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We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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Re: Elisabath Christine

[cahn]

he also writes re: one of his harsher entries on EC's boringness that now that he's happily retired, he finds he was unfair towards her, simply because he felt miserable in his job, and that coloured his judgment.

Can I say once again how much I love Lehndorff <3 Like. Catch a Hohenzollern in a million years saying that he was unfair towards anyone :P (Well, okay, maybe Wihelmine if you caught her at just the right time, but even my fave isn't nearly as sweet as Lehndorff.)

But poor EC! It sounds like she was not at all cut out to be a queen, possibly at all, but certainly particularly in the cutthroat shark tank of the Hohenzollerns. And might have done at least slightly better (as Louise indeed does) if she hadn't been, well, married to Fritz :P

and she manages decades of life with the Hohenzollern without strangling a single one, starting with her husband.

Well, I mean, she is already doing better than I would have done in the situation :P

In summation: the ways in which she was remarkable were there, but they don't translate to something you could easily render in fiction, not least because they went in tandem to the ways she came across as dull.

Boo :P I was thinking I would like to get fic of her, but yeah, it doesn't sound like it could be done easily in a way that would actually be interesting.