The Romanov Dynasty: The Splendour & Misery Of The Last Tsarinas | Real Royalty

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

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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

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.

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

If you call love when the husband keeps fornicating. With the females around his wife’s circle.

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.

Not so "ancient". It's not Egypt.

@@carolharris2357 👌😁

@@carolharris2357same thing, no need to be rude

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..

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.

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.

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.

You can learn this stuff at the college level in the US. It depends on the school you attend and the courses you take.

Me too

@@oh_ze Good taste. ;-)

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.

Yes; I just made the same comment - & the Kaiser chose not to help his cousin:/

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

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.🤔

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.

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.

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!

Remarkable and fraught.

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.

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...

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)

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!

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.

Hessen is German. Hess in English

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.

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)

Her name was Alexandra!

Включил субтитры и все понятно. Это не техническая инфа же

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

That’s right, but the Russians themselves are barely ethnically Slavic. They are a mixture of mainly Finno-Ugric, Turkic and yes, some Eastern Slavic tribes. The Russian language, which was brought onto the population of what is today European part of Russia by their Orthodox Church, has certain number of Slavic words, but also a lot of Turkic words. After the dissolution of the Turkic Golden Horde empire, which ruled over Moscovia and other regions of future Russia in 13-15 centuries, its Turkic and Finno-Ugric population was gradually Russified through the Church.

@@akylrysgal6242 thank you so much for your time in giving me more information about the Russians being barely ethnically Slavic it's always great to hear and learn from someone who is more informed on the subject

@@akylrysgal6242 One wanders where you hear and read all that turkic!!! Tataro-mongols will always be a problem.

@@elenak5232 For your info, European part of Russia was part of the Turkic Golden Horde, this is what is taught in Russian schools too. The Turkic people of the Golden Horde did not disappear, most of them were gradually Russified. Almost all aristocratic families of Tsarist Russia were of Turkic origin, for this you can read a book “Russian families of Turkic origin” by Nikolai Baskakov published in Moscow’s Nauka Publishing House in 1979.

Rurik dynasty were mostly Slavs.

Ha ha ha ha

Before 1762, they were all in fact Slavic but Empress Elizabeth did not have any children of her own so she adopted her sister's son, Peter, who was half Russian through his mother but half German through his father. Elizabeth picked a German princess (the future Catherine the Great) for Peter to marry & their son, Paul I would also go on to marry a German and it just went on like that.

@@dinoman4655 Thanks. Russians need to write their historic study books more truthful and clear. Then instead of Long live great Russia they should yell Long live great Germany. The path of history amazes me. So many turns and twists that common people are so not aware of.

Yes. ??