.

"Look at your little Lisa, she seems to like me a lot."

"Luckily she's been weaned, otherwise she might still want to ask you, oh, what did I say?"

"It doesn't matter. I'm pregnant again now, so I should have no problem raising a child."

Although Queen Louise is not as healthy as she used to be, she is still much stronger than Louisa.

Alexander also had an idea. After taking care of his older daughters, he left the queen's bedroom and prepared to go to the emperor's bedroom. As for what he was going to do there, the two queens had no idea.

After all, a monarch also has some privacy rights, and Alexander was a passionate man.

You know, if Queen Louise lived here for a long time, it would easily cause gossip. Fortunately, after she moved here from Memel, she has been living with the Queen, and she is pregnant.

Even if the person who did this was identified as Napoleon, it would be impossible for Alexander to have anything to do with it. He had a good personal relationship with the Queen of Prussia, but considering that the other party had fabricated rumors about him and his brother's wife, this matter was not a big deal.

As a result, the Queen's bedroom has recently developed into a large gathering place for mothers. Elena and Maria also bring their children here to exchange experiences in raising children and share their babies.

Only Maria brought her son. Elena's eldest son Paul Frederick was already grown up. Whenever he was playing, he would be called away by Nikolai and Mikhail and was not here.

Louisa also adopted the daughter of her best friend Golitsyna, who was also named Elizabeth. As for Princess Golitsyna, also known as Natalia the Elder, her health was very poor and she had to go to the sanatorium but could not bring her child with her, so she sent her daughter to the palace when she was just weaned.

Louisa also intended to have each of her daughters adopt some of her best friends' children as playmates, especially the children born by her closest partners.

At this moment, she gave her biological daughter to Queen Louise, while she herself took care of Natalia's child.

"Lisa, why does your daughter have green eyes?"

Queen Louise has always been sensitive and gossipy, and she would not miss any possible gossip.

"But look at Lisa's face shape, it's still very similar to mine, and the baby's hair is golden. This may be God's will. When I gave birth to Polina and Sveta, one of them had blue eyes and the other had green eyes. But look at them now, aren't they both healthy and lively?"

Moreover, the 6-year-old twins are smarter than their two sisters combined. Besides being naughty, they use their smartness to be cute and adorable.

They had already conquered Charlotte and were holding her arms on both sides. Although they did not use any clever tricks or schemes, they managed to take away a lot of candies brought by Queen Louise from the Prussian princess.

"These two kids are really smart and cute, but you should not let them eat too much candy, as it is bad for their teeth. Charlotte is just an older child, she just likes these two little sisters and gives them candy without restraint."

"That's easy. When Misha was in the palace, he took care of our Candy. Now he has a wife and is on his honeymoon trip in Crimea. I'm afraid he has forgotten all about us."

Elena found it strange that Maria interrupted like this, because she had always been the smartest among the sisters. She knew Maria's little thoughts, which were just wanting to have some ambiguous relationship with Solovyov. She didn't dare to think about going further.

But they all married abroad, and the Russian princesses' families have always been very powerful, so it would not be surprising if one of them really became a bit unruly.

Especially the fourth sister, Catherine, who was spoiled by her mother. If the brother-in-law is cowardly and incompetent, it may be more troublesome.

She had never thought that Maria had shown affection to Soloviev in private, and even kissed him. Maria had not taken it any further because she was also concerned that Soloviev was getting married, and she would still bless the person she loved, and she would talk about what would happen in the future, so there was no bigger news at the Yelgava Palace at that time.

Thinking about it, Solovyov was very polite and well-behaved in front of her, so she would not resist him wearing women's clothes.

She could guess that the rumored maid at the small coronation ceremony of her brother and sister-in-law in St. Petersburg might be Misha, the cunning fox in disguise, but she could not say it out loud.

Elena was always the smartest among the sisters and she knew her limits. She was also very content, liked her husband and loved him deeply.

Therefore, her married life was the sweetest and she gave birth to three children. Her husband, worried about her health, came from Schwerin to accompany her and took good care of her.

Queen Louise looked at her with a little envy. When the two were in Berlin, the citizens gave high praise to their beauty. However, looking at her husband, King FW, she was far inferior to Elena's calm and tall husband.

If it weren't for her husband, children, country, and her own family, she might have to learn from her sister to live another life. At this time, Queen Louise's gossiping spirit was awakened again, and she began to ask Maria before Elena opened her mouth.

"Who is this Misha? In Russia he is called Mikhail, but here we have many people called Michael. General Kutuzov is called this name, and so is the young Prince Dolgorukov."

Queen Louise seemed to be searching indiscriminately, but in fact she had an idea in her mind and had heard something about what happened in the St. Petersburg Palace.

Elena spoke up at this time: "It's Count Solovyov. He used to be a guard officer beside my father. Because he is educated and understands music and art, I often call him to the palace to help."

"So it's him. He's really good-looking and talented."

The queen has always been more concerned about her image. This time she endured humiliation for Prussia. There were many rumors in the outside world, and even the main reason was not Napoleon's dirty talk. There were testimonies from people on duty outside that the queen and Napoleon had been talking across the table. The King of Prussia was a bit nosy - this came from the French Old Guards and the Russian Guards who were on duty together that day.

"I haven't seen him for a long time. If you think about it, when he was wearing girls' clothes, you couldn't tell he was a boy, especially after he put on makeup."

Elena had been recuperating from an illness, and her condition improved in the winter, so she returned to St. Petersburg. Therefore, she had not seen Solovyov recently.

However, Louisa and Maria had both seen him. Queen Louise was more curious about what Solovyov looked like as a child, so she asked her sisters to call him over often.

Even Elena's impression of Solovyov is often that of an honest but smart young man. After all, he was still quite immature at that time, not like the relaxed person he is later on.

However, when Elena said this, Maria was not very sensible and actually set a trap for her brother.

"But Nicholas should be good. If I give him my clothes, he might look good."

Nicholas was not with his mother at the moment, but was attending school in the palace, even taking separate age-group classes from Mikhail.

If the master came to play with his sister-in-law and elder sister after class, no one would stop him.

What's more, with the arrival of a nephew, he and Mikhail now had some playmates, and they could often be seen in the corridors of the palace.

Especially now it is very unfortunate that the little nephew from Mecklenburg wants to go back to see his mother again, so he and Mikhail have to bring him here. After all, he is most familiar with the way to the Queen's bedroom, and his sister-in-law has taken them here many times.

As Maria spoke, she thought of calling Nicholas over, and soon the servants were ordered to bring them all over.

When Queen Louise saw Nicholas, she was quite surprised. Your Russian prince is too tall. Is he 11 years old?

Nicholas was still growing, but now he was tall and thin in comparison, and he was almost catching up with Alexander's height.

And this facial feature, coupled with the fact that he recently grew his hair long, makes him look a bit feminine.

"My sister-in-law and elder sister are here. And Her Majesty the Queen, hello."

"Hello, Grand Duke Nicholas. If I hadn't seen your childish face, I would have thought you were a young officer of the Guards on duty in the palace."

"Nikola is just tall, which makes him look like Wurttemberg's uncle, but he doesn't look like an uncle at all."

Elena didn't go on. After all, her uncle was a 200-kilogram Württemberg strongman, her cousin William was also very tall, and her brother the emperor and second brother had also improved their heights. Her third brother Nicholas was this tall now, and he might catch up with his ancestor Peter the Great in the future.

"But he is really beautiful, Charlotte. What do you think of this brother Nicholas? Is he handsome?"

Queen Louise was one year older than Alexander, but her daughter was about the same age as Alexander's brother. It has to be said that Queen Mother Maria had a strong vitality and was able to give birth to children continuously even in her thirties.

In this way, everyone could only talk about their own things. Queen Louise also remembered that Solovyov had always been praising his students, so she said this to Charlotte.

Charlotte was a little stunned when she saw such a tall and handsome boy. It was only after her mother pushed her that she came to her senses.

"His Highness Nicholas is really very handsome. I have never seen such a handsome boy before."

Moreover, Charlotte blushed a little. She was actually quite precocious and would have her own evaluations and thoughts when she met boys.

Seeing this scene, Elena and Maria were more or less a little disappointed. Their brother was indeed very charming, but Queen Louise did not come here in the name of arranging a blind date for her daughter. They also did not know what their brother's plan was, and how Misha, the cunning fox, was pulling the strings behind the scenes.

However, when Nicholas saw Charlotte, with her rosy face and slim figure, he liked her. However, he still liked his older sister more.

It is no wonder that when the "old witch" proposed to little Katya in the Saltykov family, he dared to intervene. You have to know that the tutor and his wife raised his two elder brothers and their status in the Russian court was extraordinary.

He was even more mature, knowing that his master had been single, and in order to "learn to be a good teacher and behave as a role model for the world", he tried his best not to look for Madame Récamier. In this respect, he was better than most of the young guardians of the princes. Then he started to have ideas, but he didn't expect that his boss was lucky and got married in the end.

Charlotte is cute but still underdeveloped, just a cute little sister.

Nicholas grew up in the arms of his mother and nanny, and was even often taken away by his sisters and cousins. He was always a little dependent on the great maternal love.

But he couldn't hide his love for Charlotte, and he was not very good at concealing his emotions. In this respect, he was far worse than his brother and sister-in-law.

The former is a famous actor, and the latter is a homebody who loves literature. It is true, but she is also good at getting along with others and can hide her emotions.

It's true that she likes him, and Queen Louise also feels that there is something going on, but it's not something she can bring up on her own initiative.

When it comes to marriage arrangements, Russia is often the one that takes the initiative to propose it. Nicholas and Charlotte are too young, so their relationship is just about meeting, holding hands, and playing together. Future progress depends on the situation.

(End of this chapter)