#tsardoms

[roehenstart]

Portrait of Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg, Grand Duchess of Russia. By Alexander Roslin.

[ruv-simp]

@vogellicht

Kinda late, but here's Tsardom with the ponytail

[krasivaa]

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova in captivity in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, April 1917. 💔💘

[kaiserrreich]

Empress Alexandra of Russia, having her likeness modeled in clay, three years before the revolution of 1917.

Source & colorization credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/9h2q7x/empress_alexandra_of_russia_having_her_likeness/

[dreamconsumer]

Dmitry Georgievich of Leuchtenberg (1898-1972).

[dekulakization]

History repeats itself.

[gadogroans]

I keep forgetting I have a Tumblr

[nickysfacts]

Russia traditionally was a very accepting place for LGBT individuals!

🏳️‍🌈🇷🇺🏳️‍🌈

[roehenstart]

Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov by Alexander Mikhailovich Leontovsky.

[ruv-simp]

@vogellicht

Look, it's yo man with the ponytail you made. It's work in progress obviously. There might be some changes.

[krasivaa]

Tsar Nicholas II proudly looking at his smiling little son, Tsarevich Alexei, in fields, 1907. ✨❤

[kaiserrreich]

I have to share this fic... it's really good. Alexei II by Cribman // link

Summary: Instead of abdicating for his younger brother, Nicholas II is instead pressured to abdicate in favour of his underage and haemophiliac son, Alexei. With Russia in the midst of a revolution during a war against the brutal onslaught of the Central Powers. The new provisional government must work with the new Tsar and his regent to heal the fractured empire before more damage can be done. With their popularity damaged almost to the point beyond repair. The senior members of the House of Romanov must begin to embrace political reforms to survive the turbulence that is surely to come.

[dreamconsumer]

Tatiana Nikolaevna and Maria Nikolaevna.

[raechologyy]

People saying Nicholas II was a good Tsar makes me so mad....

He wasn't a good Tsar. He was neglectful and abused his people. He was an antisemite, and read anti-jewish propaganda to his children. He literally attended a ball THE NIGHT OF Bloody Sunday.

Not to say he didn't care about his people, but he was truly a neglectful Tsar who was a detriment to his Empire.

He was, however, a good man (with his faults) and a loving father. I will give people that, but it's so hard to agree he was a good Tsar.

He was born to be a family man, but doomed to be a neglectful Tsar.

[nicklloydnow]

“The Roman Empire was the enterprise of a city; England's was established to remedy the exiguity of an island; Germany sought to build hers in order not to smother in an overpopulated territory. An unparalleled phenomenon, Russia was to justify her projected expansion in the name of her vast spaces. "The moment I have enough, why not have too much?" Such is the implicit paradox of both her proclamations and her silences. By converting infinity into a political category, she would overturn the classical concept and the traditional contexts of imperialism and provoke throughout the world a hope too great not to degenerate into chaos.” - Emil Cioran, ‘History and Utopia’ (1960) [page 36]

[roehenstart]

Although Catherine did not descend from the Romanov dynasty, her ancestors included members of the Rurik dynasty, which had preceded the Romanovs as rulers of Russia.

1767 Alexey Antropov - Portrait of Catherine II of Russia

(Tver Regional Art Gallery)