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We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D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: Grumbkow's "How to Succeed at the Court of FW if you're his son" list....

[selenak]

They have ONE good thing going for them in their lives, and then FW has to go fuck that up too. Start with imprisoning Fritz and pressuring Wilhelmine into a marriage, then put Fritz in a position where he has to be more aloof than usual around her and act like it's his idea. Man.

My thoughts precisely. The odds were incredibly against them; like you say, props to them for sticking by each other as much as as they did. I'm so relieved that neither of them died in 1746, I can't tell you, and that they had the additional decade of renewed closeness, long distance as it often was.

Re: Grumbkow's "How to Succeed at the Court of FW if you're his son" list....

[mildred_of_midgard]

I'm so relieved that neither of them died in 1746

God, I hadn't even thought of that. Wow, yes. I'm glad neither of them died then, and also that he never saw her memoirs after her death (or at all).

I also meant to say earlier, well-spotted on your cross-referencing of Grumbkow's advice to Fritz and Wilhelmine's observation of Fritz's unusual aloofness on that occasion. Subdetective insights FTW!