Well, here I am. Dunno what to say, so, I'll be not quite original...
I came across this excellent forum just by sheer luck -as it uses to happen with me and internet
- and I'm still greateful because I've been accepted.
Well, what can tell about myself... I'm from Barcelona, Spain. I'm an old boy -33 yo, 34 next March-, and I have always been attracted by history since I was a little child. My interest about the Romanov cames from a very twisted road, so to speak. Summarising, I would say that it began when I was a child and saw "Anastasia" with those wonderful actores, Ingrid Bergmann and Yul Brinner- and, of course, I fell in love with Anastasia/Bergmann. This may be the beginning, but it's not really so simple.
I've been interested in history, as I've told you before, but I cannot tell you exactly which period is my favourite. I love 20th century history -up to 1945, more or less-, for instance, but also the Middle Ages, the XVI/XVII and the XIX Centuries, well, it's a mixture of all this. Thus, let me go straight to the point. As a child I was very interested about World War Two -as you may have imagined by now, I'm a strange bird
but who cares... not me
-. Then I began to discover some pieces of the history of my family, and got attracted too by the Spanish Civil War -it happens, at least if your family is fighthing in both sides one against the other- but my attraction about WW2 never died. And one day, I thought "How came WW2?" And I began to study World War 1. And, of course, the Romanov history came to me, and I "recovered" my old "love", so to speak -Yes, Anastasia is of special interest for me, along with the Tsar and the Tsarevich-. The attraction about the Imperial Russia is one of my "weak" points, I must confess.
Such was my interest about World War One, I should add, that when I started my PhD, I devoted myself to the Literature of the WW1 -oh, BTW, I've studied English Philology, I forgot to say it, methinks-, but never I allowed myself to forget the Romanovs. And, oddily enough, in a peak point of my a reborn interest about the Imperial Family, I found this forum.
Coincidence? I don't think so, but who knows.
Finally, some words about my nickname. One of my favourite actors is Michael Caine, who played the role of Kurt Steiner in "The Eagle has Landed". So, there you have it. I should add that I'm very interested in almost evertyhing about Germany and its history and literature because one of my great grandparents was German -from München, actually-, but I guess that adding anything else about him would make this post toooooooooo long.
So, to finish, here I am, in case you may need me. I hope that I will be able to help to rise the level of this forum even if it's just a bit, but don't doubt that I'll do my best. For me it's an honour to have been accepted and I won't betray those who have trusted me.
Best wishes to all
PD: I tend to write too much, as you may have guessed, and I never know where to stop...
