Hello to everyone! I'm using Doomsday 1.3 with the excellent Sarmatia 1871's mod, All the Russias and the Graphic Improvement Project. The AARs Kaiserreich Finland and Denikin Russia give me the idea of make a new AAR with these alternate history mods! Please enjoy!
Chapter list:
Prologue (4/1/1936)
Chapter one: It's good to be president (4/1/1936)
Chapter two: The aristocratic republic (16/1/1936)
Chapter three: Returning to the roots (7/3/1936)
Chapter four: A totalitarian revolution (4/4/1936-5/3/1937)
Chapter five: The enemy of my enemy (3/4/1937)
Chapter six: Relief staff (5/5/1937
Chapter seven: End of interregnum (25/1/1938)
Chapter eight: Plotting the renewal (29/1/1938-23/7/1938)
Chapter nine: The August, 11 crisis (11/8/1938)
Chapter ten: Baptisms of Fire (11/8/1938-4/11/1938) - Part I - Part II
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PROLOGUE
SAINT-PETERSBURG OBLAST, JANUARY, 4, 1936
The Constantine Palace in Saint-Petersburg, residence of the Romanov family.
Since the windows of the 200 years-old Strelna palace, Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov was observing the awakening gulf of Finland. On the horizon, a merchant ship was crossing the seas, on the road of Finland. Helped by his telescope, which entertained him so much, Dmitri wasn't able to see the banner of the ship. He was a few blue. French? American? Or even Russian?
The Grand-Duke came back in his great lounge. Under a crystal chandelier and a velvet sofa, his ancestors where watching him, immortalized by a painting offered by the Russian government after his return in Russia, in 1928. The Romanov family in 1916. His family. They were all dead.
The Russian Imperial family in 1916, visiting a Cossacks regiment: left to right, Grand-Duchess Anastasia, Grand-Duchess Olga, Tsar Nikolaï II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand-Duchess Tatiana and Grand-Duchess Maria.
Death was an old friend of Dmitri Pavlovich. His mother, Alexandra von Oldenburg, princess of Greece, felt into coma during his birth, in September, 18, 1891: she died six days after. Raised by his uncle, Sergei Alexandrovich, the seventh child of Tsar Alexandr II, along with his elder sister, Maria Pavlovna: they lost him in 1905, then he was killed by an anarchist as military commander of Moscow oblast. He was supposed to be made new Tsarevich, in remplacement of the hemophiliac Alexei, by marrying the Tsar's daughter, Olga Nikolaievna. She died in 1918. Along with his whole family, slaughtered by the evil Bolcheviks in Iekaterinburg. Along with the former Tsar and the Tsarevich. The Russian Revolution took to the Romanovs everything: Dmitri's father, Pavel Alexandrovich, the eighth child of Alexandr II, was shot like a dog in Saint Peter and Paul Fortress, in Saint-Petersburg, along with Dmitri Konstantinovich and Georgui Mikhailovich, descendants of Nikolaï Ist. From seventh in the Russian line of succession, Dmitri became the fourth, and one of the most serious: Kyrill Vladimorovich refused to return in a republican Russia, Boris Vladimirovich a depraved womanizer and Andreï Vladimorovich a shy guy who was looking every usurper as a possible surviving Anastasia...
Pavel Alexandrovich's family in 1916. Left to right: his second wife Olga Valerianovna Karnovich, his three new children and himself. They lived in Paris after the refusal of the Tsar to see him make a new wedding with a commoner.
But Dmitri Pavlovich escaped to this carnage. Because he had yet blood on his hands. This man who lost mis mother during his birth, his father because he married another women, his uncle who raised him, his aunt who became a nun after her husband's assassination, his sister who married the second son of the king of Sweden, considered that Russia was coming to his end because of what? Not because of absolutism or the Great War. Because of the mad monk, Rasputin.
Grigori Rasputin, the "Starets", who had heavy influences on Nikolaï II during his last days, due to his powers of healing on the hemophiliac Tsarevich.
During a cold night of December 1916, Rasputin, the evil advisor of the Tsar, who was bringing Russia to defeat against the Germans, was invited to the Yusupov palace: Felix Yusupov, along with Dmitri, was one of the nobles who considered that Rasputin was a danger for Russia. It was even said that they had an affair together...With the extremist politician Vladimir Purishkevich and other conspirators, they tried to poison him, to shoot him, to beat him, to drown him...And they finally managed. It was said that Dmitri fired the shot who stopped Rasputin who was trying to escape. He managed to escape the Red Terror with British help through Teheran and Bombay.
In Paris, along with all the others Russian emigres, he met again Yusupov, who was in exile after the Rasputin assassination. Through the newspapers, he knew the alliance between the White generals and the Kerensky's democrat clique; the fall of the Soviet Russia; the establishment of the Republic of Russia, who was only the shade of the Imperial one, with his territory shattered between warlords or neighbouring powers. Dmitri Pavlovich was not so quick to come back to the motherland: he built a fame of womanizer: after an affair with the fashion designer Coco Chanel (helping her to make her famous perfume Chanel n°5), he married an American heiress, Audrey Emery, in 1927, made princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya by his cousin, Kyril Vladimirovich, the current pretender to the Russian throne, still in France due to his mistrust towards the corrupt and weak republic built by Kerensky.
Grand-Duke Dmitri Pavlovich with his wife, Audrey Emery, in the 1920s
Vladimir Purishkevich, after the failed coup of admiral Kolchak and his exile in Japan, led the far right group in the social-democrat-dominated Duma: searching for a new figurehead able to unite the Clericals, the Aristocrats and the Nationalists, and despising Kyrill, too compromised with the British, he forced his former allies of the Rasputin conspiration: Dmitri Pavlovich and Yusupov returned in Russia under the crowd's acclamations, ten years after the massacre of the Imperial families. Yusupov became the maker of the most populars feasts in Saint-Petersburg, Dmitri Pavlovich became deputy for Saint-Petersburg: he was never in the Duma, staying in the Constantine Palace, which a public subscription gave to him...
Dmitri Pavlovich during his youth. In 1936, he was 44 years old.
But suddenly, two militars broke the great door behind Dmitri. Fearing to his life, he thinked first to his wife, who was still sleeping. Without a weapon to defend his life, he was ready to face death. Certainly soldiers who were unhappy of the current situation of Russia, the greatest country of the world, treated less than a republic of Central America.
-I'm sorry, Your Imperial Highness, but your guards were not aware to let us pass.
-What do you want?
-We are of the Okhrana, Sir. You are awaited in Moscow.
-But why? It's not even the morning!
-Your Imperial Highness...It's a request of Pavel Milyukov.
The Prime Minister. Dmitri Pavlovich look the member of the secret services right in his eyes and asked:
-What happened?
-Does anybody listening to us?
-No. Speak.
The Okhrana member whispered to Dmitri's ear:
-The President is dead. An extraordinary session of the Duma has been called: you're not the only one to be disturbed like this, Your Imperial Highness. But the Prime Minister wants you in his office. A car is waiting for you.
Chapter list:
Prologue (4/1/1936)
Chapter one: It's good to be president (4/1/1936)
Chapter two: The aristocratic republic (16/1/1936)
Chapter three: Returning to the roots (7/3/1936)
Chapter four: A totalitarian revolution (4/4/1936-5/3/1937)
Chapter five: The enemy of my enemy (3/4/1937)
Chapter six: Relief staff (5/5/1937
Chapter seven: End of interregnum (25/1/1938)
Chapter eight: Plotting the renewal (29/1/1938-23/7/1938)
Chapter nine: The August, 11 crisis (11/8/1938)
Chapter ten: Baptisms of Fire (11/8/1938-4/11/1938) - Part I - Part II
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PROLOGUE
SAINT-PETERSBURG OBLAST, JANUARY, 4, 1936
The Constantine Palace in Saint-Petersburg, residence of the Romanov family.
Since the windows of the 200 years-old Strelna palace, Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov was observing the awakening gulf of Finland. On the horizon, a merchant ship was crossing the seas, on the road of Finland. Helped by his telescope, which entertained him so much, Dmitri wasn't able to see the banner of the ship. He was a few blue. French? American? Or even Russian?
The Grand-Duke came back in his great lounge. Under a crystal chandelier and a velvet sofa, his ancestors where watching him, immortalized by a painting offered by the Russian government after his return in Russia, in 1928. The Romanov family in 1916. His family. They were all dead.
The Russian Imperial family in 1916, visiting a Cossacks regiment: left to right, Grand-Duchess Anastasia, Grand-Duchess Olga, Tsar Nikolaï II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand-Duchess Tatiana and Grand-Duchess Maria.
Death was an old friend of Dmitri Pavlovich. His mother, Alexandra von Oldenburg, princess of Greece, felt into coma during his birth, in September, 18, 1891: she died six days after. Raised by his uncle, Sergei Alexandrovich, the seventh child of Tsar Alexandr II, along with his elder sister, Maria Pavlovna: they lost him in 1905, then he was killed by an anarchist as military commander of Moscow oblast. He was supposed to be made new Tsarevich, in remplacement of the hemophiliac Alexei, by marrying the Tsar's daughter, Olga Nikolaievna. She died in 1918. Along with his whole family, slaughtered by the evil Bolcheviks in Iekaterinburg. Along with the former Tsar and the Tsarevich. The Russian Revolution took to the Romanovs everything: Dmitri's father, Pavel Alexandrovich, the eighth child of Alexandr II, was shot like a dog in Saint Peter and Paul Fortress, in Saint-Petersburg, along with Dmitri Konstantinovich and Georgui Mikhailovich, descendants of Nikolaï Ist. From seventh in the Russian line of succession, Dmitri became the fourth, and one of the most serious: Kyrill Vladimorovich refused to return in a republican Russia, Boris Vladimirovich a depraved womanizer and Andreï Vladimorovich a shy guy who was looking every usurper as a possible surviving Anastasia...
Pavel Alexandrovich's family in 1916. Left to right: his second wife Olga Valerianovna Karnovich, his three new children and himself. They lived in Paris after the refusal of the Tsar to see him make a new wedding with a commoner.
But Dmitri Pavlovich escaped to this carnage. Because he had yet blood on his hands. This man who lost mis mother during his birth, his father because he married another women, his uncle who raised him, his aunt who became a nun after her husband's assassination, his sister who married the second son of the king of Sweden, considered that Russia was coming to his end because of what? Not because of absolutism or the Great War. Because of the mad monk, Rasputin.
Grigori Rasputin, the "Starets", who had heavy influences on Nikolaï II during his last days, due to his powers of healing on the hemophiliac Tsarevich.
During a cold night of December 1916, Rasputin, the evil advisor of the Tsar, who was bringing Russia to defeat against the Germans, was invited to the Yusupov palace: Felix Yusupov, along with Dmitri, was one of the nobles who considered that Rasputin was a danger for Russia. It was even said that they had an affair together...With the extremist politician Vladimir Purishkevich and other conspirators, they tried to poison him, to shoot him, to beat him, to drown him...And they finally managed. It was said that Dmitri fired the shot who stopped Rasputin who was trying to escape. He managed to escape the Red Terror with British help through Teheran and Bombay.
In Paris, along with all the others Russian emigres, he met again Yusupov, who was in exile after the Rasputin assassination. Through the newspapers, he knew the alliance between the White generals and the Kerensky's democrat clique; the fall of the Soviet Russia; the establishment of the Republic of Russia, who was only the shade of the Imperial one, with his territory shattered between warlords or neighbouring powers. Dmitri Pavlovich was not so quick to come back to the motherland: he built a fame of womanizer: after an affair with the fashion designer Coco Chanel (helping her to make her famous perfume Chanel n°5), he married an American heiress, Audrey Emery, in 1927, made princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya by his cousin, Kyril Vladimirovich, the current pretender to the Russian throne, still in France due to his mistrust towards the corrupt and weak republic built by Kerensky.
Grand-Duke Dmitri Pavlovich with his wife, Audrey Emery, in the 1920s
Vladimir Purishkevich, after the failed coup of admiral Kolchak and his exile in Japan, led the far right group in the social-democrat-dominated Duma: searching for a new figurehead able to unite the Clericals, the Aristocrats and the Nationalists, and despising Kyrill, too compromised with the British, he forced his former allies of the Rasputin conspiration: Dmitri Pavlovich and Yusupov returned in Russia under the crowd's acclamations, ten years after the massacre of the Imperial families. Yusupov became the maker of the most populars feasts in Saint-Petersburg, Dmitri Pavlovich became deputy for Saint-Petersburg: he was never in the Duma, staying in the Constantine Palace, which a public subscription gave to him...
Dmitri Pavlovich during his youth. In 1936, he was 44 years old.
But suddenly, two militars broke the great door behind Dmitri. Fearing to his life, he thinked first to his wife, who was still sleeping. Without a weapon to defend his life, he was ready to face death. Certainly soldiers who were unhappy of the current situation of Russia, the greatest country of the world, treated less than a republic of Central America.
-I'm sorry, Your Imperial Highness, but your guards were not aware to let us pass.
-What do you want?
-We are of the Okhrana, Sir. You are awaited in Moscow.
-But why? It's not even the morning!
-Your Imperial Highness...It's a request of Pavel Milyukov.
The Prime Minister. Dmitri Pavlovich look the member of the secret services right in his eyes and asked:
-What happened?
-Does anybody listening to us?
-No. Speak.
The Okhrana member whispered to Dmitri's ear:
-The President is dead. An extraordinary session of the Duma has been called: you're not the only one to be disturbed like this, Your Imperial Highness. But the Prime Minister wants you in his office. A car is waiting for you.
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