#catherine i

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Eldest daughters of all Romanov Monarchs of Russia gifset

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[dreamconsumer]

Empress Catherine I of Russia (1684-1727).

[the-last-tsar]

Tsarinas Consorts of Russia {09/16}: Catherine I Alexeievna (born Marta Helena Skowronska)

"Catherine had nothing in common with Dunia (Tsarina Eudoxia Feodorovna) and Anchen (Anna Mons). Being up-rooted all too early from the land to which she was accustomed, having experienced both good and evil, she possessed the rare ability of adapting herself to life. She could just as easily have remained the faithful wife of a Swedish trumpeter, the uncomplaining laundress of an old field marshal, or Menshikov's lover. With the same calmness she accepted her predestination to become tsaritsa. Everything in her life had depended on circumstances. Her humble tree of life grew by submitting to the contours of life, putting forth in any poor soil her strong roots, and eventually coming to bloom."

Five empresses | Evgenii Anisimov

(Movie: Peter the Great: The Testament - 2011)

[loiladadiani]

👑The Romanov Dynasty

The Grand Duchy of Moscow under Prince Ivan III was the first unified state on Russian territory. With him began the Rurikid Dynasty (the Rurikid had been around for a long time along hoards of tartars).

The Rurikid ruled from the 1400s until the 1600s. Ivan III can be considered the founder of Russia. While the Rurikid were in power, the Romanovs were boyars (nobles) in their courts. When the Ruriks became extinct, the Romanovs took over. The "Zemsky Sorbor" (a rudimentary parliament) elected Mikhail Feodorovich as the first Romanov Tzar.

The direct male line of the Romanovs ended with Elizabeth of Russia, who was childless. Her nephew Peter III, a member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp (a cadet branch of the German House of Oldenburg that reigned in Denmark), ascended to the throne and adopted his Romanov mother’s house name. Descendants after Elizabeth are sometimes referred to as "Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov."

The above is a gross oversimplification of a very complex course of events.

Highlights about each Romanov Tsar/Tsarina:

👑Mikhail Feodorovich (1613 - 1645): First Romanov Tsar

👑Alexei Mikhailovich (1645 - 1676): Encouraged trade and cooperation with Europe. Father of Peter the Great

👑Feodor III (1676 - 1682): Had very poor health and spent most of his reign in bed

👑Peter I and 👑 Ivan V (1689 - 1785): It was complicated. The two of them were Tsars under the regency of their older sister Sophia.

👑Peter I (1689-1725): Reformed Russia's politics, government, and culture. Made Russia a military power.

👑Catherine I (1725-1727): At the time of Peter the Great's death, the mechanism for succession consisted of the Tsar selecting his successor, but Peter did not elect one before dying. His wife became the Tsarina, but others governed through her.

👑Peter II (1727-1730): Peter's grandson; ascended the throne at 11 and died at 14. The "Privy Council" or "Soviet" ruled through him.

👑Anna Ioannovna (1730-1740): Daughter of Peter's half-brother Ivan. The Privy Council invited her to rule (wanting her to be a puppet), but she disbanded them and ruled herself successfully.

👑Ivan VI (1740-1741): One-year-old son of Ana's niece. She left the throne to him, expecting his mother to govern. Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, deposed him (and his mother.)

👑Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1761): Last Russian on the Russian throne; her twenty-year reign was successful.

👑Peter III (1761-1762): Grandson of Peter the Great and next in line for the throne after Elizabeth. Ruled for only half a year before being deposed by his wife, Catherine. He was murdered soon after the coup d’etat.

👑Catherine the Great (1762-1796):  Her accomplishment went from the Empire’s territorial expansion to political development to the proliferation of sciences. However, the Empire had an enormous external debt by the end of her reign.

👑Paul I (1796-1801): Paul, the son of Catherine the Great and Peter III, became Emperor at 42 after the death of his mother. He started a lot of major military and political reforms. Paul was murdered in a coup d'etat. Paul decreed house laws for the Romanovs (the Pauline laws) – among the strictest in Europe – which established semi-Salic primogeniture and required Orthodox faith for the monarch and dynasts

👑Alexander I (1801-1825): During his reign, Russia defeated Napoleon's forces (which got as far as Moscow in their attempt to conquer Russia.) There was also great development in culture and arts.

👑Nicholas I (1825-1855): Paul I’s third son, younger brother of Alexander. Started railroad construction in Russia, boosting industrialization. Codified Russian laws and reformed finances.

👑Alexander II (1855-1881): His major reforms included the peasant emancipation of 1861, military reform, and the introduction of new types of self-governing village societies and more. Unfortunately, he fell victim to a terrorist after five attempts.

👑Alexander III (1881-1894): Russia didn’t enter any wars in his time. His domestic policy was conservative. He amended the Pauline laws. The economy flourished. But the revolution was brewing below the surface.

👑Nicholas II (1894-1917): His policies were unsuccessful. Established the first official Duma in 1905, but it was too little too late. With the advent of WWI, the Russian Empire ceased to exist. He abdicated. (gcl)

Sources:

Panov, A., Delaroche, P., & Abramuchkin, Y. (2021, July 31). The Complete List of Russian Tsars, Emperors, and Presidents. Russia Beyond. Retrieved June 20, 2023, from https://www.rbth.com/history/334065-complete-list-of-russian-tsars-emperors-rulers-presidents

[quietparanoiac]

(Some of) the female costumes in Елизавета | Elizaveta | Elizabeth (2022)

[best-romanov-monarch]

I Hate Y'All So Much. Anyway, Rematch Time!

*sigh* Yes, people, just like the good people at @rulers-of-hungary-tournament we too have a tie on our hands. And since they had a good idea how to solve it, why not steal it?

(Also how is this one of all matches a tie?! Even if y'all couldn't tell the first Ekaterina from the second, then still.)

Real quick (no really, you have 24 hours to answer):

Alexander II. Nikolaevich vs Ekaterina I. Alexeievna

Alexander II.

Ekaterina I.

Voting ended onJan 2, 2024

[graceofromanovs]

𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐬 → ᴇᴍᴘʀᴇꜱꜱ ᴄᴀᴛʜᴇʀɪɴᴇ ɪ

Empress Catherine I, the first Empress consort and Empress regnant of Russia, was recorded to have been a recipient of four Awards:  Order of Saint Catherine, Order of Saint Andrew, Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, and Order of the White Eagle.

[247reader]

Day 31 - Catherine I of Russia

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful peasant girl. Her mother and father had died, and she was taken in by a priest.  She worked long hours in the kitchen, until her hands were black with soot, but the priest’s wife was still jealous of her beauty. She sold the girl to a soldier in blue - but before they could marry, the armies of the North swept through the town. The priest and his family ran one way, and the soldier another, leaving the girl all alone. She became a washerwoman, cleaning the green jackets of the soldiers, until one day, by the river, she met a clever pie-seller. 

“The tsar is throwing a ball,” he said…

Of course, real life isn’t quite a fairy tale. 

Marta Skowronska, orphaned by the plague and left homeless by war, was passed between the households of Russian generals until she caught the attention of Alexander Menshikov, favorite of Peter the Great. It was the start of a lifelong partnership - and a meteoric rise. Marta, baptized into Orthodoxy as Catherine, became part of the “Jolly Company,” the raucous crowd of partiers around the raucous, partying Emperor. Menshikov seems to have wanted a pawn at Peter’s side, but it’s unlikely he could have predicted what Catherine and Peter came to be.

Catherine could soothe Peter’s fits of rage, and calm him during his epileptic seizures. In turn, he doted on her.  Peter, who had spent his childhood occasionally fearing for his life but never for his budget, was happiest in a low-ceilinged shack, but for Catherine, he built palaces. They married secretly in 1707, and publicly in 1712. 

Peter had disowned (and essentially murdered) his son with his first wife, and he and Catherine had only two surviving children, Anna and Elizabeth. He declared that an Emperor could choose his own heir - and upon his death, Catherine became Empress regnant of Russia. 

She ruled until her own death, two years later, setting a precedent that would see three more women on the Russian throne, including her daughter Elizabeth and granddaughter-in-law Catherine the Great.