The Romanov Dynasty: The Splendour & Misery Of The Last Tsarinas | Real Royalty
From Catherine the Great up until the last Russian Empress all the ‘Russian’ Tsarinas were, in fact, German. This was not because the path of true love led them straight to Petrograd, but the result of European power play at the highest level. Splendour and Misery of the Last Tsarinas, starting with Princess Charlotte, tells the dramatic stories of these young women - torn between strategic marriages, the longing for true love and the shackles of European power politics.
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What's the difference between royals who neglect their subjects and corporate masters who still regard their workers as a commodity or a 'human resource'.
They both don’t see their underlings as human, and nine times outta ten, it comes back to bite them in the ass.
id take the royals in my opinion atleast theyd be afraid of the people or losing there crown dont think any corporation is afraid of anyone lol
Neo royalty
I'm forever astounded in the history i find here on utube. Thank you so much 😀 💓 everyone who puts this out here 4 the rest of us 😀
At 43:16. Fun fact: Alexandra, the last tsarina, was German in blood but she was very English in culture and attitude. That's because she was one of Queen Victoria's favorite granddaughters. Alexandra thus grew up in England, at Osborne House and Windsor Castle, for more of her formative childhood years than in her German principality. That's due to the fact that her English mother had died at 6 years old, allowing Queen Victoria to become her surrogate mother, doting on her every chance she got. As a result, English became more or less her first language with German as her second language. When Alexandra fell in love with Nicholas, the future tsar, she didn't communicate with him in French (her French was awful), Russian (she didn't know any) or German (Nicholas didn't know German). She communicated in English because the tsarevitch's English was also good. Then when Alexander III died suddenly, Alexandra's Russian and French were still pretty poor. Nonetheless she was shoved off to St. Petersburg with only English as the tongue she could use with her impending husband. She spoke in English for her first few years in St. Petersburg before eventually becoming fluent in Russian. English was a very foreign tongue to most Russians at the time, so when the tsarina spoke English, the vast majority thought she was speaking German. And that's where the terrible rumors started that the tsarina was a German spy--because many servants at court confused her constant English-speaking for German-speaking.
They absolutely communicated in German.
She had never been fluent in Russian. According to some accounts, she had always had difficulties to speak Russian and preferred English since Nicolas spoke English fluently.
@@tonysargent3852 They didnt. They spoke english to each other and she spoke english to their children. The Emperor spoke Russian and French with his children. But overall English was proffered when the family was together. As far as I know the Romanov children spoke little German.
@@anastasiatrotsky556 Alexandra became fluent in Russian. Just that she spoke it haltingly and with a thick accent. She tended to revert to English any chance she got because she was simply more comfortable with it. Alexandra was a very insecure woman and didn't like speaking in languages she didn't get 100%, like Russian. This was quite unfortunate for Alexandra since Russians would've trusted her more if she had spoken Russian all the time, night and day. Instead...
She was Queen Victoria’s favourite. It’s a pity Queen Victoria was no longer on the throne or even alive during the First World War. She would probably have sent them the British battleship to help them escape to England.
I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call Dagmar a German princess. She was born in Denmark to the danish King and Queen. She was raised in Denmark, and lived there up until the point of her departure for Russia. And when her family was killed, she moved back to Denmark, and lived here for the remainder of her life.
While that might be so, when Dagmar was born, her parents were not de jure members of the Danish royal family. Although it was already conceivable that they would become the monarchs in the future, but Christian wouldn’t be elected the heir until 1852. However, Dagmar did identify herself as Danish and like her sister Alexandra were quite antagonistic towards Prussia, Germany and Bismarck due to the Schleswig wars and the fact their mother Queen Louise came from Hesse-Kassel a state which was annexed in 1866 by Prussia did not help
Absolutely! Dagmar had always hated Germans as well as Alexandra Fedorovna dit. They were both English speaking tsarinas !
The Danes had German roots. Some castle in Glucksberg /Sonderberg something.
She also didn't like the Germans neither did Alexandra or thyra
Also she and her sister Alexandra were hostile to the German cause
As a Russian, I love the fact that we shared such a heritage with the German people. It is the closest non-Slavic country in Europe for us. I grew up in a Siberian town where many Germans live. We absorbed each other's cultures, two of my best childhood friends are Germans, I always felt the closeness of this nation to me
That sounds a little anti-slavic to me. I am proud of my Slavic heritage but not so much of my German heritage, considering what they did in world war II. And what about the suffering of Russia during world war II when Hitler and Stalin were in bed together.
This reminds me of when I moved to this house (in Canada). The owners of the moving company were a Russian man and his wife. I was helping to haul in the huge chesterfield and he says “you’re a big and strong woman. Are you Russian?” I said “No, my family is German”. He says to me “ah, practically the same thing!” 😊
Finland is not a Slavic country and Russia shares a border. Lithuania and Estonia are closer to Russia than Germany and they most definitely are not Slavic countries.
What about finland, or do you think of finland as a part of russia, as you do with ukraine?
@@cboy0394 I think he meant closer culturally. geographically of course there are closer non-Slavic countries than Germany
Thank you so much for this! I feel like we don't get enough coverage on the Empress side of Imperial Russia when it is quite interesting (and spicy) so this is well-received😊
The Romanovs were a Slavic dynasty from 1613 to 1762, when Peter III assumed the throne of Russia. Peter's father was Charles Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp while his mother was a Romanov. This German prince barely knew Russian when he ascended the throne. Peter III married a German princess, Sophia of Anhalt-Zebst. Sophia's father was from the House of Anhalt while her mother was from the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. So Paul I, son of Peter III and Sophia (otherwise known as Catherine the Great) was fully 3/4 German while only 1/4 Slavic. The Slavic portion kept getting watered down further as the later tsars kept marrying German princesses. So that was the end of a Slavic dynasty in Russia, in 1762.
That means the Romanov name became symbolic
Cool another thing to blame on the terrible Germans.
Thank you for providing this important information.
@@andrelandry548 Yep, the Romanov name became symbolic. The same is now happening with the House of Windsor with the new King Charles III. His patrilineal line is oddly (or not) from a cadet branch of the same family as Tsars Peter III and Paul I--the Schleswig-Holstein-Sondenburg-Glucksburg branch. Prince Philip's father was Andrew of Schleswig-Holstein-Sondenburg-Glucksburg while his mother was Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt. The House of Windsor, in turn, is really the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. So King Charles III is really 3/4 German and only 1/4 British (the Queen Mother, the king's maternal grandmother, came from Scottish and English aristocratic families). All these very German names and ancestries were anglicized to Windsor and Mountbatten during World War I for very obvious reasons. So the fiction that this is still the House of Windsor and not the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sondenburg-Glucksburg continues in the UK now, just like it did with how Paul I was considered a full Romanov though he was German through and through.
@@Luboman411 Exactly! Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark , (father of pr Philip, father in-law of the late Queen and grandpa of K. Charles), the son of Christian George I st of Greece, and the Gr. dutches Olga Constantineva, a Romanoff, was through his aunts,-(his father's sisters, the tsarina Dagmar-Maria, and queen Alexandra) , the first cousin of both King George V and the Czar Nikolai. That makes pr Philip second cousin to his father in-law, King George VI and uncle of the late Queen! The husband, was her father's second cousin, + the father in law, her grandfather's first cousin! It was during the 1st war, and for obvious reasons, that King George V ( the czar's 1st cousin) , changed the name of the dynasty after the Windsor castle, from Saxe Coburg and Gotha. Similar, but of a different context was the reason for the abdication of King Eduard.
I was very happy and excited to see the history of ancient people here.very thankful 🙏❤️
Not so "ancient". It's not Egypt.
@@carolharris2357 👌😁
@@carolharris2357same thing, no need to be rude
I am glad they loved each other.
If you call love when the husband keeps fornicating. With the females around his wife’s circle.
Interesting how much this history played a huge role during WW1 and WW2 clear through today's recent history. Today's House Of Windsor (UK) is actually NOT a house of Royal lineage Bloodline Surnames but named after a garden rose from Windsor Castle. The lineage name was changed from the German Royal lineage Bloodline Surnames as an effort to bring named distance between Germany and the UK. As far as Royal lineage Bloodlines go, the current UK Royals are more Bloodline German than they are British. Many historical scholars lay claim to this as the British Royals helped to save and house in British banks the Royal Fortunes of the Russian Royals and German Royals during the great wars. It stands to reason that Germany was so important to Russia. Such a profound mixture of Beauty, Tragedy, Mystery and Intrigue then and as the world continues to change in today's time.
Actually, when you look at the history of ruling dynasties of Europe of the last 10 centuries, you find out that majority of them were of German origin.
Actually the queen had Danish, British and yes german blood in her. The Danish part came from her great grandmother and British from her mother who was a British Royal. Prince George (Williams son) will be the first nearly 90% British monarch in the UK since idk queen Anne?
The British RF pales into comparison to the grandeur of the Russian monarchy
@@m4lteas3 Well, the Russian monarchy was eliminated more than 100 years, whereas the British Royalty continues to thrive.
Yes? it's not a secret, it's well known that the BRF changed their name in the early 1900's..
Glad that there is new long content about the romanovs!!
The title is misleading as it only focuses on Alexandra Fyodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), barely mentions Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) and Alexandra Fyodorovna (Alix of Hesse).
The great great great grand daughter is very beautiful in her own right, indeed.
If the young Prussian woman is descended from Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (Wilhelm II's grandson), then Charlotte is a direct ancestor, not just an aunt, through LF's wife Kira Romanov, g-g-granddaughter of Nicholas I.
Actually, it’s the House of Romanov. The Romanov dynasty ceased to exist in 1762 with the death of empress Elizabeth of Russia. The next emperor, Peter III was part of the German Holstein-Gottorp dynasty and all future Russian emperors after his wife Catherine the Great who originated in the German House of Ascania belonged to his line.
Guess what... grand Duke George and then his future wife started a little war with one Instagram account about royal families because he was named hohenzollern or hohenzollern romanov not romanov. His father is hohenzollern who changed his name when he married his mother Maria (disputed head of house of romanov). After divorce he returned to his birth name and title prince of hohenzollern.
Mother Elizabeth of Russia is a German so that she is also a German.
Dagmar was Danish. Sister of Alexandra in the UK. They hated everything German, because of the fighting about the Danish/ German border. So: The last tsars mother was Danish, and not a mere Prussian princeling-ess!
Thank you, I really enjoyed this
Interesting. I never knew this segment of The Romanov Dynasty.
In the early 19th century, French was the lingua franca. The German princesses and Russian Archdukes spoke French when they first met.
This just threw me for a ride. I had no clue what Russian power struggles were like from their perspective in that era. You don't learn this kind of stuff in schools in America, not even college level, but I'm glad I found this. My college actually was ousted out of studying abroad in Russia unjustly, and like those kids in Alexandra's school, I hope that a brighter future will come for Russia and the world around it.
You can learn this stuff at the college level in the US. It depends on the school you attend and the courses you take.
Peterhof palace 🤩 Tsaar Peter loved the Netherlands. He did build a Russian city as like Amsterdam with canals and Holland style things, but more bigger and cleaner. We had Anna Paulowna romanov as our King consort queen. 🤗
It is nice to finally get a video of the Empress side of Imperial Russia. We hear more about the Czar than we do his wife. The only one who really gets any remembrance is Alix.
Uh, no. That is not correct. Ever heard of Catherine the Great?
@@hollydaugherty2620 yes, I have heard of Catherine the Great. At least Catherine the Great didn't bring down the Romanov dynasty the was Alexandra, the last Empress of Russia, did.
I'm in love with the Princess Marie Luise Von Preussen. Such a beautiful young woman! Gosh!
Me too
@@oh_ze Good taste. ;-)
That oft-printed photograph of Tsar Alexander II with his family (38:52), including his wife Alexandra, is a clever piece of photo editing. At that point he pretty much shunned his wife, and the image of her in the photograph was actually cropped from an earlier one and added to this image. One give-away are the shadows on her face; she's lit from the right, everyone else is lit from the left. This same image is also used for other doctored family group portraits. (no one seemed to think it odd that the empress of Russia kept wearing the same dress over and over?)
What a juicy piece of both royal and Russian trivia. As a budding and enthusiastic photoshopper, not to mention diehard history buff, I adore little tidbits like this, especially when examples are lying all over the world and the internet waiting to be found by guys like us. Fantastic! Actually, this, for whatever reason, made me think of the Soviet Union's many efforts to erase Joseph Stalin from the public memory of both the state and the people. One of the more hilarious set of examples include how he suddenly disappeared from Russian Films. My favorite example is a film about Lenin's "great deeds" in the Russian Revolution of 1917. An actor playing Stalin appeared in a number of scenes. Scenes which would not be seen unedited in Russian theaters from 1953 to the late 90s when some original prints of the film surfaced, were restored, and screened again for the public. In the edited scenes, Stalin would just simply be cropped away if standing on either side of the frame, showing a temporary and obvious discrepancy in aspect ratio. In scenes where he appears in or toward the center of the frame, the scene would either be cut outright, or someone in period costume and being passed off supposedly as a bystander within the scene would be filmed basically just standing in front of the scene playing on a screen, pretending to be a part of the action and careful to be between the camera and the onscreen figure of Stalin. The whole attempt at trickery was palpably laughable, although I'm sure that few in Soviet Russia dared to laugh. And no amount of party propaganda and media manipulation was going to make the Russian people suddenly forget Joseph Stalin. In any case, the majority of the reasons that people remembered Stalin weren't ones that Uncle Joe himself would be pleased with. I think he would, however, approve of the the underhanded means of controlling public information that the state employed erasing him, no matter how unintentionally comical they ultimately were. Such deceits were right up the late dictator's alley. 🙂🤔
@@JDPwatching I seem to recall reading somewhere that after he came to power, Joseph Stalin did the exact opposite - he would have images of himself added to historic photos of Lenin and other revolutionaries to make it look like he was present at all the key events.
@@daniel_sc1024 Yes, and it might have fooled contemporary audiences, most modern viewers would see right through it, and those instances can be as hilarious as the blatant attempts to erase him. Many of the films Stalin had altered to include him have also been restored to their original edits. I took Cinema History I and II in college, and the instructor had a deep reverence for Russian Cinema. He stressed how amazing it was that directors could make masterpieces even under the draconian rules and interfering noses of the Central Party. Never underestimate the inventiveness of an artist with something to say in the face of authority. 🙂
@daniel_sc1024 Just for historical accuracy, the first wife of Tsar Alexander II (and the mother of his legitimate children) was named Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna (formerly Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt). Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (formerly Princess Charlotte of Prussia), was his mother (the wife of Tsar Nicholas I). Strangely enough, five of the six imperial consorts after Catherine the Great shared the names of their predecessors.
At 0:56. All of those buildings you see before you, in central St. Petersburg, were built mostly by Italians and Germans. During Peter the Great's reign, very few Russians knew how to build in the Western European style that the tsar so desperately wanted. So he imported thousands of mostly Italian painters, sculptors, stonemasons and architects to Russia to build for him a "Venice of the North." To help the Italians along, Peter the Great needed accountants, bookkeepers, engineers and other skilled workers. So he imported thousands of Germans for these crucial roles. Peter the Great's successors kept doing this throughout the 1700s. So it's no surprise that the Russian tsars went to Germany for their tsarina consorts as well. Though it is a mystery why the tsars didn't also opt for Italian princesses just to keep things interesting. LOL...
I think they didn't go for Italian princesses because they were Catholic, and unlike with the Protestant German princesses, it was much more complicated to have them convert to Russian orthodoxy.
@@dinoman4655 He said "Versailles of the East"
They mostly went for german women because they where more readily to change their religion. Catholics was EXTREMELY hesitant about doing that
The dumbest comment ever. Dynastic marriages and the construction of St. Petersburg are absolutely unrelated. Russia is Orthodox, so the Romanovs did not contact the Catholics, who could not change the church.
It's remarkable to be able to travel and share the past. Some of us have ancestors from abroad and some of them showed up in our DNA love this video Thank you
Wow nice history
Thank you so much for the information I specially liked the School part, because my parents are teachers.
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Damn whoever the girl is she sure did get the same looks passed down from the Grand Duchess's. Shes gorgeous
Not sure how I feel about this description of the last czar & czarina
I just wanted to say: ''I STAND CORRECTED!!!'' I truly thought I heard ''Windsor''. But, I replayed both parts of video and I heard ''Winter''. I'm not making excuses, so NO HATE COMMENTS, PLEASE, but perhaps the way that the people in the UK pronounce the letter ''T'', and the fact that they put a lot of emphasis on that letter, made me think I heard an ''S'' rather than a ''T''.. Does that make sense? It is kind of like how the British say the word: ''Tuesday''. But, somehow, I hear them saying: ''Chews-day''. Then, we have the word: schedule [skedual vs. shedual]. But, we Americans have our quirks, too! Most of us pronounce the word ''winter'' without the ''T'' - ie: ''winner'' -- Winner Palace. I was going to suggest the cc to Gabriel Arellano, but nine times out of ten, they defile the English language. The other day, instead of printing the word: ''Jesus'', I saw the phrase: ''she's us'', which makes absolutely NO sense ... Weird. I also wanted to point out that I watch videos about European Royalty ALL THE TIME... way before the queen died. So, I have heard the world: ''Windsor'' frequently in the past few years. Maybe that factor played a role into what I misheard. Oh, and don't get me started about how many times a narrator has referred to the Winter Palace as the Summer Palace. Which is totally incorrect. Anyhoo, I'm very, very sorry. My bad! Have a good one, guys! : )
Yes; I just made the same comment - & the Kaiser chose not to help his cousin:/
Have not heard from all in a long time😥
So what does that current "Princess" do? What does one do when one is a direct descendant of deposed royalty? They just hang out and edit books or something? Also her last name wouldn't be Von Preusen isn't it Hohenzollern? I'm fascinated by these aristocratic families still extant in Europe like France and Germany, Italy where there is no longer an aristocracy or royalty, seems like a kind of pointless sad life resting on laurels you don't have anymore. There's even a Hapsburg around settling on a libertarian Island with Peter Thiel somewhere.
Maria, the great great great great grand daughter of the former royal family is so graceful and beautiful .
Even though I know that they do bring it up I feel like it's kind of glossed over that Maria is a princess. Is she not? She's such a lovely girl either way.
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Copyrighted in 2017, so faitly recent. Made by a German production company.
The Descendent is wearing the infamous Burberry Scarf in almost every scene and different shades I love that scarf.
Greatest dynasty in history
Feodorovna means Given by God from Greek
Princess Dagmar was a Danish princess and not German
It is true, but her parents, the King and Queen of Denmark, were of German descent. The king's father was born in Poland and later became duke of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, which at the time belonged to Denmark. The king's mother had a German father, where her own mother was the daughter of a late Danish king. If we look at Dagmar's mother, her father was a German Count and her mother was a Danish princess. So even though Dagmar was a princess, born and raised in Denmark, there was still quite a lot of German blood in her veins.
@@p.r.sdenmark6149 In many ways we are all mixed up but yes.
Arent Danes ethnically Germanic?
I was coming here to comment the same thing! Minnie (Dagmar, Maria Feodrovna) was Danish and very much against the German Alix entering the family. German distrust was growing at this time, war would break out within a generation. The Dowger Empress spent her final years in Denmark, still refusing to believe "Nicky", his family, and his brother Michael had been killed. The English family (Queen Mary) scooped up most of her jewels (and some of her other Russian relitives) and she died in comfortable exile.
Surely she pissed off if she was identified as german, knowing that she despised germans.
Interesting.
Fun Fact: Romanovs were the first Slavic dynasty that ruled Russia.
Rus dynasty was Swedish? Don't know that much about kiyevan rus
Well, the Romanovs were Slavic dynasty from 1613 to 1762, when Tsar Peter III assumed the throne of Russia. Peter's father was Charles Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp while his mother was a Romanov. This German prince barely knew Russian when he ascended the throne. Then Peter III married a German princess, Sophia of Anhalt-Zebst. Sophia's father was from the House of Anhalt while her mother was from the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. So technically Tsar Paul I, son of Peter III and Sophia (otherwise known as Catherine the Great) was fully 3/4 German while only 1/4 Slavic. The Slavic portion kept getting watered down further and further afterwards as the tsars married German princesses. So that was the end of a Slavic dynasty in Russia, in 1762.
The first and the only
Last of the Romanovs were predominantly ethnically Danish and Germanic, so basically Germanic. Cause I think Danes are technically Germanic too. Gene dilution. They were only ethnically slavic during the early years. A lot of the Empress' were German. So these German women gave birth to half german sons who married german women. Nicholas I was 3/4 German and he married a German ....
@@jamiemohan2049 denmark royal family is German
Why does it have dubbing to English without removing the original sound? Very distracting. Ever heard of subtitles?
Best line ever, spoken in the movie Nicholas and Alexandra, by the Tsar's mother (A former Danish princess: Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) ) remarking on an evening of entertainment/a party that her son, the Tsar Nicholas and his wife are attending: "Even London on a Sunday, isn't as boring as a room full of Romanovs."
17:19 Вы демонстрируете портрет Екатерины I, а не Екатерины II
Who is the out of touch guy who called her a “flabbily Gibbit”?! This guy’s comments just bleed sexism. Men are amazing, Women are caged birds. Would love for him to take a moment and think about the woman’s experience and what it took to manage that life. This dude is a CLOWN and need to do some research despite this advanced degree…
Hard to believe Buckingham Palace is larger then the Winter Palace.
Its not
@@esgiereyes5082 yes it is.
@@notnek202 it's not
The Winter Palace is 233,345 square metres. Buckingham Palace is 77,000 square metres. Winter Palace is larger, ranking 3rd largest while Buckingham ranks 18th.
Yep. It doesn’t look that big, but it’s huge! 😮Only the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria is larger, I believe.🤔
I don't know why but I've always felt very protective of the romanovs and whenever I hear people trying to suggest that they were horrible people or in some way close-minded it rather annoys me.
If not for Rasputin I wonder if the Romanov family would have been murdered? I think their murders had more to do with Rasputin’s influence over them than anything else. But that’s just my thoughts.
No. The Romanovs got murdered because Tsar Nicholas II was a well-meaning, weak idiot. I don't understand why that's so hard to understand. Rasputin came to take control over the imperial family because Nicholas didn't recognize him for what he truly was--a cultish con-man out on the make. A smarter ruler, like Catherine the Great (she was exceptionally sharp), would've sussed Rasputin out immediately and kicked him out of the imperial household. Nicholas did no such thing. Nicholas also didn't recognize the reasons why in 1905, the Russian people rebelled and forced him to get a legislature to share power, the Duma. In his stubborn, moronic, cow-like way he didn't think about the reasons why the Russian people were so unhappy. He kept doing things as before. No analysis, no reflection, no independent reading to get a handle on the precarious political situation. He was an idiot. So he stumbled upon World War I completely incapable of seeing the extreme dangers of throwing his people into a giant war of attrition with a militarily advanced Germany. Again, this was Nicholas' idiocy. Not Rasputin's "magical powers." Rasputin was just a mere con-man emotionally manipulating the tsarina. The real person who f*cked up tremendously was Nicholas.
I have wondered that myself. Would Nicholas II had lived to a ripe old age? Wouldn’t it be nice to have to crystal ball and see what would have happened if Rasputin had not come into the picture.
@@kathrynjordan8782 That would be amazing! Shame we can only speculate.
I definitely think if he hadn’t been in the picture their fall may have been slowed, but with Alix and Nicky’s desperation surrounding their son I feel someone would’ve taken his place. More or less awful? Hard to tell.
@@hannahmp1020 That’s a good point. I would hope the children would be spared. I get why they would kill Nicholas but I don’t see why murder the children. They wouldn’t have been a threat to the coup.
The mysteries of royalties🎉
Sad Mr Sebagh- Montefiore judges the last Csar so harshly. There must have been more to him and his wife judging on the great dignity with which they accepted their horrible fate. I wonder if Mr Sebagh - Montefiore ever thinks about what those last weeks in Ekaterinburg must have been like...
Let’s not take the romantic view of Nicholas and Alexandra! The truth is they were negligent and incompetent as rulers. They caused much suffering in Russia. 1 million Russian soldiers died in WWI because of the ignorance of Nicholas as a military leader! They also caused much suffering in their own family. The daughters lived a life of seclusion with their mother. Everything revolved around Alexandra. Her wants and needs were put first! She fell for that snake Raspustin. So A and N went to their death with dignity! Let’s not forget the innocent people who were assassinated with them….their daughters and servants! Mr Sebagh-Montefiore’s assessment hits the mark !
@@shecandance9500 What does it mean 1million soldiers? It's nothing compared to the 20million and more during the WWII...
Why are there no paintings of Paul I or Peter III shown in the family tree? There were many paintings made of them
If we knew the total truth, the married couples were all probably cousins. Russia... a beautiful country, with such a remarkable history.
Remarkable and fraught.
Damn, that man was NOT a fan of Nicholas and Alix.
He doesnt have to be. I dont mind because both are mostly romanticized in other documentaries
@@jamiemohan2049 you're right, they are...I always find them to be reported on in the extreme, either way...romanticized or vilified
I looked him up, his family fled Russia during the rule of Nicholas ans Alexandria so I feel there may be a bit of bias. Not saying they were good rulers, but geez they should have edited that out.
@@Nicolesid1 oh how interesting!
I found this out the other day I will post it very soon so keep a look out for it
Wasn't Nicholas II's mother, Dagmar, a Danish princess? Not sure how she could be considered German.
Correct. Dagmar would have vociferously rejected being called German, as would any Dane today. We may be generally friendly and laid back ppl, but do not EVER call us Germans!
Right off he said "Windsor Palace" - "Winter Palace"!
Its one big drama, the good is is that we all can admire all luxury and grandeur of that history. Thinking that to spend the money is better than nowadays billionairs who mostly put it on their bank account. All craftsmen made a living of that and money was flowing in many pockets. 🤔
Such hatred that historian has for Alix.
Hello Dawn, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus?
He isnt wrong. Alexandra is often romanticized. She was arrogant, she wasnt a great Empress. Her husband wasnt a good Emperor. Neither were good, but they didnt deserve bullets. Two love sicks fools put at the top of the hierarchy.
I never quite understood why there is so much hatred about Alix.. Didn’t she do what she thought was best for her family at that time? I don’t think she thought it would cost her and her family their lives in the end.
Alexandra's main Fall was that she couldn't see the world was changing. And autocracy was also changing. The Russians did very little at that time to help the surfs and other poorer groups of people, which led to the downfall of the czars. She also was poorly informed about Rasputin and his influence was undoubtedly a poor situation for the romanovs.
@@feistyjerseygirl Rasputin did have a bad influence on Alexandra and the Romanov family. Ever wonder what the Romanov life would have been like if Rasputin had not come into the picture at all? Would be nice to have a crystal ball.
Kaiser Wilhelm... The man whose ego murdered a generation of young men.
42:05. Heheheh my name is Dagmar😂
42:05 Dagmar was not German. She was Danish and absolutely despised Germany.
Not quite right. Look at their family name. Their family name is not Danish. Also, Dagmar's mother came from Hesse-Kassel, which is in Germany.
Wow
Its depressing to realize that for over 100 years, the people of Russia asked and begged their Royals for the u and respect humans need and deserve, ultimately starving to death in the streets but the Russian Royals were cut off from the people in their lavish life, and throughout their lives could not or would not respond or better the lives of their "subjects." There certainly is a lesson here to be learned...the Tsarina and the children were oddly and tragically naive to the plight of the russian people, and were taken as lambs to the slaughter because of it. But the saddest part of all is that its hard for us to make excuses for them as Royals yet we feel every sadness for them as people with their lives cut brutally short. On that human level, its sad that England and other nations would not courageously step forward to save the children. The fear of course in Russia was that they would one day return to Russia and the Communist regime would not allow that.
Seems All royals came from germany?
They were.
German women became well known for their fertility. They also had more children reach adulthood then other royal non germanic women. After a while all royals became german. Which caused many german noble families to become wealthy and powerful.
@@jamiemohan2049 Makes total sense then. Live and learn indeed.
No, learn history.
@@jamiemohan2049 What nonsense, the Romanovs often married German because they were Orthodox and they couldn't marry Catholics, who were the majority in Europe. (This is the first time I hear that German women are famous for their fertility)
At 48:01. Wait, this is all sorts of wrong historically speaking. Of the last 12 of the Russian tsars and tsarinas, 5 were assassinated or killed--Ivan IV (killed possibly by Tsarina Elizabeth); Peter III (killed possibly by Catherine the Great); Paul I (a violent coup); Alexander II (left-wing terrorists blowing him up); Nicholas II (shot by the Bolsheviks). Peter II, Anna I, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander III all died of diseases. As for Tsar Nicholas I, husband of Charlotte of Prussia, he died in 1855 during an influenza epidemic, NOT 1885 as the video claims. 1885 was in the middle of the reign of Alexander III, who was grandson of Nicholas I. Please get these historical facts right. I'm no historian and I know this. Don't be sloppy.
At the very start and 10:44:into this video, the narrator referred to the palace on screen as ''The Windsor Palace'', which is totally FALSE. The palace goes by 3 different names and NONE of them Windsor: the Winter Palace, the Alexander Palace and the Hermitage. The Windsor Castle is in London, UK.
I noticed that too
I heard winter..... Not windsor. Soooo.... Who's wrong?
@@Arellanog123 My hearing is IMPECCABLE. Listen again at both points in video and I'll do the same. But, I'm positive that I heard Windsor, because I said to myself that if I heard it again, I intended to leave a comment.
I heard "Winter Palace", not Windsor.
@@standishism yeah my hearing is IMPECCABLE as well. I heard winter. I even had others listen that had no idea what this was about and can confirm they said "winter" (albeit in a European accent). Heck. Turn on the subtitles and it also says winter! (they're auto generated)
"Swept away by the Russian Revolution". Mild understatement. Komrade much?
I am no expert, but as an avid Romanov (and other historical royals) amateur historian I must point out some bothersome inaccuracies. 1. About Alexander II's illegitimate children: as far as it is known the only illegitimate ones are those by his mistress of many years, and later second wife Princess Catherine Dolgorukova - pointing this out because they made it sound as if he had an illegitimate child with each mistress. About the "mistresses moving into their own quarters in the palace" part, again it was only Catherine who lived in the same palace, and Maria could actually hear Catherine and Alexander's children stomping and playing right above her head... Bear in mind that Maria and Alexander were initially truly in love, however with time they grew apart. Right before she passed away she wrote him a letter, thanking him for those 39 years of marriage. 💔 Unnecessary fun fact: the only tsars who remained faithful to their wives were Alexander III and then his son Nicholas, the last tsar. 2. Princess Dagmar of Denmark was NOT a German princess, she was a Danish princess. Dagmar, just like her sister Alexandra, Queen of England disliked Germans with great passion, which mainly has to do with the annexation of Danish territories by Prussia in 1864.
I agree with everything you said, except for the 3rd part. Alix was actually her real name while Alexandra was the one she took on after her marriage. She was named after her mother, Alice, who complained that the people in Hesse pronounced her name with an "x" .
@@dinoman4655 Well, you learn something new every day. :) Thank you for your comment.
Lol why am I seeing some girl in a golf cart when I want to see some kind of beautiful imagery of the actual age being depicted? 😂
winter not wnidsor palace
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Who is this girl where can we find her?
21:00 Russian waltzes are so beautiful
Dagmar was not German, she was Danish. She and her sister Alexandra were definitely anti German
One must wonder if Hesse is pronounce as HES-SA or HESS?
Hessen is German. Hess in English
If only the Romanov's had left their bubble of the world & went out to explore what life was like outside their country & paid attention to the people's suffering & changed with the times they would still be reigning today. Nicholas & his family would've lived a little longer the Russian Revolution would never had taken place man, I would not be happy to be royal being told what to do, how to dress, where to go, who to marry, let the husband cheat on me while I had to grin & bare it. Um, hell no everything I am including changing my name would have to change to fit the high society no thanks, take it & shove it.
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Thinking what it would cost to smash a party in tsaar style nowadays. All the clothes jewlery and with the complete banquet. 🎊🤔😅🤗 They could do a sort charity ball and invite all important people of the country and beond.
Deque murió y cuál fues la causa de sus muerte , y quien eran sus primos y sus segunda hijas cuántos hijos tubos y de dónde eran sus maridos en especial el de la segunda.
@jetterasmussen6577 Dagmar's Mother was a Hessian, her Grandmother was also Hessian. Dagmar and her sister Alexandra hated Prussia because Prussia invaded Schleswig-Holstein. (her homeland). There are very few European Royals who weren't of German descent, due to all the German Principalities. That way they could keep their Blood Blue.
I CAN UNDERSTAND A FEW ADS BUT THIS VIDEO IS INTERRUPTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER WITH SUCH FREQUENCY THAT IT IS NOT EASY TO UNDERSTAND THE PLOT OF THE STORY. too many ads
37:00 so the tsar is openly showing off his relationship with a noble lady in front of everyone to the point ambassadors wives or whoever are writing how bad they feel for the Tsaritsa but then the next clip is this guy saying it was never public and always behind closed doors? Which is it?
l am Naughty child，to follow Real royalty.
What a terrible thing to be empress of all the Russias. The tsars acted above the law; they saw the need for political change after the 1860s and mishandled it; they contributed to causing World War I, which killed tens of millions and swept them away. Hundreds of millions of Russians suffered because of their tyranny. Those who question our constitutional monarchy need to recall how terrible the historical alternatives have been: dictatorship in Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. The British monarchy, without effective power, tends to unify and create peace; Russia’s heads of state in modern times exemplify how absolute power corrupts and destroys absolutely.
I find unfortunately that a lot of people watch these historical treatments and attempt to measure what happened a hundred years ago or more by the standards of today one that's ridiculous and I also find that the people presenting these type of treatments often fall into the same trap even if subconsciously I find it to be annoying at best. Unfortunately the manner in which some of this information is shared can sway somebody most easily even when it's bias or incomplete. Most people living in this era have no idea of the stress that Royals were living under during that period of time even in this video it seems to be glossed over. What we regard as the threat of War and what they regarded as a threat of War are far removed and ironically more deadly than than now.
I understand how serious it was, there was no promise of security during their succession. For every plan you thought you were a part of, there were 2 more plans that were made behind your back. You could literally be dragged off the throne and murdered. No thank you
Happiness happiness….mistress after mistress….and she is sick and the mistress’s moves in….and their are illegitimate children everywhere.
Wow great great great granddaughter she has royal blood. I take my hat off to you my lady.
Fact Alexander went to England from Germany (after he met with his future wife) of being presented to the young Queen Victoria almost becoming a prince consort until he end up marrying the German princess due to these couriers' interference.
Her name was Alexandra!
Aberdeen 🙏
The way they say "Zarr" and not " Tsar' "
Poor family.
they were not miserable , but trusted their foreign ralatives that were allso royality . Pert of money that have belonged to the goverment was laid to British and German banks .
I can't believe that this is family says My family tree
Мило,ничего не понятно правда :( Надо мне учить английский
Включил субтитры и все понятно. Это не техническая инфа же
yess, rather remarkable idea. show them what happened to the last chinese last korean emperors and also the last ottoman emperor.... and the french most importantly. show them what happens to slackers. The Imperium approves.
Nicholas the first died in 1855 not 1885.
1:34-this girl is royalty?!?!?
Yes. ??