#pyotr romanov

[loiladadiani]

Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia (1938 - 1900)

Her full name was Alexandra Frederica Wilhemina of Oldenburg, and she was a great-granddaughter of Pavel I of Russia. Her father was a nephew of Nicholas I, so she was very closely related to the Romanovs. Alexandra was deeply religious, very interested in Medicine, and heavily involved in charity. She did not care much about glamour or social activities.

Shortly after her debut, she was pushed into a marriage with Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaievich, the third son of Emperor Nicholas I. Nicholas was a notorious womanizer. A contemporary describes him as a man with few redeeming qualities and whose only talent seemed to be that he danced well.

The Russian Imperial Family had hoped to reform the wayward Grand Duke through the marriage to the pious Alexandra. What they did was condemn Alexandra to hell. Although the first ten years of the marriage were quiet, and the couple had two children, soon Grand Duke Nicholas started giving signs of boredom with Alexandra’s continued and increasing interest in religion, charity and medicine. He established a second household with his Mistress, with whom he had 5 children. He wanted to marry his mistress and accused Alexandra of adultery with her confessor (doubtful) so that he could get a divorce. He also threw her out of the palace where they lived without her clothing or jewels.

Alexandra’s bad spell did not stop there. The Duchess had a serious carriage accident and was left with her legs and one arm paralyzed. She went to Italy to convalesce with her children. The Grand Duke followed her to Italy and took her children away. Nicholas and Peter practically raised each other, alone most of the time in their palace; Alexander II would not allow their mother to return to Russia. At one point, the Konstantinovichi contemplated taking at least Peter (whose health was always frail) to live with them.

When Alexander III came into power, he stripped Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaevich (the elder, as he came to be known) of all his offices. Alexandra was able to return to Russia and settle in Kyiv. Eventually, she recovered the movement of her arm and legs and took holy orders. She worked as a nursing sister for the rest of her life. Alexandra remained close to her children, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaievich (Nicholasha) and Grand Duke Pyotr Nicholaevich.

Her husband continued to wait for Alexandra, who had multiple and serious health problems, to die so that he could marry his mistress. The death of his mistress before him unhinged him. Nicholas developed what seemed to be dementia and became increasingly disoriented and uncontrollable. His children had to seclude him in a house in Crimea with suitable staff to guard him until his death. He predeceased Alexandra by almost a decade. When his children went to put his state in order, they found he had squandered his fortune and their patrimony and had left them with almost insurmountable debts.

#russian history #imperial russia #romanov dynasty #Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaievich the elder #Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaievich #Nikolasha #Grand Duke Pyotr Nikolaeievich #Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna

[best-romanov-monarch]

[text translation: When you find a place to build a city.]

#history #russia #memes #house of romanov #pyotr i

[roehenstart]

Yevdokiya Streshniova by Pyotr Fyodorovich Borel.

Yevdokyya Streshniova was born in 1608 and was the second wife of Michael I of Russia, the first Tsar of the Romanov Dynasty. The young woman was chosen by the Tsar from among many noble virgins of marriageable age and he married her on 5 February 1626. They had 10 children, 4 of whom survived their parents, among them the future Tsar Alexy I of Russia.

#Петр Федорович Борель #pyotr fyodorovich borel #die romanows #house of romanov #zarenreich #tsardom of russia

[otmaaromanovas]

Anastasia's personality

Lesser known quotes about Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov and her personality, from those who knew her and from Anastasia herself!

Happy reading :)

"Once they had seen this demonstration [of security dogs sniffing out objects], the Grand Duchesses often amused themselves by hiding objects on the island, and asking us to have them retrieved by the dogs. That was, above all, the favourite game of the youngest of the Grand Duchesses, Anastasia Nicholaievna. So the guide asked permission to take the Grand Duchess by the hand and let the dogs sniff it, who then disappeared into the island and brought back the hidden object. Of course, the Grand Duchess was hugely delighted." - Alexander Spiridovitch, Last Years at Tsarskoe Selo, Volume 1

Anastasia to tutor Pyotr Vasilievich Petrov: "Wikied P.V.P. I am very, very upsit with you. Why didn’t you write a litter to Maria and me? I’m telling you, you are very, very bad, extremely bad even. Maria and I have written you so meny letters and you haven’t replied. I am going to make mystakes on purpose. I alredy see where I made mystakes. Anastasia. 1909. 9 November." - Helen Azar, George Hawkins, Anastasia Romanov: The Tsar's Youngest Daughter Speaks Through Her Writings

"Sometimes, the Grand Duchesses would enter the thatched houses and strike up conversations with the peasant women. The male population worked far away, at fishing, Anastasia Nicholaievna made friends with an old peasant woman, whom she came to see in her thatched cottage several times, and with whom she had long conversations. The peasant was knitting a stocking, and showed the Grand Duchess how it was done. On her birthday, Anastasia Nicholaievna visited the old lady, and asked her how old she thought she was. When the old lady could not guess, the Grand Duchess announced proudly that she was eight years old!" - Alexander Spiridovitch, Last Years at Tsarskoe Selo, Volume 1

"We used to make long outings around the islands. One day, Anastasia Nicholaievna begged the Emperor to take her on one of these outings. The Emperor consented. It was a very long outing. We covered some fifteen to seventeen versts. Everybody, except the Emperor, was very tired, with Anastasia Nicholaievna at the point of tears. The people who accompanied the Emperor took turns carrying her pick-a-back [piggy back]. That outing was remembered for a long time." - Alexander Spiridovitch, Last Years at Tsarskoe Selo, Volume 1

"Anastasia Nicholaevna was a lively witty child, who developed rapidly in the midst of her sisters. Very mischievous, always gay she still amused herself with toys such as the little, stoppered bottles and pots which a doctor who visited the Imperial Family used to bring her. She and her brother got no end of fun from these things." - Alexander Spiridovitch, Last Years at Tsarskoe Selo, Volume 1

"Little Anastasie was delighted with the stir and bustle of city life and deeply interested in all she saw. The children developed a love for those little toy balloons which are sold in the streets. When they were very good I used to send out and get them one each. But Anastasie used sometimes to want me to stop the carriage and buy them from the men, and this, of course, could not be allowed. So I always said simply that I could not, without advancing any reason. She evidently thought force would have to be used to induce him to part with them, for one day she saw some little children walking on the Palace Quay, each one with a balloon. She drew my attention to them. "Look, look!" cried she; "little children with balloons; get out, take them from them and give them to me." I explained why that would not do, so she said, " Well, get out, and ask them nicely and politely, and perhaps they will give them to me."" - Margaretta Eagar, Six Years at the Russian Court

"Someone in speaking to me of the four little girls lately said to me, "...little Anastasie has personal charm beyond any child I ever saw."" - Margaretta Eagar, Six Years at the Russian Court

"I had got from England a preparation for the children's hair, and was rubbing it into little Anastasie's head one evening. She objected, and I said, " It will make your hair grow nicely, darling," so she submitted. Next evening I went to get the kappuka [solution] from the cupboard, and mademoiselle ran off into the next room. She returned dragging by its leg an awful dolly, a regular fetish, minus a wig, one eye, and an arm. She gravely took a little piece of sponge and began to rub the kappuka into the creature's head. I remonstrated, telling her I had to send to England for the stuff and did not want it wasted. She looked at me most reproachfully, and said, "My poor Vera! she has got no curls; this will make her hair grow." Of course, she got her way." - Margaretta Eagar, Six Years at the Russian Court

"Anastasia Nikolaevna was especially attracted to stores, where they sold doll shoes of various sizes…" - Sophia Ivanovna Tyutcheva, A Few Years Before the Catastrophe

Letter from Alexei to their father, Nicholas: "[22 Sept 1914] …Anastasia was throttling [tutor] M. Gilliard." This has also been translated as "…Anastasia was trying to strangle M. Gilliard" - George Hawkins, Alexei: Russia's Last Tsesarevich - Letters, diaries and writings

Letter from Alexandra to Nicholas: "Jan 6 1916 …Anastasia has bronchitis, head is heavy & hurts her swallowing, coughed in the night,, she writes about [Dr.] Ostrog.[orsky]. “Although he said that I look a little better than yesterday, but I am pale & my appearance is foolish in my view” just like the “Shvibzik” [her nickname] to say such things…" – Joseph T. Fuhrmann, Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna. The complete Wartime Correspondence April 1914 – March 1917

Letter from Alexandra to either her brother or sister-in-law: "7 May 1913… Anastasia is growing gradually and is as funny as always." - Petra H. Kleinpenning, The Correspondence Of The Empress Alexandra Of Russia With Ernst Ludwig And Eleonore, Grand Duke And Duchess Of Hesse

The following are from Helen Azar, George Hawkins, Anastasia Romanov: The Tsar's Youngest Daughter Speaks Through Her Writings:

Tutor Pyotr Vasilievich Petrov to Anastasia: "12 October 1909. Hello dear, good, diligent, obedient (albeit not always), kind and affectionate (also not always?) Anastasia Nikolaevna!" - Helen Azar, George Hawkins, Anastasia Romanov: The Tsar's Youngest Daughter Speaks Through Her Writings

Anatoly Mordvinov to the Grand Duchesses: "September 19, 1915 My beloved torturers! I can’t express how pleased I was with your joint, dear, sweet letter… What terrible news, reported by my chief tormentor Anastasia Nikolaevna…"

Anastasia to Nicholas: "October 3rd [1915] …There was a psalm-reader who read so incredibly funny that it was simply impossible not to laugh"

Note from Anastasia to Alexei "…Now you, little piggy, know all the rooms…"

Letter from Anastasia to Alexei: "1 November 1915. ...My Dear and Darling Little Alexei! I haven’t forgotten my responsibility [to walk dog Joy], and every day either I or Madeleine or Tutles goes for a walk and it goes very well."

Last diary of Alexandra: "12/15 April. Marie comes with us [to Ekaterinburg], Olga will look after Baby, Tatiana the household & Anastasia will cheer all up." - Last diary of Alexandra Feodorovna

"Anastasia was not allowed to go to dinner, had to go to bed early, which was why she had dinner alone with the nanny in her giant lonely “upstairs”… So sad, these poor children live in a golden cage." - the memoirs of V. I. Chebotareva

Diary entry of the palace priest: "April 11, 1917 - …The former Heir was taken past my window in a wheelchair. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna saw me in the window and loudly said to her mother, “Over there, the batiushka [father] is looking at us”" - Belyaev, Potapov, The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest

Letter from Maria to Nicholas: "April 1915 …The little Shvybzik [Anastasia's dog] just made a “governor” [accident] on Mama’s carpet, and Anastasia is not training him…" - Helen Azar, George Hawkins, Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908–1918

"...the most energetic and speedy - Anastasia Nikolaevna - had a rather silent, sedate and serious Navigator A.V. Saltanov [to look after her]. The latter ended up with most trouble and turmoil. Dear 'Nastasya', as the Gosudar [tsar] called her, was a trouble making tomboy. With her hair always messed up, always dishevelled, from morning till night she ran around the yacht, climbed up ladders, peeked where she should not have, until, with a lot of screaming she was finally led away and put to bed. Her parents said she was the "clown"." - Memoirs of Nikolai Vasilievich Sablin

"It was after Anastasia had arrived as a pupil that Gibbes met his first real problem. Still slightly built (she would soon grow rapidly), eager in her movements, her eyes sparkling with intelligence, she was self-possessed and in entire command of her features; he had met nothing like it any other child. Remembering a course in child psychology he had taken during one of his exploring periods at Cambridge, he tried as many innovations from it as he could; they did not shelter him from storms, usually sudden. Once, after a disturbed lesson, he refused to give her five marks, the maximum (and customary) number. For a moment the wondered what might happen; then, purposefully, Anastasia left the room. Within minutes she returned, carrying one of the elaborate bouquets that seemed always to be in waiting. 'Mr Gibbes,' she said winningly, 'are you going to change the marks?' He hesitated before he shook his head. Describing it long afterwards in a letter (1928) to the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, the Tsar's brother-in-law in Paris, Gibbes wrote: Drawing herself up to the most of her small height, she marched into the schoolroom next door. Leaving the door wide open, she approached the dear old Russian professor, Peter Vassilievich Petrov. 'Peter Vassilievich', she said, 'allow me to present you with these flowers'. By all the rules he should have refused them, but professors are human; he did not. Later, we made it up again, and I received my bouquets once more, for the Grand Duchess nearly always gave me one during those early years. I-well, I was more careful in my marking. We had both learned a lesson. Another morning would not be forgotten. There had been a children's fancy-dress dance at Tsarskoe Selo on the previous night. Gibbes, in tail-coat and white tie, waited at his desk for Anastasia to arrive. When she did, quickly and mischievously, her face was blackened like a chimney-sweep's and she carried a small golden ladder which she placed beside her while she waited for the lesson to begin. Gibbes, deciding to take no notice, was about to speak when he heard a rush of laughter outside the big double doors at the end of the room. They flew open, and through them there appeared the three elder Grand Duchesses with their mother. The Empress looked in horror. 'Anastasia!' she cried, 'go and change at once!' And, meekly, the sweep vanished. When she came back, her face scrubbed as red as a lobster, the gold ladder was still beside her desk; but everybody pretended not to see it and the lesson continued in the Empress's presence." - Trewin and Gibbes, Tutor to the Tsarevich

"Through the years he preserved from Tobolsk two cheap exercise books, each labelled ‘English’. ‘M. Romanof’ had written her name on one label. The other book belonged to A. Romanova (Shut Up!) Tobolsk 1917-1918.’ Grand Duchess Anastasia, more exuberantly talkative than her sisters, seized on one of Gibbes’s exasperated moments. When he told her to shut up, she asked him how to spell it and adopted it as her nickname." - Trewin and Gibbes, Tutor to the Tsarevich

"‘At the end of the farce [Gibbes reported] the husband has to turn his back, open his dressing-gown as if to take it off- Anastasia wore an old one of mine - and then exclaim: 'But I've packed my trousers; I can't go.' The night's applause had excited the little Grand Duchess. The piece had gone with a swing and they were getting through the 'business' so fast that a draught got under the gown and whisked its tail up to the middle of her back, showing her sturdy legs and bottom encased in the Emperor's Jaeger underwear. We all gasped; Emperor and Empress, suite and servants, collapsed in uncontrolled laughter. Poor Anastasia could not make it out. All were calling for a second performance, but this time she was more careful. Certainly I shall always remember the night; it was the last heart unrestrained laughter the Empress ever enjoyed.’" - Trewin and Gibbes, Tutor to the Tsarevich

"...Anastasia was the most amusing; she was always full of mischief. - “Anastasia is our family clown!” the Emperor once exclaimed, laughing, to my mother." - Olga Voronova, Upheaval

"Fleeting memories come back to me of those cloudless summer days. Pictures of the Emperor and his daughters at the Garden Party at Tsarskoe, the little Grand Duchess Anastasia, her cheeks scarlet with excitement, surrounded by a group of midshipmen, plying them with eager questions. “You will take me up into your conning tower,” her clear childish voice rang out above the hum of conversation. “Couldn’t you let off one of the guns and just pretend it was a mistake?”" - Muriel Buchanan, Ambassador's Daughter

"The youngest girl, Anastasia, was spirited, sly and playful; she would get under the dinner table and pinch the legs of some elderly statesman until her father pulled her out by her hair. She has been described as ‘a little inextinguishable volcano, with a world of her own’." - Bernard Pares, The Fall Of The Russian Monarchy A Study Of The Evidence

"The Tsar's youngest daughter was much the sprightliest and most entertaining. She had a comic gift as a mimic, picking out people's foibles in a way that made everyone laugh. "What a bundle of mischief," recalls her godmother, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the Tsar's sister. There was also a serious side to Anastasia's nature. She had a restless, questioning intelligence. "Whenever I talked with her," says Count Grabbe, "I always came away impressed by the breadth of her interests. That her mind was keenly alive was immediately apparent." More than her sisters, Anastasia chafed under the narrowness of her environment and used her comic sense in revolt against it." - Count Alexander Grabbe, The private world of the last Tsar, in the photographs and notes of General Count Alexander Grabbe

"The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna was sixteen or seventeen years old; she was short, stout and was, in my opinion, the only one in the family that appeared to be ungraceful Her hair was of a lighter color than that of Maria Nicholaevna. It was not wavy and soft, but lay flat on the forehead. Her eyes were grey and beautiful, her nose straight. If she had grown and got slim she would have been the prettiest in the family. She was refined and very witty. She had the talents of a comic actor, she made everybody laugh, but never laughed herself. It appeared as if her development had stopped and, therefore, her capacity faded a little. She played the piano and painted, but was only in the stage of studying both." - The Examination of Sidney Gibbes, The Last Days of the Romanovs

"The Grand Duchess Anastasia, I believe, was seventeen. She was over-developed for her age; she was stout and short, too stout for her height; her characteristic feature was to see the weak points of other people and to make fun of them. She was a comedian by nature and always made everybody laugh. She preferred her father to her mother and loved Maria Nicholevna more than the other sisters." - The Examination of Commissar E. S. Kobylinsky, The Last Days of the Romanovs

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[lovf00lish]

Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. During his reign, Nicholas gave support to the economic and political reforms promoted by his prime ministers, Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin. He advocated modernization based on foreign loans and close ties with France, but resisted giving the new parliament (the Duma) major roles. Ultimately, progress was undermined by Nicholas's commitment to autocratic rule, strong aristocratic opposition and defeats sustained by the Russian military in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. By March 1917, public support for Nicholas had collapsed and he was forced to abdicate the throne, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule of Russia (1613–1917).

𝐑𝐮𝐟𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐓𝐳𝐚𝐫 𝐍𝐢𝐤𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐢

#Russian history #tzar nikolai #nicholas ii #Rufus sewell #cast #gif #historyedit #nikolai romanov #the romanov family #the romanoff #mine #dreamcast #Nicholas romanov #perioddramaedit #perioddrama #period #drama

[spaceagebachelormann]

#marlees most random thoughts

[the-starless-reader]

Say my name, sun shines through the rain.

When I first learned about the infamous name drop, I was under the impression that its only purpose was to bridge the gap between the two different mediums. What works on paper might not always work on screen, and vice versa. I'd only read the first book at the time, which is why I wasn't familiar with the real significance of the scene. It seemed to be a logical choice, especially since the books were written strictly from Alina's perspective. As mysterious as he may be, even the Darkling has to have a name. I can hardly imagine anyone calling him that to his face and living to walk away in one piece. But he must be addressed somehow, right?

Manipulative or not, the decision to reveal his name sooner than expected actually serves the plot brilliantly. For once, it does a great job in creating a certain sense of intimacy and vulnerability in his relationship with Alina. And this only gets more emphasized later, after she just casually drops his name to Mal. Because she gives it away just as quickly and just as easily as it was given only to her.

Which brings us back to the original problem. If his real name is so important that it has to be hidden, and you can't really expect people to call him the Darkling to his face, then what will they call him? General Kirigan sounds perfectly fine for a soldier. Except that it doesn't sound Slavic at all, let alone Russian.

And of course it doesn't. It was probably borrowed from a 1986 British fantasy-adventure film called Highlander. Do you remember that famous line? There can be only one. But more importantly, do you remember that evil warrior named Kurgan?

From the moment I've first heard Kirigan's name, I've wondered whether it was a deliberate choice. And I think I may have found some sort of confirmation. Recently, I was browsing through the author's old GR blog posts. In August 2011, she wrote a post titled There Can Be Only Some. Essentially, it's a little trip down memory lane. She writes about Highlander being one of her favourite childhood films AND about Kurgan being 'her first dark knight'.

And those words really struck a chord.

It's her description of him that gets to me: 'the evil warrior who will pursue the hero across time', and later 'we'll learn that Kurgan is a rapist and a murderer', but he 'makes a great first impression', and 'tricked out in truly wicked style, he is an EPIC adversary'. But then, 'sadly, the Kurgan just gets goofier and, by film's end, he's a silly, sleazy bit of caricature'.

This reminds me of the Darkling a lot, especially since I find his character severely degraded from 'an epic adversary' to a simple 'sleazy bit of caricature' in the last book. And even that humorous description of Kurgan's choice of wardrobe later in the franchise reminds me of a certain 'put on a shirt' scene in RoW.

Not to mention that KoS character named Count Kirigin.

It's just you and me now, Alina. And we are all we need anyway.

*Who Wants to Live Forever playing in the background*

I'll admit that I may be reaching a little here, but I just can't help it. Especially since I've realized that a large portion of TGT world was probably inspired by different pieces of art.

For example, there's an opera called The Oprichnik. Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the opera was set in the 16th century court of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. And it was dedicated to the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich Romanov. What matters here is the historical context.

The 'oprichnina times' started with a state policy established by the Tsar in order to repress the boyars (aristocrats) who opposed him. Led by the Tsar Ivan himself, the Oprichniks performed a lot of public executions and confiscations, sometimes also terrorizing the civilian population. They rode black stallions and wore black robes similar to those worn by monks, with their lifestyle often described as ascetic. [Remember how Alina describes the Darkling and his soldiers during their trip to the Little Palace: peasant foods, stable campings, etc.] Because the Oprichniks were all hand-picked by the Tsar, they were also called cromeshnina ('selected') by the public. [As opposed to being the otkazat'sya, right?] The country was basically separated in two: with oprichnina being ruled by the Tsar from his residence in Alexandrov, and zemschina ('the land outside her'), headed by the boyars and the king in Moscow. Travelling between the two was permitted, but costly. Those who were evicted from the Tsar's court were also permanently exiled to zemschina. The two even had their own separate regiments.

It's difficult not to draw parallels here, especially since the opera's libretto features two characters named Morozov(a): the widowed boyarina Morozova and her son, Andrei Morozov.

Speaking of Morozovas', there was also a 17th century martyr named Feodosia Morozova. As a punishment for supporting the Old Believer movement during the schism, she was literally starved to death in an underground cellar. Immortalized in a hagiography (a genre depicting the lives of saints and martyrs), and later celebrated as a symbol of resistance to state power by 19th century radical writers, she was also an inspiration behind the 1887 painting by Vasily Surikov.

The painting Boyarina Morozova now belongs to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. In 2006, Rodion Shchendrin composed a choral opera of the same name.

Inspired by a folktale, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed an opera called Kaschey the Immortal. Simplified Wikipedia-style description paints him as an evil old wizard who liked young women. The story also mentions a firebird. The famous Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg has a performer named Alexander Morozov.

A similar folktale inspired Igor Stravinsky to compose The Firebird. And should I also mention the very existence of a composer named Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev? Or a Finnish rock band The Rasmus, whose biggest hit up to date is a song called In the Shadows? [Granted, Rasmus is a fairly common name in Scandinavia, but every decent TGT playlist has to have that song. Right?]

As for Kurgan, I just have a strong hunch that we might be having another case of Jareth the Goblin King here.

#shadow and bone #netflix shadow and bone #shadow and bone meta #grishaverse meta #grishaverse worldbuilding #aleksander morozova #the darkling #general kirigan #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #parallels and references #a searing burst of thought

[chester84cats]

Oh okay uh definitely didn't forget about this

Tumblr Sexy Man of History

Round 2, Poll 1/2

The Contestants

Peter the Great

Peter was tsar, emperor of Russia, in the late 1600s into the early 1700s. Third Tsar from the Romanov family, he made radical reforms catapulting Russia into the modern era, as the Russian Orthodox Church was resistant to change. Peter's mother, Natalya Naryshkina, was raised to be open to Western practices, and she passed this along to Peter. Some of the reforms he made were creating Russia's first Navy, investing in the military, making tax reforms, requiring noblemen to shave unless they pay a beard tax and wear western clothing, securing a warm-water port, and creating education centers and hospitals. He died in 1725 after he fell ill after rescuing some sailors from drowning in freezing water.

Standing at an impressive 6'7" and with a fiery temper fueled by brandy, Peter was an intimidating figure to even stand beside, much less face when you had slighted him. Several members of an attempted revolt learned this the hard way, as Peter beheaded them himself and ordered hundreds more to be hung.

He angy

Sophia Alekseyevna

Elder half sister to Peter the Great, Sophia and her brother Ivan V (see poll 4) are children of Tsar Alexis' first wife, Maria Miloslavskaya. When Ivan and Peter were Co-Tsars as children, she had herself installed as Regent. While on the face of things, the half brothers were calling the shots, Sophia was really pulling the strings behind the curtain. Literally. There was a small room behind the double throne Ivan and Peter sat on with a small window through which she would whisper suggestions. Several times, Sophia attempted to grab the throne for herself. Most notably was when she tried to stage a revolt while Peter was on his Grand Embassy. Peter's throne was defended by his friend Patrick Gordon until Peter returned after cutting his Embassy short. She was exiled to a convent outside of Moscow where she would die in 1704.

Intense Girlboss

#chesters wacky poles #history #tumblr sexyman #tumblr sexymen poll #tw death mention #peter the great #sophia alekseyevna

[n-rnova]

From 1916 diary of Alexei Romanov:

1 January. Got up late today. Had tea at 10 o’clock, then went to [see] Mama… Sat at home, because I have a cold. Had breakfast with Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. In the afternoon went to Kolya’s and played there. It was really fun…

6 January. Got up late. At 11 o’clock in the morning went to the Palace infirmary. Had breakfast with O., T., M. Mama and Anastasia stayed in bed all day… During the day took a walk outside then went to Kolya’s.

From 1918 letters of Alexei Romanov to Romanov family friends:

Tobolsk, 7 January, 1918. Dear Pyotr Vasilevich. I am writing You a third letter already. I hope that You are receiving them…  While I am writing You, Zhylik is reading a newspaper, and Kolya is sketching a portrait of him. Kolya is being rowdy and therefore distracting me from writing to You. Dinner is soon. Nagorny is sending You warm regards… May the Lord God keep You! Your loving. Alexei

12 January. My darling Anya. We are so glad to have news from you, and to hear that you got all our things… We have a few good soldiers with whom I play games in their rooms. Kolya Derevenko comes to visit me on holidays. Nagorny the sailor sleeps with me… I kiss and embrace you. God bless you. ALEXEI

From 1918 letters of Alexei Romanov to Kolya Derevenko:

Dear Yalok, Bring your bullet, the one you found in Ts.[arskoe] S.[elo]. I will also bring two of mine. Goodbye. Ieskela. [On the reverse side of the letter]: “For Kolya. Open immediately (Tobolsk, March 1918)”

To Kolya (Tobolsk, April, 1918). Dear Niki, I am very grateful for the cannon. I hope that we will see each other soon. Regards to Mama, Grandma and Fefer. My handwriting is bad because I am lying in bed. My leg hurts, but I think it will soon be better. Yours, Ieskela [On the reverse side, on top of the page Alexei wrote]: “I am sending you a prosfora “

#alexei romanov #letters #romanov family

[ao3feed-irondadspiderson]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44890570

The Petrova Twins by laMarvelousBitch Pyotr or Peter was left in Hydra. Nadia or Natalia in the Red Room. These two Twins were never supposed to see the light of day. They set out to find themselves, only to be caught in with their mothers past, ruthless vampires, and evil organizations. Will the family of three be able to escape their problems while handling their mother's old rivalries. Words: 74, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi Characters: Peter Parker, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Katherine Pierce, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Elijah Mikaelson, Klaus Mikaelson, Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Rebekah Mikaelson, Elena Gilbert, Damon Salvatore, Stefan Salvatore, Wade Wilson, Academic Decathlon Team (Spider-Man: Homecoming) Relationships: Peter Parker & Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Peter Parker, Natasha Romanov/Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Elijah Mikaelson & Klaus Mikaelson, Klaus Mikaelson & Peter Parker, Klaus Mikaelson & Natasha Romanov, Katherine Pierce & Peter Parker, Katherine Pierce & Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes & Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, Peter Parker & Original Female Character(s), Peter Parker & Original Male Character(s), Natasha Romanov (Marvel) & Original Female Character(s), Natasha Romanov (Marvel) & Original Male Character(s), Academic Decathlon Team (Spider-Man: Homecoming) & Peter Parker Additional Tags: Peter Parker and Natasha Romanov are twins, Bucky Barnes & Tony Stark Friendship, This Story contains a Lot of TW warnings, be warned, The Academic Decathelon team are nosey, I will update them as I go

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #iron dad and spider son #spider son #iron dad #peter parker #tony stark

[timmymyluv]

kiernan shipka as grand duchess maria alexandrovna

in the let others wage war series

"She is accustomed to be the center of the world and that everyone yields to her."

as the only daughter with four older brothers and two younger, she is the darling child of Tsar Alexander II and Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna. "the whole family adores this child"

in the romanov!prince timothée chalamet x princess!reader series

#Spotify #timothee chalamet imagines #timothee chalamet x reader #timothee chalamet scenarios #loww series #kiernan shipka #romanov au #timothee chalamet #timothee x reader #timothee chalamet x you

[hockeygossip101]

To anon wanting to know about russian hockey players and figure skaters they’re all connected in one whole loop 😂

Alina zagitova

- has a thing for hockey players cause her dad was the coach for ak bars junior team

-follows sofi krasovskaya (alex romanov’s (habs) wife

- was rumored to be involved w kirill kaprizov (minnesota wild) back in 2018-2019 but they don’t talk anymore

- Is currently dating dima voronkov (Ak bars kazan)

- Andrei svechnikov (carolina hurricanes) tried to get w her but got called out for already having a gf circa 2020

Stasya konstantinova

- Pyotr kochetkov (carolina hurricanes) is friends with her (close friend probably cause he had only followed 63 people on his ig before and she was one of them)

- stasya is best friends with zhenya medvedeva who trained with the same coach as alina

Thank you so much :))

#hockey #hockey gossip

[best-romanov-monarch]

[text translation:

mobilization

news and politics

minecraft modes]

#history #russia #house of romanov #pyotr ii #peter ii

[donovanoliver715]

I watched one of the Golden Films about Anastasia. It reminds me of the Don Bluth film that came chronologically that same year of 1997. But some details are unlike the Bluth film. Rasputin doesn’t come as an undead villain. Instead, he’s one of the Bolsheviks that thought he succeeded in killing Tsar and his Romanov family. The music from Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker was used in the short video. It’s like many other Anastasia stories from Marcelle Maurette’s French play and Arthur Laurents’ 1954 version from the same studio with Don Bluth. But I think the Don Bluth version is a lot nice than any other. Although, Rasputin, or Grigori Rasputin in that sense is much rather creepy from an inspiration took from Evil Dead, and David Cronenburg design. Reimagined from the true story about Rasputin. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cln2bkTOZIh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[otmaaromanovas]

PETER VASILIEVICH PETROV was the Russian tutor of the five children of the Tsar and Tsarina. Petrov appears to have been a great favourite of the children, who often mention him in diaries and letters throughout their lives, nicknaming him 'PVP'. Several drawings made by the children were dedicated to him, and in return he read aloud to them and wrote poems for them.

Petrov seems to have favoured Anastasia Nikolaevna, whom he called his 'little songbird'. English tutor Charles Sydney Gibbes recalled a lesson when Anastasia tried to bribe him with flowers so that he would improve her grade: 'Drawing herself up to the most of her small height, she marched into the schoolroom next door. Leaving the door wide open, she approached the dear old Russian professor, Peter Vassilievich Petrov. 'Peter Vassilievich', she said, 'allow me to present you with these flowers'. By all the rules he should have refused them, but professors are human; he did not.'

Finding concrete sources about Petrov is difficult both before and after time he spent with the Romanov family. He does not appear to have been imprisoned with the imperial family, which was most likely due to his poor health, which the children often me mentioned in their letters, concerned for their old tutor. Petrov appears to have passed away around 1918.

Tatiana Nikolaevna to PVP:

'5 May 1917

Tsarskoe Selo

Pyotr Vasilievich, my dear,

I feel so ashamed that I have not written to You before, but please don't think this shows I have forgotten You absolutely not. After all, it's possible not to write to friends and yet keep them in mind isn't that so? So, how are you feeling?

I was very upset, when I learnt about your illness. Do you have any news from your nephew how is he? As you will have heard, we all try to keep busy here with some form of domestic activity each one as he can. We are planting a kitchen garden. Do you really still have to stay in bed, or will you be able to go out onto the balcony once it gets warmer? Anyway, all my very best wishes. It's sad that we have not met for so long. Get well soon.

May God keep you. Your old pupil, Tatiana'

Sources:

Diary of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna by Helen Azar and George Hawkins

The House of Special Purpose by J. C. Trewin using original papers from Charles Sydney Gibbes

Alexander Palace Time Machine

#romanov #russian history #otma #romanovs #pvp #tutors #peter petrov #peter vasilievich petrov #1910s #olga nikolaevna #tatiana nikolaevna #maria nikolaevna #anastasia nikolaevna #alexei nikolaevich #petrov #my own #sources

[activefancaster757]

«𖣔 ℝℍ𝔸𝔼𝔾𝔸ℝ 𝕋𝔸ℝ𝔾𝔸ℝ𝕐𝔼ℕ 𖣔»

𝔽𝔸ℕℂ𝔸𝕊𝕋 :

Eugeniy Sauchanka ➳

DOB: December of 1990

Nationality: Gomel, Belarus

Ethnicity: Belarusian

Height: 1,89 m/ 6’2.5

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Blonde

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Heath Ledger ➳

DOB: April of 1979 - January 2008

Nationality: Perth, Australia

Ethnicity: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Jewish Ashkenazi and Sephardi

Height: 1,85 m/ 6’½

Eye color: Hazel

Hair color: Blonde / Light brown

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Jarred Blakiston ➳

DOB: July of 1991

Nationality: Auckland, New Zealand

Ethnicity: New Zealand

Height: 1,85 m/ 6'1

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Brown

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Chris Hemsworth ➳

DOB: August of 1983

Nationality: Melbourne, Austrália

Ethnicity: Dutch, Irish, English, Scottish, and German

Height: 1,9 m/ 6’3

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Blonde/ Light brown

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Ton Heukels ➳

DOB: March of 1993

Nationality: Netherlands

Ethnicity: Dutch

Height: 1,88 m / 6'2

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Blonde

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Alexander Skarsgård ➳

DOB: August of 1976

Nationality: Vällingby, Stockholm, Sweden

Ethnicity: Swedish

Height: 1,94 m/ 6’4

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Blonde

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Remy Hii ➳

DOB: July of 1986

Nationality: Queensland, Austrália

Ethnicity: Chinese, Malaysian and British

Height: 1,8 m/ 5’11

Eye color: Black

Hair color: Black

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Toby Regbo ➳

DOB: October of 1991

Nationality: Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

Ethnicity: Norwegian, Italian, British, Australian

Height: 1,78 m/ 5’10

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Blonde

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Jamie Campbell Bower ➳

DOB: November of 1988

Nationality: London, United Kingdom

Ethnicity: English and Scottish

Height: 1,83 m/ 6’0

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Blonde

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

Pyotr Romanov ➳

DOB: March of 1989

Nationality: Moscow, Russia

Ethnicity: Russian

Height: 1,88 m/ 6’2

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Blonde

━━━━━━ 𖣔 ━━━━━━

« Not my gifs »

#rhaegar targaryen #targaryen #rhaegar targaryen fancast #eugeniy sauchanka #ton heukels #chris hemsworth #jarred blakiston #heath ledger #house targaryen #house targaryen fancast #fancast #alexander skarsgård #remy hii #toby regbo #jamie campbell bower #pyotr romanov