#tzar

[usssnarfblat]

Did Anastasia deserve to die for her family's crimes against Fieval's family?

I've always found it interesting that "Anastasia" and "An American Tail" were made by the same guy...

My mom got us "An American Tail" as kids, since we were Jewish, and a Disney-like movie with Jewish characters was a one-of-a-kind thing. ("The Prince of Egypt" was still a few years away. Yes, I'm that old.) More to the point, my dad's side of the family is largely Russian Jews, who immigrated in the early 1920s, for exactly the same reasons as the Mouskewitz. Being a child of this background and very literally obsessed with cats, I had mixed feelings about the movie.

When "Anastasia" came out a few years later, Mom didn't let that history stop us from enjoying the new princess movie, but she didn't shelter us from it either. We regarded it like we did the real history behind any sugar-coated princess movie. She even got us some history books about the real Romanov family, and we were fascinated by the subject.

Still, it's an odd elephant in the room, watching "Anastasia" and knowing that her granddad was the one who sent those Cossack cats after Fievel's village, and her dad himself continued doing it to the Jewish mice who didn't leave.

"Go, Pompom, Kibble and Fluff-Baron! Kill those Jew mice, and I'll give you extra catnip treats tonight!"

Don Bluth presents both the Romannov family and their victims with equal sympathy, even opening both movies with the family celebrating a holiday, with the kid heroes getting a plot-specific present, before being viciously attacked.

"Wow Grandmama! Fieval and Tanya could use this as a merry-go-round!"

*Cough* "Yes uh, about those Jewish mice Sweetie..."

Bluth's portrayal of the Romanov family is not entirely inaccurate. By all accounts, Nicholas II was a deeply loving father who both doted on his children, but raised them not to be spoiled. Despite being royalty, the princesses shared bedrooms and did charity work at hospitals.

It's a baffling irony that Nicholas was nevertheless was a tyrant, and not remotely just to his Jewish subjects. When I was about twelve, Mom got me the Dear America book A Coal Miner's Bride, about the Catholic Polish immigrants who also fled the oppression of the Russian Tzar. (Anastasia's family conquered part of Poland in the 1800s, banning the Pols from speaking their own language and drafting their sons into the Tzar's dick-measuring contest wars.) Anyway, that's what my mom's side of the family was fleeing when they immigrated. Yes, my family has double reason to hate the Romanovs.

So, I personally don't have a lot of sympathy for Nicholas II. But the horrors his poor wife and children endured in their final moments never fails to get the reaction from me.

The rationalization for the murder of the children and queen was that it was the only way to ensure that the monarchy never returned. But I assume most modern-thinking people would say that the ends do not justify the means in this case.

That said, millions of families like Anetka's and Fievel's suffered as bad or worse than the Romanovs, because of the Romanovs, and no one remembers them because they didn't wear tiaras. This no doubt was another factor that killed sympathy for the Romanov children. But they were still children.

The question today is, if we can feel for a family that was literal royalty, despite their father being an undeniable tyrant against our own families...can we also feel for Palestinian and Israeli families, during a conflict that is vastly more complicated than Imperial Russia?

Or do they need to be cute mice and glittery princesses to get our attention?

#don bluth #anastasia romanov #anastasia 1997 #an american tail #fievel #fievel mousekewitz #nicholas ii #tzar #russia #imperial russia #jewish #judaism #poland #a coal miner's bride #dear america #non disney princess #disney princesses #princess #immigrants #antisemitism #imperialism #russian revolution #mouse #mice #animation #hamas #west bank #israel palestine conflict #russian jews

[illustratus]

After the Battle by Wiktor Mazurowski

#napoleonic wars #art #wiktor mazurowski #viktor vinkentevich mazurovsky #russia #russian #captured #flag #flags #standard #standards #eagle #french #napoleonic #tzar #history #europe #european #cavalry #france #russian empire #imperial russian army #imperial eagle #viktor mazurovsky

[bunboygenius]

baby boy. baby.

#my gpose #aymeric de borel #aymeric #I am obsessed with this face mod #birch syrup #bucciarati #fancy fancy #tbse #tzar #tsarmods #thebodyse #repost from my twitter

[afranse]

Вспомним как мочила чернь батьку-государя,

Не смогли б ему помочь ни одни врачи.

А сейчас страной рулят в сто раз хуже твари.

Почему же их никто ещё не замочил?

#######################

Let’s remember how the Father Sovereign was assassinated,

He was alive before but nation wanted him dead.

These days kremlin rulers are hundred times worse than the tzar.

Why hasn’t anyone introduced them to the cemetery yet?

#книга #стихи #poetry #поэзия #литература #песня #искусство #русский блог #театр #куры #яйца #россия #украина #политика #ukraine #politics #царь #tzar #москва #петербург

[postcard-from-the-past]

Tzar Nicholas II of Russia

Russian vintage postcard

#tarjeta #russia #postkaart #sepia #russian #historic #photo #postal #tzar #briefkaart #photography #ii #nicholas #vintage #ephemera #ansichtskarte #old #postcard #postkarte #carte postale

[darkpastelpurple]

SMASH OR PASS

Grigori Rasputin

#grigori rasputin #shitpost #poll #smash or pass #Russia #tzar

[bald-king]

Wanderer set finished

#tbse #tzar #thebodyse #tsarmods

[stone-cold-groove]

The Romanov family. Olga, Maria, Tsar Nicholas II, Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexei & Tatiana - 1913.

#russia #russian imperial family #nicholas ii #romanov family #tsar #tzar #tsar nicholas

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

Sankt Petersbourg - Tzar Russia

#St. Petersbourg #Sankt Petersbourg #Russia #Rosja #Rusland #pocztówka #post card #kartka #litho #litografia #postkarte #tarjeta #zabytki #tzar #old #alte

[witekspicsbanknotes]

Fantasy note of Russia = 1000 rubels.

#russian #russia #czar #ruble #tzar #for collectors #kolekcjonerski #not circulated #fantazyjny #nieobiegowy #fancy #note #banknote #banknot #fantasy

[bunboygenius]

My wolstinien child, Hami Varlineau

#my gpose #hami #he has green eyes but gshade told me to fuck myself #estinien varlineau #estinien wyrmblood #estizuli 🤌 #wolship #wolstinien #tzar #tb 5 #body suit tb 5 #cerberus #repost from my twitter

[dragonnest-art]

"When the world plans you to be a queen, make yourself into a king." - Tzar

#personal #dragon #charizard #art #Tzar #character art #colored #detailed shading #lineart

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander Pushkin

1966

Editions Fabbri

Artist : Benvenuti

#alexander pushkin #alexandre pouchkine #fairy tale #russian fairy tale #russian folklore #swan #white swan #children’s literature #benvenuti #tsar saltan #tzar saltan #1966

[bald-king]

#tbse #tzar #tsarmods

[teenagedirtstache]

Manner Vogue December 1991 photos Naomi Kaltmann styling Jennifer Tzar

#manner vogue #willem dafoe #naomi kaltmann #romeo gigli #jennifer tzar #1991 #90s

[storkmuffin]

Every single time he's mentioned in War and Peace this sovereign is described as being "beautiful." His "beautiful meek face" this and his "beautiful serene face" that. He's also constantly on the verge of tears (wars are upsetting idk) such as: "The sovereign began to breathe heavily and quickly, his lower lip trembled, and his beautiful blue eyes instantly became moist with tears."

Having finally looked him up after this onslaught, I must say I am rather ... disappointed.

#war and peace #ytgu reads #tzar alexander I #tolstoy