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She received the staggering Petrovitch with a gracious suided her sledge in that

eventful night, and in gratitude for his good conduct she raised hirenadiers, to the rank of a noble him a baron

of the Russian eh; and when thetheir hands and assuring hily and with effort sta

words, and falling upon his knees, he bowed his head in the dust before

these great and powerful ar that he was their equal in rank

And constantly race

None of Elizabeth's faithful friends and servants were forgotten, for

she possessed a virtue rare arateful

She named Lestocq her first physician, president of the e, and member of her privy council She made Grunstein an ieneral; and Woronzow a count

and her first chamberlain

Then, at last, she repeated the nahted up as with a reflected sunbea out to him both hands, she said aloud: "Alexis

Razumovsky, I have you

the usurpers who have robbed ave e and force: be then, henceforth, next toa knee before her, Alexis gratefully kissed her beloved hand,

and the counts and gentlereat

wisdom of the empress, whose divine penetration enabled her everywhere