I want to know everything about the world. How to know a lot with minimal time? – XP Injection. Deportation to Denmark

When Empress Anna Ioannovna died on October 17, 1740, then, according to her last will, John VI, born just two months earlier, the grandson of her elder sister Catherine, Duchess of Mecklenburg, was proclaimed emperor. Both were daughters of Tsar John V (1682-1696), brother of Peter the Great.

John VI's parents were Duke of Brunswick Anton-Ulrich and Catherine's daughter Anna Leopoldovna. The latter came to Russia with her mother in 1723. Under Anna Ioannovna, she converted to Orthodoxy and was married to the Duke of Brunswick in order to give Russia an heir to the throne.

Less than a month after the death of Anna Ioannovna, a coup took place. His goal was to eliminate the favorite of the late empress Ernst Biron, whom she appointed regent under John VI. After this, the position of the Brunswick couple was further strengthened, since the emperor’s mother, Anna Leopoldovna, became regent. Anton-Ulrich, as the father of the Tsarevich, took a high position, being appointed generalissimo of all Russian troops.

But a year later, on November 25, 1741, the Brunswick family was overthrown by the daughter of Peter the Great, Elizabeth, arrested and exiled.

Elizabeth's Fear

At first, Elizaveta Petrovna announced in her manifesto dated December 8, 1741 that the Brunswick family would be deported to their homeland. By that time it was replenished with another child - daughter Ekaterina. Parents and children were taken under escort to Riga, on the very border of the empire.

But then Elizabeth’s decision changed. She was afraid that abroad, being free, the Brunswicks would begin to lay claim to the Russian throne and stir up discontent in Russia. The Brunswicks spent a whole year under house arrest in Riga. And at the very end of 1742 they were imprisoned in the Riga fortress of Dynamunde. There Anna Leopoldovna had a second daughter, named by her parents Elizabeth - in honor of the Empress, for whose mercy they never ceased to hope.

Elizaveta Petrovna did not forget for a minute about the potentially dangerous family, not daring either to be generous or to resort to extreme cruelty. But the torture to which she ultimately subjected the unfortunate family was little better than execution. A year after imprisonment in the Brunswick fortress, they were transferred to a prison in Ranenburg, Ryazan province (now in the Lipetsk region), and in the summer of 1744 they were sent from there to a prison on the Solovetsky Islands. At the beginning of this journey to the north, four-year-old Ivan Antonovich was forever separated from his family.

Elizaveta Petrovna tried to erase any memory of the existence of an alternative branch of the Romanov family that had the right to the throne. Papers signed with the name of John VI were removed from the archives and destroyed. For their possession, as well as for the circulation of coins with his portrait, the death penalty was imposed.

Prisons

The prison in Solovki was not ready, and the Braunschweigs were temporarily housed in the bishop's house in Kholmogory, and remained there for a very long time.

The family lived together, with the exception of the deposed emperor - he was isolated. Anna Leopoldovna had two more sons - Peter and Anton. At the birth of the latter, Anna fell ill and died on March 8, 1746. Anton-Ulrich was forced to write a report about her illness, but in such a way as not to mention the cause of the illness - the birth of a child.

The unfortunate child emperor lived in complete isolation, received no education, had no information about his relatives (they also knew nothing about him), and in 1756 he was placed in the Shlisselburg fortress. Despite the measures taken, he knew about his high origins. Peter III, who ascended the throne on Christmas Day 1761, visited him in his cell and planned to release him, but was himself overthrown by his wife, who became Empress Catherine II. Under the new queen, John VI was killed (1764) allegedly “while attempting to liberate him.”

Anton-Ulrich, who knew nothing about the fate of his first-born, refused to be released at the suggestion of Catherine II and remained with the rest of his children in Kholmogory. He died in 1774. Before his death he was completely blind.

Deportation to Denmark

In 1780, Catherine II agreed with her relative the Danish queen to deport the four remaining Brunswick-Romanov children. They had to live there virtually under house arrest; all of them were forbidden to enter into legal marriage. Money from the Russian budget was allocated for their maintenance.

In Denmark, the life of this branch of the dynasty gradually faded away. Ekaterina Antonovna, who lived the longest, died in 1807. Several years before her death, she wrote to Emperor Alexander I with a request to allow her to return to Russia, since in Denmark there was no one to speak Russian with, and there was no Orthodox priest to confess her...

It is impossible to know everything, but it is possible and even necessary to strive to understand the world. In addition, in our age of information freedom, everyone can explore the surrounding reality and comprehend the world; for this you do not need to be the son of a rich father or a member of a secret order. The only thing that prevents people from developing is the reluctance to separate the grains of knowledge from the chaff of the “garbage” information field.

The book is a source of knowledge

Before you plunge headlong into the web in search of information on issues that interest you, remember. They are not cheap, but the benefits from reading a good book are many times greater than from researching a dozen sites with content that is questionable in terms of the reliability of the facts.

There is no need to buy books. It's too much. After all, it is much easier, and even more economical, to contact the nearest library or purchase an e-book, which is already filled with electronic literature. However, if the thirst for knowledge is great, then this option is much preferable. On the dusty shelves of a city library you can sometimes find masterpieces that have not been discovered for a long time, but on the Internet it is much easier to assemble a collection of glossy authors.

Absorb information from outside

This is not about the rumors that fill courtyards and wells in every corner of the globe. If you want to know and understand more than the lion's share of your peers or compatriots, then it's time to think about forming the right social circle.

Find “your” topic and go where your like-minded people gather. Interest clubs will never disappear from the face of the earth, just like, for example, discussion clubs. And for people who are not ready to dive headlong into a live dialogue with like-minded people, there are forums and communities on the Internet where you can find new friends who can share with you the craving for universal knowledge.

Look around you

A lot of knowledge literally lies on the surface. If you are interested in cars, then why not take a closer look at the neighbor who skillfully repairs his old “penny” right under your balcony? It may seem that this person knows less than experienced mechanics from an expensive service station. In fact, he is the one who can tell you 1000 and 1 ways to repair an engine in the field using a hammer and a tin can.

It's never too late to learn. And hardly anyone can predict the moment when the accumulated knowledge will not only show off in the company, but also be applied in practice.

First advice from KEP - I need to read more! Read blogs, books, articles, publications, documentation, etc. Reading is a great way to pass the time. I personally read wherever I have 5-10 minutes of free time. This is mainly on the road, while watching some not particularly violent and exciting film at home, in line to see a doctor or to some organization... There is always time and thanks to this I manage to read a large number of interesting materials, the most liked of which I publish in section (45 issues have already been published).

Another problem with reading is choosing useful sources. Once upon a time, when the Internet was quite small, I looked for interesting articles myself on well-known sites. Now there is no longer any need to engage in such a search. I am subscribed by RSS on what interests me. If I come across a new site or blog that interests me, I simply subscribe to it. I unsubscribe from uninteresting ones. Everything is banal and simple.

But the information tends to overwhelm you and from the entire stream you need to choose only the interesting. Therefore, I try to optimize the process of selecting information from the RSS feed, which I produce using Google Reader. For this I use convenient applications for iPad, which allow you to do this quickly and deftly: River of News for quickly scrolling through posts with a single stream preview, Flipboard for viewing posts in the form of a colorful magazine, and FeedlerPro for working with selected posts. I also actively share the materials I like in a special RSS feed. Subscribe and read for good health. For testers, there is also a wonderful feed-aggregator of blogs on testing from Software-Testing.ru, which I also read.

The second main source of information for me is Twitter. I strongly recommend that you create an account for yourself, even if you don’t plan to write anything. You will be able to subscribe to people you are interested in and read a lot of useful things. Twitter allows you to find out the latest news very quickly, participate in a short discussion, get a lot of useful links to read, get an idea about some event or event, and just have a good and interesting time reading other people's tweets. 🙂

The next source of information is forums and discussion groups. There are a huge number of them in LinkedIn And Google Groups(which Google somehow renamed not so long ago, but not so important). I subscribe to those that directly relate to technologies, methodologies and practices that interest me. Most often, I just look through the weekly digest of new discussions and look for interesting ones. This allows me to keep abreast of events and follow the developments in areas that interest me.

Second advice from KEP: participate in conferences, meetings and other events. This will not allow you to learn something right away, but it will allow you to learn a lot of new things in a short time and decide on a future development plan, and will also introduce you to people whom you can turn to for advice in the future. If you don’t have enough time for this, then I recommend watching video reports from different conferences. This way, you can organize a local conference at home on a weekend on only topics that interest you. Nowadays, almost every self-respecting conference makes its presentations available to the public. Links to materials from our conferences can be found in the section