TheMauveRoom

A blog focusing on Imperial Russia and the last Romanovs

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Ольга и Мария в Петергофе https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/49312/98255750.166/0_189348_5701c18e_orig

[beatonna]

We’ll get back to Mary Anning later. 

Is Kelis’ milkshake song a gift to humanity, or what?

[themauveroom]

All I want is to live on a farm and have a bunch of kids and a thousand dogs. I don't think that's too much to ask.

[publius-esquire-deactivated2018]

I’m tired of seeing “which Founder would support which modern political party" when the real question should be “how long would it take John Adams to throttle Alexander Hamilton at the Red Sox vs. Yankees game?“

[themauveroom]

Probably not long- Good old John was pretty darn crotchety.

[hxpesandreams]

Anastasia (1997) | Anastasia The Musical (2016)

[ariaricx]

FOR MY ANASTASIA HOMIES

[alienbussie]

@ursidespine

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[aechlys]

Holy shit

[themauveroom]

I've heard good things, but the fact that they pronounce her (and my) name wrong really puts me off.

[beggars-opera]

I am still in possession of a semi-ancient (read: beat up and from the 80s) bible I was given for a middle school religion class and never gave back. Is it sacrilege to throw away a technically stolen bible???

[themauveroom]

Donate it! I'm sure there's someone who would appreciate it.

[tatianaromanovofrussia]

Tatiana Romanov Fact #1

After Alexei was born, his hemophilia was revealed and the age he would live too (16), Nicholas planned to abolish the ‘only men can rule unless-’ law and give the crown to Tatiana as Olga would definitely have transferred all of her rights to her most rational sister. If they survived, and this all happened, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia would have became Tatiana I (Tsarevna).

[anastasia1914]

Alexei lived to 13

[imperial-russia]

I´m sorry but this is such utter nonsense, made even worse by being listed as a “Fact”. From the moment Alexei was born there was no question of abolishing the Pauline laws at all, and before Nicholas may have toyed with an idea only when he fell ill in 1900, before Anastasia was born. At that time Olga was 5 and Tatiana 3 years old, and you cannot tell me anyone would think of the baby girl as “out best option for the next autocrat”.

Please, people, stop making stuff that sounds romantic to you and presenting it as “Facts”.

[themauveroom]

The crown would have gone to Michael and his heirs if Alexei had died. This is what Nicholas actually did when he abdicated and passed over his son. There was never any question of passing it on to one of his daughters. His primary objective in passing over Alexei was not just to protect his health, but also to keep the family together. Nicholas certainly would not have been willing to burden one of his daughters with the trials of ruling.

[telegraphavekiss]

The memoirs of Count Sergei Witte, who served as Nicholas’s finance minister from 1894 to 1903, provide clear evidence that neither Nicholas nor Alexandra actually favoured the succession of Mikhail ahead of their own daughters. The death of Alexander I in 1825 without surviving children precipitated then Decembrist Revolt in favour of the succession of Grand Duke Konstantin, despite his renunciation of his place in the succession to the future Nicholas I. There were no modern precedents for the peaceful succession of a reigning Emperor’s brother to the throne. In his memoirs, Witte claimed that he had learned from his fellow ministers Konstantin Pobedonostsev and Nikolai Murav’ev that prior to the birth of the Tsarevich Aleksei in 1904, “Their Majesties raised the question of whether or not their eldest daughter could succeed if they had no son; the two [ministers] were instructed to look into the matter.” According to Witte, Pobedonostsev and Murav’ev had received instructions to prepare a decree ensuring that Olga would succeed to the Russian throne in the event of her father’s death without a son, despite the objections of both ministers to this potential change to the Fundamental Laws. The draft decree has not been found in the State Archives of the Russian Federation, and it is possible that the Tsar destroyed it after Aleksei’s birth or prior to the confiscation of his papers by the Provisional Government in 1917.

Carolyn Harris, “The Succession Prospects of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895–1918),” Canadian Slavonic Papers 5, no. 1-2 (2012): 68.

[themauveroom]

This was before Alexei's birth and is also hearsay. Count Witte mentions having heard about this but we have no direct evidence of it. He alleges that a decree was ordered but we never hear about it from anyone else. If Nicholas had taken this action, it would have certainly caused even more upheaval in the Romanov family than there was already. Regardless, this is not ultimately the decision Nicholas made in 1917. Whether he had once considered this course of action or not, he obviously decided against it in the end. Not only would it have torn the family apart in 1917, it is unlikely that the country would have accepted a female ruler at that time. The Pauline Laws were never repealed, nor did Nicholas take any serious steps to having them repealed that we know of.

[tatianaromanovofrussia]

Tatiana Romanov Fact #1

After Alexei was born, his hemophilia was revealed and the age he would live too (16), Nicholas planned to abolish the ‘only men can rule unless-’ law and give the crown to Tatiana as Olga would definitely have transferred all of her rights to her most rational sister. If they survived, and this all happened, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia would have became Tatiana I (Tsarevna).

[anastasia1914]

Alexei lived to 13

[imperial-russia]

I´m sorry but this is such utter nonsense, made even worse by being listed as a “Fact”. From the moment Alexei was born there was no question of abolishing the Pauline laws at all, and before Nicholas may have toyed with an idea only when he fell ill in 1900, before Anastasia was born. At that time Olga was 5 and Tatiana 3 years old, and you cannot tell me anyone would think of the baby girl as “out best option for the next autocrat”.

Please, people, stop making stuff that sounds romantic to you and presenting it as “Facts”.

[themauveroom]

The crown would have gone to Michael and his heirs if Alexei had died. This is what Nicholas actually did when he abdicated and passed over his son. There was never any question of passing it on to one of his daughters. His primary objective in passing over Alexei was not just to protect his health, but also to keep the family together. Nicholas certainly would not have been willing to burden one of his daughters with the trials of ruling.

[fatbottompurls]

I now have pins for sale with the majority of the proceeds going to CrochetAllTheThings for her top surgery fundraiser! 

You can read all about the fundraiser here!

If you can’t donate or purchase a pin, please reblog this so it can get as much exposure as possible!

[crochetallthethings]

Thank you so much! <3

Everyone go check out the pins. Not only would you be helping me out, but man those pins are really freakin cute!

[themauveroom]

Taking a break from knitting and crocheting because of carpal tunnel

I literally don't know what else to do with myself.

[wonderlandgirl4ever]

🐻 Lady Lyanna 🐻

[themauveroom]

I’m  in a glass case of emotion over last nights episode.

[micdotcom]

Watch: The most wonderful moment of joy came when he entered a Nazi guard bungalow.

[nerapalooza-blog]

We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isn’t infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.

[themauveroom]

SAm Watson and no dude is deadly serious

Oh dear God I forgot about him. Gross. 

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[teatimeatwinterpalace]

Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna at Balmoral in 1896, they are walking either side of Queen Victoria carriage.

“It seems like a dream having Alicky and Nicky here.”  Queen Victoria in her diary

 “She [Queen Victoria] is marvelously kind and amiable to us, and so delighted to see our little daughter” Nicholas to his mother Maria.

“It has been such a very short stay and I leave dear, kind Grandmama with a heavy heart.” Alexandra in her diary.

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Мария Николаевна 

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/128227/98255750.159/0_175c52_7acaa5bd_orig

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Анастасия Николаевна в Царском Селе, 1916 год

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/38180/98255750.89/0_16a721_16b9de39_orig

[anastasiaarchives]

Happy Thanksgiving to the American Romanov fans! Today I am thankful for the lovely Judicial Investigator and all his hard work!!!! God bless you!