Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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Peter was a Romanov, the Romanovs were of Russian origin
his dynasty just fell apart and was replaced by another family also named romanov
due to his fucked up personal life and killing his own son
and putting his illiterate second wife on the throne
and basically giving his second wife to his best friend
People like to generalize and assume history is neat and tidy
or that primogeniture actually works when half the time it is a glorious fuck up
It's not necessary that it works perfectly at all
like William I -> William II -> Henry I -> Stephen / Mathilda -> Henry II
I dont consider these to be fuck ups
William II, Stephen, amd Mathilda were massive fuck ups
Nothing works perfectly
They are massive fuck ups
Stephen and Matilda worse than William II
Some Monarchs are bad but Monarchy is always good
Yes technically, the original Romanovs can be considered the only Russian rulers of Russia, though their origins are unknown, they could be semi-Rurkids
They could be
or they could be someone picked off the street
like Menshikov
to do some job
If you have a strong aristocracy and weaponized militia even a bad one cant do too much damage you should look what happened to tyrans most of the time time they were physicaly removed by their own family members
Everything that goes wrong in the government is to be fixed and life goes on
that is not the definition of monarchy
strong monarchs do not like aristocrats with actual power
they prefer to be absolute
They would be absolute on paper
We are yet to witness an absolute monarchy where the aristocracy was not in a position to shape ideas, aesthetics, policies and life in general
Yes we have
William I
We don't need aristocrats to be clerks
Augustus
That is not their natural position
Being a clerk is counter-definition of aristocracy
Henry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I
Hey, Elizabeth was great
And apart from TV shows, Henry VIII was a popular ruler
Aristoracy isn't there to manage the state, though it can occupy *leading* positions in military business and politics
Aristocracy is there to be the best part of society and produce the best possible products of culture for society
But what if the King is the king as he has the biggest army and he has the biggest army as he's the King of the Peasants?
like many medieval English kings