• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This video reminds me of when the Russian revolutionaries seized the palace and were looking through Nicolas II's diary. Even though WW1 was occuring all the diary entries were about laying around and drinking, sometimes he'd go for a boat ride in the pond. Trotsky says something in the History of the Russian Revolution about how the Romanovs had completely pointless lives and were effectively already dead, I think

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Diary of Nicholas II, 1917-1918, an annotated translation

      https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3084&context=etd