Now or henceforth that proved an impossible private enterprise for Winterfeld, though he had so easily succeeded in the public one." [Retzow, _Charakteristik des siebenjahrigen Krieges_ (Berlin, 1802), i.

45 n.] The new Czarina was not unmerciful.

Munnich and Company were tried for life; were condemned to die, and did appear on the scaffold (29th January, 1742), ready for that extreme penalty; but were there, on the sudden, pardoned or half-pardoned by a merciful new Czarina, and sent to Siberia and outer darkness.

Whither Bieren had preceded them.

To outer darkness also, though a milder destiny had been intended them at first, went Anton Ulrich and his Household.