Catherine the Great - III: Empress Catherine at Last - Extra History
Added 2017-02-11 04:27:44 +0000 UTCThe conspiracy to seat Catherine on Russia's throne has been exposed. She must move quickly. And she does.
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You take care of yourself first, that's always and always most important. I hope your break serves you well, and thank you meantime for the kind words!
Extra History
2017-02-23 10:36:32 +0000 UTCPst. Just so you know for future - if you accidentally post a message too soon like that, you can edit them. Click the "..." symbol under your message, and then the symbol of a pencil. Best of luck with your depression - it can be hard to deal with.
Nessf
2017-02-21 10:59:30 +0000 UTC[Oops, hit Return instead of '.] I think you're doing great work, and hopefully your lessons about how everyone loses when anyone is treated badly will not just preach to the choir. But I come from about 30 years' clinical depression, and to stay even moderately happy, and thuys productive at all, I've been avoiding the news for health reasons. I think I will also have avoid some history , too, alt least for a while. And I'll have to follow it up, right away, with happy fun stuff.
Bill Lemmond
2017-02-20 15:45:06 +0000 UTCI think you
Bill Lemmond
2017-02-20 15:41:49 +0000 UTCThank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Extra History
2017-02-19 06:09:46 +0000 UTCGreat job on this episode! It was very informative and it had me laughing at the pop culture references.
Tyler McMann
2017-02-17 20:39:37 +0000 UTCWhen she needed to be, Catherine could be very good at the old "Oops, looks like this person that was inconvenient to me has disappeared, I wonder how that could have happened" bit.
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:56:54 +0000 UTCI came across it when I decided I wanted to find out more about Catherine. Judging by what I've read (which isn't that much), the connection is an extremely distant one, as most dynastic claims are, but it is interesting to consider :)
SparkyDJM1
2017-02-17 00:43:56 +0000 UTCGlad you're enjoying it! Catherine's a pretty interesting ruler, and we've got some cool stuff ahead.
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:36:13 +0000 UTCPossibly! I don't promise it; he had a crappy life but not a very exciting one, for the most part. Poor kid. :(
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:35:55 +0000 UTCDefinitely. ;) He'll be back!
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:33:18 +0000 UTCThe devil cat has never been seen, much less captured! Its identity is a mystery, but its effects are felt.
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:33:07 +0000 UTCI didn't even know that she had a connection to the Rurik dynasty, that's very interesting! But yes, the fact that people saw her as the princess who loved Russia more than life probably helped her secure her position with the people. She was still plagued by pretenders to the throne, though; that never really went away.
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:32:45 +0000 UTCThanks! We do like to try new things and see how they work out. :D
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:26:02 +0000 UTCCheck out Jim McGeehin's comments below mine for a few examples of things Peter did right - he wasn't bad all around, but he was a pretty bad leader. As Jensen said, you don't exactly get usurped if you're on the ball.
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:25:49 +0000 UTCProbably by trying to take advantage or make it about her somehow, based on what we've seen of her. Better for Catherine that she didn't have to deal with that, I imagine!
Extra History
2017-02-17 00:24:24 +0000 UTCOh.........well i guess the question is then, how WOULD she have reacted if she had found out?
Jacob Ashton
2017-02-15 01:39:04 +0000 UTCShe didn't have an opinion; she died in 1760.
General Luigi
2017-02-15 01:34:11 +0000 UTCWhat i wonder is how Catherine's mother reacted to the news her daughter was now Empress.
Jacob Ashton
2017-02-14 15:53:20 +0000 UTCUnfortunately, I don't think Melania is going to stage a coup
Nessf
2017-02-12 05:08:15 +0000 UTCNot for nothing did Latin have the expression "mobile vulgus" meaning "the fickle mob."
Jim McGeehin
2017-02-11 20:31:11 +0000 UTCFair point.... but I was attempting to block out that fact when I typed this (lol)
David May
2017-02-11 19:08:24 +0000 UTCEspecially when you have no true legitimate claim over the throne. And your power is because the Russian people want you to be in charge. That kind of legitimacy for a monarchy is incredibly mercurial. As we're likely to see during the peasant revolt.
Sean Sarff
2017-02-11 18:20:42 +0000 UTCWell, if you usurp the throne, it's in your best interest to paint the guy as terribly as possible, just to be on the safe side.
Jim McGeehin
2017-02-11 17:17:27 +0000 UTCYeah i was thinking that the image painted in the videos was...Almost a little TOO caricaturistic? Like half the time in these videos have been spent pointing out how much of a manchild Peter supposedly was.
Luknai
2017-02-11 17:10:06 +0000 UTCA lot of the old information of Peter III is actually given by Catherine in her memoirs, so all of Peter's shortcomings have to be taken with a grain of salt. Peter III's actually made some good moves though. He made the killing of a peasant by a landowner punishable by law, he refused a wastefully extravagant golden statue of himself, and established a state bank of Russia. His chief failings were in the lack of regard for the royal image, his cultural insensitivity, his rashly decided move against Denmark, his meekness, and his overwhelming arrogance, which put off the support of the common man.
Jim McGeehin
2017-02-11 16:58:22 +0000 UTCDrumpf, nuff said.
Farzad Mansouri
2017-02-11 15:15:45 +0000 UTCI find it hard to believe one man could be so incompetent...
David May
2017-02-11 13:45:39 +0000 UTCI loved the transition, it was like I was watching an episode of 24
Film Vagabond
2017-02-11 12:15:21 +0000 UTCWell worth the wait! I love the new format of this episode, counting down the hours and watching the action build until it reaches the conclusion (like the WWI drama 37 Days which I recommend)-I love stuff like that :D It's always interesting how many coups, plots and conspiracies happen without warning, derailing all the careful planning beforehand and making the whole thing touch and go. Also Peter's words about how Catherine could do anything are very poignant to say the least! I'm guessing no one sweated the details because of the fact that Catherine was more Russian than German because of all the stuff she had done earlier and anyone had to be better than Peter. Also, fun fact, she was descended from the Rurik dynasty that came before the Romanovs, the founders of the Tsardom of Russia.
SparkyDJM1
2017-02-11 11:10:53 +0000 UTCDid you manage to locate the Electronic Devil Cat and was its Name Talking Tom, by any chance?😉
Martin Verran
2017-02-11 09:20:05 +0000 UTCOh Potemkin, probably already jockeying for power.
Aaron hutchinson
2017-02-11 05:23:41 +0000 UTCSomething else interesting, Peter III wasn't the only ex-tsar for Catherine to worry about after seizing power. Maybe in Lies we could get a mention of Ivan VI?
Alex Kyriacou
2017-02-11 04:55:31 +0000 UTCThat's was an interesting format for the video! Some cool facts about the coup, Peter III was held in a house with the Orlov brothers after the coup, chief among them was Alexei Orlov (whose nickname btw was Scarface). Scarface wrote some rather incriminating letters to Catherine just before Peter's (whom Scarface called 'the freak) death, along the lines of 'Oh dear, I'm getting worried about the freak's health, I don't think it's going to make it through the night...' and then a bit later 'Majesty, it looks like he had too much to drink, we got into a little brawl... and well he's dead... our bad'. There's no evidence that Catherine ordered his death, but obviously she didn't punish those responsible (in fact quite the opposite) and it was in her interest for him to be dead and she probably had an implicit understanding with the Orlovs,
Alex Kyriacou
2017-02-11 04:53:11 +0000 UTCIt's getting intense. I can't wait to learn more! Thank you!
Mornathel
2017-02-11 04:39:49 +0000 UTC
