I want to know everything about the world. How to develop and know everything

When Empress Anna Ioannovna died on October 17, 1740, then, according to her last will, John VI, who was born just two months ago, the grandson of her older sister Catherine, the Duchess of Mecklenburg, was proclaimed emperor. Both were daughters of Tsar John V (1682-1696), brother of Peter the Great.

The parents of John VI were the Duke of Brunswick Anton-Ulrich and Catherine's daughter Anna Leopoldovna. The latter, since 1723, came to Russia with her mother. Under Anna Ioannovna, she converted to Orthodoxy and was married to the Duke of Brunswick in order to give Russia an heir to the throne.

Less than a month after the death of Anna Ioannovna, a coup took place. His goal was to eliminate the favorite of the late Empress Ernst Biron, whom she appointed regent under John VI. The position of the Brunswick couple after that was further strengthened, since the mother of the emperor Anna Leopoldovna became regent. Anton-Ulrich, as the father of the Tsarevich, occupied a high position, being appointed generalissimo of all Russian troops.

But a year later, on November 25, 1741, the Brunswick family was overthrown by the daughter of Peter the Great, Elizabeth, arrested and exiled.

Elizabeth's fear

At first, Elizaveta Petrovna announced in her manifesto of December 8, 1741 that the Brunswick family would be sent home. By that time, it had been replenished with another child - daughter Ekaterina. Parents with children were taken under escort to Riga, on the very border of the empire.

But then Elizabeth's decision changed. She was afraid that abroad, being free, the Braunschweigs would lay claim to the Russian throne and excite the discontented in Russia. The Braunschweigs spent a whole year under house arrest in Riga. And at the very end of 1742 they were imprisoned in the Riga fortress of Dinamunde. There, Anna Leopoldovna had a second daughter, named by her parents Elizabeth - in honor of the Empress, on whose mercy they never ceased to hope.

Elizaveta Petrovna never for a moment forgot about a potentially dangerous family, not daring either for generosity or extreme cruelty. But the torment to which she eventually subjected the unfortunate family was little better than execution. A year after imprisonment in the fortress, the Braunschweigs were transferred to a prison in Ranenburg, Ryazan province (now in the Lipetsk region), and in the summer of 1744 they were sent from there to a prison on the Solovetsky Islands. At the beginning of this journey to the north, four-year-old John Antonovich was forever separated from his relatives.

Elizaveta Petrovna tried to erase any memory of the existence of an alternative branch of the Romanov family, which has the right to the throne. Papers signed with the name of John VI were removed from the archives and destroyed. For their storage, as well as for the circulation of coins with his portrait, the death penalty was due.

Prisons

The prison in Solovki was not ready, and the Braunschweigs were temporarily placed in the bishop's house in Kholmogory, and they remained there for a very long time.

The family lived together, with the exception of the deposed emperor - he was isolated. Anna Leopoldovna had two more sons - Peter and Anton. At the birth of the latter, Anna fell ill and died on March 8, 1746. Anton-Ulrich was forced to write a report about her illness, while not mentioning the cause of the illness - the birth of a child.

The unfortunate child-emperor lived in complete isolation, did not receive an education, had no information about his relatives (they also did not know anything about him), and in 1756 he was placed in the Shlisselburg fortress. Despite the measures taken, he knew about his high origin. Peter III, who ascended the throne on Christmas Day 1761, visited him in his cell and planned to release him, but was himself overthrown by his wife, who became Empress Catherine II. Under the new queen, John VI was killed (1764) allegedly "while trying to free himself."

Anton-Ulrich, who knew nothing about the fate of his first-born, refused to be released at the suggestion of Catherine II and remained with the rest of his children in Kholmogory. He died in 1774. Before his death, he was completely blind.

Deportation to Denmark

In 1780, Catherine II agreed with her relative, the Danish queen, to deport the four remaining children of Brunswick-Romanovs. They had to live there under virtual house arrest, all of them were forbidden to enter into legal marriage. Money from the Russian budget was allocated for their maintenance.

In Denmark, the life of this branch of the dynasty gradually died out. Ekaterina Antonovna, who lived the longest, died in 1807. A few years before her death, she wrote to Emperor Alexander I with a request to allow her to return to Russia, since in Denmark there was no one to speak Russian with, and there was no Orthodox priest to confess her ...

It is impossible to know everything, but it is possible and even necessary to strive for knowledge of the world. In addition, in our age of informational freedom, everyone can cognize the surrounding reality and comprehend the world, for this you do not need to be the son of a rich father or a member of a secret order. The only thing that prevents people from developing is the unwillingness to separate the grains of knowledge from the chaff of the “garbage” information field.

The book is a source of knowledge

Before you plunge headlong into the web in search of information on issues that interest you, remember. They are not cheap, but the benefits of reading a good book are many times greater than from researching a dozen sites with questionable content in terms of the reliability of the facts.

Books do not need to be purchased. It's too much. After all, it is much easier, and even more economical, to go to the nearest library or purchase an e-book, which is already filled with electronic literature. However, if the thirst for knowledge is great, then the option is much more preferable. On the dusty shelves of the city library, you can sometimes find masterpieces that have not been opened by anyone for a long time, but on the Internet it is much easier to collect a collection of glossy authors.

Soak up information from outside

This is not about the rumors that fill the courtyards-wells in any corner of the globe. If you want to know and understand more than the lion's share of peers or compatriots, then it's time to think about forming the right social circle.

Find "your" topic and go where your like-minded people gather. Interest clubs will never disappear from the face of the earth, just like, for example, discussion clubs. And for people who are not ready to plunge headlong into a lively dialogue with like-minded people, there are forums and communities on the net where you can find new friends who can share your craving for universal knowledge.

Take a look around

The mass of knowledge literally lies on the surface. If you are interested in cars, then why not take a closer look at a neighbor who masterfully repairs his old "penny" right under your balcony? It may seem that this person knows less than experienced mechanics from an expensive service station. In fact, it is he who can tell 1000 and 1 ways to repair an engine in the field using a hammer and a tin can.

It's never too late to learn. And hardly anyone can predict the moment when the accumulated knowledge will not only show off in the company, but also put it into practice.

First tip from CEP - need to read more! Read blogs, books, articles, publications, documentation, etc. Reading is a great way to pass the time. I personally read wherever I have 5-10 minutes of free time. Basically, it’s on the road, when watching some not very violent and exciting movie at home, in line with a doctor or in some organization ... There is always time and thanks to this I have time to read a large number of interesting materials, the most liked of which I publish in heading (already 45 issues have been published).

There is another problem with reading - choosing useful sources. Once upon a time, when the Internet was quite small, I searched for interesting articles myself on well-known sites. Now the need to engage in such a search has completely disappeared. I am signed by RSS to what I'm interested in. If I come across a new site or blog that interests me, I simply subscribe to it. I unsubscribe from those who are not interested. Everything is trite and simple.

But information tends to overwhelm itself, and from the whole stream you need to choose only the interesting. Therefore, I try to optimize the process of selecting information from the RSS feed, which I produce using Google Reader. To do this, I use convenient applications for iPad, which allow you to do this quickly and nimbly: River of News for quickly scrolling through posts with a preview of a single stream, Flipboard for viewing posts in a colorful magazine, and FeedlerPro for working with favorite posts. I also actively share the materials I like in a special RSS feed. Subscribe and read for health. For testers, there is also a wonderful testing blog aggregator feed from Software-Testing.ru which I also read.

The second main source of information for me is Twitter. I strongly recommend that you create an account for yourself, even if you do not plan to write anything. You can subscribe to interesting people and read a lot of useful information. Twitter allows you to get the latest news very quickly, participate in a short discussion, get many useful links to read, get an idea about some event or activity, and just have a good and interesting time reading other people's tweets. 🙂

The next source of information is forums and discussion groups. There are a lot of them in LinkedIn and Google Groups(which Google somehow renamed not so long ago, but not so important). I subscribe to those that directly relate to technologies, methodologies and practices that interest me. Most often, I just look through the weekly digest of new discussions and look for interesting ones for myself. This allows me to keep abreast of events and follow the development of areas of interest to me.

Second tip from CEP: participate in conferences, meetings and other events. This will not allow you to learn something right away, but it will allow you to learn a lot of new things in a short time and decide on a further development plan, as well as introduce people to whom you can turn to for advice in the future. If you do not have enough time for this, then I recommend watching video presentations from different conferences. Thus, you can organize a local conference at home on your day off on only topics that interest you. Now almost every self-respecting conference puts speeches in the public domain. Links to the materials of our conferences can be found in the section