About the progressiveness of the monarchy

On this day, in 1728, the grandson of Peter the Great was born - Karl Peter Ulrich, the first representative of the Holstein -Gottorp dynasty on the Russian throne under the name Peter III Romanov.

He ruled only 186 days, but during this time he accepted 192 documents: manifestos, registered and Senate decrees (not counting decrees on awards and official production, etc.). He sent the European powers a declaration of establishing peace in Europe, proclaimed the manifesto “On the Giving of Liberty and Freedom to all the Russian nobility”, abolished the office of secret search affairs, stopped the persecution of the Old Believers, created the State Bank, ordered the issue of banknotes, and began the process of secularization of church lands.
He was deprived of power to his wife, with whom he had lived in marriage for almost 17 years, and was killed at the age of 33.

When he entered the throne, his wife, future Empress Catherine, was in the fifth month of pregnancy from Grigory Orlov. The emperor waited for the birth of a child and announced his intention to divorce the wrong wife. At the same time, he ordered to send a guard that had not fought for many decades to war with Denmark.

The guard did not want to fight, Catherine did not want to lose status. She found support from the English ambassador in Russia. The guard was on her side. The first to swear by the Synod, and then the Senate.

The Holy Synod always held his nose in the wind, and in February 1917 the Synodals were one of the first to betray the annex of God.
A bizarre game of chance, having committed the regicide and not having a drop of Russian blood, on the throne of Russian was Catherine called the Great.

After her accession, everything was done to denigrate Peter III. But among the people, far from the court intrigues, the legend of the salvation of the good king was immediately born. The great son of the Cossack people Emelian Pugachev was called the king. In 1765, such a king appeared in the Voronezh province, which later confessed to the torture that he was Private Land-Militsa Regiment Gavrila Kremnev. At first, Kremnev was accompanied by success, he was met with bread and salt and bell ringing, a detachment of a thousand people gathered around him. However, the detachment was defeated, Kremnev was captured and exiled to Nerchinsk.

The monarchical system is very progressive - after all, it allows you to maintain the inviolability of power, transferring it from the father to the son

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