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hetalia2009-10-15 07:27 pm
sailorsirius.livejournal.com) wrote in hetalia2009-10-15 07:27 pm
[Fanart and Comic] A Russian History Lesson and Chibi Set 4
Title: Chibi Set Part 4
Author/Artist: me
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Prussia
Rating: G
Warnings: Man in a skirt, large tracts of land on a chibi body.
Previous parts:
Part 1: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/3374114.html
Part 2: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/3700886.html
Part 3: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/4134205.html
Lil' Liech is wearing a sundress apparently.
Awright. Spiffy. The "W" stands for "Warsaw".
Historicly accurate uniform is historicly accurate.
Ready to get married, married, married, married.
I got this traditional clothing design from a costume website. I don't even want to think about how inaccurate it is. Huge tracts of land look awkward on chibis.
Title: A Tale of Two Dmitriis
Author/Artist: me
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Russia, Poland, mentions of Sweden, various historical figures
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions seizing of vital regions, VERY text heavy, may be educational. Based on actual events, no offense intended.
Summary: Back in the early 17th century Russia didn't quite have a leader...
Random huge blocks of text are historical information. You can skip over those if you want.
Sorry, Mods. If this is too much text I'll go remove it. I suppose it's not strictly necessary ayway.
I'm sorry if I got some stuff wrong. I'm a little afraid my notes are a bit off, but I cross-checked most of this with my textbooks. ... yeah. 8D
Background Info
So... Ivan the Terrible had this son guy named Dmitrii but he died in an accident as a veeerrryyy small child. So! Ivan was succeeded by another one of his sons named Feodor. But Feodor died without leaving an heir. For the first time since the beginning of Russia the place didn't have a definitive leader! (Okay, so there was when they were under the Mongols, but that doesn't count.) Anyway, this guy named Boris Godunov was elected by the zemskii sobor to be the new tsar but then Russia went into this three year long drought and there was a famine and the people blamed him. Anyway, the famine went away and a year later he died.
And now the strip begins...
Who's up for a lil' Russian history~? Here's how this story goes.
Once again there was no sucessor to the throne really and this guy showed up claiming to be Ivan the Terrible's dead son Dmitirii! Go figure! He was all like... "Okai so I was hiding out in Poland and now I'm here to take my rightful place at the throne!" (Dmitrii's mother who was in exile even identified him as Dmitrii.) He was backed by Poland (who kept trying to invade Russia's vital regions at this point in time) and the Russians were all like... "So he's backed by our enemy. Thats not suspicious at all. We haz a ruler with a divine right to rule again! AWRIGHT!" and they stuck him on the throne asap. He got married and became Tsar an' stuff.
Now the returned Dmitrii was actin' kinda strange. He refused to compulsively cross himself, take naps in the afternoon, and didn't go to the bathhouse near as often as your average Russian. The people noticed this and then figured out that it was kinda odd that Poland, who had been their enemy for a looong time, was backing their new leader... Huh. Odd. Conclusion: An imposter! And Polish no less!
So the imposter got stabbed, left out to rot for a few days, burned, and then his ashes got shot out of a cannon back in the general direction of Poland.
Okay, so my notes aren't quite as good on the second false Dmitrii... But here's what I've got.
The second false Dmitrii, or the "Brigand of Tushino" as he was called, came along to Russia not long after the first. He walked around claiming that not only was he the real Dmitrii and that he hadn't died as a child,* he also claimed to be the first false Dmitrii** returned to reclaim the throne. The weird thing is the real Dmitrii's mother identified the second false Dmirtrii as her son. JUST LIKE SHE DID THE FIRST. She wasn't the only one. The first false Dmitrii's wife also identified him as the Dmitrii she'd married. (Though historians think she was threatened into doing this.) And not only that... The people believed them. Again. Well, half of the people did anyway.
Too bad they already had a Tsar. So False Dmitrii II set up court in Tushino (hence the nickname) and managed to get a considerably large number of followers. A very large number.
Now our friend Tsar Vasilii IV was pretty pissed off, so he calls on long-time enemy Sweden to help him get rid of the guy. Thing is, Poland's supporting the F. Dmitrii II, AND they hate the Swedes. So, upon hearing that Vasilli IV had formed an alliance with Sweden they declared war on Russia and managed to take over Moscow and the Kremlin. (Yeah, Moscow was pretty much the capital at this point too. The Kremlin's a huge fortress in the middle of Moscow where the Tsar would live.) Vasilii is exiled and Sweden says "SCREW THIS" and invades Russia too by going through Novgorod. F. Dmitrii II dies somewhere along the way in here around the time Vasilii's exhiled. I think.
Two years later Moscow was liberated by Dmitrii*** Pozharsky ad Kuzma Minin. These two raised a national militia, on their own, and drove out the Polish AND the Swedish army. They're big national heros now.
*After the first false Dmitrii died they dug up the real Dmitrii's remains and brought them to Moscow.
**Who you know, if you read my first comic or this one, was killed, left out in the elements for two days, burned to a crisp, and then had his ashes fired back at Poland with a frickin' cannon.
***Yeah, another Dmitrii. This one's a prince and the guy who fought with him was a butcher.
Author/Artist: me
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Prussia
Rating: G
Warnings: Man in a skirt, large tracts of land on a chibi body.
Previous parts:
Part 1: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/3374114.html
Part 2: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/3700886.html
Part 3: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/4134205.html
Lil' Liech is wearing a sundress apparently.
Awright. Spiffy. The "W" stands for "Warsaw".
Historicly accurate uniform is historicly accurate.
Ready to get married, married, married, married.
I got this traditional clothing design from a costume website. I don't even want to think about how inaccurate it is. Huge tracts of land look awkward on chibis.
Title: A Tale of Two Dmitriis
Author/Artist: me
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Russia, Poland, mentions of Sweden, various historical figures
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions seizing of vital regions, VERY text heavy, may be educational. Based on actual events, no offense intended.
Summary: Back in the early 17th century Russia didn't quite have a leader...
Random huge blocks of text are historical information. You can skip over those if you want.
Sorry, Mods. If this is too much text I'll go remove it. I suppose it's not strictly necessary ayway.
I'm sorry if I got some stuff wrong. I'm a little afraid my notes are a bit off, but I cross-checked most of this with my textbooks. ... yeah. 8D
Background Info
So... Ivan the Terrible had this son guy named Dmitrii but he died in an accident as a veeerrryyy small child. So! Ivan was succeeded by another one of his sons named Feodor. But Feodor died without leaving an heir. For the first time since the beginning of Russia the place didn't have a definitive leader! (Okay, so there was when they were under the Mongols, but that doesn't count.) Anyway, this guy named Boris Godunov was elected by the zemskii sobor to be the new tsar but then Russia went into this three year long drought and there was a famine and the people blamed him. Anyway, the famine went away and a year later he died.
And now the strip begins...
Who's up for a lil' Russian history~? Here's how this story goes.
Once again there was no sucessor to the throne really and this guy showed up claiming to be Ivan the Terrible's dead son Dmitirii! Go figure! He was all like... "Okai so I was hiding out in Poland and now I'm here to take my rightful place at the throne!" (Dmitrii's mother who was in exile even identified him as Dmitrii.) He was backed by Poland (who kept trying to invade Russia's vital regions at this point in time) and the Russians were all like... "So he's backed by our enemy. Thats not suspicious at all. We haz a ruler with a divine right to rule again! AWRIGHT!" and they stuck him on the throne asap. He got married and became Tsar an' stuff.
Now the returned Dmitrii was actin' kinda strange. He refused to compulsively cross himself, take naps in the afternoon, and didn't go to the bathhouse near as often as your average Russian. The people noticed this and then figured out that it was kinda odd that Poland, who had been their enemy for a looong time, was backing their new leader... Huh. Odd. Conclusion: An imposter! And Polish no less!
So the imposter got stabbed, left out to rot for a few days, burned, and then his ashes got shot out of a cannon back in the general direction of Poland.
Okay, so my notes aren't quite as good on the second false Dmitrii... But here's what I've got.
The second false Dmitrii, or the "Brigand of Tushino" as he was called, came along to Russia not long after the first. He walked around claiming that not only was he the real Dmitrii and that he hadn't died as a child,* he also claimed to be the first false Dmitrii** returned to reclaim the throne. The weird thing is the real Dmitrii's mother identified the second false Dmirtrii as her son. JUST LIKE SHE DID THE FIRST. She wasn't the only one. The first false Dmitrii's wife also identified him as the Dmitrii she'd married. (Though historians think she was threatened into doing this.) And not only that... The people believed them. Again. Well, half of the people did anyway.
Too bad they already had a Tsar. So False Dmitrii II set up court in Tushino (hence the nickname) and managed to get a considerably large number of followers. A very large number.
Now our friend Tsar Vasilii IV was pretty pissed off, so he calls on long-time enemy Sweden to help him get rid of the guy. Thing is, Poland's supporting the F. Dmitrii II, AND they hate the Swedes. So, upon hearing that Vasilli IV had formed an alliance with Sweden they declared war on Russia and managed to take over Moscow and the Kremlin. (Yeah, Moscow was pretty much the capital at this point too. The Kremlin's a huge fortress in the middle of Moscow where the Tsar would live.) Vasilii is exiled and Sweden says "SCREW THIS" and invades Russia too by going through Novgorod. F. Dmitrii II dies somewhere along the way in here around the time Vasilii's exhiled. I think.
Two years later Moscow was liberated by Dmitrii*** Pozharsky ad Kuzma Minin. These two raised a national militia, on their own, and drove out the Polish AND the Swedish army. They're big national heros now.
*After the first false Dmitrii died they dug up the real Dmitrii's remains and brought them to Moscow.
**Who you know, if you read my first comic or this one, was killed, left out in the elements for two days, burned to a crisp, and then had his ashes fired back at Poland with a frickin' cannon.
***Yeah, another Dmitrii. This one's a prince and the guy who fought with him was a butcher.