#count pahlen

[ciderbird]

It was Pahlen who announced the sinister news to Alexander, and when the young man burst into tears, he thrust him forward with “That’s enough of being a child! Go reign. Show yourself to the guards!”

“The Death of Paul Announced to Alexander”, 1881 black and white wood engraving

[venicepearl]

Olga Alexandrovna Zherebtsova, née Zubova, also known as Madame Gerebtzoff (1766–1849), was a Russian aristocrat and socialite, known foremost for her political involvement and love life. She was the sister of the celebrated Zubov brothers, Prince Platon and Counts Nikolay and Valerian.

After her brothers' fall from grace following Catherine II's death, they conspired with Count Pahlen to assassinate her successor Paul whom they viewed as the author of their misfortunes. The conspirators met and discussed their plans at Zherebtsova's house. Some maintain that she appropriated the funds the British government passed through her lover Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth to the conspirators. "Once diplomatic relations with England were broken, Whitworth was ordered to leave the capital with all his staff".

Zherebtsova followed Lord Whitworth to England where she was shocked to learn about his prospective betrothal to the widow of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. It was rumored that Madame Gerebtzoff extorted from her rival some 10,000 pounds before turning her attention to the Prince Regent, whose mistress she is said to have become. She is even said to have given birth to a natural son, named George Nord, after his purported royal father.

In the declining years of her life, Madame Gerebtzoff returned to the Russian capital, where she again became immersed in court intrigues through her powerful son-in-law, Prince Aleksey Orlov.

[lboogie1906]

Abbie Mitchell (September 25, 1884 – March 16, 1960) was a teacher, actress, and soprano born in New York City. Her father was German-Jewish and her mother was an African American.

She auditioned for a role in Clorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk, a musical comedy. She married Will Marion Cook (1898). They had two children.

She became a featured performer at private gatherings for New York socialites such as the Astors, Goulds, Morgans, and Vanderbilts. Will Marion Cook wrote the musical comedy, Jes Lake White Folks. She played one of the main characters.

In Dahomey was the most successful theatrical production mounted by African Americans and the first play with an all-Black cast, to be performed on Times Square. She sang “Brownskin Baby Mine.” In Dahomey was performed in England. To celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales, the production was staged before the Royal Family in Buckingham Palace. She spent time with the Nashville Students, a theatrical troupe that made its debut in New York City and performed in Paris, London, and Berlin. She starred as the lead soprano in Red Moon, which toured Europe. She gave a command performance for Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

She could be found performing at Harlem’s Lafayette Theater. She performed at other leading Black theaters including the Pekin Theater in Chicago and the Howard Theater in DC.

She performed in over two dozen plays including The Count of Monte Cristo, Othello, The Chocolate Soldier, The Emperor Jones, and The Little Foxes. She was known as Madame X in the play by that name. She performed in the Chicago production of Coquette. She showed her vocal artistry by performing French songs by Debussy, Duparc, and Foudrain, German songs by Pahlen, the poems of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, and spirituals written by her husband, Will Marion Cook. She became the head of the vocal department at Tuskegee Institute, she continued to perform before audiences around the world including a concert in the Soviet Union.

She gave her last performance in Westport Connecticut in the summer of 1947 when she appeared in The Skull Boat. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[microcosme11]

“ Das Reitergefecht bei Liebertwolkwitz am 14. Oktober 1813. Im Vordergrund Marschall Murat” by Richard Knötel

The cavalry battle at Liebertwolkwitz on October 14, 1813, in the foreground Marshal Murat

Crude google translation from the website linked below: 

Duel with the King (Murat)

In the run-up to the Battle of Leipzig, on October 14, 1813, there was a cavalry battle between the cavalry corps of the Russian General Count von der Pahlen and the cavalry of the French Marshal and King of Naples, Murat. Since the battle, which lasted from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., involved up to 15,000 horsemen from both sides in the melee, the battle is often called the "biggest cavalry battle of modern times".The Pahlen Cavalry Corps also included the Prussian Mounted Grenadier Regiment "Freiherr von Derfflinger" (Neumarkisches) No. 3, founded in 1807 in Bromberg. In association with two Russian hussar regiments, it encountered the French positions south of Leipzig in the course of a violent reconnaissance. In the wide plain between Dölitz, Markkleeberg, Wachau, Liebertwolkwitz and Holzhausen, Marshal Murat had his French, Poles and Rheinbündische entrenched in accordance with a plan by Marshal Victor.

Pahlen, who was only a moderately talented general, did not recognize this locking position and ordered the attack from the movement. The Allies quickly came under heavy French artillery fire from the Galgenberg, the dominant height in this flat country. The order "Collect backwards" had to be given while the French cavalry counterattacked. As always, Marshal Murat himself rode at the head in his theatrical costume.

Lieutenant Guido von der Lippe commanded the flanking platoon in the 2nd Squadron of Mounted Grenadiers. The young Upper Silesian made the decision to capture this "vain peacock". He used the moment, when the King of Naples was only accompanied by his body boy ( Leibbursche ), to make an unauthorized advance, accompanied by a few comrades from his cavalcade.

With the call "Halt, König, halt!", spoken in German, the lieutenant tried to grasp the reins of Murat's white palfrey. He dodged it skillfully and stared blankly at the young officer, drawn saber in hand. The body boy, on the other hand, reacted with lightning speed and knocked the attacker out of the saddle with his edged weapon. However, the approaching body squadron of the king put an end to the bold attempt at capture by the Neumärker.

Lieutenant Guido von der Lippe was found by his lad on the battlefield on October 16, 1813, hidden under corpses, and buried with honor by the 2nd squadron. The history painter Richard Knötel later created a lasting monument to him.

Murat's body boy was appointed "Royal Equerry", an "honorary pension from the city of Naples" for life and the horse of the lieutenant von der Lippe. Emperor Napoleon awarded the equerry the "Cross of the Legion of Honour".

Source:   "The book of facts of the German cavalry." Dedicated to the German cavalry by Emil Buxbaum, Major on the staff of the kb 2nd Heavy Cavalry Regiment "Archduke Franz Ferdinand von Austria-Este", Berlin and Leipzig, Verlag Friedrich Luckhardt, 1900.

Link

[yakumtsaki]

The theme of your thesis sounds amazing!

aw ty! ❤️ imperial russia was the definiton of ‘u can’t make this shit up’, if shakespeare was alive during that time i guarantee u he would had written a romanov tetralogy (and not to put words into his mouth but it would def go peter the great/catherine the great/tsar paul/tsar alexander):

-a foreign dignitary who met peter the great back when he was a kid remarked ‘he seems destined to become a great woodworker, not a great monarch’. when he was 10 peter watched members of his extended family being lynched inside the kremlin during the streltsy uprising and didn’t flinch. he was so traumatized that a year later another dignitary thought he was 16yo. he came to despise moscow and had a new capital built from scratch, st petersburg. 40 thousand sefs died building it

-catherine the great had her husband killed, took his throne, charmed everyone into submission and ushered in the golden age of aristocracy but gave up on trying to solve the serf problem and hated her son irrationally because he was you kno. the heir to his father’s throne instead of her   

-tsar paul (her son) was driven mad by the knowledge his mother had killed his father, as well as her constantly insinuating he was a bastard and the result of one of her affairs. when he took over he had one of his mother’s lover’s corpses exhumed and thrown away like garbage. he kept hallucinating the ghost of peter the great following him in the streets of st petersburg and warning him of a violent death, and 4 years into his reign:  

-tsar alexander (paul’s son and catherine’s grandson) knew his father was going to be assassinated by courtiers and let it happen. when he was informed of his father’s death he started crying and count von pahlen, one of the conspirators, told him ‘stop acting like a child and go rule!’. alexander’s children kept dying and he was convinced god was punishing him and that napoleon’s rise was a sign of the apocalypse. after repelling napoleon from russia he became super religious and died a mysterious death in crimea. rumors persisted that he wasnt actually dead but that he went on to become a mystic/monk 

bonus:

-one of the leaders of the disastrous decembrist revolt, pavel pestel, randomly met the exiled count von pahlen many years later, when von pahlen was in his 80s. the decembrists were plotting to overthrow the monarchy as soon as alexander died. von pahlen, sensing what pestel was up to, warned him: ‘listen to me young man, if you’re hoping to achieve anything through a conspiracy, forget about it! i know how the world works and if there is twelve of you, then the twelfth is a traitor!’. sure enough pestel was betrayed, arrested and executed

i mean seriously the shakespeare plays are practically writing themselves here

[heavyarethecrowns]

Those that have married in to Royal Families since 1800

Monaco

Donna Beatrice Borromeo born 18 August 1985

She is the daughter of Don Carlo Ferdinando Borromeo, Count of Arona the son of Vitaliano Borromeo, 2nd Prince of Angera, and his long-time companion, Countess Donna Paola Marzotto Through her father she is related to Carlo Borromeo, who became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Milan, and a canonized saint. 

The family currently owns most of the Borromean Islands in the Lago Maggiore, Milan city, and many other estates in the Lombardy and Piedmont countryside . She has an older brother, Carlo Ludovico Borromeo, who married Italian fashion designer Marta Ferri  daughter of Italian photographer Fabrizio Ferri,on 30 June 2012 on the island of Pantelleria.

Beatrice has three older half-sisters from her father's first marriage to German model Marion Sybil Zota: Donna Isabella married Count Ugo Brachetti Peretti. Donna Lavinia; married John Elkann, son of Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen and Alain Elkann. Donna Matilde married Prince Antonius zu Fürstenberg son of Heinrich, Prince of Fürstenberg.

Her maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Marta Marzotto (née Vacondio), ex-wife of Count Umberto Marzotto.Her uncle, Count Matteo Marzotto, is the former president and director of the Valentino fashion house at the time the label belonged to the Marzotto Group.

Since 2008, Borromeo became increasingly known in the tabloid press as the girlfriend of Pierre Casiraghi, the younger son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover. The couple married in a civil ceremony on Saturday, 25 July 2015 in the gardens of the Prince's Palace of Monaco. The religious ceremony took place on 1 August 2015 on Isola Bella, one of the Borromean Islands on Lake Maggiore, Italy. 

She finished secondary education, in 2002, at Milan's Liceo Classico Giovanni Berchet. Borromeo received a bachelor of laws from Bocconi University, Milan in 2010, under supervision of prof. Lorenzo Cuocolo. She also received a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University Journalism School in May 2012

Beatrice was a contributor to Newsweek and the Daily Beast in 2013. Prior to that, and from the newspaper's beginning in 2009, she worked as a full-time reporter for Il Fatto Quotidiano. She continued in that position through the year 2016

She has appeared on many television shows in Italy, beginning with Anno Zero on Rai 2 where she worked for two years, from 2006 to 2008. Every week she interviewed an average three guests on political development and social evils. In 2009, she even hosted a weekly show on the Radio 105 Network.

She interviewed Roberto Saviano, the famous author of Gomorrah, for Above magazine's June 2009 issue. She also interviewed American author of LA Confidential James Ellroy and former candidate for Colombia's presidency Ingrid Betancourt both for Il Fatto Quotidiano. For the same newspaper, she also interviewed Marcello Dell'Utri, Italian Senator and co-founder of Forza Italia. In the interview, Dell'Utri admitted to have entered politics to get immunity in order to escape his arrest. 

She directed Mamma Mafia, a documentary about mafia women: its preview was released by the Newsweek Daily Beast Company on 31 January 2013. That was her sole film in the English language. She has directed several documentaries in the Italian language, ranging from topics as the women of 'Ndrangheta, selfie surgery, and the children of Caivano.

Borromeo collaborated with Marco Travaglio and Vauro Senesi on the book Italia Annozero (Chiarelettere, 2009). She also wrote the preface for Birgit Hamer's Delitto senza castigo: La Vera Storia di Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia. (Aliberti, 2011).Birgit Hamer is a very old family friend; her mother is dear friends with Borromeo's mother, and Borromeo has admitted to having grown up hearing about the murder of Dirk Hamer from his sisters, including Birgit. Borromeo broke the story of the video confession of Vittorio Emanuele, who subsequently sued the newspaper for defamation. In 2015 a court ruled in favour of the newspaper.Borromeo then posted on Twitter: "Vincere una causa e' sempre piacevole, ma contro Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia la goduria è doppia!" ("Winning a case is always nice, but against Victor Emmanuel of Savoy the pleasure is double"), which resulted in spat on social media with his son Emanuele Filiberto

In November 2015 she was sanctioned Special Envoy for Human Rights for F4D. She considered herself in 2005 "atheist and leftist".

Pierre and Beatrice's first son, Stefano Ercole Carlo Casiraghi, was born on 28 February 2017. Their second son, Francesco Carlo Albert, was born on 21 May 2018.

[ciderbird]

Paul I reading hate-mail

[ciderbird]

count Pahlen: your majesty, we’re ready to overthrow your father we just need you to give your final approval

Alexander: oh, I don’t know. I mean I wanna save Russia and all that stuff you said but… what will happen to him?

count Pahlen: don’t worry, we will send him off to a nice farm, where he’ll have plenty of room to run free.

Alexander: …

count Pahlen: …

Alexander: phew, well go ahead then! I was afraid you might hurt him or something!

[ciderbird]

I love how 20% of this movie is count Pahlen repeatedly coming to Alexander with “we NEED to overthrow your dad and make you an emperor” and Alex dramatically falling into a chair like “Oh, why should I have been born with all this responsibility and this handsome face?”

meet Alexander “prettiest angel” Romanov