Gem And From Russia With Love
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:25 pm
HI:
Sorry to be absent so long.
It is a little known fact (or belief on my part) that the Romanoffs had a strong Nordic Bloodline.
It is a known fact the, aside from their other hobbies (such as regukar settling, depredation, rape and pillage of most of coastal Europe and the British isles, including Ireland,) many scandinavian ---ah----adventurers, traders, conquerors and settlers also made their way into what is now Russia, Ukrraine. the Baltic States and Belorussia, by various means, some as traders , some as warriors and some as conquerrors.
They provided the recruits of the Varangarian Guard (equivlent to the Swiss Guard of the Papacy) who guarded the later Emporers of the East. They referred to Constantinople as "Miklagaard".
Normandy, for a paralell example, and the Scandivinavian mini Kingdoms of Dublin and Limerick (a very loose characterization ) were "VIking" and the Viking territorial and control aspirations in Ireland were not fully and more or less finally until Ireland's "King Arthur"; Brian Boru, King of Leinster, was able to from a temporay high Kingship (the "Tara King") in Ireland long enough to defeat a major Invasion of Ireland by an assortment on scandivaian leaders, adventurers and raiders at the battle of Clontarf around 1034 AD (a land sea affair in Eastern Ireland i think).
He lost his own life and the life of his oldest son.(the last is questionable but his line did not long survive this victory)
It is doubly Ironic that what the invasion of Ireland by the Normans,s DID do and what the English and Romans never managed, a complete conquest of Ireland, was carried out by the kin of the conquerors of England , also obviously of Scandinavian descent, but now Catholic and speaking Norman French, was a conquest of Ireland within 50 years of Hastings.
In any event I have the STRONG feelings the the Romanoffs' gene pool was replete with Scandinavian genes.....
I admit that my knowledge of the same type of the various Northern incursions and trading networks in Russia et al. is fairly limited.
Perhaps the adoption of a strong line of rulers, partially scandinavian or not, was a relief to the slavic Russian people who had suffered long and hard under the Mongol Yoke.
For a musical commentary on this terrible period see the movement entitled "Russia Under the Mongol Yoke" in Prokfieffs Symphonetta "Alexander Nevsky".
For a rough history and view on Mongol incursions into Russian read "Until the Sun Falls" a novel of the Mongol conquest of Russia.. A code called the "Blue Sky" was a sort of the "Hagakure" equivlent for the Mongols, although it was not commited to writing as far as I know.
But perhaps the strongest proof on my mini theory lies in surname dissection and photographic evidence from a much later time eg: Mattson,
Matthewson, Mattisson, and the like.
A telling piece of evidence (to me) as to assimilated Northman power in Russia can be obtained by finding a book on World War I, viewing photographs of Tsar Nicholas II therein and simply visually comparing the pictures of the last Tsar to one of GEM.
They could be brothers based on this pictorial comparison.
Perhaps GEM has the blood of Nicholas or of the lost daughter of Nicholas (Anstasia) his running in his veins.
Also, many Russians of the Nobility fled to Europe after "the Red October" revolution of 1917.
It would come as no surprise, of course, if many of the nobility were related to the Line of the Tsars.
Look at the facial and body structure remblance, do research, refute me!!!
Many of us dream that some, one, or a great numbers of kings and nobility (although I am sure GEM cares little for this type of dreaming) run in the unknowable history of our antecedents
I must say I am not intending to curry any favor from anyone in this thread, but it is a theory that has long tumbled in my mind.
JT
Sorry to be absent so long.
It is a little known fact (or belief on my part) that the Romanoffs had a strong Nordic Bloodline.
It is a known fact the, aside from their other hobbies (such as regukar settling, depredation, rape and pillage of most of coastal Europe and the British isles, including Ireland,) many scandinavian ---ah----adventurers, traders, conquerors and settlers also made their way into what is now Russia, Ukrraine. the Baltic States and Belorussia, by various means, some as traders , some as warriors and some as conquerrors.
They provided the recruits of the Varangarian Guard (equivlent to the Swiss Guard of the Papacy) who guarded the later Emporers of the East. They referred to Constantinople as "Miklagaard".
Normandy, for a paralell example, and the Scandivinavian mini Kingdoms of Dublin and Limerick (a very loose characterization ) were "VIking" and the Viking territorial and control aspirations in Ireland were not fully and more or less finally until Ireland's "King Arthur"; Brian Boru, King of Leinster, was able to from a temporay high Kingship (the "Tara King") in Ireland long enough to defeat a major Invasion of Ireland by an assortment on scandivaian leaders, adventurers and raiders at the battle of Clontarf around 1034 AD (a land sea affair in Eastern Ireland i think).
He lost his own life and the life of his oldest son.(the last is questionable but his line did not long survive this victory)
It is doubly Ironic that what the invasion of Ireland by the Normans,s DID do and what the English and Romans never managed, a complete conquest of Ireland, was carried out by the kin of the conquerors of England , also obviously of Scandinavian descent, but now Catholic and speaking Norman French, was a conquest of Ireland within 50 years of Hastings.
In any event I have the STRONG feelings the the Romanoffs' gene pool was replete with Scandinavian genes.....
I admit that my knowledge of the same type of the various Northern incursions and trading networks in Russia et al. is fairly limited.
Perhaps the adoption of a strong line of rulers, partially scandinavian or not, was a relief to the slavic Russian people who had suffered long and hard under the Mongol Yoke.
For a musical commentary on this terrible period see the movement entitled "Russia Under the Mongol Yoke" in Prokfieffs Symphonetta "Alexander Nevsky".
For a rough history and view on Mongol incursions into Russian read "Until the Sun Falls" a novel of the Mongol conquest of Russia.. A code called the "Blue Sky" was a sort of the "Hagakure" equivlent for the Mongols, although it was not commited to writing as far as I know.
But perhaps the strongest proof on my mini theory lies in surname dissection and photographic evidence from a much later time eg: Mattson,
Matthewson, Mattisson, and the like.
A telling piece of evidence (to me) as to assimilated Northman power in Russia can be obtained by finding a book on World War I, viewing photographs of Tsar Nicholas II therein and simply visually comparing the pictures of the last Tsar to one of GEM.
They could be brothers based on this pictorial comparison.
Perhaps GEM has the blood of Nicholas or of the lost daughter of Nicholas (Anstasia) his running in his veins.
Also, many Russians of the Nobility fled to Europe after "the Red October" revolution of 1917.
It would come as no surprise, of course, if many of the nobility were related to the Line of the Tsars.
Look at the facial and body structure remblance, do research, refute me!!!
Many of us dream that some, one, or a great numbers of kings and nobility (although I am sure GEM cares little for this type of dreaming) run in the unknowable history of our antecedents
I must say I am not intending to curry any favor from anyone in this thread, but it is a theory that has long tumbled in my mind.
JT