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

The purpose of Monarchy is to eliminaet egalitarianism and demotism and promote aristocracy

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

and Roman emperors