Tell you what, the diary of Nicholas II is fucking gold.
Here are some excerpts from it.
>January 25th, 1905. Today it was warm and clear. Sakharov didn't show up for the report, and that is why I had time to walk outside until midday. Had breakfast with M-elle de l'Escaille and Count Geiden. Walked outside again and killed three crows. Spent some time working with a great success. Dined with Misha, Ksenya, Olga, Petya, the Yusupovs, the Vasil'chikovs, the Benkendorfs and Count Totleben. The guests stayed with us until half past ten.
>January 27th. […] Walked outside and killed a crow. Worked until 7 o'clock.
>February 19th. […] Had three usual reports delivered to me. Walked outside and killed 4 crows. The weather's warm, but cloudy.
>March 17th. […] My wife and I had a breakfast with our children and no one else. Spent some time outside, killed two crows.
>May 28th. […] Rode my bicycle and killed two crows.
>May 29th. […] Spent some time with my family in the park. The weather was warm. Read a lot. Killed a crow. We dined at half past 8.
Can translate more of these if you want me to.
Tell me about Nicholas II. Why does he hate the crows?
Is "crow" a Russian slang-term for Muslim
If so, then yes.
These seem a little boring, but really. I don't have anything better to do so I guess I could read more of these.
Hope they get more interesting though.
>Woke up, killed something. Wine till 9.
>>56503983
Best day of Russian history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODyts0L-qlE
>>56504061
Nein.
>>56503983
please yes
What did he kill them with? I assume a rifle?
>>56504208
The diary doesn't actually specify how he did it.
According to the diary, he killed 64 ducks during his hunting trip on July 18th, 1905.
>>56504208
A concentrated ray of fierce looks and crippling depression.
Why does he hate crows? Did he regularly kill anything else?
>>56504412
Well, his diary states that he killed a cat on May 8th, 1905.
I did a quick reference of word crow in 1904 notes. Seems like he killed 22 crows in that year and another 13 in 1905.
Consider the fact that he also went on trips where he'd personally shoot hundreds of birds as well as deer and such.
>Diary of a Wildling
Is "killed a crow" a euphemism for masturbation?
>>56504747
No.
A quick note: all dates are in O.S.
>>56504747
okay, okay...this is gold. Shit post or not, I enjoyed this one.
Interesting. The 1917 notes have no crows mentioned in them. Guess he had no time for them.
>>56504747
it is now
>>56504042
By crows he obviously meant peasants.
>>56504963
Well, 1917 was all about killing leeches.
>>56505032
>>56504747
>>56504747
ive been killing the crow all day man
I have some commies in my university. I think nothing would trigger them more than hailing Tsar Nicholas.
>>56504277
chuckled audibly to myself
>>56503983
He was retarded, not 1/8th of a man his grandfather was. Last chance for the surviving of the monarchy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcTwwQ-Tj8
>>56503983
I was reading this incorrectly and thought he was killing cows, not crows.
Disappointed when I realized it was the latter, but still pretty good.
>>56503983
Why he hate crow?
>>56504269
Probably with a punt gun.
Heh, this one is dated the day when he abdicated.
>Ruzsky came to me in the morning and outlined his long conversation over telephone with Rodzyanko. According to him, the situation in Petrograd is such that the Duma is powerless to do anything because they're confronted by the social democratic forces represented by the workers' committee. The situation necessitates my abdication. Ruzsky sent the transmitted [the gist of] that conversation to the Stavka, whereas Alekseev did the same with the rest of generals. At half past two, I received the replies from all of them. The bottom line is that in order to save Russia and keep the army calm and at the front I must make this decision. I'd agreed. I received the draft of the manifesto from the Stavka. Guchkov and Shulgin arrived from Petrograd in the evening, I talked to them and gave them the signed, edited copy of the manifesto. At one past midnight, I left Pskov with a heavy heart. Treason, cowardice and deceit surround me!
>>56506000
ABSOLUTELY
SUBVERSIVE
>>56505612
Remind them that before the Great War and the commies showed up, the Russian Empire was one of the top powers (although still far behind the likes of the UK, US and Germany). You don't need to tell them none of that was Nicholas' achievements though.
>>56503983
Fucking crows.
>>56506145
Poor Russians.
They were always so close to being a world power, but just fell off a few steps away.
The Crimean war was the chance to both destroy kebab and become a world power. Tsushima was the nail in the coffin of the Russian empire.
>pic related
They had the fucking neatest battleship designs however.
>>56506297
Speaking of designs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_monitor_Novgorod
>But in other respects, they were a dismal failure. They were too slow to stem the current in the Dniepr, and proved very difficult to steer. In practice the discharge of even one gun caused them to turn out of control and even contra-rotating some of six propellers was unable to keep the ship on the correct heading. Nor could they cope with the rough weather which is frequently encountered in the Black Sea. They were prone to rapid rolling and pitching in anything more than a flat calm, and could not aim or load their guns under such circumstances.
>In the final analysis, the popovkas seem to have been relatively effective coast-defence vessels; certainly their combination of armament and armour could have only been carried by a conventional ship of much greater draught. Their faults – and they certainly had faults — were exaggerated by critics, both in Russia and abroad, and have left as a legacy stories of uncontrollable ships designed by incompetent men.
>>56506000
>social democratic forces
bernie sanders?
>>56506145
wasn't he the one that tried to modernize Russia? Also, he tried to stop WW1 with his cousin Wilhelm.
kek
>>56506545
>wasn't he the one that tried to modernize Russia
His ministers were. Especially Witte and Stolypin.
>>56506607
nice
It seems like he was a good family man and sucked as a ruler.
>>56506864
That's the general consensus.
>>56506930
He reminds me of Merkel.
Shit is going worser and worser and he was all "meh, we will manage somehow."
As if he didn't care at all.
Why didn't Michail take over?
>>56506491
That's the exact design I was thinking about when I wrote that.
>armament of 2 muzzle loading rifled guns
God damn.
>that account of their guns causing them to spin because of the off center angle
>that sentence saying the horror was overstated somehow
The gangut class battleships were really cool as well for the dreadnaught era. Those turrets made for a nice broadside.
If the revolution didn't come, the upgraded version would have been bigger and the next would have been even bigger again.
Seeing a dreadnaught with 18 inch guns plus 8-12 inch wide turrets would have been hilarious.
The aircraft carriers aren't the only things that killed battleships, but also the standardized design. Finally after everyone stopped building, the anti ship missiles put the final nail in the coffin.
>tfw we could have had thin 2 turret battleships with 1 25inch gun each, tons of torpedos, 8 inch secondary guns firing heat rounds, with massive RATO packs on the back specifically for going fast through a battle line and turning naval battles into speedy drivebys
>>56507366
>Why didn't Michael take over?
>Grand Duke Michael declined to accept the throne until the people were allowed to vote through a Constituent Assembly for the continuance of the monarchy or a republic. The abdication of Nicholas II and the subsequent Bolshevik revolution brought three centuries of the Romanov dynasty's rule to an end. The fall of autocratic Tsardom brought joy to Liberals and Socialists in Britain and France. The United States of America was the first foreign government to recognise the Provisional government, and entered the war early in April. In Russia, the announcement of the Tsar's abdication was greeted with many emotions. These included delight, relief, fear, anger and confusion.
>It is debatable whether Nicholas' enforced abdication was actually legal, and whether he had the right to abdicate on behalf of his son. As Nicholas had already abdicated he was therefore merely a subject of his son, and only Prince Michael as Regent had the right to change the succession. Some historians contend that Nicholas remained the Tsar, at least in theory, until his death.
>>56507374
>If the revolution didn't come
If the war never happened, Russia would've been easily in top 3 within 20 years, according to Stolypin. Judging by how well modernisation had gone by that point, I find it hard not to believe him.
