Yuletide tags are out: Frederician version

[cahn]

Come join us in this crazy Frederick the Great fandom and learn more about all these crazy associated people, like the star-crossed and heartbreaking romance between Maria Theresia's daughter Maria Christina and her daughter-in-law Isabella, wow.

OK, so, there are FOURTEEN characters nominated:
Anna Karolina Orzelska (Frederician RPF)
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia (Frederician RPF)
Francesco Algarotti (Frederician RPF)
François-Marie Arouet | Voltaire (Frederician RPF)
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great (Frederician RPF)
Hans Hermann Von Katte (Frederician RPF)
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (Frederician RPF)
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria (Frederician RPF)
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (Frederician RPF)
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (Frederician RPF)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (Frederician RPF)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (Frederician RPF)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) (Frederician RPF)
Yekatarina II Alekseyevna | Catherine the Great of Russia (Frederician RPF)

This means some fourth person kindly nominated Algarotti and -- I think? -- Stanislaw August Poniatowski! YAY! Thank you fourth person! Come be our friend! :D Yuletide is so great!

I am definitely requesting Maria Theresia, Wilhelmine, and Fritz (Put them in a room together. Shake. How big is the explosion?), and thinking about Elisabeth Christine, but maybe not this year.

I am also declaring this post another Frederician post, as the last one was getting out of hand. I think I'll still use that one as the overall index to these, though, to keep all the links in one place.

(seriously, every time I think the wild stories are done there is ANOTHER one)

Comments

[cahn]

I was deferring to the other two, as I have basically no book knowledge and have just been reading all their crazy comments :D

I do have some links here but many of the links are video (which I haven't yet watched) or not in English (though for small things google translate can be used). I have read Volume 1 of Wilhelmine's memoirs in English translation (linked from that page), which definitely does make it pretty clear what an absolutely crazy family Frederick the Great was from, although depends on your tolerance for abuse (his father being quite abusive both physically and emotionally, and their mother being emotionally abusive to Wilhelmine). Volume 2 is less relevant to this discussion and I foundered in the middle of it.

If you're interested in Maria Theresia, there is apparently a good biography of her by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger coming out sometime soon in English translation; I'm definitely going to get it when it comes out and will post about it. selenak has read it in German and has good things to say about it.

Also, that is two more things than I knew before all of this started! (Although selenak told me (2) last year.)

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you! I will root around the links, though may go for a biog first (or not, am currently mid-way through one on Luther). As a TV!Versailles fan I need to read all the Philippe d'Orleans and Liselotte and their successful but Very Gay Marriage.

Thanks for the Maria Theresa rec as well, I mentioned upthread that I want to improve my European history generally, so that would be a good option, too.