#dmitri romanov

[otmaaromanovas]

Amazing high quality version of this lovely photo of Maria and Anastasia playing with their cousin, Dmitri Pavlovich, by the Dneipr River, Mogilev, 1916

This is one of the last photos the Romanovs have with Dmitri. In December the same year he would be involved in the murder of Rasputin, and would be exiled to the Persian War Front as punishment. Dmitri appeared to be greatly loved within the extended family, as he was the subject of a letter signed by various Romanovs addressed to Tsar Nicholas asking for a less harsh sentence.

From the incredible lastromanovs on flickr:

Anastasia's 1916-17 album variant 2

[ofrecklcss]

( max irons , 31 , he/him , cismale , Romanov 5 - have you seen DMITRI ROMANOV II?  we’ve heard through the grapevine that they’re CHARMING but also HOT TEMPERED. when you think of them , you think of THUNDERSTORMS, CLASHING SWORDS AND CRUMPLED SHEETS. * barbara’s betrothed wc

parallels: anakin skywalker (star wars) , harvey specter (suits), damon salvatore (vampire diaries), flynn rider (disney - tangled), chuck bass (gossip girl)

BASIC  INFO

FULL  NAME:  dmitri romanov ii

PRONUNCIATION:  deh-mee-tree

NICKNAMES:  dem (only by his family)

AGE:  thirty one

GENDER & PRONOUNS:  cis man, he/him

ORIENTATION:  heterosexual, heteroromantic

LANGUAGE(S)  SPOKEN:  primary  —  russian, english ;  conversational  —  german, italian, spanish, french

ACCENT:  russian

ALIGNMENT:  phlegmatic

ZODIAC:  capricorn

LABEL:  the regicide/ rebel

alternatively: the dark horse

HEADCANONS

The youngest Romanov son, Dmitri never had as much pressure put on him as his older siblings and was given a lot of freedom which formed the base of his personality. He is definitely the black horse and rebels often for the hell of it.

He was trained with the Russian military from an early age and is an excellent swordsman/soldier, sometimes acting more like a soldier often forgetting diplomacy and court protecol much preferring to speak his mind. He is hot tempered and can be very reckless to the chagrin of his advisors and the Russian courtiers.

He's never really given much thought to marriage but now that his brother is the Tsar and it is expected for him to marry for the sake of beneficial alliances, he's not too pleased but as a soldier he does have a great understanding of following orders.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

BETROTHED: Barbara of Lorraine

CONFIDANTS/CHOSEN FAMILY ; those he's fought with and spent a lot of his time growing up with during his time in the military - he trusts them and trust is not easy to come by with

BROKEN BETROTHAL: Someone his father was in talks with to arrange a marriage before he died - when the previous Tsar died and Aleksander took over, the discussions and negotiations were halted and cancelled.

CURRENT + PREVIOUS FLINGS: Dmitri was never one to believe in marriage, and he thought he would never have to think about it so he's lived a life of a Grand Duke who cared little for propriety and has had several flings over the years.

CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART; Someone who grew up visiting/spending time with the Romanovs (could be from a close country/their parents could have had some kind of alliance) where they had the chance to meet and connect to the point where everyone who saw them thought they would become sweethearts (maybe they were? open to interpretation of character taking the wc)

PEN PAL; (female - royal or high ranking) Someone that Dmitri has written to honestly and openly from a young age after meeting at some kind of state visit/event. this person will know him well even if they haven't seen each other since.

[medleen]

Well, about Dmitry's death… I don't really remember that Felix even mentions his death at all in his memoir - the last mention, as far as I remember, was Dmitry's marriage in 1925, that's all. However, they must have seen each other after their big quarrel in 1920 at least once. Maybe it is a little bit late to write, more than three years later, but I think very few people know about this fact and I feel a need to tell somebody about it. And I just came across this post, so… On one French auction's site I saw a lot - a guest book from Felix's residence in the citadel of Calvi in Corsica. (there is a link if you want to check https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/77850/6477067-livre-dor-du-prince-youssoupof ) And there, in this guest book, is Dmitry's signature. (The auction itself claims that it is his signature, and it's really similar to one that I saw once and that was definitely Dmitry's.)

Here, this is the one I had before - clearly says "The Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich", somewhen before the revolution.

And this is the signature in the guest book, in the top left corner, just "Dmitry". Look kinda similar, right? Also there is a date, 27.09.1934. Eight years before Dmitry's death. And no sign of his sister or anyone whom he could just accompany. So, he was there by himself. That's it. I was just glad to know that they didn't lost the contact completely. All that big strange conflict around gossips in 1920 felt so tragic to me due to the fact that Dmirty already lost so much just in a few years at that point… So I love to think that they reconciled before the end. That Dmitry didn't die being mad at the one who meant a lot to him (at least at some point).

Sorry for my probably bad English grammar. I just could't help and not to talk about this. These two are my Roman Empire :)

y'all, is there anything on the internet about felix yusupov's feelings about grand duke dmitri's death? i never found anything, maybe it's because of the region I'm in while searching for this- might use a vpn to find different results.

ik they already had stopped talking by the time dmitri died (i mean they supposedly stopped talking in 1920, and dmitri died 22 years after that or something), but still, felix wrote about him in a complimentary manner in Lost Splendour, which i assume was written after they stopped talking too?? idk i am going on a tangent lol

feel free to comment on this post if you have any information on the initial question. you can also dm me. 💞

[jomarchswritingjacket]

reminder that these four exist around the same time and would totally live it up together

[winterstarfall]

do you ever read the anastasia broadway script and just want to die

[thepaleys]

Marianne - The Most Scandalous of the von Pistohlkors Siblings

Marianne von Pistohlkors was born in 1890 and was known by many names throughout her life. Her family called her "Babaka", her friends called her "Malanya".

In 1908, at the age of 17, she married Lt. Col. Peter Petrovich Durnovo, the son of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Pyotr Durnovo, and a classmate of her older brother Alexander. They had one son, Kyrill, born in November 1908. During that time, she was known as Mrs. Durnovo.

There are different versions as to why the couple got divorced just three years after their marriage. Some say Durnovo had a drinking problem and was abusive, others say Marianne was having an affair with none other than Rasputin:

"She was married first to the guards hussar Durnovo. She was acquainted with Rasputin. Once Durnovo, having suddenly appeared at a small gathering of the Elder's admirers, caught the moment when the Elder was embracing his wife. With a strong blow the hussar knocked the Elder down, took his wife away, and Rasputin, lying down, shouted: "I will remember you" - A.I. Spiridonovich

Either way, the couple was divorced in 1911, but it didn't take long for 22-year-old Marianne to find a new husband: a year after her divorce, she married Christopher Ivanovich von Derfelden, another officer and collegue of her brother Alexander. From then on and during most of WWI, she was known as Marianne von Derfelden. And it would be under that name that she would be implicated in one of the most famous murders of history.

Marianne was considered a very attractive woman. She was also witty, inteligent and social, which made her very popular in Saint Petersburg high society in the final years leading up to World War One. One of her most famous stunts was to attend a costume ball given by Kleinmichel dressed as an Egyptian in which she performed a provocative dance with a naval officer (who was not her husband).

Two photographs of the evening were published in a famous social magazine and were a tremendous success.

At the time, Marianne was also an amateur actress and model.

After World War One started, Marianne became a nurse and drove ambulances around the city. On January 5, 1916, she received the St. George Medal for her efforts.

Since her mother and stepfather had returned to Russia in 1914, Marianne had also developed a close friendship (some even refer to it as flirtation) with her step-brother, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. They attended the same parties and had the same circle of friends. They also were among the Saint Petersburg aristocratic groups that hated Rasputin and thought he was a bad influence on the Empress.

This was a time when the rumours in Petrograd society were particularly wild and farfetched, so the nature of Dmitri and Marianne's relationship varies between "friendly", "flirtatious" to "they were lovers and took pictures of themselves reenacting Kamasutra positions" and "they participated in orgies thrown by Prince Felix Yussupov in his palace".

Whatever the nature of their relationship, the truth was that Marianne was deeply involved in the conspiracy to murder Rasputin. It had never been fully proved that she was the Yussupov Palace, but she knew about the plans and there were rumours that some of the meetings to organize the murder took place at her apartment.

When it was discovered that Dmitri was one of the co-conspirators and was sent to the Persian front as punishment, Marianne was one of the few people who went to the train station to say goodbye, which ultimatly alerted the authorities to her participation and Empress Alexandra ordered her house arrest. Her telephone was taken and her house was searched [apparently, when the guards asked for a key to open a closed drawer, she told them 'you'll only find love letters'], but nothing was discovered and she was set free on three days later.

A few days after Dmitri's departure, the French Ambassador, Maurice Paléologue, met Marianne at a restaurant and this was what he wrote about the meeting in his memoirs:

Dining at the Restaurant Contant this evening, I saw pretty Madame D----- at the next table with three officers of the Chevaliers-Gardes; she was in mourning. During the night of January 6-7, she was arrested on suspicion of having taken part in the murder of Rasputin, or at any rate known of the preparations. Thanks to the high influences which protect her, she was simply kept under observation in her flat and released three days later. When a police officer asked her for the key of her bureau in order to secure her papers, she replied sweetly and simply: "You'll only find love-letters." The remark is Madame D----- personified. Twenty-six years of age, divorced, remarried at once, then separated from her second husband, she leads a wild life. Every evening, or rather every night, she holds high revel until morning: theatre, ballet, supper, gypsy singers, tango, champagne, etc. And yet it would be a great mistake to judge her solely by this tawdry dissipation; at bottom she is warm-hearted, proud and an enthusiast. Rasputin's murder, of the preparations for which she knew, came as a thunderbolt to her. The Grand Duke Dimitri seemed to her a hero, the saviour of Russia. She went into mourning on learning the news of his arrest. When she heard that he had been sent to the Russian army front in Persia, she swore to continue his patriotic work and avenge him. Since the police evacuated her residence four days ago, she has been concerned in all the ramifications of the plot against the Emperor, carrying letters to some and passwords to others. Yesterday she called on two colonels of the guard to win them over to the good cause. She knows that the agents of the terrible Okhrana are watching her, and is fertile in resources to throw them off the scent. Any night she expects to be incarcerated in the fortress or sent to Siberia; but she has never been so happy before. The heroines of the Fronde, Madame de Longueville, Madame de Montbazon and Madame de Lesdiguières must have known this unreal exaltation, by virtue of which the conscientiousness of a great peril rekindles a great love. When she finished dinner she passed close to my table, followed by her three officers. She came up to me. I rose to shake hands. In rapid tones she said: "I know that our mutual friend came to see you yesterday and told you everything . . . He's extremely anxious about me. It's only natural . . . he loves me so much! Anyhow, he thought you would be ready to help me in case of disaster and was anxious to make certain. But I knew what you'd say. What could you do for me if things went badly? Nothing; that's obvious . . . . But I'm grateful for the nice things you've said about me, and I'm sure that at the bottom of your heart---though not as ambassador---I have your approval . . . We may never meet again. Good-bye!" And with these words she sped away swiftly and silently, escorted by her chevaliers-gardes.

As mentioned in the quote above, by 1916, Marianne was already separated from her second husband and would soon marry again, this time in October 1917 to Count Nikolai Konstantinovich von Zarnekau, a son of Prince Konstantin of Oldenburg.

Perhaps because of the preassures of the revolution [Marianne later revealed that her life with Nikolai was marked by poverty], this marriage was even shorter than the others and, by 1918, she was already in a relationship with Andrei Nikolaevich Lavrentiev, a Russian actor and theater director.

According to her mother’s recollections, Marianne warned her family several times about the impending arrest, having received information from a commissar who was infatuated with her. “She was quick, … tactfully and easily met Kuzmin. He fell madly in love with her. And he freed us for her sake,” wrote Olga Paley. On August 9, 1918, the Danish envoy H. Scavenius proposed a plan through Marianne to save the Grand Duke: Pavel Alexandrovich, dressed in an Austro-Hungarian uniform, was to hide in the Austro-Hungarian embassy, ​​but the latter refused to change into the uniform of a state hostile to the Russian Empire. Despite all her efforts, she still failed to save her family.

After the death of her son and husband, Olga Valerianovna and her younger daughters illegally emigrated to Finland with the assistance of P. P. Durnovo, Marianna's first husband. Her father and brother Alexander left the country with their families.

Marianne, however, remained in Russia until 1921. She became an actress at the Bolshoi Theater under the stage name Maria Pavlovna in honour of her late stepfather. In 1921, she moved with her lover to Riga, where they remained for several years. In 1936, under the stage name Marianne Fiori, Marianne moved to New York and would remain in the United States until her death. In 1961, she was married for the fourth time to Mikhail Aleksandrovich Paltov, the son of chamberlain Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Paltov , formerly a captain of the Life Guards Horse Grenadier Regiment.

[eridonna]

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐚 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥

𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒕 // 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒆

When Anya attends the ballet, she wears a pink gown during the initial premiere at Hartford Stage.

When the show moved to Broadway, Linda Cho reworked the costume referencing the Blue Gown from the 1997 animated movie.

This version has a fitted bodice with beading and sequins, off-the-shoulder straps with delicate crystal chains, a flowing skirt, and a long cape. It is paired long, elbow-length white gloves.

𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏

[darklinaforever]

I'm really confused about the musical's changes to the Dimitri & Anastasia relationship. Yes, they couldn't keep the Dimitri saves her child aspect. But they could keep the part where he worked at the palace and suggest that he and Anya had known each other as children and mayne liked each other, like an echo of the original movie which suggested that Dimitri probably had a little crush on her when he was small. But no. Instead we get : Oh they saw each other once as a kid at a parade and he greeted her in the crowd and their eyes met leading to a love at first sight that lasted their whole lives... Wtf seriously ? It's rubbish ! Especially since Dimitri lost a lot of his anti-hero substance in the musical. Yes, he's still a scammer but he's much more tender and smooth than his film counterpart ! For what ? Again, transform Anya's personality, I can still understand, to make her more like a Disney princess. But why Dimitri ?! My god... the musical is great to listen to and the character of Gleb fantastic, but they massacred my darling Dimitri. I love Gleb, but facing Dimitri from the original film, there is no match. But against the Dimitri of the musical, yes, Gleb wins. Why every time a villain in love is created, people prefer to invent a bland love interest ?!

[eleancrvances]

just saw the new italian non-replica anastasiaaaaaa so here's some notes, the usual drill, ignore me. when i'll relisten i'll probably write some more thoughts on the new translations

at the end of the prologue the several chandeliers hanging from the ceiling of the winter palace fall on the nobles (very phantom-y), who are trying to hold the door closed while snowy wind slams it open

the abandoned palace was dark and dusty, closer to what it looks like in the cartoon, and i loved it

at the end of in my dreams the curtain hanging behind anya, dmitry and vlad briefly becomes transparent and we see the ghosts of the romanovs

one stanza of once upon a december is sung by young anastasia, as the older one is surrounded by the ghosts

her father is the last one to disappear, after kissing her on the forehead she almost chases him offstage

the effects for the train were lovely, they had the lights and smoke of the locomotive, and then a velarium styled like train car windows the characters could look out of came down. very very effective

while anya sings journey to the past, dmitry and vlad are seen through a velarium behind her, bickering until vlad looks actually hurt and looks down, a little sad. when she reaches the "family" part, dmitry gives him a little hug to cheer him up, and vlad gives him something to drink :')

when she repeats the verse and mentions "love", her and dmitry are both kneeling, on opposite sides of the velarium, and they turn towards each other, though not really seeing one another :')

in a crowd of thousands is sang while anya is getting dressed for the theater behind a screen, leaning out to deliver her parts, and dmitry is waiting for her. so when she realises she remembered seeing him she walks out in the blue dress, and that's when he drops to his knees

they removed most of the swan lake waltz from quartet at the ballet and i'm not super sure i liked that, but it does sound more haunting, ending with the once upon a december melody as the ballerina fouettes in the background

the whole romanov family slowly walked in when anya played the music box for her grandmother, and when she finally called out "anastasia", it was little anya who ran to hug her :')

they cut everything to win :((((

and the press conference :(

anya doesn't step on the suitcase to kiss dmitry at the end, he's still holding it and then drops it loudly when their lips collide. super cute

(separate and numerous gleb notes incoming because they really made him extremely unwell and unhinged. also brian boccuni has a wonderful voice)

gleb meets anya for the first time at the police station! their earlier meeting in the street is cut, as is the bit about her eyes. he turns, sees her for the first time and immediately goes deer in the headlights, and it's definitely meant to be read as him being immediately conflicted: both starstruck AND beginning to confusedly recognise her

when speaking about his father's death, he starts to properly cry (and calls him "papà", so "dad", a little more affectionate than "father"). then, at the mention of the tsar, he smashes a teacup to the ground (which made the little boy next to me jump in fear)

still is staged. well. with him taking his shirt off and whipping himself. very hellfire of him

at the beginning of neva flows reprise anya tries to run past him, so he throws her to the ground, grabs her and delivers the first verses right in her face. he comes veeery close to kissing her

and then, after "i think you are anastasia", he points the gun to his head. anya screams "no" and jumps to stop him. slowly, she makes him lower it, takes it from him and leaves it on the ground

she's the one who says "good luck, comrade" before leaving to get dmitry, leaving him to turn towards the door behind which the journalists are chanting anastasia's name

[romanceclub-confessionss]

Confession:

Might be a very unpopular opinion but Dmitry looks somewhat like the aged up version of Christian (1895) from kfs TO ME and I can’t unsee that though most people say it’s Boris.

[romanovsonelastdance]

Elizaveta Feodorovna with her sister Victoria, niece Maria Pavlovna, Maria's first husband William of Sweden, and nephew Dmitri.

[blueeeebirrrrd]

𝓘𝓷 𝓪 𝓬𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼，𝓘'𝓭 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓲𝓷

[imperial-russia]

Grand Ducal siblings Maria and Dmitri Pavlovichi during a visit to their cousin, the Tsar Nicholas II., 1905

[graceofromanovs]

Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia and her children, 1863.

Source Royalty In Colour

[jomarchswritingjacket]

hey you know that one ship with the spunky lost princess and the suave criminal who becomes a better man because of her while she gains more confidence and assurance in who she is?

yeah i love that one 💖

[daveys-sister]

Gleb: Wow, Anya, you look really pretty.

Dmitry: Ya, pretty fucking annoying.

Anya: *decks him*