Was she german, russian or polish? As a german I was taught

>>1407302
She's of the House of Ascania, so she was German by birth but clearly associated with Russia.
It's kind of strange that the Royal courts of Europe are more or less cosmopolitan.
Also a lot of German derived dynasties around ruling the Monarchies of Europe.

When was it when the Russian court started speaking French?

>>1407327
>Also a lot of German derived dynasties around ruling the Monarchies of Europe.
Like Britain.

>>1407332
True, Hannover, Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, Oldenburg.
They're all German prots.

I wish the Stuarts were still alive.

>>1407302
Royality started being massively interbreed around 17th century, culminating in early 20th century when monarchs of Austria Hungary, Bulgaria, German Empire, Romania, Russia, Belgium and Great Britain all had monarchs related to Queen Victoria in one way or another. Like, check fucking King George V and Tzar Nikolai II. You can't even tell if they didn't prank'd whole world and switched themselves at some point so it was George who was killed by Bolsheviks, not Nikolai.

Euro royalty have no nationality. Or alternately, they are all a blend of all European nations. They are closely related only to each other.

>>1407302
Most Monarchs in Europe were born elsewhere but later "convert" to the country's (that they rule) religion and culture. The Royal Family of Greece, for example, was Danish, and now they all have Greek names and practice orthodoxy

Post stories about catherine II pls

>>1407439
she fugged a horse

>>1407302
A lot of aristocrats based what they were along where they lived, since it was pointless to base it off of ancestry when they have married into other noble families from all over Europe.

Identity based off blood and ethnicity was a working class thing because their relatives were more national and they worked for the betterment of their country as opposed to marrying into another for position.