Елизавета Петровна и Людовик XV

Empress of All Russia Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Peter the Great, and the most Christian King of France, Louis XV, great-grandson of Louis XIV the Great. What relationship connected these two monarchs and their states? Why didn’t relations between Russia and France develop for a long time, at the origins of which stood Peter I, and how can one explain the rapid rapprochement between the two old rivals that began in 1756 and culminated in a military alliance between them? Finally, how can one explain the fragility and fragility of this union, which broke up five years after its conclusion - immediately after the death of Elizaveta Petrovna in December 1761? All these and other questions are discussed in detail in the book devoted to the fascinating history of Russian-French relations during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1761), full of drama and romantic plots in the spirit of Alexandre Dumas. The book was written on the basis of unpublished documents from the diplomatic archives of Moscow and Paris (more than 80 archival files). Before us is a rich portrait gallery of actors in European diplomacy in the middle of the 18th century - Anna Ioannovna and Anna Leopoldovna, Elizabeth Petrovna and Peter III, Louis XV, Maria Theresa, Frederick II, their ministers, diplomats and generals, favorites and mistresses of the St. Petersburg and Versailles courts. For historians and anyone interested in Russian and European history.