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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

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thecounterrevolutionary: Crown Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Alexander became heir apparent (as Tsarevich) with, his brother, Nicholas’s sudden death in 1865. It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later (from 1880) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia. Pobedonostsev awakened in his pupil little love of abstract study or prolonged intellectual exertion, but instilled into the young man’s mind the belief that zeal for Russian Orthodox thought was an essential factor of Russian patriotism to be cultivated by every right-minded emperor. While he was heir-apparent—1865 to 1881—Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government. On his deathbed Alexander’s elder brother Nicolas is said to have expressed the wish that his fiancée, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, should marry his successor. This wish was swiftly realized, when on 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1866 in the Imperial Chapel of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Alexander wed Dagmar, who converted to Orthodox Christianity and took the name Maria Feodorovna. The union proved a happy one to the end. Unlike his father’s, there was no adultery in his marriage. “Portrait of Crown Prince Alexander Alexandrovich” by Vasily Pavlovich Hudoyarov

thecounterrevolutionary:

Crown Prince Alexander Alexandrovich

Alexander became heir apparent (as Tsarevich) with, his brother, Nicholas’s sudden death in 1865. It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later (from 1880) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia. Pobedonostsev awakened in his pupil little love of abstract study or prolonged intellectual exertion, but instilled into the young man’s mind the belief that zeal for Russian Orthodox thought was an essential factor of Russian patriotism to be cultivated by every right-minded emperor. While he was heir-apparent—1865 to 1881—Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.


On his deathbed Alexander’s elder brother Nicolas is said to have expressed the wish that his fiancée, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, should marry his successor. This wish was swiftly realized, when on 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1866 in the Imperial Chapel of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Alexander wed Dagmar, who converted to Orthodox Christianity and took the name Maria Feodorovna. The union proved a happy one to the end. Unlike his father’s, there was no adultery in his marriage
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“Portrait of Crown Prince Alexander Alexandrovich” by Vasily Pavlovich Hudoyarov

(via thecounterrevolutionary-deactiv)

"In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it."

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Konstantin Pobedonostsev, great Tsarist Russian conservative statesman.

(HT Royal World | Defending Tsarist Russia)

my-ear-trumpet: (Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev “Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

my-ear-trumpet:

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)

The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Source: madmonarchist.blogspot.com.au, via growthofthesoil)

my-ear-trumpet: (Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev “Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

my-ear-trumpet:

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)

The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Source: madmonarchist.blogspot.com.au, via )

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev “Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)

The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Source: madmonarchist.blogspot.com.au)