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Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Alexandra and her Health Part 2

« on: February 10, 2018, 11:51:23 PM »

In the list of the search of Ipatev House on the Ap main site, i found out that in IH were found 2 homeopathic remedies: ignatia & aconitum
Since i am personally interested in homeopathy & use it myself to treat me, i thought it was interesting to talk a bit about it - i didn't find anything specifical in the thread so here i am.

From the web & my personal books (sorry for the rought translation)

IGNATIA: people who need ignatia are emotionally unstable; often introvert & lonely, usually close into themselves and think again and again to real or imaginary insults but didn't want to move other's pity and feel insulted if that happens. Get easily nervous, but often don't show their bad emotions. They like contradict other, but don't want others to contradict them. Exagerrate events & are unable to bear phisical pain and usually feel exhausted.
Unstable mood: from cry to laugh without reason.
They are often unders stress (real or not), depressed, isolated, laconic, they suffer from insomnia and are ipersesitive. They generally suffer from headaches, anxiety, panic attacks, phisical pains (expecially in legs and arms and heart), feeling of too fast palpitations and a psycosomatic cough.

This seems to me a good portrait of Alix in her last months. Of course, most people don't believe in homepathy, but i think this could be a nice discussion.

ACONITUM: For peolpe with anxiety, nervousness and fear of Death. They suffer from headaches even if they could seem healthy and strong. Their posing is rigid, they have trouble breathing. They usually suffer from varius phisical pains because they always are defensive towards the whole world.

What do you think?

I think this is very interesting. It seems to me that back then people could pretty much self-medicate with anything they wanted. So different from today when everything is regulated. I wonder if some of these medicines caused some of her illnesses rather than helped her.

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Alexandra Feodorovna / The "suitability" of royal wives

« on: February 10, 2018, 11:34:38 PM »

To me, "suitability" means the ability to fulfil the obligations required of the royal wife's station.

From everything I've read on royal families, "suitability" means rank and almost nothing more. Apart from chronic ill health, a deformity of some kind, or sometimes being first cousins, a prince could marry any woman of sufficient rank.

Nicholas and Alix were passionately in love and Nicholas was determined to marry her. I know that Queen Victoria and Nicholas's parents were initially against the match but the reasons had nothing to do with Alix's suitability.

No one seemed to even consider that Alix may not be suitable because she was ill at ease with strangers and preferred to be surrounded only by her family, albeit an extended one. She was reserved rather than outgoing, etc., all the things she was criticized and hated for after she married Nicholas and moved to Russia.

Also, no one seemed to feel the need to educate the chosen one for the duties she would be required to fulfil.

Princess Diana is a perfect example. In her case, it seemed as though she was just thrown into the royal soup and was expected to sink or swim on her own.

I find this astonishing.

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Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Question: What would Alexandra have thought of Adolf Hitler?

« on: February 10, 2018, 01:27:59 PM »

A lot of people try to discount the antisemitism of NII and AF, but the evidence is pretty clear, and we must remember that this was very normal (well, not pogroms, they were widely condemned in Western Europe), but prejudice against Jews was very common. I personally assume most figures in Europe held them, but also that they probably had cordial relations, or even friendships, 1:1 with the many Jews that lived throughout Europe. Sadly it was this dynamic that Hitler, using populism, was able to take advantage of.

I've read that pogroms in Russia were quite common throughout the 19th century and there were many, bloody pogroms against the Jews in Odessa and other towns in the early 20th century when Nicholas was Tsar.

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Forum Announcements / Re: New Users say Hello Here and ONLY HERE!

« on: February 09, 2018, 12:20:20 AM »

Hello to everyone!

I'm a total newbie and this is my first post.

I happened upon this forum by chance and I'm so happy to find a place to discuss one of my favorite topics - the Russian Imperial Families and royalty in general.

I'm currently readingThe Last Empress, by Greg King, and his point of view is different from many of the other books I've read about Alix/MF. I'm fascinated!

I look forward to learning how the forum works and contributing to the discussions.
Victoria