#holstein-gottorp

[tiny-librarian]

A portrait of Princess Sophia Albertina of Sweden, Abbess of Quedlinburg.

[awkward-sultana]

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp blue gown with red and gold print in 2x07

[illustratus]

The Fire at the Royal Palace, Stockholm, 7th May, 1697

by Johan Fredrik Höckert

[roehenstart]

Cecilia of Sweden, Grand Duchess of Oldenburg (1807-1844). By Emanuel Thomas Peter.

She was the daughter of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Frederica of Baden.

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Black dresses Round 1- Group B: Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, The great vs Catherine of Russia, Ekaterina

[andiatas]

15 Dec. 1768 - Adolf Fredrik (German: Adolf Friedrich) protested his limited powers by technically abdicating, thereby paralysing the government.

In the lead-up, Adolf Fredrik had gotten a written promise that all executive power would be handed over to the King, and the power of the Estates would be limited to legislation and taxation. At the council meeting on Dec. 12, a written statement by Adolf Fredrik was read. He talked about the country's distress and urged the entire Riksdag to be called together for a session. If not, the statement concluded, “I am hereby forced to declare that in that event I renounce a government burden, which through countless tears of suffering and a daily weakening of the kingdom becomes completely unbearable for me.”

When the council met again on Dec. 15, Adolf Fredrik felt “he could not perceive the council's opinion other than as a rejection of his request.” Consequently, he dissolved the government until the Estates were summoned for a full Riksdag. With those words, he left the table, and in effect, the country was without a Head of State. The council decided to try to rule anyway, without a Head of State.

However, the council was soon forced to reconsider when the colonels of the guard and artillery declared that they were in no position to maintain peace in the capital. There were riots here and there, and the crowd took sides against the council. “Society was unravelling at the seams”, as Carl Grimberg wrote in 1922.

On Dec. 20, the council agreed to summon the entire Riksdag of the Estates for a session, and Adolf Fredrik agreed to withdraw his abdication. However, at the session, none of the promised reforms were realised.

Photo 1: Portrait of Adolf Fredrik (oil on canvas, 122 x 86 x 17 cm). The portrait is believed to have been painted by Lorens Pasch The Younger circa 1768. Photo by Nationalmuseum.

[killem-all-if-they-wont-eat-cake]

The Children of Emperor Nicholas II.

This is interesting because it's not a real photo, it's a composite made from cutting Nicholas and Alexandra out of one of the 1913 family photos. If you look closely at Anastasia's hair, you can see where they cut her out and moved the Anastasia-Alexei-Tatiana grouping over to join Maria and Olga.

via @lemaldusiecle from @romanovsonelastdance 

[lavenderrosiefan]

Aikatsu: The Stars of Legend-Birthdays, star signs, and ages

Author's Note: Season 1 takes place from August 2022-December 2023, while Season 2 takes place from January 2024-August 2024. Season 3 will take place from September 2024 onwards.

Season 1:

Raki Kiseki-December 7, 2005 (Sagittarius; S1: 16 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Wakaba Harukaze-September 3, 2004 (Virgo; S1: 17 years old; S2: 19 years old)

Radiance MacCreary-April 23, 2005 (Taurus; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Clara Anderson-March 18, 2005 (Pisces; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Susie Sokolova-January 23, 2006 (Aquarius; S1: 16 years old; S2: 17 years old)

Alexandra Johansson-March 18, 2006 (Pisces; S1: 16 years old; S2: 17 years old)

Noelle Otoshiro-December 25, 2004 (Capricorn; S1: 17 years old; S2: 19 years old)

Yvoria Tristess-July 16, 2005 (Cancer; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Ruthie Riaz-Cockburn-May 3, 2005 (Taurus; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Rachel Riaz-Cockburn-May 3, 2005 (Taurus; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Season 2:

Queen Alexandra-December 1, 1844 (Sagittarius; 179 years old)

Empress Maria Feodorovna-November 26, 1847 (Sagittarius; 176 years old)

Crown Princess Thyra-September 29, 1853 (Libra; 170 years old)

Queen Wilhelmina-August 31, 1880 (Virgo; 143 years old)

King Charles XIII-October 7, 1748 (Libra; 275 years old)

King Charles XIV John-January 26, 1763 (Aquarius; 260 years old)

King George IV-August 12, 1762 (Leo; 261 years old)

Prince Edward-November 2, 1767 (Scorpius; 256 years old)

Princess Victoria-August 17, 1786 (Leo; 237 years old)

Rosetta-March 27, 2007 (Aries; 17 years old)

Theodora-September 18, 2005 (Virgo; 18 years old)

Season 3:

Marcella-February 19, 2005 (Pisces; 19 years old)

Grand Duchess Charlotte-January 23, 1896 (Aquarius; 128 years old)

Grand Duchess Xenia-April 6, 1875 (Aries; 149 years old)

Princess Alice-December 25, 1901 (Capricorn; 123 years old)

Queen Desideria-November 8, 1777 (Scorpius; 247 years old)

[venicepearl]

Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (23 January [O.S. 11 January] 1890 – 28 August 1979) was the third child and eldest daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia and his wife, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Empress Maria Feodorovna and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, 1891

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Maria Feodorovna (Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III.

She was the second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.

Maria's eldest son became the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II.

Maria lived for 10 years after Bolshevik functionaries murdered Nicholas and his immediate family in 1918.

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II.

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, October 23rd:

Charlotte of Valois, French Princess, 1516

Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden, 1636

Peter II, Tsar of Russia, 1715

Helena Cambridge, Lady Gibbs, 1899

Masako Sen, Japanese Royal, 1951

Mako Komuro, Japanese Royal, 1991

[awkward-sultana]

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp green striped gown in 2x08

[roehenstart]

King Gustav Adolf IV of Sweden. By Jonas Forslund.

[warwickroyals]

↬ Warwick Wives (1/7) | royal wives during the reigns of Louis I & Louis II, 1782 - 1817

W I L H E L M I N A was fifty-six at the time of her husband's enthronement, making her one of Sunderland's oldest queen consorts. Despite this, she was famed for her beauty and sharp wit. She had protruding, restless eyes, with a pleasant demeanour. Her representation was a source of stability during the monarchy's early days.

C H A R L O T T E was less shrewd than her mother-in-law. Undereducated and neglected, she came from an obscure German duchy on the brink of extinction. Charlotte’s desire for an informal and relaxed domestic life greatly influenced the upbringing of royal children throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She remains the most prolific of Sunderland's queens, giving birth to fifteen children—seven boys and eight girls—over twenty-one years.

A M E L I A is the earliest example of a Sunderlandian consort causing a media sensation. Emily, as she was affectionately called, was beloved by the country and her husband, Louis, then Duke of Woodbine. Her marriage stemmed from Sunderland's new alliance with the United Kingdom. This alliance ultimately outlasted the marriage, for Emily would die at age twenty-seven. Her death complicated Sunderland's succession; she and Louis had one son, five-year-old Prince Frederick, who was also of weak health.

M A R I A - C A R O L I N A was the antithesis of Emily—even their hair colours highlighted this. Where Emily was pleasant and free-spirited, Maria Carolina was moody and introverted; Emily was the daughter of a King, a product of the world's largest imperial empire, Maria Carolina was the daughter of a low-ranking prince from Sweden's waining Holstein-Gottorp dynasty. Where Emily was adored by her husband, Maria Carolina hated. The two cousins had never wanted to marry and Louis, still grieving his first wife, waited two years before consummating the union. Over time, Louis grew hostile toward his wife. Running hot and cold, he alternated between ignoring Maria Carolina and tormenting her mercilessly, sometimes driving her to tears.

"If I were to suffer such maltreatment would have hung myself from the balcony at Chester long ago" - Princess Wilhemina, writing on her sister-in-law's troubles

To escape her husband's bullying, Maria Carolina undertook a wide variety of public duties. Today, several institutions and charities bear the name Queen Mary Caroline. Despite her husband's apathy and her own shyness, Maria Carolina formed a loyal circle of close friends at court. It was only after Maria Carolina died in 1841, that Louis III expressed remorse for her mistreatment. He outlived her for another ten years.

King Louis III and Queen Mary Caroline had no surviving children together. When Louis's only son, Hereditary Prince Frederick, died without issue Sunderland was left without a clear successor, promoting the 1835 Succession Crisis. This crisis would last for twenty-five years and put an immense amount of pressure on the next generation of royal wives.

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[danvolodar]

Pathologic and the Town's Russianness: 1

For part 1, let's explore the naming conventions Pathologic uses, and whether its Town characters have Russian surnames.

The names of the townsfolk are remarkably non-Russian

The Kin, of course, have their names in their own Steppe language, which is a conlang that Ice Pick Lodge conscructed based on Mongolic and Turkic (mostly Buryat) tongues. So, no questions with that.

But what about the Town itself, and the names of the people living in it?

For starters, it must be noted that the foundational workings of surnames in Russian are pretty much the same as in most European languages: a surname denotes someone's ancestor's relation to craft (such as the most common surname both in English - Smith, and in Russian - Kuznetsov, meaning exactly the same), kin, appearance feature, or other such concept.

As an inflected language, however, Russian adds special suffixes to its usual roots to arrive at surnames. The most well-known of them is, of course, -ov. In the example above it turns kuznets (smith, as an occupation) into Kuznetsov (Smith, as a surname). It is also used to form the archetypical Russian surname: Ivanov, that is, related to Ivan. It is, however, by far not the only suffix used, and there are multiple others: -in, -tsyn, -shyn, -ev, -tsev, -y, and more.

Most of these allow to construct feminine forms by simple addition of the ending -a (Saburov - Saburova); but some are more complex (Olgimsky - Olgimskaya). Such complexity usually marks suffixes used in other Slavic tongues: -y in particular is often seen in Belorussian and Polish.

With all that in mind, let's explore the names we find in the Town-on-Gokhon. And the thing immediately striking is just how little surnames formed from Russian roots and Russian suffixes there are.

First, there are obviously non-Russian surnames, such as Ravel, Block, Longin, Feugel, Yan, Croy. Most of them appear to come from other European languages.

Is that probable for a Russian Empire stand-in? Yes. It was a multinational state, and there were enough Europeans among the elite for Vyazemsky to bemoan in mid-XIX century that "the Russian God" is "God whose favour falls on Germans". (Then again, hardly surprising under the Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov dynasty, ethnically German and only taking German wives for generations, despite ruling Russia).

Then, there are the surnames with Russian suffixes: Saburov, Stamatin, Lyuricheva, Olgymsky, Dankovsky. But the thing is, none of these have Russian roots! Saburov is based on Tatar (patient, hardy); Stamatin on Greek (persistent, stable); Lyuricheva, Olgymsky and Dankovsky are Slavic-sounding, but appear to be unique to the game's characters. As a side note here, Dankovsky is apparently based on a name from Gorky's Old Izergiel (Danko, a brave who ripped his own heart out to light the way for the rest of his peope).

Now, is that probable? It's stretching the suspension of disbelief a bit. Yes, there had been Tatars among the Russian elite since before the day Kazan was conquered by Moscow, which reflected in their surnames. Yes, priesthood surnames could include Greek roots. And yes, the Western Slavs were also in the Empire. But it's hard to imagine all of these coinciding to entirely drown out the surnames based on Russian roots!

All in all, this distribution sounds like a conscious artistic choice, making such an assemblage less likely for historic Eastern Europe rather than Central one.

As a sort of postscript, for these who could be bothered to read this far down. There's an interesting quirk about the female surnames in the game: in Russian, unless a surname ends with one of the Russian suffixes, it retains its basic form (same as the masculine) even when women use it. Thus, Lara's surname is Ravel, same as her father's; same thing with Croy. But there's a curious exception: the Kains. Their surname is obviously based on the eponymous Biblical character, Cain. The only thing is, Cain is not a Russian word, and thus the women of the family should apparently still have the surname Kain. Yet they do not, they use Kaina - which suggests that their surname uses the Russian suffix -in: just someone related to something called Ka-, perfectly normal, totally a word, no primordial killers in sight.

Whether that is simple wordplay, a way to show the lineage deeply assimilated, a way to take the focus off the Biblical relation, or anything else, is up to the reader to decide.

[whencyclopedia]

Catherine the Great

Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great) was empress regent of Russia from 1762-1796. She was born in Prussia to Prince Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690-1747) and Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1712-1760), and although her family was noble, they were not wealthy. She married the future Russian Tsar, Peter of Holstein-Gottorp (1728-1762), in 1745 in St. Petersburg.

Peter was crowned Emperor Peter III of Russia in 1762, with Catherine becoming empress consort. However, Peter and Catherine's marriage and joint reign were not happy, and Catherine grew to hate all that Peter stood for. It was not long before Catherine began seeking support elsewhere and sought to overthrow Peter. With the Russian army's and her supporters' help, Peter was arrested and forced to sign an abdication form. He was assassinated a short time after, paving the way for Catherine to become the sole ruler of Russia.

Catherine was formally crowned empress regent on 22 September 1762, as Catherine II of Russia. During her lengthy reign, she transformed Russia's education system, the arts and the Russian economy and ushered in the age of the Russian Enlightenment.

Early Life

Catherine was born Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, Prussia (modern-day Szczecin, Poland), to Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. She had two younger brothers and a younger sister. One of her younger brothers, Wilhem Christian, died at 12 from scarlet fever. Catherine was said to have had a closer relationship with her father than her mother.

Although they did not have much money, Catherine was educated by French tutors and a French governess, as was befitting a child of noble birth. Her governess, Elizabeth (Babet) Cardel, greatly influenced her, with Catherine referring to Elizabeth as the kind of governess that every child should have. Catherine was a happy child with a lot of energy. She played games with the local children and enjoyed taking command. Her childhood was relatively uneventful, with Catherine stating there was "nothing of interest in it."

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