You know you're obsessed when your friends and teachers notice the only thing that you write stories and poetry about pertains to the Romanovs. No joke, the first poem I wrote for English this year was entitled "Grand Duchesses on the Wall." It was a good poem, obviously, because the teacher put it on a bulliten board of the best poems on the team for that particular assignment. My father, however, wasn't too happy that I wrote about "those ignorant people" (remind me how we're related). Also, you know you're obsessed when the only reason you won any geographic/history competitions is that you've read too many books on them. (You knew the geo stuff because it was in a book about the Romanovs that happened to have a map of the empire, and you study all maps of Russia, telling yourself that Nicky once ruled it.)
I listened to the 1812 Overture, and now I can't believe I've never picked up on the God Save the Tsar thing even though I've heard that part only 500,000 times and heard God Save the Tsar just as much. Learn new stuff everyday, huh? I take it that that part at the end was to express Russian victory?
