Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

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We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: Peter Keith

[selenak]

Alas, I just realised that Peter and Lehndorff can't toast their wives and Kids together, because Lehndorff doesn't get married until after Peter's death! (In 1758.) Peter could encourage Lehndorff to get married and have kids in the first place, though, despite Cousin K. having gotten away. (And the eternal Heinrich pining.) He could give him the "move on" speech?

Re: Peter Keith

[mildred_of_midgard]

See, this is why we all need to do mini-chronologies on our subjects of interest!

I like your idea of the "move on" speech. Peter is significantly older and more experienced, after all, and can do a bit of mentoring. In keeping with the line in Lehndorff's diary after Peter's death, where he says Peter was a man of merit who could serve as an example to others. :) Follow that example, Lehndorff!

By the way, per Kloosterhuis' citations, the obituary that Lehndorff says the Academy of Sciences is going to put out does survive, in a private publication. I haven't been able to track it down, but I'd been wondering if it was out there, and I'm glad to know it is.

Re: Peter Keith

[selenak]

Aw, that‘s lovely. Maybe we will manage to track it down one day. Along with Martin von Katte‘s unpublished book about Hans Herrmann.

Peter is significantly older and more experienced, after all, and can do a bit of mentoring.

Indeed, and remember Lehndorff in the early 50s still having day-dreams about the King as a father figure (his own father died right after Lehndorff was born, he never knew him), which, post Hotham, he finally gives up? Could also be because he found an actual mentor!

Re: Peter Keith

[mildred_of_midgard]

Aww, I like that. Peter's definitely in a position to sympathize and give good advice. And in his case, he also kept his head down and did a good job at the tasks he was given long enough, and the King started to pay him some attention, even if not everything he'd hoped for, so there's that glimmer of hope too.

Maybe we will manage to track it down one day. Along with Martin von Katte‘s unpublished book about Hans Herrmann.

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