#vorontsov count

[vorbarrsultana]

i finished rereading the first four vorkosigan books (+ "the flowers of vashnoi" because ekaterin!!!), and you really have to feel for piotr vorkosigan because what a nightmare life, truly.

imagine you are born just in time for your world to be unified by dorca vorbarra and rediscovered by people from wider galaxy. things are finally looking good, for the first time in 600 years of isolation there is no more feudal infighting, and the promise of galactic medicine and technologies being available lightens everyone's perspectives. sure, your grandpa is called count pierre "le sanguinaire", but who doesn't have terrible relatives?

then you are 15, and suddenly your planet is attacked by the aggressive eugenecist space empire hell-bent on subjugating your people and turning them into disposable material for unethical genetic experiments. you flee into the mountains, away from your family, and create guerrilla forces from locals sworn to your dad, and it's really terrible for a very long time. you have no high-tech weapons and no food, you sleep in a cave in the dead of winter, and the cetagandans try everything (from carpet bombing to chemical weapons) to murder you.

but hey, at least you now have your bff ezar vorbarra, and (from the bff's words on his deathbed) it sounds like you two had so much fun between unimaginable horrors and despair, and it's not surprising, since no one really believes in death after life at 20. then the emperor makes you a general at the tender age of 22. fortunately for him, you & bff make a frighteningly competent dream-team, and the joke's on cetagandans.

then, several years later, you ask the emperor for weapons, because you still sleep on the bare cave floor, there are little resources, and every ghem on the planet is trying to murder you. he offers you the hand of his granddaughter instead, like it's some sort of twisted fairytale, but you grow to love your olivia more than anything, and the tide of war is finally turning, and you allow yourself to entertain the idea of peaceful life, and then...

the space eugenecist empire nukes your hometown, killing your mom, dad, surviving brothers, and two hundred thousand of your people. plus your bff (ezar) gets a radiation doze large enough for it to cause severe cancer thirty years later. great.

but you win! your district is in shambles, your capital is an irradiated crater, your castle is in ruins, but you win! the old dorca dies, and yuri ascends the throne, but politicking is secondary to the fact that you are alive.

yes, you are probably not entirely sane, and you've long forgotten what the peaceful times look like, but you are alive, just under 35, and your entire life is ahead of you. olivia is alive too, and ezar, and you now have three wonderful children, and the extended vorpatril-vorbarra family that hosts regular get-togethers. sure, your mom-in-law is a betan with all sorts of crazy ideas in her head, but she is not pierre vorrutyer. small mercies.

but then the new emperor goes mad, and decides to murder your entire family overnight. your brothers-in-law are gone, one of your sisters-in-law too, and all your nephews and nieces except little padma. but all of this pales in comparison to the facts that olivia is murdered, and that your heir and daughter lay dead beside her.

all you have left of her, of your house, of the family you've lost in vashnoi not a ten years ago, is aral, whom you keep by your side throughout the bloody civil war to put your bff on the throne.

but you win again. you are 43, and ezar vorbarra is now the emperor. you are responsible for the imperium's entire ground forces. you are also responsible for a severely traumatized boy of 13, and the only children you've interacted with without olivia's genle guidance were little messengers of guerilla companies.

what a mess.

[history-of-fashion]

first half of 1750s Georg Caspar Prenner - Count Ivan Vorontsov and Countess Maria Vorontsova

(Tambov Regional Art Gallery)

[paxcallow]

Theo, 🐾 💢 💌 for the ask thing!

THEO my son!!!

🐾 (pets) - THEO and petra's household is constantly under siege by raccoons, if they count. it's a love hate thing. otherwise, THEO keeps pet rocks and talks to all the plants in the garden.

💢 (person he can't stand) - this one is hard. THEO is not a perfect angel but i'm trying to think of a character in anachron city that he actually can't stand. he's probably made some enemies in online games, like the overwatch clone he plays from which alyosha vorontsov hails. maybe they're always getting matched together and this person acts like an anime villain toward THEO for no reason. he rants about it to petra and she pretends to understand.

💌 (first crush/love) - no people he's actually interacted with, but i used to imagine a younger THEO having a crush on robot jones from whatever happened to robot jones. bonus answer he currently has a crush on hatsune miku and jeff goldblum, has posters of them in his room.

[marykk1990]

And my next post in support of Ukraine.

Next site, the Church of the Transfiguration (in Ukrainian Spaso-Preobrazhenska) in the village of Moshny in Cherkasy Oblast. It was built in 1830-1839. It was originally part of a palace and park complex of Count Mikhail Vorontsov, a "russian" nobleman and field-marshal who served in the Napoleonic wars and in the Caucasian War. The church is the only part of the complex that is still preserved. The architect, Giorgio Torricelli from Italy, created an exact duplicate of the church in France near Paris.

#StandWithUkraine

#SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦🌻

[aristo-men]

“Picture: "Darling Sashka" Count Alexander Illarionovich Vorontsov-Dashkov (via wikimedia).”

From FB

[rus-nobility]

Vorontsov. Vorontsov family

[otmacamera]

Photo 1 : Alexander Ivanovich Butakov, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, Alexander Illarionovich Vorontsov-Dashkov and Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin at the tennis court in Livadia, 18th March - 25th May 1912.

Photo 2 : Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, Count Alexander Nikolaevich Grabbe and Alexander Illarionovich Vorontsov-Dashkov at the tennis court in Livadia, 18th March - 25th May 1912.

Photos from : Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna's 1912-1913 Photo Album

[thestarik]

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace, also known as the Shuvalov Palace, is a Neoclassical building on the Fontanka Embankment in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Once home to the noble Naryshkin and Shuvalov families, the palace has housed the Fabergé Museum since 2013

Palace was constructed in the late 18th century, possibly to a design by Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi. The first owners of the palace were the Count and Countess Vorontsov.

In 1799 Maria Naryshkina, born Princess Maria Czetwertyńska-Światopełk (who was a Polish noble and was for 13 years the mistress of Tsar Alexander I) purchased the palace. Her husband, Dmitri Lvovich Naryshkin, filled it with spectacular art and marble sculptures, as well as antiquities including gems, coins, and weapons. The palace became the center of the Saint Petersburg society, and its grand ballroom — also known as the Alexandrovsky or White Column Hall — played host to society balls of up to 1,000 people.

[nanshe-of-nina]

Favorite History Books || Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith ★★★☆☆

Reading dozens of personal accounts and listening to even more stories in homes, archives, and libraries in Russia and the West, I found myself drawn to the experiences of two families in particular—the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns. Both belonged to the highest level of the nobility, the aristocracy; both had esteemed and ancient histories; both suffered horribly during the revolution and after; both were torn apart, some family members leaving Russia forever; and both left behind a wealth of letters, diaries, memoirs, and photographs that provide the kinds of sources required to write this history in a full, accurate, and convincing manner.

The Golitsyns formed an extensive clan—unlike the titled Sheremetevs—with more than a dozen separate branches at the time of the revolution. One of these descended from Prince Fyodor Golitsyn, a gentleman of the bedchamber in the reign of Catherine the Great and later trustee of Moscow University. Prince Vladimir Golitsyn, Fyodor’s grandson and the long-serving mayor of Moscow, was a contemporary of Count Sergei Sheremetev’s. Whereas the Sheremetevs maintained connections with the court and particularly with the royal family in St. Petersburg, the Golitsyns were a true Moscow family that had little to do with the imperial capital. Nevertheless, the families knew each other—nothing unusual in the small world of the Russian aristocracy—and even though Vladimir (liberal Westernizer) and Sergei (conservative monarchist) could barely tolerate each other, some of their children socialized and worked together. Two of their grandchildren—Yelena Sheremeteva and Vladimir Golitsyn, named after his grandfather—fell in love at the Corner House in the early 1920s and married. Thanks to their large numbers, the princely line of the Golitsyns managed to survive in Russia; the Sheremetevs, however, did not.

The lives of several generations of the Sheremetevs and Golitsyns form the unifying thread that runs through Former People. While every noble experienced the revolution and the transition to the new Soviet order in his own way, what happened to the Sheremetevs and Golitsyns, and how they reacted to these events, were true for the majority of the nobility. Their lives were simultaneously exceptional, as is the case for every individual, and ordinary for the members of their class in Russia in those years.

... For many Russian nobles the revolution came as no surprise. Even as early as the eighteenth century some far-seeing noblemen could imagine the day when they would be swept away by the masses. At the height of the French Revolution in 1792, Count Semyon Vorontsov, Russia’s ambassador to Great Britain, wrote to his brother back home ... Vorontsov erred about the revolution’s timing, but he was right that it would be a war to the death between the haves and the have-nots and that the former would lose. For centuries the Russian nobility had lived off the numbing toil of the peasant serfs. Noble landowners, whether cruel tyrants or benevolent masters, enjoyed equally the fruits of this favored status. Their wealth, culture, indeed their entire manner of life were made possible by a harsh system of forced servitude that by the eighteenth century hardly differed from American slavery. The emancipation of the serfs in 1861 did little to change the subservient relationship of the peasant to his former owner. The chasm that separated the world of the masses from the thin layer of the powerful and the privileged lasted right up until 1917.

The peasants had little choice but to tolerate their condition. At times they did rise up, and the results were inevitably violent and bloody. The great rebellions of Stenka Razin and Yemelyan Pugachev in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which scorched much of Russia and left tens of thousands dead, inspired hope in the downtrodden and instilled fear in the upper classes. The Russian countryside erupted again in the summer of 1917. This time, however, it would be different, and the peasants would not be subdued.

[shimyereh]

Manuscript search tag

Indirectly tagged by @scarvenartist to find the words: roar, flow, look, pay. All these excerpts are from my “novel in letters” (translated mostly from correspondence among Pushkin and his contemporaries).

roar

Soon impressions start to grow dull. Scarcely a day had passed, and already the roar of the Terek and its monstrous waterfalls, and the crags and chasms, no longer held my attention.

flow

What weather, my dear friend! I’ve never seen the like: not a cloud, not a breeze, a calm sea that sparkles with a thousand bits of fire, never has snow been so dazzling, with every nuance of the different currents and streams flowing in; it’s truly magnificent; this is what summer is normally like here, and above all the months of July and August.

look

I really love the broader plan of your Onegin; but most people don’t get it. They look for the plot of a novel, for what is expected and ordinary, and of course they don’t find it.

pay

I fear the unpleasant consequences he’s bound to face for this, for Count Vorontsov grows weary or may grow weary of these distractions which prevent him from paying full attention to his governing.

Indirectly tagging any mutuals who would like to do this with their own WIP(s). Your words are: sing, same, shine, start.

[artist-dmitry-levitzky]

Count Artemiy Vorontsov, Dmitry Levitzky

[annalaurendet70]

Alexander Ivanovich Butakov; Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia; Count Alexander Illarionovich Vorontsov-Dashkov and Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin at the tennis court at Livadia in 1912.

•Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova 1912-1913 Photo Album•

[mikeruiz1]

David Dastmalchian pushing the creative envelope for our cover shoot for @lofficiel.montecarlo. He perfectly explains his acting skills, working with Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, and James Gunn; his passion for graphic novels and his own creation - Count Crowley. Creative Director and Photographer Mike Ruiz @mikeruizone Interview/Editor-in-Chief @dimitrivorontsov Full Story on www.lofficielmontecarlo.com/david-dastmalchian-by-mike-ruiz/ David Dastmalchian x L'Officiel Fashion Book Monte Carlo™ 

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[russiannationality]

Hare Museum in Kovrov - Russia

[otmacamera]

28th May 1914

1st photo : N. P. Sablin, A. I. Vorontsov-Dashkov, Butakov, V. K. Molokhovets, Tsar Nicholas II, N. N. Rodionov, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Anastasia Nikolaevna, Alexandra Feodorovna, Maria Nikolaevna, Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden and Count Grabbe at the house in Eriklik, 28th May 1914.

2nd photo : N. P. Sablin, A. I. Vorontsov-Dashkov, Butakov, V. K. Molokhovets, Tsar Nicholas II, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Anastasia Nikolaevna, Alexandra Feodorovna, Maria Nikolaevna, Olga Nikolaevna, Count Grabbe and Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden.

"28th May. Wednesday. […] At 12 [we] 4 with Papa and Mama went to Eriklik [...] Only 31. There were 4 tables. Seated like this : I, to the ri[ght], Brantingham, A[unt] Xenia, Komarov, Olga Khr., N.N., Anastasia, Andryusha and me. It was very good. Then we walked and talked [...]" (1914 Diary of Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna)

Photos from: Olga Nikolaevna’s 1913-1914 Album