#empress elizabeth

[rhcenyra]

THE GREAT ⇢ 3x06 | ICE

Let us all sing a rousing Russian war song! We will restore monarchy! So, with me, everyone!

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Józef Oleszkiewicz (Polish-Lithuanian, 1777 - 1830) Milosierdzie i opieka nad ubogimi cesarzowej Elzbiety, 1813 National Museum in Warsaw

[thanakite]

I need anyone who watches Parallel World Pharmacy to know that Empress Elizabeth is 24 years old

[himejoshi-phd]

I been reading The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann. It's a biography on Empress Sissi of Austria. The most recent chapter I finished was "Cult of Beauty" which detailed The Empress' obsession with her own beauty and that of others.

This chapter was just me going from "it's fun to read this through a sapphic lens" to "🤨" increasingly over the course of it.

[luminescentdark]

[russpals]

The Catherine Palace

The Catherine Palace is one of the largest in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. It is located in Pushkin (formerly Tsarskoye Selo), 25 kilometers south of St. Petersburg. The palace was built in 1717 as the summer residence of Empress Catherine I.

In 1752, Empress Elizabeth asked the architect Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli to rebuild the palace because she considered it too old-fashioned and small. The reconstruction lasted four years; the modern palace was completely rebuilt in the Russian Baroque style. The size of the Grand Palace is seen immediately. The final touch in the construction and decoration of the Catherine Palace was the Main Staircase in the Rococo style, created in 1863 by the Russian architect I. Monighetti. 

After the Revolution, the Catherine Palace was turned into a museum. Today, 32 rooms of the palace are in exhibition. The most interesting place of the palace for tourists is the famous Amber room, restored in 2003. The main decoration of the Amber Room was made at the beginning of the XVIII century in Prussia, in 1716. It was presented by King Friedrich Wilhelm I to Peter I; in 1746, it was completed and fit in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in 1755, it was moved back to Tsarskoye Selo (see two photos of the Amber Room below.)

The Catherine Palace is as impressive inside as outside. The Great Hall (below), also known as the Hall of Light, measures nearly 1,000 square meters and occupies the full width of the palace so that there are superb views on either side. Using similar techniques but on a smaller scale, the White Dining Room is equally luxurious but, like many of the rooms in the palace, its grandeur is softened by the presence of a beautiful traditional blue-and-white tiled stove in the corner. 

[julyzaa]

If someone told me they loved me and wanted a relationship repeatedly after me politely turning them down i too would light the couch we were just sitting on on fire the moment they left

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Princess Alix of Hesse, Grand Duke Louis IV, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Prince Ernest Louis, 1888.

[empress-alexandra]

Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse with his surviving children: Princess Victoria of Battenberg, Marchioness of Milford-Haven, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, Princess Irene of Prussia, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia and Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, 1884.

[p1325]

Barbie Collector - Women of Royalty

Queen Elizabeth the First

Marie Antoinette

Sissi, the Empress

Joséphine de Beauharnais/Bonaparte

[kira-craxkships]

Incorrect quotes with my cross-pairings.

~~~

Cossette (Demon who eats magic): Man I am hungry

Jennette (made of black magic):<Sweating nervously> How hungry?

~~~

(Roxanna and Penelope watching Medea train.)

Roxanna: She's like the hottest bitch ever

Penelope: I know right.

Roxanna: What's gayer liking a girl or wanting her to have (bleep) with your dead body?

Penelope: <concerned stare> The first one...?

Roxanna: Still straight I guess.

~~~

Erez: What are you doing you idiot?

Cossette: <Staring dreamily out of a window> She's pretty

Jennette: *Sitting beneath a tree crocheting*

Erez:And you're ugly let's get to work

~~~

Every group has:

Fail girls: Rashta,Freya

Mean lesbian: Cossette

Even meaner bisexual: Lucas,Medea,Roxanna,Keira

Sunshine incarnate: Psyche,Yuri,Athy

Malewife: Nine,Joseph

Girlhusband: Melissa

Eldritch monster: Jennette, Yvonne

Token straights: Erez,Navier and Ickles

~~~

Erez: My top surgery was a success!

Cossette: Who cares.My bottom surgery is next week.

Erez: I can't believe we are both blonde demons and trans.

~~~

Psyche(20): What do you have there?

Medea (23): <Holding Jennettes hand on her right and a blood stained sword in her left> A sword.

Jennette(16): <Waves nervously>

Psyche: Medea,who's child is that?!?!

~~~

(Freya/Yuri Exes agenda)

Freya: I have.....feelings for you

Yuri: I have feelings....for you.

Nine: The feeling was friendship.

~~~

[nanshe-of-nina]

Women’s History Meme || Empresses (4/5) ↬ Empress Yelisaveta Petrovna of Russia (1709 – 1762)

Yet Elizabeth’s flighty persona was a concoction to help her survive in a scorpions’ nest. While vaunting her numerous love affairs, she carefully concealed her political acumen. The British envoy’s wife reported, “In public she has an unaffected gaiety, and a certain air of giddiness that seems entirely to possess her whole mind… In private I have heard her talk with such a strain of good sense and steady reasoning that I am persuaded the other behavior is a feint.” … Numerous powerful families tried to persuade Elizabeth to stage a coup and proclaim herself empress. Afraid of bloodshed, Elizabeth hesitated until she heard rumors that Anna Leopoldovna was planning on claiming the imperial crown for herself and having her inconvenient cousin shut up in a convent. Elizabeth shuddered at the thought of religious life because, as one contemporary wrote, there was “not an ounce of nun’s flesh about her.” On November 25, 1741, hours before she was to be arrested, Elizabeth rallied loyal troops and invaded the palace. The coup was ridiculously easy; the people wanted the daughter of Peter the Great to rule. Anna was imprisoned in one fortress and her infant son in another. Elizabeth was gentle with her former enemies who now swarmed to proclaim their loyalty. She swore never to sentence anyone to death for political crimes. She outlawed the torture of children under seventeen and the cutting off of women’s noses. Even the humblest subjects were encouraged to hand Elizabeth petitions for redressing injustice. Unlike her three female predecessors—her mother, Catherine I; Empress Anna; and the regent Anna Leopoldovna—Elizabeth took her governmental responsibilities quite seriously, working most of the day, reading reports, presiding over meetings, forcing rival ministers to make peace. Mercurial and temperamental, Elizabeth had an arsenal of tactics to get her way—flashing a brilliant smile, stamping her foot in impatience, swearing like a fishwife, complimenting and cajoling. — Sex With the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas' dresses tournament: Golden-yellow dresses

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Semifinals Finals

Winner: Bai Zhouyue's dress, from Novoland: eagle flag

Costume designer: Yee Chung-man

[imnotawitch]

I've been playing around with designs for a Scarlet Witch Tarot Card

[x-winging-it]

Finally watching HOTD s2ep2.

They're really bringing to the fore what is one of the biggest weak points of Rhaenyra's claim to the throne. Daemon.

Everyone knows that Rhaenyra was proclaimed as heir OVER him. That was Viserys' choice.

Her being married to him means putting him on the throne as her consort (and as there is no existing model of male consortship in house Targaryen) essentially making him King. As he continues to act without her approval he's further undermining her claim because as far as external people will see it, by upholding their oath to Rhaenyra they are also breaking an implicit vow to the old King to keep Daemon from the crown.

It's one of the great historical references to the anarchy - where Mathilda's claim was a weakened by mistrust of her husband who was unpopular and had rebelled against her father. I'd highly recommend looking up studies into male consortship and the challenges it bought - even in the 20th century - of how to navigate a system of monarchy.