You ever make an edit just- Of a photo of a historical person because of an Alternate History video? Yea, I did that, but don’t expect me to share it! Haha-
After I’m done with Napoleon’s animatic, I’ll probably work on Nicholas’. Slecetion help from my friend @cursedvideogamesfromaperson, and the animatic for Nicky might be inspired by @satans-cake old animatic for Alexandra(Even tho I know he doesn’t like the animatic- I mean, tone-wise, my guy, don’ worry -u-’’) so yea, but of course, I gotta finish the one I’m working on at the moment!
Putting together everything that I have read about Nicholas II as a young man, he emerges as…a relatively ordinary one, although he was not ordinary at all. In his childhood and early teenage years he was very shy (something not totally uncommon among boys that age); he evidently had outgrown the condition by the time he joined his Preobrajensky regiment. Nicholas would always remember the time with his regiment fondly. He caroused and drank like the best of them. His cousin Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich was his companion on many an escapade - Tsar Alexander III would complain when they went out together and stayed out overnight.
The Tsarevich loved to dance and apparently did so extremely well (I am sure his mother would not have had it otherwise). He is known to have attended many a ball and to have spent hours dancing. After he married, he would not dance with anybody other than his wife or with the wives of diplomats, etc., when protocol required it.
He enjoyed the opera and (of course) the ballet and attended frequently…sometimes every night. Once Mathilde came into the picture, he would also attend rehearsals and chat with her during brakes. During his time with Mathilde, he practically set up house with her, and although many of their nights were spent quietly, as he would tell Alix, there were also lively parties attended by some of the grand dukes (Sandro, Sergei, even Vladimir Alexandrovich, and possibly others.) And there were those nights, referenced here and there, when the boys would go out on their own, to listen to the Gypsies sing and watch them dance…
It seems that Nicholas took his marriage vows very seriously. And he married Alix and his country almost simultaneously. Tsar Nicholas drank very little, went to the ballet or the opera less than he should have and always with his wife or children or both, and only danced with his wife and counted others. The Gypsies were forgotten, and he had no Mistresses. Russia and Empress Alexandra were more than enough for him.
HISTORICAL ANECDOTE → Princess Alice of Battenberg & Prince Andrew of Greece wedding day.
One of the largest influxes of royalty for many years descended on Darmstadt for the wedding. The carriage came out, the royal redisences were prepared and an air of excitement permeated the normally sleepy city.
On the morning of 6 October the civil marriage took place, with only near relations attending. Next day there were then two religious ceremonies.First Alice and Andrea were married by Protestant rite in the chapel in the Alte Schloss, and then they went to the new Russian chapel on the Mathildenhöhe. For the occasion the Battenbergs produced the old state carriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse to convey the bride to church. The groom wore his Red Dragoons uniform, and the riband and star of the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, given him by Edward VII. Alice wore a beautiful lace dress with a veil of myrtle and orange blossoms. The bridal procession was greeted with a wedding song composed by William de Haan with words from the book of Ruth, sung by the choir of the Court Theatre. The royal guests then formed a semi-circle around the bridal pair for the ceremony itself. At this service Alice misheard the questions, and said “no” instead of “yes” when asked if she assented freely to marriage, and “yes” instead of “no” when asked about having promised her hand elsewhere.
The Russian service was more exotic and more intimate, with the rites said by a high priest and an archimandrite. Alice’s aunt Marie Erbach recalled : “We were received by Russian and Greeks, blazing with gold, and led into the rich, beautiful chapel, where we were greeted by three priests in golden vestments. The bridal couple, who, of course, came last, stood on a carpet of rose-coloured silk - a symbol of the path of life.” Four princes held the heavy wedding crowns of Catherine the Great over the heads of the young couple, “who held candles in their hands. The circling of the altar three times, during which the crowns were held over their heads, was a little difficult. After the concluding Te Deum, Andrew led his wife to the parents on both sides.”
After the ceremonies, there was a large family dinner, with no suites in attendance. The departure was the opportunity for merry high jinks amongst the royal guests. Shoes were tied to the back of the carriage. When they set off, rice and slippers were thrown at them. Ernie and the Tsar were to the fore, rushing after them into the crowd, hotly pursued by excited policmen and plein-clothes Russian detectives, clutching umbrellas. Mark Kerr told the tale:
The Emperor went straight for the backs of the people, who were anxiously awaiting the passing of the Royal carriage. Putting his head down, he ramned them and gradually pushed his way through the six files of human beings, shedding the children from his coat-tails on the way, and reached the street at the moment when the carriage was going by with Princess Alice bowing her acknowledgments to the cheering crowd. At this moment she received the full bag of rice, which the Emperor had carried, in her face, followed by the satin shoe. Casting dignity aside she caught the shoe, and leaning over the back of the carriage hit the Emperor on the head with it, at the same time telling him exactly what she thought of him, which so over-came him that he stood still in the middle of the road shrieking with laughter.
After this the bride and groom transferred into their new Wolseley car, a gift from the Tsar in a soberer moment before he began to enjoy the wedding, and departed for the Heiligenberg.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich.
HIM Nicholas II of Russia visits in military attire wounded hospitalized soldiers during the Great War. The Imperial Russian family actively contributed the war and relief efforts.
1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by the Spanish
1616 - Astronomical work ‘de Revolutionibus’ by Copernicus placed on the Catholic Forbidden index
1770 - Boston Massacre: British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them; African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die, later held up as early martyr, massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings (pictured)
1836 - Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34 caliber “Texas” model
1946 - Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in Missouri popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe
1995 - Graves of Tsar Nicholas ii and family found in St Petersburg
2019 - Kylie Jenner is world’s youngest ever billionaire at 21 years old
Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.
And people say stuff like ‘lol don’t you hate it when you look up in the middle of the night and see a spider on your ceiling’ like bitch (!!) i could have Nicholas II last czar of Russia hangin from my ceiling fan and i would be none the wiser
Honestly wouldn’t mind that, of all potential tsars of Russia to have hanging from your ceiling, Nick II would no doubt be preferable. A nice and polite man, if wildly out of touch with reality.
