I meant the real Charles, but that of course would've been used.Yes, both Bob and Bob Jr. were part of the melding process.
I meant the real Charles, but that of course would've been used.Yes, both Bob and Bob Jr. were part of the melding process.
Minor quibble is that Nicholas II survives after being rescued (implied) and is restored to the throne after the Civil War. It is oft speculated that Alexei does die due to his hemophilia as it is actually Nicholas' brother Michael who actually succeeds him.
Olga, Queen, and then Queen Mother, of the United Kingdom (1895-1990)
Olga Nikolaevna was borne into one Empire, married into another, and lived well beyond the dissolution of both Empires. While not as notorious as her sisters the Grand Duchesses Tatiana or Anastasia, her 1929 marriage to King Edward sealed the "Imperial Pact" between London and St. Petersburg to relitigate the results of the First Great War, with even more disastrous consequences. Edward and Olga may have been initially distant due to a wide cultural and personality gap (Parliament had to grant her a dispensation to remain in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the controversial second of the Churchillian Acts, though her daughter Victoria was raised Anglican), but the King and Queen grew closer during the SGW, and the tragedies that came with it, and followed.
Loss. Perhaps that would be the most consistent word to describe Olga's life. Her father, Nikolai II, was executed during the abortive First Russian Revolution. Her brother Alexei died of hemophilic complications in 1922. Her mother Alexandra died in 1925, a bitter and disappointed woman. Her sister Tatiana, active in the Pan Slavist and Pan Indo-European movement, was assassinated in 1934 during a Nuremberg volkisch rally by Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew, in retaliation for Russian anti-semitic policies, and her defense of such atrocities. Another sister, Maria, died during the atom bombing of St. Petersburg, along with her children. Grand Duchess Anastasia was the most noticeable female defendant in the Kiev Trials; she was executed at the gallows for numerous crimes against humanity, including leadership roles in the persecution and genocide of Russian (and citizens of occupied territories) Jews, Muslims, Old Believers, Buddhists; drafting the infamous "Lustration Decree" which saw the wholesale murder of German and Polish officer prisoners of war who refused to respectively join the collaborationist Grand Teutonic Ducal and National Democratic Armies; and purging of Baltic, Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian clergy and intelligentsia. None of Olga's nieces or nephews survived past the Second, and successful, Russian revolution.
Olga never did set foot in her native Russia again after 1938, but she was instrumental in saving the British Crown even as its Empire disappeared. When Edward was ill and on death's door during the 1962 Crisis, it was Olga's meetings with British politicians from across the political spectrum (as well as the American and German plenipotentiaries) that prevented a British turn to Republicanism. Olga out lived her husband, and died in 1990 at Windsor Castle, with her daughter and grandchildren, as well as her nieces Elizabeth and Margaret, at her bedside.
Ahh, thanks. I wasn't quite sure when Tsar Michael was first mentioned (I thought it was Blood and Iron).Minor quibble is that Nicholas II survives after being rescued (implied) and is restored to the throne after the Civil War. It is oft speculated that Alexei does dies due to his hemophilia as it is actually Nicholas' brother Michael who actually succeeds him.
The real Charles was actually a more distant cousin, whereas Charles W. is an alternate son, as confirmed by Turtledove himself. I don't recall using Charles M.'s face in the mix.I meant the real Charles, but that of course would've been used.
Wow, surprisingly recent that he confirmed that info.The real Charles was actually a more distant cousin, whereas Charles W. is an alternate son, as confirmed by Turtledove himself. I don't recall using Charles M.'s face in the mix.
Above is the cover art of the Japanese animated series, "Girls Und Barrel". This series features the characters participated in a sport called "Barrelery", which as you guessed, is a sport involving barrels, against other schools. Each school is based on different countries involved in the Second Great War such as Tsarist Russia, the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, the United States, and, controversially, the Confederate States, use the Barrels of said countries. This series has garnered some accusations of promoting Freedomism due to a lot of focus on a character that comes from a Confederate States themed school.
No, most of the party leadership got sent to the camps as politicals, but a few under Talmadge were allowed to take over the party and run it as a puppet of the Freedom Party until the war. This obviously didn't go well with most loyal Whigs, but the only people who could disapprove were the exiles, who by their nature couldn't actually stop what was happening.So despite the common impression of brave Whigs facing their demise in Freedomite camps the majority put their heads down and went along with the Freedomite regime along with a small number of Radical Liberals and an even smaller number of the small number of Confederate white Socialists ?
A potential difference between the real world and that of the books might be the continued use of 1,524 mm gauge in the South. It was all converted to standard gauge in 1886 in our world, but with the CSA existing as a separate nation they might have decided not to do it, to deny the USA from effectively using their own rail network against themselves. Would also be a fun little nod to the problems the Germans faced with the Russian 1,520 mm railroads, since they used the standard gauge themselves.View attachment 709752
Confederate Militia Men in the Southwest, still wearing out dated Grey Uniforms
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A Virginia Central Railroad manifest freight rolls along the Virginia Centrals James River line. Build on the tow path of the old James River and Kanawha Canal the VC's James River line offered the VC a water level route into the Shenandoah Valley and down into the Southwest Virginia Coal Fields where it would compete with the Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio RR for dominance in the transport of Coal. Picture taken sometime in the Mid 1930's
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The Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad was perhaps the premier east west link for the Confederacy though out its existence. Founded in 1869 by William Mahone and his wife. It gain a fortune from the transportation of Coal from Southwest Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. Its tracks stretched west from Norfolk Va to Memphis on the Mississippi and Louisville on the Ohio. Here is one of the AM&O's massive 4-8-4 N class locomotives pulling its flagship train the Virginia Cardinal trains 12 and 14 from Norfolk to Memphis. With stops in Lynchburg, Salem, Bristol, Knoxville, and Nashville along the way. Her sister train that ran to Louisville was called the Thoroughbred trains 15 and 16. In both cases one train would run west east while the other east west.
Would also be funny if there was some sort of overlap between locomotives of the Confederacy and those of Russia, such as both ordering same models from manufacturers overseas, but I don't know if that's plausible.I can see the CSA keeping the 5' gague as more of their track was 5'
Nice, looking forward to it.I plan on going into this but what would become tye American Locomotive Company started as the Tredegar Locomotive Works in Richmond VA. Pre Civil War so not all csa Locomotives are imported in 191. Plus the AM&O (which became the Norfolk and Western in 1873 OTL ) will have its own shops in Lynchburg VA.