Valérien Zubov
Valérien Zoubov (1771 - 1804), younger brother of Plato Zoubov, is famous among its contemporaries as being the most beautiful man in Russia . The legend tells that it flirté in secrecy of his brother, with Catherine II of Russia.
It entered strong young person the military career, where it would have probably remained in the ranks subordinates if the favor of his/her brother had not come to open to him the way of the honors and fortune. Treated by Catherine with same generosity as Plato, and neither being less well made, nor less tempting than his brother, it appeared to deserve all these advantages by services and a devotion of the same kind.
He was already lieutenant-general in 1794. During its career, it is adulated as military hero of an incredible bravery. It is named General-in-chief and is sent in Poland to fight the rebels, where it is known as that it shamelessly treats noble Polish and their wives of poorest in the manners . During its stay in Poland, it Marie with the Potocka countess and lost a leg during a battle carried by a ball. Catherine sent to him her own surgeon with the Cordon of Saint-Andrew, a hundred and thousand roubles, and the rank of general-in-chief.
Little time after it gave him the command of the year that it sent against the Perse. It was then 24 years old. Called the Persian Forwarding of 1796, this chimerical forwarding, organized some will say scheme by the two Zoubov brothers, is the conquest of all the Asia until the Tibet, but this project was a failure. Valérien succeeds in taking little territories beyond Derbent; but it could not obtain other successes, and was even beaten near this city; finally its troops had also to suffer from the insalubrity of the climate and the incapacity of the general.
They were for a long time inactive on the edges of the Cyrus when Zoubov accepted the news death of Catherine, and the order to return in Russia. Its return, however, allowed the creation of a splendid Ode of the Poète Derjavine, meditating on the fluctuating and fugitive nature of fortune and success. Fearing with raison d'être relieved, he asked his retirement, and went in Courlande, where he was owner of the majority of the goods of the former dukes. Returned in Saint-Pétersbourg after the advent of Alexandre, he died in this city the July 4th 1804.
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