teatimeatwinterpalace:‘ I would like to feel fear, but I cannot, the invisible hand that has guided
teatimeatwinterpalace:‘ I would like to feel fear, but I cannot, the invisible hand that has guided me for thirteen years along a very rough road will never allow me to falter, of that I am very firmly and perhaps foolishly convinced. If only you knew all the perils and misfortunes that have threatened me, and that I have overcome. ‘Catherine II the Enlightened Despot -- source link
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