Message from @MawLr

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2019-04-23 23:31:59 UTC  

I was agreeing with you Caedes. I knew what you meant

2019-04-23 23:32:30 UTC  

his wife seemed a bit whacky with all the rasputin stuff

2019-04-23 23:32:32 UTC  

And because Rasputin was in with some of the family doesn’t mean he was in with all of them

2019-04-23 23:32:42 UTC  

I should think anyway

2019-04-23 23:32:48 UTC  

Ctzarist Russia was in fact a terrible place to live in

2019-04-23 23:32:51 UTC  

Pretty sure it was other families that actually wanted Rasputin dead

2019-04-23 23:32:57 UTC  

The czarina being a degenerate would make sense. She was raised a German prot.

2019-04-23 23:33:12 UTC  

Yes but that's a strawman there, no one's talking about living conditions

2019-04-23 23:33:24 UTC  

And agreed there Caedes

2019-04-23 23:33:49 UTC  

A wife can't invite and keep an occultist at the court for years without implicit approval of her husband

2019-04-23 23:34:04 UTC  

Nick was a shy and distracted ruler

2019-04-23 23:34:09 UTC  

Pretty sure it can be done

2019-04-23 23:34:10 UTC  

Unless he hid it well?

2019-04-23 23:34:19 UTC  

By his own admission he didn't want the throne right?

2019-04-23 23:34:23 UTC  

Yeah

2019-04-23 23:34:40 UTC  

As for being a poor ruler, he was a simple man, not well suited to the intrigues of politics. Most of what went on during his reign was actually the work of the aristocrats.

2019-04-23 23:34:49 UTC  

His father was the good ruler, murdered, however

2019-04-23 23:34:53 UTC  

Forgive me for being difficult, but this is the first I’ve ever heard the claims of Nicholas being an adulterer and an occultist

2019-04-23 23:35:06 UTC  

same

2019-04-23 23:35:10 UTC  

Yes, it's mostly to discredit his simplicity

2019-04-23 23:35:20 UTC  

Allegedly he had an affair with a ballerina

2019-04-23 23:35:27 UTC  

But there's not really much backing that up

2019-04-23 23:35:38 UTC  

Ah ok

2019-04-23 23:35:43 UTC  

Hadn’t heard that one before

2019-04-23 23:36:05 UTC  

Albeit, I don’t know a whole lot about that particular time in Russia

2019-04-23 23:36:19 UTC  

My focuses have been more on Western Europe and Rome

2019-04-23 23:36:47 UTC  

Tsarist Russia was basically the same as Rome technologically

2019-04-23 23:36:55 UTC  

Wild claim

2019-04-23 23:36:58 UTC  

Maybe worse

2019-04-23 23:37:19 UTC  

Also the first I’ve heard of such a claim

2019-04-23 23:37:27 UTC  

Alexander II was industrialising the nation and reforming the old feudal system

2019-04-23 23:37:28 UTC  

Hahaha

2019-04-23 23:37:33 UTC  

However he was murdered

2019-04-23 23:37:54 UTC  

The III, my bad

2019-04-23 23:37:58 UTC  

Im just trying to make a point, the nation was (and by a large part still is) an absolute shithole

2019-04-23 23:38:13 UTC  

or was he not?

2019-04-23 23:38:15 UTC  

It is pretty much the backwater of Europe

2019-04-23 23:38:17 UTC  

German soldiers were taken aback, they thought they were fighting in the middle ages

2019-04-23 23:38:20 UTC  

hmm, i'm mistaking someone

2019-04-23 23:38:24 UTC  

Those who knew him well described him as a very pious man, and very nearly as devoted to his family. He apparently liked to spend as much time as he could with his children, and delegated much of his power to aristocrats who would lie to his face about the state of the empire. Many of those men had served under his father, so he trusted them.

2019-04-23 23:38:50 UTC  

That’s the more likely scenario