The nobles soon found that their golden idol would have to be made instead of very coarse clay.
Nothing could exceed the grossness and the unbalanced folly of Peter's course.

He reversed the whole attitude of the state toward Germany.
So abject was his devotion to Frederick the Great that he restored to him the Russian conquests, and reached the limit which could be borne when he shouted at one of his orgies: "Let us drink to the health of our King and master Frederick.

You may be assured if he should order it, I would make war on hell with all my empire." He was also planning to rid himself of Catherine and to disinherit her child Paul in favor of Ivan VI.; and with this in view that unfortunate youth, who after his twenty years' imprisonment was a mental wreck, was brought to St.
Petersburg.
Catherine's plans were carefully laid and then swiftly executed.

The Emperor was arrested and his abdication demanded.

He submitted as quietly as a child.