The introduction of which tells me that the Polish-French thing can't possibly be the real deal
What IS IT with this fandom and memoirs??! At least by this point when I realized there were three of them, I was jaded enough to assume at least some of them were fake. :P
consulted the same doctor, Lieberkühn, who prescribed Fritz his first glasses (the later isn't mentioned, I just noticed because Hahn had given me the name of the doctor
Look at us getting to know all the minor characters!
ETA: So far, P's memoirs in general are quite entertaining. He's often sarcastic, with an ego of his own, of course, but there's plenty of quotable stuff. Mind you, I could excerpt the Prussia-related bits, if that's all you're after, since it's really not his main subject. But fun.
I am here for anything and everything Poniatowski says that you think is interesting, and I think I can speak for cahn on this too!
Spotted a rich French waistcoat at Sanssouci when I went touristing there; typical. Modest soldier my ass.
That's our Fritz. Sparta in public, Athens when no one is looking. :P
Elisaveta: still surprisingly attractive when I met her, though not in profile, more of a front woman. Great dancer.
Interesting! These "hot or not" reports are always fun.
If you're wondering how a stud like me was still a virgin until Catherine, look, I was raised a Polish Catholic, and then I was ambitious.
HA. Poniatowski, I can already tell your memoirs are going to be fun.
(P)Russian Pete: Ugh. And I do mean ugh. Yes, I'm completely unbiased here. Incidentally, re: his Fritz fanboying, whom he really fanboyed was FW; he had them mixed up on terms of what he thought Fritz was like. Proof no.1: he loved pipe smoking.
That's hilarious.
Speaking of (P)Russian Pete, we were wondering about his portrait of Fritz practices at one point. Blanning reports,
As the French complained, the new tsar had not so much an attachment as an "inexpressible passion" for Frederick, whom he hailed in a personal letter "one of the greatest heroes the world has ever seen." He often wore the uniform of a Prussian major-general, displayed in his apartment all the portraits of his hero he could find and repeatedly kissed Frederick's image on a ring sent from Potsdam as a present.
Re: Poniatowski
What IS IT with this fandom and memoirs??! At least by this point when I realized there were three of them, I was jaded enough to assume at least some of them were fake. :P
consulted the same doctor, Lieberkühn, who prescribed Fritz his first glasses (the later isn't mentioned, I just noticed because Hahn had given me the name of the doctor
Look at us getting to know all the minor characters!
ETA: So far, P's memoirs in general are quite entertaining. He's often sarcastic, with an ego of his own, of course, but there's plenty of quotable stuff. Mind you, I could excerpt the Prussia-related bits, if that's all you're after, since it's really not his main subject. But fun.
I am here for anything and everything Poniatowski says that you think is interesting, and I think I can speak for
Spotted a rich French waistcoat at Sanssouci when I went touristing there; typical. Modest soldier my ass.
That's our Fritz. Sparta in public, Athens when no one is looking. :P
Elisaveta: still surprisingly attractive when I met her, though not in profile, more of a front woman. Great dancer.
Interesting! These "hot or not" reports are always fun.
If you're wondering how a stud like me was still a virgin until Catherine, look, I was raised a Polish Catholic, and then I was ambitious.
HA. Poniatowski, I can already tell your memoirs are going to be fun.
(P)Russian Pete: Ugh. And I do mean ugh. Yes, I'm completely unbiased here. Incidentally, re: his Fritz fanboying, whom he really fanboyed was FW; he had them mixed up on terms of what he thought Fritz was like. Proof no.1: he loved pipe smoking.
That's hilarious.
Speaking of (P)Russian Pete, we were wondering about his portrait of Fritz practices at one point. Blanning reports,
As the French complained, the new tsar had not so much an attachment as an "inexpressible passion" for Frederick, whom he hailed in a personal letter "one of the greatest heroes the world has ever seen." He often wore the uniform of a Prussian major-general, displayed in his apartment all the portraits of his hero he could find and repeatedly kissed Frederick's image on a ring sent from Potsdam as a present.