Also no fucking wonder they had a revolution immediately after all these things were made, it seems like the Romanovs were spending the entire country’s gdp on these god damn decorations. The whole exhibit felt like
Food for peasants $200
Working conditions $150
Military $800
Fancy Egg™ $1.2 billion
Utilities $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family dying (they’re being killed by revolutionaries)
This picture encapsulates what I felt when touring Vatican City and the museum. All of this wealth and opulence stripped and stolen from around the world, or custom made at the whims of the Pope. St. Peters Basilica is absurdly ornate, and outside the walls there's people with deformities begging for euros with a picture of the Pope next to their hat. The halls of power are black hearted and wicked.
Best tour guide in Cusco put the Vatican and the Spanish on blast for stealing all the wealth and killing everyone
Holy shit, based tour guide! Would love a tour like that IN Vatican City... But alas, they have their own laws and courts.
Yeah somebody should really recreate this painting but at the Basilica (if you take my meaning)
I for one love the version of this painting that shops in
Vitaly Polyakov, After Storming the Winter Palace, depicting a soviet revolutionary in awe of the wealth and luxury that the royals lived in.
It hits pretty hard. Poor fuck, finally grabbed a rifle and stormed the castle, only to find the nation's wealth squandered away on this stupid bullshit while him and his family starved.
Reading about these fucking eggs and I didn't realize that like 90% of them were exclusively made for the imperial families, these fucking things literally weren't even for regular obscenely rich aristocrats but just one family, absolutely obscene.
Edit: Also they were making SEVERAL of these a year during fucking WW1, including one to commemorate that the hemophilic tsar child that was in mortal peril every time he tripped and fell, was given the highest military decoration of the Russian empire, alongside his moron dad.
Disgusting bullshit.
claims to love his family
lets them get killed by angry peasants who are sick of starving and oppression
It does look like water would shoot out of his mouth if you were to pull on it
It’s crazy how the edges on the lines shift under the shadow. I want a rose engine and a straight line engine so bad.
