cahn | Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

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So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community,

rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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From:

selenak

Okay, some tiny suggestions:

1730: ~~Heinrich moves into AW's household.~~ Peter Keith escapes (after explaining who Peter is), because you want to post something on the Keiths, and thus it is relevant.

1745: "Wilhelmine has lunch with Maria Theresia in Emsdorf" (not Bayreuth itself) or "Passing through the principality of Bayreuth on her way to the Frankfurt coronation, Maria Theresia has lunch with Wilhelmine, which deepens the enstrangement etc."

1746: Add "Conflict between Friedrich and younger brother Heinrich over the page Marwitz". Also, possibly: "Friedrich appoints 19 years old E.A. von Lehndorff as chamberlain to Elisabeth Christine".

In the late 1760s, early 1770s possibly some Swedish dates. At least 1771: Gustav becomes King, Ulrike visits Prussia, surviving Hohenzollern siblings unite (and argue), something along that line. It's referred to in several posts.

Those are my ideas for now.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Sounds good. Can I say "near Bayreuth" so as not to confuse readers with too much detail?

From:

selenak

Absolutely!

From:

cahn

I like these! DEFINITELY the one on Lehndorff :D (I mean, yes, want to keep it brief, but also it's our chronology so we get to put in the stuff that's important to us and Lehndorff definitely is :D )

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Lehndorff it shall be! When does Lehndorff leave EC's service?

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Okay, chronology is up! Because I can edit, I can add Lehndorff's departure date and anything anyone else wants at any time. But for now, we have something to point people to.

I didn't tag people's names, because then *everyone* would have to be tagged, lol.