#last tsar

[empress-alexandra]

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with their eldest daughter Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaievna, 1896

[shsl-panic-at-the-everywhere]

The four horsemen of Historical Old Man Yaoi

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

And I'd love to be proven wrong, but I really think all of the ICJ hype is going to end in big disappointment for most folks

[ciderbird]

Paul I after sighning the new Law of Succession: Finally, no more women on the Russian throne! A reign of logic and reason will begin for the XIX century!

Alexander I:

[the-last-tsar]

"It is for me to thank you, my darling, for coming here all the way with our girlies and bringing here life and sunshine notwithstanding the rainy weather. Of course, as usual, I did not tell you half the things I had intended to say, because when we meet after a long separation, somehow I get stupidly shy and sit and gaze at you - which already is a joy for me!"

Letter from Nicholas II to Alexandra, where he thanks the visit that she made together with their daughters to the Stavka headquarters, where Nicholas was with Alexei. July 13, 1916.

A lifelong passion | Andrei Maylunas & Sergei Mironenko

[iwantofall]

sam, at some point in his life, had a katy perry phase

[karamazovposting]

Considering tattoos became fashionable between European aristocrats in the late 19th century and Tsar Nicholas II himself had a massive dragon tattoo on his right arm (that he got done during a trip in Nagasaki in the early 1890s), it's not completely anachronistic to imagine Dmitri Karamazov as having one or multiple tattoos.

Do whatever you want with this information, I'm just saying.

[quietparanoiac]

Anastasia Mishina as Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689, daughter of Aleksey I and Maria Miloslavskaya

Пётр I: Последний царь и первый император | Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor (2022)

[k1rishiki]

ok fr last one but there's actually a bootleg of my school's anastasia and i'm linking it bc you all NEED to understand that my infatuation with this one girl's voice which started when i was in the 6th grade and still hasn't really worn off isn't based on nothing

[straycrayoncrypt]

@4701rose tagged me in the last line meme! I’m bending the rules because I’ve been doing a lot of editing so I can’t actually remember what the last line I wrote was. So here’s a bit I’ve decided to excise as not useful-

Alex hadn’t known how to stop shedding viral particles for nearly six days after waking up. Dana breathed in a lot of Blacklight before void figured it out. Void spent a considerable amount of time and effort attempting to slow or at least stagger the process of her infection. It was trial and error (since void knew not to repeat the faulty processes that led to the mess of Penn Station, nor the one that made voidself… break... the original, and void definitely wouldn’t be doing to Dana the messy thing void did to Karen Parker-), but by this point Alex was fairly certain Dana would stay Dana no matter how far the infection progressed.

Ummmmm…! Also not going to try and tag people for words but uh. @raventhekittycat @flyawaybooks @athousandstarstodreamon @hergan416 @manicshipper @qwertialmalfunctions @delirious-lycan

[empress-alexandra]

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia with his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, onboard Imperial Yacht Standart during King Edward VII and his family’s visit in 1908.

[usernamesuggestionsarefunny]

As much as I hate the half-drama-half-documentary format of “The Last Tsars” (AND the inaccuracies, AND the bias, AND that bullshit scene where Nicholas has a nice chat with his would-be murderer and the would-be child and women murderer is a nice, tragic character who has the final say and a “memorable line”, AND ESPECIALLY the “Maria had sex with a guard after he gave her cake” myth bullshit the producers and historical consultants probably knew was exaggerated and still added just to have another pointless sex scene), I must admit it was ultimately for the best.

I have talked about this before.

Imagine a pure, uninterrupted, plot driven, show-and-do-n't-tell drama mini-series that ACTUALLY makes you care for the characters, especially the children and their personalities.

Imagine a general audience who knows nothing about the Romanovs following them as they hide their jewels in preparation for some (Perhaps edge-of-your-seat, action driven) escape attempt. Imagine them following them as they suffer from the separation, reunite and so on. Imagine them seeing how they had to stop the girls from socializing with the guards because OTMA were THAT charming. Imagine the fake rescuer sending them letters plot, the expectation for something else to happen.

Imagine that general audience getting to the end. It would be so disappointing and anticlimactic. At least the annoying half-documentary format doesn't let people get too attached and reminds those with bad memory that this is based on a real story, a sad real story.

Unpopular opinion I guess (And I am totally and shamelessly contradicting myself, YES, but only because I want a good Romanov tv show for other purposes completely unrelated to the show itself: That the fandom grows and more people know what I am talking about when I mention something about them lol), but the REAL last Romanov family (Family of a reigning Emperor, I know there are still Romanovs out there) can only be properly enjoyed through letters, memoirs, photographs, and edits where you can easily go back and forward in time imo. Their tragic story doesn't make for a good adaptation.

[shesarainbow]

At The Court of The Last Tsar, A. A. Massolov [source]

[creationsofimaginationsblr]

enjoy this tiny panel as I work on part one

[the-last-tsar]

"I love you, my own darling, as few persons can only love! […] I love you too deeply and too strongly for me to show it; it is such a sacred feeling, I don’t want to let it out in words, that seem meek and poor and vain!" 

Nicholas to Alix in a letter; june 1894.

[iwantofall]

luv ya sam