TOP 5 VIENNA REVIVAL CATEGORY 7 TODOLF EVENTS (as gifs)
5. fritz schmid. just every second of fritz schmid,,, no words he understood the assignment
4. hey lil mama let me whisper in your ear
3. "grab" = "grave" in German - clever symbolism,, thank u jesper (recordings are 5 months apart. he kept doing it)
2. SPIN HIM!!!! ok this is 3 events but since it was never seen again in this prod afterwards i count it as one,,, what blessed three days...
this... lukas is so real for this máté too for that neck grab,,, take all my money. biblically accurate todolf etc
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee le Brun (b.1755 - d.1842), 'Portrait of Alexandra Grigorievna Kozitskaya, later the Countess of Laval de la Loubrerie (b.1772 - d.1850)', oil on canvas, c.1795 or 1797, French/Russian (painted in St. Petersburg), 120,000-180,000 EUR at Tajan, Paris, France.
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Inside architecture at The Blue Church in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Some months ago I found this very interesting mention of Queen Marie in the memoirs Thomas St. John Gaffney, the United States consul general in Munich during World War I. I forgot to share it before so here it is:
An Afternoon with the Countess of Konigsmarck and Former Queen Maria Sophia, of Naples
Some time previous to my departure there had arrived in Munich from London the Countess of Konigsmarck, mother in-law of Baron von Bissing, the German Governor-General of Belgium (...) Having learned that I was about to visit Belgium she asked me if I would undertake a mission for a friend of hers who was a royal personage. I answered that I would be most happy to do anything that was consistent with my honor and the official position which I held. She replied that she would communicate with me later and arrange an appointment with the person in question.
The following day I received through the countess an invitation to tea to meet the former Queen Maria Sophia of Naples, who was then in Munich. I was naturally very much interested to see this venerable and exalted lady whose name had been so well known and honored in Europe on account of her heroism during the defense of Gaeta against the Garibaldians in 1861. The self-sacrifice of the beautiful young Queen during the horrors of that siege was one of the few glorious episodes in the history of the Neapolitan Bourbons. Her Majesty had now reached her seventy-fifth year, but was still sound in body and mind. Her figure was erect and neither her manner nor her movements showed her age or any traces of the harrowing vicissitudes which had occurred during the past half-century in her immediate circle. As I conversed with the Queen, I could not help recalling to my mind the many tragedies to members of her family during her own lifetime. Her nephew, Crown Prince Rudolph, heir to the Austrian throne, had met an early death under the most tragic circumstances. Her elder sister, the Empress of Austria, was the victim of an assassin; another sister, the Duchess d'Alencon, was burned to death in a charity bazaar in Paris. In 1886 her brother-in law, Count Ludwig von Trani, committed suicide in one of the Swiss lakes. These were but a few of the tragedies that the Queen had survived in addition to the loss of her throne. In 1894 her husband, King Francis, died in Arco in Tyrol.
After we had drunk tea, the Queen told me that she was anxious to send a message to her niece, the Queen of the Belgians, and she hoped that during my visit to that kingdom I would be able to forward the same with some assurance of its being delivered. Of course, her Majesty assured me that there was nothing political involved and that I need have no hesitation on that account. I thereupon mentioned to the Queen that I had recently read in an English paper an interview alleged to have been held with the Queen of the Belgians in which she was quoted as saying that an iron curtain had fallen between her and her Bavarian relatives which would never be uplifted.
The aged Queen replied to me with a pathetic smile: "I am sure that my niece has never used such language and that she has been deliberately misquoted. You know how the press, particularly in the present time, is using its power to make hatreds rather than encourage concord amongst men."
She then handed me the document for the Belgian Queen, and the Countess of Konigsmarck gave me a letter commending me to her son-in-law, Governor-General von Bissing. With hearty good wishes from these two venerable ladies for a pleasant and successful journey I took my departure.
As I walked back to my home my thoughts dwelt on this interview and the commission I had received and what exaggerated ideas people have of the power of royalties. The public has really no conception of the limited influence which members of the royal family outside the reigning sovereign have on the ministry or the military and civil authorities. This was evidenced by the Queen of Naples having recourse to an unimportant person like myself for this small favor rather than apply to her cousin, the King of Bavaria, or the Foreign Minister.
Gaffney, Thomas St. John (1930). Breaking the silence: England, Ireland, Wilson and the war
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Inside architecture at The Blue Church in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Inside architecture at The Blue Church in Bratislava, Slovakia
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