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You could just tell that for him racing horses was no idle matter. It wasn’t money in search of a distraction.
“Catherine approved this choice reluctantly. She recognized Peter Panin’s military abilities, but she disliked him personally. He had often declared that Russia should be ruled by a man; his preference was Grand Duke Paul. Catherine also worried about his reputation as a military martinet and about his unconventional personal behavior: he sometimes appeared in his headquarters wearing a gray satin nightgown and a large French nightcap with pink ribbons.”
― Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
― Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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