According to the fourteenth chapter of American historian Robert Marcy's The Road to Power: Catherine the Great, Queen Elizabeth only likes to try some Russian farm dishes.

Elizabeth was deeply loved by her parents in her early years and experienced the rule of Catherine I, Peter Alekseyevich Romanov and Anna I. After Anna's death, Ivan VI was in power for a short time, and Elizabeth staged a coup with the support of the military in 174 1 and seized the throne. After she acceded to the throne, she announced that she would inherit the tradition of Peter I, abolish the infamous cabinet, restore the Russian Senate, and concentrate power on her.

While abolishing the death penalty, Elizabeth's court kept the secret official hall to crack down on political opponents. She strongly supports the development of science, culture and education. During her reign, she built Moscow University, Winter Palace and other buildings, and carried out a large number of construction projects.

In addition, under Elizabeth's rule, Russia launched wars against Sweden and Prussia, especially her seven-year war with Austrian Archduke Maria Teresa and French King Louis XV. 1762, Elizabeth died before the end of the seven-year war at the age of 52.

Anecdotal allusions

1, luxury trend

Russian luxury goods began in the Elizabethan era. When she was a teenager, she received a French education and had a soft spot for French clothes and cosmetics. Young Elizabeth not only looks good, but also has beautiful legs (at least that's what others told her), so she spends a lot of time dressing up and taking care of her appearance.

Elizabeth likes to keep buying new clothes. She never wears a long skirt twice. Once the palace where Elizabeth kept her clothes caught fire and burned 4000 clothes at a time. After her death, the palace selected15,000 long skirts, thousands of pairs of shoes and two boxes of stockings.

2. Fashion trends

In addition, Elizabeth likes dancing, and at least two masquerade balls are held in the palace every week. Elizabeth changed her clothes three times at a dance. She also ingeniously asked all the female guests to wear men's clothes and all the men to wear skirts.

Every time a merchant ship carrying cosmetics and clothes from Paris arrives in St. Petersburg, Elizabeth demands that all the goods she likes should be bought immediately and not allowed to be seen by others, so that she is always the first to participate in social activities in new styles of clothes and will always lead the fashion trend in Russia.

In this way, Elizabeth pushed the Russian nobility to advocate luxury and exquisiteness, which was far from the rude Queen Anna. That is, during the reign of Elizabeth, Russia began to gradually form an upper class similar to Western Europe.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Elizabeth Petrovna