the audioguide will tell you that Izabela was a stone cold fox (true) and that Poniatowski betrayed the nation of Poland, and probably kicked every puppy in the country personallu.
This made me laugh and also check out her portrait! (I know those lie, but still, yeah, at least some evidence for her stone cold fox-ness!) Poor Poniatowski! (Unlike mildred, as you have seen, I am in fact a Poniatowski stan, in addition to feeling sorry for him :) )
Adam Czartoryski, whose first contribution to Polish independence was attempting to seduce Alexander into liberal ideas, and just plain seducing Alexander's wife, before it turned out that genetics were not on his side, and Alexander's theoretical liberal beliefs did not stand up to actually being Tsar.
This also made me laugh; thank you for the educational post!
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Re: Izabela Czartoryska
Date: 2024-01-24 06:22 am (UTC)the audioguide will tell you that Izabela was a stone cold fox (true) and that Poniatowski betrayed the nation of Poland, and probably kicked every puppy in the country personallu.
This made me laugh and also check out her portrait! (I know those lie, but still, yeah, at least some evidence for her stone cold fox-ness!) Poor Poniatowski! (Unlike mildred, as you have seen, I am in fact a Poniatowski stan, in addition to feeling sorry for him :) )
Adam Czartoryski, whose first contribution to Polish independence was attempting to seduce Alexander into liberal ideas, and just plain seducing Alexander's wife, before it turned out that genetics were not on his side, and Alexander's theoretical liberal beliefs did not stand up to actually being Tsar.
This also made me laugh; thank you for the educational post!