@EastOrthodoxCossack Yes, it could be said. He was appointed Commander of the Preobrajensky Life Guard Regiment, entrusting with introducing the future Nicholas II, to army life. So I think yes.
Can someone please help me.... trying to find out the correct way to pronounce Khodynka. Anyone have a link where I could hear it, or maybe the phonetics for it?
He was probably a "mama"s boy" in his childhood. But his ruthless way as the governor of Moscow it seems it was very close to what totallitarism is supposed to be in an autocratic form of governement. and it sealed his fate.
Yes but he was a person with a very complex personality. I think his best description was made by Maria of Romania:
Dry, nervous, short of speech, impatient, he had none the rather careless good humor of his three elder brothers . . . but for all that we loved him, felt irresistibly attracted to him, hard though he could be. Few perhaps cherish his memory, but I do."
A wonderful video on this enigmatic member of the Romanov family - he is always painted so darkly, but his childhood pictures in particular are so innocent and charming!
Coud it be said that Sergei was the most trusted brother of Alexander III?
EastOrthodoxCossack 1 year ago
@EastOrthodoxCossack Yes, it could be said. He was appointed Commander of the Preobrajensky Life Guard Regiment, entrusting with introducing the future Nicholas II, to army life. So I think yes.
lostsplendour 1 year ago
Thank you for the interesting video.
IamHelenKeller 2 years ago
Can someone please help me.... trying to find out the correct way to pronounce Khodynka. Anyone have a link where I could hear it, or maybe the phonetics for it?
alecservoski 2 years ago
@alecservoski -Xo dyen ka----Xodynka
TheStaticage01 1 year ago
There were many aristhocratics families in Russia.
rayito2005 2 years ago
He was probably a "mama"s boy" in his childhood. But his ruthless way as the governor of Moscow it seems it was very close to what totallitarism is supposed to be in an autocratic form of governement. and it sealed his fate.
lababoc 2 years ago
Yes but he was a person with a very complex personality. I think his best description was made by Maria of Romania:
Dry, nervous, short of speech, impatient, he had none the rather careless good humor of his three elder brothers . . . but for all that we loved him, felt irresistibly attracted to him, hard though he could be. Few perhaps cherish his memory, but I do."
lostsplendour 2 years ago
What a tragic couple Sergei and Ella were ! They had no own children and both faced a horrible end.
FinnMove 2 years ago 2
sound track from NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
lababoc 2 years ago 2
Yes
lostsplendour 2 years ago
A wonderful video on this enigmatic member of the Romanov family - he is always painted so darkly, but his childhood pictures in particular are so innocent and charming!
koloagirl44 2 years ago 4
Belle video, bravo!!
lolfashion07 2 years ago 3