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

Re: Fritz's death

[cahn]

Haha, that, wow, she is exemplary and also kinda boring, huh. Perhaps it's just as well I dropped her from my YT requests :P I like the immigrant thing, though!

Re: Fritz's death

[mildred_of_midgard]

There's a reason I can write Fritz and (so far) not her!

Yeah, the immigrant thing is cool. All my sources agree that she was well-loved and everyone (people who knew her personally and residents in and around Berlin) sincerely grieved her when she died.

Fritz, in contrast, continued to be divisive after his death:

On the one hand: "For forty-six years, Frederick had tried to rule Prussia single-handed. If he had asked a great deal from himself, he had made just as many demands on his servants and subjects, high and low. How did they all feel when the iron band that held them to their labors finally snapped? According to Mirabeau, the general response was one of overwhelming relief. Whatever else it might prove to be, the next regime was certain to be more relaxed."

On the other: "A Frederick cult got under way at once, as entrepreneurs moved in to satisfy what was clearly a large and growing demand for memorabilia. His image was reproduced on drinking vessels, clocks, bracelets, ribbons, snuff-boxes and vivat ribbons, as well as in books, pamphlets, periodicals and calendars. Perhaps the most enterprising of all were the Pages brothers, who bought Frederick's clothes from the court chamberlain, dressed up a wax figure and then hawked it around Germany, France and the Habsburg Monarchy, making a fortune along the way. So valuable was it that they turned down an offer of 4,000 talers. They were soon flattered sincerely, as imitators hurried to cash in too; by the early nineteenth century, there were sixteen wax figures of Frederick on display in Berlin."

Re: Fritz's death

[cahn]

Heh. I had a project manager a bit like this once, where he drove us all hard and drove himself even harder, so we wanted to kill him half the time and we thought he was super awesome the other half of the time. (He is a very nice guy! Just... with really high expectations.)