Tea at Trianon: Return of the Romanovs

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Return of the Romanovs

From the Express:

The Romanov family's extraordinary return would not threaten the rule of the Kremlin strongman but would aim to give them a role in unifying Russia. The move proposed by Vladimir Petrov, a law maker from Putin's party, has prompted speculation that it has the Russian leader's direct approval.

Petrov also plans to introduce a law, which would be implemented by the centenary of the end of Imperial rule, which would "give the Royal family members a special status" and "stimulate their return to Russia".

The legislator has written letters to the heirs of the Romanov dynasty, which ruled the country for two centuries before the abdication of last Tsar Nicholas II ahead of two revolutions in 1917.

The following year the Romanov family - Nicholas and his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei - were executed by Bolsheviks led by Yakov Yurovsky under the orders of the Ural Soviet. Petrov has written to Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Prince Dimitri Romanovich urging them to return to Russia to become symbols of national culture in order to "revive the spiritual power of Russian people". (Read more.)

LC Douglass said...: Wow. I'm going to reblog this one! I will hat tip you, thank you for posting.; June 24, 2015 at 6:36:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: You are welcomed, my dear!; June 24, 2015 at 6:56:00 PM EDT
Hans Georg Lundahl said...: If he agrees with them:

a) banning all abortions
and
b) relowering marital age to presumably 14/12 (as in Spain 100 years ago or Papal States 150 years ago, so I presume it would have been 14/12)

he might be God's servant, after all.

But his actions in Ukraine are so far not quite encouraging.; June 25, 2015 at 5:00:00 AM EDT
Jeanne said...: While searching on the web, I found a very interesting blog chronicling the failed attempts by foreign powers and Romanov relations to save the Tsar and his immediate family from Bolshevik captivity in Russia. What do y'all think?

Rescuing the Czar (1920): https://rescuingtheczar.blogspot.com/; September 24, 2018 at 9:29:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Fascinating. Thank you for the link. There are books about attempts to rescue the Tsar and his family. Kaiser Wilhelm especially tried to save them but he lost his throne, too.; September 25, 2018 at 8:37:00 AM EDT