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The Life Of Prince Potemkin.
especial manner irritated his feelings . He set out again for the field . Being wearied out with war , a congress assembled at Szistowe to negociate a peace . Preliminaries were signed by Prince Repnin and the Grand Vizir . The definitive treaty , concluded at Yassi , followed immediately . ' between
Potemkin was notso fortunate as to conclude this peace Russia and the Porte . He had repaired to the'congress of Yassi : but , being soon attacked with an epidemicd fever then raging at that place , he was unable to attend much of the negoeiatious . As soon as the Empress learnt that he was sick , she sent off to him two of the most skilful physicians in Petersburg . * He disdained their
advice , and would follow no regimen . Intemperate to excess , he ate at breakfast a whole egg , slices of hung-beef or ham , drinking with it a prodig ious quantity of wine and Dantzic liqueurs , and , after this , dined with undiminished voracity . Perceiving that his distemper gained ground upon him , he thought to-recover by removing ' from Yassi . He accordingly resolved to depart for Nicolaeffa town which he had built at the confluence of
, the Ingoul and the Bogh . Scarcely had he proceeded three leagues on his journey before he found himself much worse . He alig hted from his carriage in the midst of the hig hway , and diedf under a tree , in the arms of the Countess Branicka , his favourite niece . At first a report prevailed that the Prince had been poisoned . His bodwas carried to Yassiand there opened .. Not the smallest
y , indication was discoverable to justify the suspicion . To what . has already been said of Prince Potemkin we shall , of ourselves , add nothing farther . We shall here insert his picture , drawn by onej who lived along time with hirn in habits of close
intimacy . ' Prince Gregory Alexandrowitch Potemkin was one of the most extraordinary men of his times ; but in order to have played so distinguished a part , he must have been born in Russia , and have lived in the reign of Catharine II . In other countries , in other times , under any other Sovereign , he would have been discarded
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Life Of Prince Potemkin.
especial manner irritated his feelings . He set out again for the field . Being wearied out with war , a congress assembled at Szistowe to negociate a peace . Preliminaries were signed by Prince Repnin and the Grand Vizir . The definitive treaty , concluded at Yassi , followed immediately . ' between
Potemkin was notso fortunate as to conclude this peace Russia and the Porte . He had repaired to the'congress of Yassi : but , being soon attacked with an epidemicd fever then raging at that place , he was unable to attend much of the negoeiatious . As soon as the Empress learnt that he was sick , she sent off to him two of the most skilful physicians in Petersburg . * He disdained their
advice , and would follow no regimen . Intemperate to excess , he ate at breakfast a whole egg , slices of hung-beef or ham , drinking with it a prodig ious quantity of wine and Dantzic liqueurs , and , after this , dined with undiminished voracity . Perceiving that his distemper gained ground upon him , he thought to-recover by removing ' from Yassi . He accordingly resolved to depart for Nicolaeffa town which he had built at the confluence of
, the Ingoul and the Bogh . Scarcely had he proceeded three leagues on his journey before he found himself much worse . He alig hted from his carriage in the midst of the hig hway , and diedf under a tree , in the arms of the Countess Branicka , his favourite niece . At first a report prevailed that the Prince had been poisoned . His bodwas carried to Yassiand there opened .. Not the smallest
y , indication was discoverable to justify the suspicion . To what . has already been said of Prince Potemkin we shall , of ourselves , add nothing farther . We shall here insert his picture , drawn by onej who lived along time with hirn in habits of close
intimacy . ' Prince Gregory Alexandrowitch Potemkin was one of the most extraordinary men of his times ; but in order to have played so distinguished a part , he must have been born in Russia , and have lived in the reign of Catharine II . In other countries , in other times , under any other Sovereign , he would have been discarded