The Story Of The Last Tsarinas

[@sidneyrosey]

Narrator: Almost all the Russian Tsarinas were German. Maria Feodorovna: 👁👄👁

[@robbpowell194]

Employing a family descendant to guide us through her eyes, was well thought out and executed She and the camera were good to each other.

[@Outlier2024]

Never say “executed” to a Romanov.

[@LittleSuisseGirl]

@@Outlier2024 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@coffeecrimegal5968]

I thought this was lovely. I particularly like that a descendant of Charlotte/Aleksandra was traveling while learning of her own families history.. The Russian Empire & the Romanovs especially have always fascinated me! Who couldn’t have been fascinated with Katherine The Great?!

[@one.girl...1]

russian empire is empire on blood. They even stole their name from Rus (Ukraine), rossia - is greek name of Rus. Before 1721 country was called Moscovia. And Katherine is not "great" obviously, she was a very bad person and a lier, who ordered to change many historical documents. And she destroyed Ukrainian Cossacks country called Hetmanate.

[@3rdmm]

"The German princess Dagmar of Denmark"...? This will sound peculiar to Danes, since she was born in Denmark to the Danish king and queen. I see what you're trying to do here, but this is stretching it a little too far.

[@hairball7529]

I'm glad I read this comment. European politics confuses me. I can't remember who did what to whom and to where.🤔

[@michelleayres5608]

Noted!

[@kiankier7330]

by same logic, Queen Victoria would The german queen victoria of Great Britain and Ireland

[@lilymarinovic1644]

​@@kiankier7330in a lot of ways Victoria WAS German - her mother, governess and husband, those closest to her, were all German. As was he father and his lineage.

[@timothyhallett3724]

@@lilymarinovic1644and she had many of her childten marry into other German royal, and imperial, families! The ruling House of the UK only changed its name to Windsor, from Saxe-Coburg, in 1917 due to pressure from politicians and the British public during the First World War.

[@helengournay2377]

I noticed a couple of mistranslations from the letters. During the Decembrist revolution Nicolas is described as "calm and cold-blooded", I think "sang-froid" is meant, which is used in English or would translate as self controlled. An tzarina is later described as retaining "self-love", the original "amour propre" is used in English, or could be translated as "self respect".

[@alarsen3560]

Princess Dagmar was actually a Danish Princess, not German ...

[@zzzbbbooo]

Yes, she would have loathed being described as German.

[@Absurdities-q9p]

Her family tree says otherwise

[@fedup745]

The portraits are extraordinary.

[@MegCazalet]

I can’t imagine leaving everyone I loved to move to a country with a different language, religion, culture, etc., to marry a man I have never met, with my main purpose to have male babies, and a few girl babies for forming alliances, to be shipped off just like I had been.

[@luckm8852]

Indeed. I suppose, today, for many of those who have children, it would also be unthinkable to send one's children into such conditions. But those were different times.

[@renatatarnawski5974]

Women back then Were just breeding cows with nice clothing The 1st born male got it all Many things really haven't changed towards males inherenting in many countries Tho Women may have a choice Maybe not

[@skepticalmaiden]

​@@luckm8852is not like women had any rights to interfere or impede the shipping off of their daughters, no matter how they felt about it.

[@christinaj.jensen4805]

Dagmar's father was from Glücksborg in Southern Schleswig. While it is today part of Germany, when Dagmar was born and when her father became King, it was part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and had been for over 400 years. Her father and mother also both descended from Danish Kings. So no. She without a doubt was not German.

[@christinaj.jensen4805]

@@AW-oh4qm no. It’s too far to the South to have been part of Schleswig-Holstein.

[@pia2021]

Where is the young princess or young lady featured here now? She's such a beauty and seems sweet. This is a nice way to do a documentary - having a descendant interviewing historians.

[@Shining237]

Catherine II or Catherine the Great had done more for Russia than any other Tsar. She championed the arts, built museums, extended education, expanded Russia's borders, and installed a military/naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea in 1784 that the Russians still use to this day.

[@lilymarinovic1644]

True, and she too was German. Ironic.

[@Risen_Star]

Correction: UKRAINE uses it. It was illegally seized by Russia.

[@mnemonicpie]

To say that capture of Crimea is solely Catherine's achievement is like to say that the rise of the gas prices in 2000 is Putin's achievement. It's not, there was a very long war for it, Catherine even didn't fully ended it. Peter the great was far more important for Russia, because of creation of the Russian navy, which will defeat the main rival at that time, Sweden. And even Catherine's grandson, Alexander, did more to Russia. Museums are cool, but that was not what Russia really needed.

[@celianancyrodriguezbello832]

​​@@Risen_Starhat malorossiya ? 🙄

[@celianancyrodriguezbello832]

​@@Risen_Star😂😂😂😂

[@lorie76yt]

Interesting in some parts, but sort of an odd documentary. They spent 3/4’s of it on Charlotte at the beginning, then quick marched through the last three as fast as they could - especially considering the depth of drama and history surrounding Alexandra (the last Tsarina) it was kind of strangely put together 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Seven-ld9zv]

That's because they probably bought (or even stole) the rights of this documentary from MagellanTV (producer), renamed it and uploaded it as if their own as they do with most of their uploads. The original title is The Splendor and Misery of the Last Tsarinas.

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

My guess is because a.) Alexandra has no living descendants so there’s no direct connection and b.) there is already a massive amount of film and literature that goes over the minute details of her life. She probably just wasn’t a priority

[@sarrabeth2052]

@@Seven-ld9zv There are a number of people grabbing other people's work to profit by. At least this one doesn't play half the frames backward or cut it up so the audio is out of synch with the video. I try to avoid the ones who can't make their own videos and feel entitled steal someone else's work. I think that if you buy the rights to something, you don't purchase the right to change the name and pretend that it is your own work.

[@sibymiller]

The last Tzarina, Alexandra has had many documentaries about her and her family…not the previous ones. I guess that’s why, or as someone else said, because she doesn’t have direct descendents.

[@coffeecrimegal5968]

It’s Czarina

[@staymanifesting5964]

Thank you for the research and time taken

[@maratibragimov338]

Princess Dagmar shown on your photo second from right is Dane..she actually hated Prussia and by extension was quite hostile towards Germany..cause Prussia has "grabbed" Schleswig-Holstein from Danmark which Dagmar never forgot..so she influenced both her husband Emperor Alexander the Third and especially son Nicholas II..this is one subtle reason why Russia has chosen Entente and fought against Germany in WWI..so to put her among "German" princesses..is unfair..yet your German line lacks Catherine the Great..which is most famous and influential German in Russia now..this is exactly she who established firmly German tradition of marriage..first started by Peter the Great..another mistake..Princesses were not just from Prussia..but from many more German lands..Saxony Mecklenburg Baden Prussia Hessen Hessen-Darmstadt..just to reconstruct the line starting from Catherine the Great..

[@kiankier7330]

someone else points it out. Dagmar was "German" by blood" but she saw herself as a Dane, grow up in Denmark, and went to spend the last years in Denmark. The show probably see "national identity" as to equal ethic/blood, which doesn't make a whole sane as by the same logic we would call victoria "the german queen victoria of Great Britain and Ireland"

[@inaleyen2737]

@@kiankier7330 Dagmar did not have a drop of Danish blood!

[@inaleyen2737]

You forgot Wuerttemberg.

[@maratibragimov338]

@@inaleyen2737 Baden-Wurtemberg..yet Alexander I wife was Catherine Princess of Baden..Empress of Russia 1801-24..if not mistaken..its only later on after German Unification 1871..both lands were merged into one province of Baden-Wurtemberg..

[@inaleyen2737]

@@maratibragimov338 You are mistaken. Baden and Wuerttemberg were merged in 1952. The mother of Czar Alexander I and Nicholas I was a princess of Wuerttemberg. The descendants of the Kings of Wuerttemberg are still known as Wuerttemberg and not as Baden-Wuerttemberg. Baden had its own reigning family. Germany does not have provinces. It has "Laender".

[@jessiejoseph1093]

I think they make a factual error at 44:21. I believe The Tzar did try to renounce his claim to the throne, and their response was to execute him and his family anyway.

[@annademo]

That's correct. Nicholas II abdicated the throne more than a year before the scum Bolsheviks murdered them. But his cousin King George V of Great Britain also was scum for not allowing Nicholas and his family to escape to Britain.

[@lauramatilda3279]

I loved that first story about princess Charlotte being welcomed by the grand duke and his men. It was nice ❤

[@mr.narrator6781]

This is definitely a re-upload. I saw this documentary 3 years ago.

[@else4342]

Dagmar was definitely NOT German! As a DANISH princess she hated Germany or more specifically Prussia for conquering Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark in 1864. To call her German would be an INSULT

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

43:15 Actually, her legal title was Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, or in German, Prinzessin Alix von Hesse und bei Rhein. Hesse-Darmstadt was only the name of the ruling family and the colloquial name for the grand duchy, not it’s legal name or the titles employed by the family

[@veronicajensen7690]

Dagmar of Denmark was not a German Princess-as her name and titel states she was a Danish Princess

[@joseeduardotschen9186]

Danish princess but German blood

[@lollypop2413]

This young maria in the modern day looks just like princess charlotte

[@aylacristina7295]

I agree.

[@shinjineesen400]

Is she the Maria Luise b 1997, daughter of Philipp v Preussen, senior male but a morganaut (unequal marriage)? If so, her great-grandmother was Kira of Russia, great-granddaughter twice over of Akexander II and his Hesse wife.

[@quietstitcherrogers9838]

She should have worn her hair a bit nicer

[@dipanwitadasgupta5221]

To be honest fast forward just a century- the splendour of St Petersburg 😮 became 😱😱

[@Garbeaux.]

The Romanovs, as pretty much the rest of European royalty, were mainly German. Germany had so royal families bc Germany was many countries, principalities, and grand duchies. The land was known as Germany but the US is actually older as a country than combined Germany.

[@celianancyrodriguezbello832]

😂😂😂😂

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was informative and enjoyable watching the documentary of German original princesses 👸 inside the upper position of Russian royal thrones 🙏. Thank you ( time line )channel for sharing ... Russian history witnessed German original princess 👸 act as fulfilled and faithfulness wives ... They were not traitorous to the Russian empire even though conflicts between Prussia and Russia...what communism revolutionaries during theirs Protolatriat revolutionary times falsely published 😮...humanity brotherhood between Russians and Germans were founded before WW1 ..Britain conspiracies in European content countries always looming and orchestrated wars amongst European brotherhood nations..

[@inaleyen2737]

You make a valid point. Perfidious Albion.

[@MaryamofShomal]

Britain was always orchestrating wars in continental Europe? Oh honey, the French, Prussians, and Russians definitely need to have a word with you. The English were no worse than the rest of the Europeans.

[@theKeshaWarrior]

I agree with @lorie76yt it's a very odd documentary for sure. I understand that Katherine herself is so well known that she wouldn't need as much discussion but to focus so much on Charlotte and then like fast forward through the others at the end is really strange. Did learn some things though so hey can't complain.

[@Schmorgus]

Correction: Saint Petersburg was built on the former Swedish fortress Nyenskans. They didn't found anything, it was already a location for a 100 years.

[@larrywave]

Indeed and even before that

[@maggiemae7539]

Goes back to Babylon!

[@Schmorgus]

All I can find is that the first one was built in the 1300's by another Swede :P

[@shinjineesen400]

Prussia and Denmark were major states. Denmark is not German or German-speaking, of course, even though it ruled Schleswig-Holstein, part of what is now Germany, in a personal union upto 1863. Just like the Netherlands ruled Luxembourg from 1815 until 1880 (then ruled by the exiled dukes of Nassau), or the kings of Great Britain and Ireland, originally electors of Hanover, ruled Hannover from 1714 to 1837. At that point, all these dynasties were agnatic (male line) succession. Thus when GB and the Neherlands passed to queens regnant in 1837 and 1880, Hanover went to Victoria's uncle then to her cousin in 1837. They lost a war and therefore Hannover in 1866 but Georg V of Hannover's grandson Ernest August (III) became reigning duke of Brunswick in 1914. Went from king to duke but kept the HRH. The Catholic grand duchy of Luxembourg refused to accept Wilhelmina so the crown went to two dukes of Nassau, then to his Catholic daughters. The current grand duke Henri is grandson of the second daughter Charlotte. Denmark was a little different. The crown was settled in the 1840s on a very junior non-ruling branch of Schleswig-Holsten because the senior Danish line had no male heirs nor did the princesses, sisters of the last two kings or daughters of the previous king. One scion Christian was found acceptable because his Hesse-Kassel wife's mother was a princess of Denmark. Her Hesse-Kassel brothers and Christian's elder brother Karl all renounced or deferred their rights since Christian already had several sons. The problem was that there was a senior branch Augustenberg right after the kings of Denmark. (The most senior branch Holstein-Gottorp had become Romanovs, emperors of Russia, and dukes then grand dukes of Oldenburg. They had renounced their rights to Denmark and Sweden in the mid 1700s). The Augustenberg branch had not married as well so their claims were ignored. (Their representative Friedrich did marry Queen Victoria's half-sister Feodora's daughter Adelaide but that wasn't enough.) In 1863, when the last king of Denmark, died Christian was the previously chosen heir. He inherited the crown as Christian IX there, no problem. But he did not inherit Schleswig-Holstein even though his daughter Alexandra, Princess of Wales, said the duchies belonged to Papa. A claim also supported by another daughter Dagmar, late empress of Russia. It is not surprising that her son Nicholas II broke the Prussian/German-Russian alliance although Wilhelm II's swaggering belligerence did not help. By the Salic Law, the duchies shoukd have gone to Augustenberg, but Prussia annexed it. It did let the would-be duke's daughter Auguste Viktoria marry the future Wilhelm II. Her uncle Christian married Helena, a daughter of Queen Victoria. If Alexander II & Aklexander III had not chosen wives from Hesse-Darmstadt and Denmark/Schleswig-Holstein, how might things have changed? Alexander II might have married Augusta of Cambridge (aunt of Queen Mary and cousin of Queen Victoria) or a Netherlands princess. Alexander III might have chosen a Prussian princess...

[@shinjineesen400]

The documentary ignores Catherinr the Great and her two German daughters-in-law, two of them from lesser German states Anhalt-Zerbst and Hesse-Darmstadt. Sophia, mother of Alexander I and Nicholas II, was from Wuerttemberg but a junior branch. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Feodorovna_(Sophie_Dorothea_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg) Much more should have been made of Nicholas I letting his son choose his own bride, particularly from tiny Hesse-Darmstadt. Marie's legitimacy was also doubtful, since her mother Wilhelmina of Baden had been living with her chamberlain for years. But Wilhelmina's sisters had married well - Austria, Bavaria (with several daughters), Russia, etc.

[@cra0422]

48:45 Nicholas I died in 1855, after he caught a chill which became pneumonia.

[@amymantravadi5057]

This makes me so sad to think that I may never be able to visit St. Petersburg. It's just not safe for an American to go there now, and even before, the visa fee was expensive. Historic Russian culture, to me, is different than the present Russian government. I hope the things that have been good about Russia will be preserved.

[@Mary-k4r4s]

you can get a visa at any Russian embassy in Europe, it costs $100, a lot of Americans come to Russia

[@kim_0286]

It's not like I am the expert, but I live in Russia and I don't think it's unsafe for americans here? At least I didn't hear of any scandals with americans being unable to leave like in North Korea or anything similar, but maybe it's just me. You could try to search for information online about current state of events

[@justchilling829]

Wasn't Dagmar from Denmark?

[@christinaj.jensen4805]

Yes. But because her father is from what is today northern Germany, despite it being Danish at the time of his ascension to the throne, people claim them to be German.

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

Imagine being property. Not a slave stolen from another land, but a native of your own country tied to a landowner simply by birth.

[@ande100]

Tip: the "ss or ß" in Preussen is not a soft one but rather sharp as in "missing or fist" Memel is pronounced as me in "melancholy". Hth

[@TonySimpson-f9t]

I'M GLAD I SUBSCRIBED TO TIMELINE HISTORY. I SINCERELY LOVE TO LEARN FASCINATING STORIES ON THE SUBSCRIPTION. KEEP IT UP WITH THE GOOD WÒRK 😉🙃😜 9:35

[@Richardsonprincess00]

Alexander the second was traveling in Europe to find a suitable bride of royalty after his playboy affair with female staff and courters members ended it, he almost about to be engaged to Victoria who was the Queen of England about to become prince consort in to give up the title in Russia that his parents approve of to end this streak of German princess for marriage, the courters pulled him out and ended up marrying a German princess that his parents were mixed reaction of his choice, their marriage was cool down and he kept back with his affairs until her death and marry his second wife.

[@mnemonicpie]

lmao, German honeytraps were powerful

[@inaleyen2737]

Victoria found him charming. A marriage between the two was never considered, However, Alexander's daughter married Queen Victoria's second son. The pretenders to the Rumanian, Serbian, and Russian thrones are all descendants of this union.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Queen Victoria was German. (Hanoverian dynasty) All 4 of the UK's Georges also married Germans (as did their siblings, including William IV) as did Victoria herself. Prince Albert, her consort was the second son of the Prince of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha.

[@jimmylowe]

This is an old video. I’ve seen it a couple of times on history hit channels. I’m not complaining, but something new would be great.

[@aamirnawab3093]

Amazing story

[@MegCazalet]

11:39 Deadly and fatal are the same thing? Am I missing something? It’s like saying “it could be dangerous and often not safe”.

[@heathergustafson4237]

These women had very little choice of anything! You had to make the best of the situation as best you could. They had duties and were very lucky if they could handle the pressure.

[@mrbushlied7742]

Thank God for the Bolshevik Revolution!

[@Jebbie1976]

Completely off topic but what the heck kind of boat is that at 28:38? 🤔 It looks like a really long yacht but it's going so fast.

[@randalllake2785]

Princess Dagmar of DENMARK , WAS the wife of TZAR ALEXANDER III OF RUSSIA. She was DANISH.

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

“Germany” there was no Germany, there was the Holy Roman Empire & Prussia

[@LupitaPolit-ng5pf]

Nice great history culture art amaizlng nature Europeans century and beautiful gardens thank you

[@andrewhesling7875]

What would be the young lady in the documentary title be?

[@beckybrynjolfsson]

St.Petersburg, Florida is connected to St.Petersburg, Russia. Where you see the same name for two different locations they are connected. There are teleporting gates in these places.

[@carlosavalos3965]

Shut up

[@Hey.hi.hello.]

Weirdo crack pot

[@machinesofgod]

Well, this is both Russia and Florida where stranger things have happened.

[@slimmyraw]

Please send a sample of whatever it is you're smoking, thanks.

[@Just_Jenny85]

@@slimmyraw😂 my thoughts exactly

[@lillianmcgrew217]

History ❤

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

I’m surprised the Tsars graves were preserved after the revolution.

[@lobeznoblancoesp]

Why do you block some of your videos in some European countries?

[@juncakarina7690]

Google does not the channel

[@lobeznoblancoesp]

@@juncakarina7690 Thanks

[@bevinboulder5039]

So it turns out that the Romanovs were mostly German and not Russian. Interesting.

[@victoralexander123ordonez8]

In the end we are a single descendant of several lineages. It's not only what you think but also your facts the processes what you can really do. Power to want to be first but it is not alone

[@christianchauhan23]

❤🤍💙 all your videos mate👍

[@ZiggyWhiskerz]

"the most powerful rulers in the world have ruled from here." Um.... ok.... that's debatable Edit: " great great great great granddaughter of Kaiser.... and direct decendant of princess Charlotte " well.... that's redundant...

[@vloveless6367]

I wouldn’t announce that I was related to Willie who was crazy and started WWI

[@mnemonicpie]

Damn, the German honeytraps were powerful back in the days...

[@celissewillis9399]

Why do they keep saying that she had a long happy marriage in a "love match", if the man was having several affairs & she was expected to stand by & accept it? That's not a happy marriage. That was a woman who was manipulated - as many were - into believing that that sort of behavior by royal male family members was typical & tolerable, so "go along with it"... royal family were basically only able to maintain power, by trading underage girls as tools in business-based alliances & forcing them to marry men MUCH older than them... as well as consummate the marriage as soon as possible...& many of these girls were between 12-15, while their husbands were in their late 20's & even into 30's & 40's.. these power plays that were detrimental mentally & emotionally, all for the sake of having the upper hand... & you wonder WHY so many European royalty were mentally unstable, or passing on diseases & various health conditions through bloodlines.

[@juncakarina7690]

My father was Russian and my mother German i think Russia and Germany has to come together again !

[@stormdancer25]

Childish comment

[@courtneyriley185]

Like your mother and father ❤🎉 how sweet

[@john1.1unknown51]

Definitely should and ban the catholic church and the vatican

[@Schmorgus]

@@stormdancer25 How is it childish? Are you Polish by any chance? :P

[@stormdancer25]

@@Schmorgus not polish just realistic. Two different mentalities. Also, Germans did terrible crimes against the Orthodox Slavic people in 1941-45. nowadays, American puppets.

[@laodesyukur]

I love princesses, i don't know they love or not, at least i have dream to love them, i'm the best dreamer in this world ever lived...germanian, Russian, British princesses, or whole princesses, globally i love, i wanna protect them but i don't know the way is, someday when those stories really really happen, i'll be... Let you all pray with me... Don't say, i'm an insane, i mean, something flying or else, but perhaps could be true...i believe those stories, i'm being an arrogant male again... i'm afraid to be arrogant, fear to God Allah... 🌐❤️

[@janklaas6885]

📍35:29

[@ashleelarsen5002]

Thanks

[@Seven-ld9zv]

34:49 - "German aristocracy served at court, in the military, in the financial sector and the economy and many of these people live on in LEGENDS." ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Name me a SINGLE ONE of those "legends".

[@inaleyen2737]

Check your history books.

[@Seven-ld9zv]

@@inaleyen2737 If you can't name a SINGLE one, perhaps you should check yours. PS: Legends are not history.

[@inaleyen2737]

@@Seven-ld9zv I agree with you about the use of the word "legend". I am repelled by hyperbole, lack of restraint and rash comments. The number of people of German descent who served in various public and private sectors of Imperial Russia was considerable. Names like Benkendorf, Witte, Kleinmichel come to mind. Feodor Rueckert was German, and both Faberge and Bolin had German antecedents.

[@Seven-ld9zv]

@@inaleyen2737 Exactly my point. I'm not saying that Germans to Russia in the private sector made no impact. It's just that not a single name came to mind. The names you mentioned are new to me (possibly because I'm not German nor Russian) and I'm curious to know whether there are actual "legends" about these individuals.

[@inaleyen2737]

@@Seven-ld9zv Perhaps the last three could be called "legends" - a term I dislike when it is not used about real legends. Feodor Rueckert was from Germany and is known for his exquisite silverwork. The Bolins were crown jewelers and also had Swedish connections. Bolin located to Sweden after the revolution. The Fabergeres descend from Huguenots who went to Germany (Prussia, I believe) after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. From their they eventually moved to Russia. I would like to point out that some of their most prominent work masters were Fins and Swedes. Count Sergei Witte and the Counts of Benkendorf played prominent roles in Russian politics. I hope you will be able to read up on these people (especially Witte) and that you will find pictures of some of the exquisite work produced by Rueckert.

[@user-qz5dq8kn4p]

See the reason whey they say German is at this time in which they are speaking of is that Prussia Denmark and Holstein and Anhalt Zurps and a few others were all small principality’s of Germany they all share the same dialect all of the European noble houses are all blood related thanks to King Christian the 9th and Queen Victoria they were the father and mother in law of Europe and also the grand parents of all Europe they are all the nationality’s to where there born yet there blood is German Like Russia the last true Russian to sit on the throne was Czaritza Elizabeth Petrovna Romanova was the last her father was z tzar Peter the Great and Peter the III was Elizabeth’s half sister’s child 🥰

[@cureforintroversion1262]

1:22 She must be a descendant of the Kaiser's eldest son Crown Prince Wilhelm

[@Outlier2024]

Long live the long-dead tsarinas.

[@adrianahalmi3337]

When you look at the history of Russia, so rich, but when all the royalties lived in luxury, the Russians were starving, cold winters freezing in the streets of cold and hunger… so sad!!!!

[@thevoiceevents]

Royal but so unfortunate…

[@pinkosmondfan]

44:58 No, Sir, they understood the 'changing world' they just weren't dumb enough or cowardly enough to go along with change just for the sake of change. Trust me, they understood that the world was changing. The question is, what in God's name was it changing into? Alix wasn't stupid enough to think that the changes were for the good, like you apparently are. Won't be reading your book. She was also 'willful' and 'vindictive' enough to stand for what she believed in, even if it meant death. Have you been recommended for sainthood by any branch of religion, Sir?

[@peterbradshaw8018]

I would like to meet the great grand daughter of the last Kaizer.

[@luiscastaneda4583]

Russian hierarchy became german with Peter III, Catherine II, Paul I and the later's descendants

[@sheilahunter8807]

Nicholas II is my 11th cousin my husband is my 8th via European royalty which included #plantagenets #Tudor (my 12th g grandfather is King Henry IV father of Henry VIII

[@Springfield-1903]

WAY too many advertisements! Unsubcribing. Thanks for the great content, minus the every few minutes of ads.

[@sunshineXX74]

Where did you take this agly word tsarina? It is some polish or other dlav but not Russian. In Russian it is цврица (almost inpronansable in English). Much easier to call these ladies imperatress in line with their official title

[@adrianahalmi3337]

We have to remember that tsarina Dagmar of Denmark was very controlling and unconsidered for the poor people on the streets…

[@juliakvaki4506]

The person who is telling text or comments as interviewer is too far of knowledge of Russian history and represents our culture wrongly

[@Elvertaw]

OMG!! I can see your point on all except HVIII being vindictive.

[@EJ160E]

Where are the black German princesses?!?! -Netflix

[@monaliza3334]

AmericanBS.

[@OndrejSc]

Prussia = Pomeranian Russia

[@celianancyrodriguezbello832]

😂😂😂😂

[@elizanareis4882]

Poderiam colocar legenda

[@shavonnegramkow2699]

my maternal great-grandparents on my grandfather's side were Germans that were born and raised in Russia

[@monaliza3334]

There is 6 million German-Russians are living in Germany still seeking Russian.

[@toughr1506]

47:18 the russian speaking teacher actually meant that the purpose is raising the kids in with servile and misguided views of the world…

[@ode6105]

You will have to prove it to me that the Tzars build those palaces. With whom, starving uneducated Russian peasants? You are kidding!

[@mariamerino302]

Too much prominence on the part of the girl who presents the documentary. After twenty minutes, I stopped seeing it, I was tired of seeing her so much. It's a pity.

[@SH-jg5zq]

Poor Russians got hemophilia carriers in German princesses 😢

[@cathryncampbell8555]

@SH-jg5zq Yes, but the German princess in question (Alix of Hesse & by Rhine) ultimately got her hemophilia-carrying genes from her grandmother, Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

[@moony7144]

​@@cathryncampbell8555still german lol😊

[@pinkiesue849]

80percent serfs...could the Czar do nothing?

[@dipanwitadasgupta5221]

Informative but boring😮 what is so difficult to understand in the simple fact that the people want to live well - while the aristocracy want to live in splendourous luxury by stepping on everyone & everything else😮

[@ashleystroebel1018]

I stopped watching this when Alex was called stupid and arrogant and Tsar Nikolai II was called narrow-minded. Alex served wound soldiers during WW1. Many reforms occurred under Nikolai, such as better schooling. I'm not going to watch this channel again.

[@monaliza3334]

Yuh but the joke is on Brits, compare him with the new British king? 😂😂😂

[@zzzbbbooo]

Why do you think they lost their thrones then? Because they were wise and broad-minded?

[@monl3807]

I cant keep up 0:47

[@Victrola66]

This documentary has so many mistakes and is so biased....

[@monaliza3334]

It doesn't matter how bad the documentary is, we all know the British monarchy was and is the worst. The Russians didn't inslave any African countries, the Russians didn't kill and starved millions of Indians ect ect.....

[@larrywave]

*grand prince

[@1Pasha1492]

👁️ MO AB 🗽⭕ ALL MOORISH 🌏 ASIA 🌏 ASIATICS 🌍🪄

[@grieta9500]

Rurik Dynasty real Russians

[@here_we_go_again2571]

They chose their brides by having the most beautiful daughters of the Boyars come to the palace for the young tzar or prince to choose the one he wanted -- Sort of like Medieval speed dating.

[@alessandrarosina]

Vi sono errori storici da Catherine la grande ele 2 nuore sono principesse tedesche, meno dagmr che è danese, anche l ultima zarina era tedesca+inglese.

[@LyricalXilence]

What is with the focus on what Charlotte gave up and ignoring what she gained? Life is a trade off, she left her country and religion to be a Grand Duchess. I'm a protestant and I have an interest in Orthodoxy. I view protestantism as an easier form of Christianity with no focus on saints and icons. Its strange that Catholic princesses wont convert when Orthodoxy seems to have similarities. All that matters is do you believe Jesus died for your sins.

[@Ram-go5ow]

C pour ça que mon groupe c 187

[@JameeWoodard]

I think the his video maybe just a little pro German.

[@mnemonicpie]

Impossible

[@jdsiv3]

You mean the casual anti-Russian racism thrown in continuously like "Russians don't build anything"

[@joseeduardotschen9186]

So?

[@lucianasalles7272]

👒👑👒👑👒👑👒👑

[@Yanyan_Jacob]

more

[@guldenaydin9918]

🌈💝

[@courtneyriley185]

👑👀🤌

[@mzamroni]

Who said germans can't be funny in russia kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpvPk2eVaa5mo8k

[@deedragongirl]

Alix is my least favourite tsarina, she is a bit spoiled & none the wiser!

[@RossIsFine]

People now say that they were actually drag Queens. Yuck

[@monaliza3334]

Yuh remember only the brits are "holly"😂😂😂 Well at least the Russian monarchy didn't slaved anyone.

[@cathryncampbell8555]

@@monaliza3334 Except for millions of serfs....