Old Fritz and the New Era

The narrative traces the life and court of an influential 18th-century Prussian monarch through intimate domestic scenes, childhood episodes, and public ceremonies. It interleaves literary and diplomatic encounters with visits from prominent cultural figures, tensions with foreign envoys, and intrigues involving secret societies and occult practitioners. Structured in four parts, the work moves between salon conversations and battlefield parades, personal loyalties and betrayals, and episodes of romance, elopement, and revenge, using both historical episodes and imaginative invention to examine the interactions of power, personality, and contemporary intellectual currents.