In Russian -speaking blogs, a quote is popular, which is attributed to the Russian autocrat. We checked whether the authorship of this statement belongs to the daughter of Peter I.
The phrase completely sounds like this: “But who is in the world to defeat Russia? We can defeat Russia only by ourselves, by our dislike of it. And sometimes betrayal, as a rule, for European money. ” This is a statement attributed to Elizabeth Petrovna, mainly found in bloggers - for example, in Facebook, "VKontakte" And social networks x. However, this quote can be found on site St. Petersburg Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church. As follows from the publication on the website of the Metropolis, this phrase in the framework of Elizabethan readings in December 2024 was brought by the rector of the St. Petersburg Church of the Holy Trinity at his own imperial majesty, Priest Alexy Ragin.
Elizaveta Petrovna She ascended the throne In 1741 and the rules are 20 years old. Her life and views are well studied, decrees and orders are posted in the public domain, and all the preserved letters to the nearest environment were completely published in the 19th century.
Nevertheless, “verified” could not find such a quote in any authoritative sources. There is no such phrase, in particular, in "Notes and letters»Empress, the most complete meeting of the correspondence of Elizabeth Petrovna. There is no statement in the memoirs of contemporaries, in National Corps of the Russian Language And even in the dedicated to Elizabeth Petrovna fiction.
If we study the spread of the phrase about dislike for Russia, then its earliest mention, discovered “verified”, dates back to 2023. June 2 it in Comments On the site "Poems.ru" was left by the user Fedor Zorin. He wrote about the expansion of NATO and the “forced” attack of Russia on Ukraine, having reinforced his thoughts by the alienated quote Elizabeth Petrovna.
Thus, this phrase has nothing to do with the Russian empress. The quote was invented and attributed to it no earlier than 2023.
Photo on the cover: Charles Van Loo. Coronation portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna (1760). Wikimedia Commons
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