And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov of Russia in their regiment uniforms, 1911
You put the colored version up before, it's a haunting photo to me having read a few books on the Royal family and their demise. Posted on a war game site and found out exactly what Regiments they are wearing a commenter wrote Olga on the left as colonel of 3rd Elizavetgradsky Hussars Regiment. Tatiana on the right as colonel of the Vosnesensky (Ascension) Lancers One mystery to me is why they are dressed in uniforms Purely dress up, or maybe a military ball? I take it most of the Royal family remains are in a relatively new cathedral built where they where murdered.
they were in those regiments and dressed in official capacity I think. it extended to being represented in other countries armies. Kaisar Bill wore his different regimental uniforms frequently.
The Romanov family were truly out of touch with the Russian people of the time. They lorded their wealth and privilige over society not realizing how much anger and resentment such ostentatious displays of wealth would engender in people who spent all day every day wondering if they would have a 'next meal'. It's small wonder that such a disconnect eventually led to their overthrow followed by their deaths. The left couldn't leave them alive to pose a threat to their newfound grasp on power.
In Czarist period hard to explain in a comment but take it most of the country was actually owned by him, not unlike our government owning vast areas of land. It was a antiquated system for survival but conditions for the Russians were improving. Private land ownership was increasingly every year, until the Communists took it all away.
I suggest you read Nicholas and Alexandra by R. K. Massie. It will dispel a lot of the myths that you seem to have swallowed whole. The Tsar worked 12 hours or more a day and even did a day's march wearing (and carrying) a private soldier's entire kit because he wanted to make sure his soldiers had the best equipment. The children got up early and spent their days with their tutors learning four languages, mathemathics, history and more. The children dressed simply in private, they only dressed up for ceremonial occasions. In 1905 in the aftermath of the failed revolution, 105,000 rebels were imprisoned or executed. During Stalin's reign that was a slow month for the NKVD. Al_in_Ottawa
Olga's hussar uniform is stylized/exaggerated from asian clothing brought west by traders years earlier- peaked hat (the flap on Olga's hat is the peak), tunic, and pants all of silk with fur trim. the same outfit Santa wears from the same source. the silk wouldn't support a button or buttonhole, so the frogs on the tunic mimic the cord used on the original.
You put the colored version up before, it's a haunting photo to me having read a few books on the Royal family and their demise.
ReplyDeletePosted on a war game site and found out exactly what Regiments they are wearing
a commenter wrote
Olga on the left as colonel of 3rd Elizavetgradsky Hussars Regiment. Tatiana on the right as colonel of the Vosnesensky (Ascension) Lancers
One mystery to me is why they are dressed in uniforms
Purely dress up, or maybe a military ball?
I take it most of the Royal family remains are in a relatively new cathedral built where they where murdered.
they were in those regiments and dressed in official capacity I think. it extended to being represented in other countries armies. Kaisar Bill wore his different regimental uniforms frequently.
DeleteAhh, a mystery solved, it was a honorary position
DeleteThe Romanov family were truly out of touch with the Russian people of the time.
ReplyDeleteThey lorded their wealth and privilige over society not realizing how much anger
and resentment such ostentatious displays of wealth would engender in people who spent all day every day wondering if they would have a 'next meal'. It's small wonder that such a disconnect eventually led to their overthrow followed by their deaths. The left couldn't leave them alive to pose a threat to their newfound grasp on power.
In Czarist period hard to explain in a comment but take it most of the country was actually owned by him, not unlike our government owning vast areas of land. It was a antiquated system for survival but conditions for the Russians were improving. Private land ownership was increasingly every year, until the Communists took it all away.
DeleteI suggest you read Nicholas and Alexandra by R. K. Massie. It will dispel a lot of the myths that you seem to have swallowed whole. The Tsar worked 12 hours or more a day and even did a day's march wearing (and carrying) a private soldier's entire kit because he wanted to make sure his soldiers had the best equipment. The children got up early and spent their days with their tutors learning four languages, mathemathics, history and more. The children dressed simply in private, they only dressed up for ceremonial occasions.
DeleteIn 1905 in the aftermath of the failed revolution, 105,000 rebels were imprisoned or executed. During Stalin's reign that was a slow month for the NKVD.
Al_in_Ottawa
Olga's hussar uniform is stylized/exaggerated from asian clothing brought west by traders years earlier- peaked hat (the flap on Olga's hat is the peak), tunic, and pants all of silk with fur trim. the same outfit Santa wears from the same source. the silk wouldn't support a button or buttonhole, so the frogs on the tunic mimic the cord used on the original.
ReplyDeleteNicholas was a weak man and a weak czar. Earlier czars would have made mincemeat out of the Bolsheviks.
ReplyDeleteI'd go on maneuvers with them !!!
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