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| Foreign Service of the Russian Empire; St. Petersburg, Russia | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 26 2014, 04:59 AM (522 Views) | |
| Sneakyflaps | Aug 26 2014, 04:59 AM Post #1 |
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[align=center] [/align][align=center] [/align][align=center] "By the Grace of God, We Nicholas, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Tauric Chersonesus, Lord of Pskov, and Grand Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Finland; Prince of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigalia, Samogitia, Bielostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugor, Perm, Vyatka, Bogar and others; Sovereign and Grand Prince of Nizhni Novgorod, Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Beloozero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and Ruler of all Northern territories; Sovereign and Lord of Iveria, Kartalinia, the Kabardinian lands and Armenian province: hereditary Sovereign and Ruler of the Circassian and Mountain Princes and of others; Sovereign of Turkestan, Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, and Oldenburg, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth.[/align] Government: Absolute Monarchy Tsar: Nicholas II Royal House: Romanov Tsaritsa: Alexandra Feodorovna Tsesarevich: Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich Capital: St. Petersburg Cabinet: Panslavic (Reactionary) Religion: Orthodoxy Internal policies Russia has over the last many decades improved vastly, our armies are second to none and yet they are not complete. With the report by Yudenich released a decade ago, it showed clear fault in the military system of the Empire and as such the Imperial Army reforms will continue to be carried out. Another worry is the Imperial navy, during the last decade the Tsar has focused on building up the ports which can supply such a navy. Furthermore the literacy of the Russian Empire has been steadily increasing, to the point where most Russians can read, a further focus will be on this to make sure that the last roughly 20% will be able to read as well. Finally while Russia has been industrializing during the last many decades, the last decade saw a rise to almost double the size of the Russian industry that was during 1890. As such more efforts and resources will be spent on expanding the increasingly large Russian industry, so we can able to keep the growth which has been held so far, and to make sure that Russia will stay at the forefront of the industrial revolution. Foreign diplomacy in Europe Europe has been thrown into one war after another, many of them have had Russia fight on one of the sides. As such the Tsar will continue to keep a keen interest in the affairs of the European theater. We also wish for closer relations with the German Empire, as well as the continued good relations between Russia, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turks. It is an alliance which has kept the balance and the peace for the better part of a century by now. We feel that should that trust and cooperation falter and collapse then it is truly a sad day as it will bring disaster to us all. We also view the French with distain as they are entangled in one war after another, most of the time at their own fault and at their own greed. We furthermore condemn the Spanish whom seems to be nothing more than a French puppet, and surely in the end will pay for such a stance. Russia is also worried about the state of Lombardia and Venetia, the way the war was carried out has left issues which will remain for a long time. Russia does not recognize the two said provinces as Italian land as such should any attack them then Russia will not voice an objection. Foreign diplomacy in Asia The Tsar is happy to continue the close relationship and correspondence which we have had with the Empire of Japan. |
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| Sneakyflaps | Aug 26 2014, 04:59 AM Post #2 |
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Alliances Treaties Sphere of interest Nations under the protection of the Russian Empire |
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| Magister Equitum | Aug 30 2014, 12:01 PM Post #3 |
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[align=center] TO RUSSIA: REGARDING GERMAN UNITY 1836 [/align] I am very glad to have received your letter and am pleased to understand that dear Charlotte [Alexandra] and the grand-children are well. Tsaravich Alexander must be turning eighteen this year, and has grown into a fine man. And, of course, playful Constantine must be reaching nine, with his younger borthers Nicolas and Michael following suit at eight and four years of age. And the girls—Maria, Olga and Alexandra—have grown into elegant women; I have no doubt that each will find most suitable husbands. Relating to the matter of German Unification and the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna, we refer the Russian Government to Article VI of the Treaty of Paris and the entire chapter, Act IX of the Vienna Agreement itself, which calls for the formation of a German Confederation as an essential element to preserving continental peace. Recognising that the eventual process of German unification is entirely consistent with the international agreement reached in Vienna following the Napoleonic Wars, we take reservation with the suggestion that Prussia is “eagerly ready to discard” the tenets of the Congress System. We assure the Russian Government that the pursuit of German unity is entirely consistent with the principles laid out at the Congress of Vienna following the Napoleonic Wars. As has been communicated to St. Petersburg via private channels, the Kingdom of Prussia intends to pursue German Unification by means of a gradual process, beginning with the formation of the North German Confederation. In this aim, it remains our foremost intention to engage our neighbours in active diplomacy on the subject and to find consensus where possible. We agree fully with the Russian Government and have no doubt that the eventual formation of a Unified Germany remains a matter for international dialogue. Indeed, we have from the outset opened informal channels of communication with all our neighbours regarding the matter. The Kingdom of Prussia is in no particular hurry to unify the German peoples, and has always been receptive to the concerns of our neighbours and will continue to maintain our policy of open and honest diplomacy on the subject. |
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| Slayzer | Sep 1 2014, 06:46 PM Post #4 |
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[align=center] Our greetings to the mighty Tsar of Russian Empire. Republic of France regrets previous aggression towards your great nation by Napoleon Bonaparte. Unfortunately we can not bring back the dead but we can prevent further bloodshed by securing a peace in Europe. Therefore we invite Russian Empire to sign a defensive alliance with France on 15th January 1836 at Versailles. [align=left]:BIFRA:[/align][align=right]:BIFRA:[/align][align=center] |
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| Endothelium | Sep 2 2014, 12:28 AM Post #5 |
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United States of America greets our neighbour Russia in Alaska. We would like to know slightly more about Russian intentions in the Pacific sea, since USA has it's own ambitions in the area as well. |
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| Maggix | Sep 3 2014, 03:19 PM Post #6 |
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The Kingdom of Spain understands Russias interest in Africa and their stance towards the Western powers, but at the same time we hope that the Russian Empire will work towards preserving peace in Europe. Conflicts over colonies should be settled diplomatically, not by brute force.
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| Robieman | Sep 3 2014, 08:00 PM Post #7 |
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Who Bitch Dis
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Our monarch, although nearing abdication, would like arrange for a meeting as soon as the Russian embassy can find the time for it. One of the few goals he wishes to complete before retiring is to see Finland in Swedish hands. We understand if your majesty may be too busy or principally unwilling to negotiate over the region, but it would break our crowns heart not to hear us out. |
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| Magister Equitum | Sep 10 2014, 11:09 AM Post #8 |
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[align=center] REGARDING FRENCH IMPERIALISM 1847 [/align] The Prussian Diplomatic Corps is pleased to hear from St. Petersburg and shares the Russian perspective that the sudden unprovoked aggression on the part of France is a most troubling sign. The Continent is all too familiar with French expansionism and vowed, at the Congress of Vienna, that such dangerous imperialism would be held in check. We are pleased to understand that Russia will join in upholding the principles established in Vienna. Regarding the offer presented by Vienna and St. Petersburg, the Kingdom of Prussia indicated at the time our intention to maintain cordial and communicative relations with both Austria and Russia and declined to sign a full-fledged alliance on the grounds of maintaining a semblance of balance in Continental politics. In short, we put the aim of European diplomacy before our own self-interest. We are pleased, however, to draw it to the attention of the Russian Foreign Ministry that the unprovoked French invasion, with Dutch auxiliaries, has brought an end to such a magnanimous policy. |
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| icendoan | Sep 11 2014, 02:59 PM Post #9 |
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Seine Exzellez, We are most grateful to recieve the letter sent form the Russian Embassy earlier today, and that the new Kaiser is most charmed, and expresses both his warmest regards for the Czer and Czarina, but also his longstanding wish to maintain the current excellent relations and alliance between our two empires. [align=center] mit besten Grüßen, Die Botschaft von Österreich [/align] |
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| Yenzen | Sep 17 2014, 10:51 AM Post #10 |
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We are honored by the offer and, though we suffered a defeat, that the war of Sardinian aggression showed that our nations are ready to join together in defense of a just cause. We shall sign the treaty once again. - Abdülmecid I
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| Magister Equitum | Sep 17 2014, 04:40 PM Post #11 |
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[align=center] THE LEAGUE OF THE THREE EMPERORS 1856 [/align] The Kingdom of Prussia congratulates the Russian Foreign Ministry -- as well as the Austrian and Ottoman Ministries -- on securing the renewal of the League of the Three Emperors, a coalition that has found common cause not only on conceptual grounds—to wit, the preservation and promotion of the divine right of kings – but also practical purposes, most notably in the joint action in the Apennine Peninsula and Scandinavia against the French-led alliance. |
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| Magister Equitum | Sep 24 2014, 12:50 PM Post #12 |
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[align=center] LETTER TO RUSSIA 1865 [/align] The North German Foreign Ministry was most pleased to receive the recent letter from St. Petersburg. It is true that the loss of life as a result of the on-going strife over Elsaβ-Lothringen has indeed been considerable, and all Prussia grieves the loss of her sons in this costly but essential conflict. It is with steely resolve, however, that we face our enemy, and find some sombre consolation in the fact that they have suffered greater casualties than we, and may in time be induced to accept peace. We feel it essential, as well, to reiterate what we have communicated to St. Petersburg via private channels: that is, our gratitude to the Russian General Staff for their astute military advice, which has been greatly appreciated by the North German High Command. As to the matter of Schleswig-Holstein, the North German Diplomatic Corps retains every hope that a reasonable solution short of war can be found. As such, we intend to pursue careful and direct negotiations with Stockholm on the subject and have renewed confidence that a diplomatic answer to the Schleswig-Holstein Question can be found. |
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| Claudius8110 | Oct 1 2014, 06:23 AM Post #13 |
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The straw that stirs the drink.
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![]() Australia sends greetings to the Tsar and assures him that all Russians who have moved to Australia are being well treated. Australia has 100% employment and a standard of living made very well by the British sphere of influence. We also are glad to see that Russia and Japan have remained at peace for nearly half a century. Were Russia and Japan to find themselves at odds, Australia would welcome more of their people to our country. |
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| Magister Equitum | Oct 1 2014, 11:50 AM Post #14 |
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[align=center] RUSSIAN AFRICA 1874 [/align] The Auswartiges Amt has been tasked to convey to the Russian Foreign Ministry the continued good-will and friendship that the German Government feels towards our friends and neighbours in St. Petersburg. The German Empire again finds herself at war with her perennial enemy, the French, who have chosen once again to travel upon the path of Continental aggression, a path which leads to direct conflict with Germany and contributes to instability and unnecessary loss of life. We have proceeded, on various occasions, to illustrate for the Quai d’Orsay the folly of such a course, but, as evidenced by the resumption of war between France and Germany, have not succeeded in convincing the French to desist from the needless slaughter that is a grave characteristic of Continental conflict. Alas, let us not trouble the Russian Government with such matters, and turn instead to a happier subject: the successful entrance of the Russian Empire into Africa. The German Foreign Ministry welcomes the Russian presence in Africa and is delighted to understand that Russia will be participating in the civilising mission, bringing the virtues of Western progress and the light of Christian civilisation to the backward peoples of the Dark Continent. We understand that there is a minor dispute between St. Petersburg and Turin relating to the extent of territory over which Russia will administer, and we wish to express our hope that such matters will be favourably resolved. |
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| Sneakyflaps | Oct 3 2014, 05:33 AM Post #15 |
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[align=center] [/align]The Tsar of Russia is overjoyed that the alliance between the three Emperors will continue and prosper and as such heartily is willing to help the governments of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in any way they might need. |
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| Sneakyflaps | Oct 24 2014, 06:33 AM Post #16 |
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[align=center] [/align][align=center] Russian report on the years following the Great War [/align] With the defeat of Imperial Russia as well as her alliance, the Ottoman Turks and Austria-Hungary during the last Great War, it managed to send shockwaves through the Empire. The Tsar himself being very distraught at the defeat of the Imperial army, demands for modernization spread like wildfire out over Russia, people demanded that such a disaster could not and should not happen again. With the heavy critique of the High Command as well as the Tsar, riots broke out in several parts of the Empire and were quickly put down. The worst attack however came in 1891 when the Tsar was attacked in the square of the Winter Palace, he attacked by an assassin who stabbed a dagger into his chest, while the damage was limited and the dagger only pierced roughly a cm into the skin, it left the Tsar with a badly damaged mental state, that one of his own subjects would get so close to kill him was beyond his imagination. However the uprisings quickly faded later in the year, the Imperial General Count Anton Yudenich had been promoted following the war, and was now one of the senior military advisers within the Russian regime. [align=center] [/align][align=center] Count Anton Yudenich [/align] In December 1891 he released a report on the state of the Russian military, together with the Russian infrastructure which was needed to support it. Before the report was even finished it had already gained great press and reputation in Russia, Yudenich, being seen as a hero of the Russian people and military, as well as a man being known and feared within the ranks of the enemy generals. He had put his name on the international stage following the conquest of East and West Prussia in the war, as well as his great tactical mind, being praised in Russia as one of the most supreme offensive generals they ever had. [align=center] [/align][align=center] Small town on the outskirts of Torun following the battles [/align] He outlined that while the war might have been lost, it had also been a victory for Russia and their soldiers. The effiency which the Russian soldier thought with, as well as the conquest of Eastern and Western Prussia which was mere examples of that showed that the war while officially a defeat, was a victory of the power of the Russian army. Despite this report, many in the Russian Empire still wondered why the Empire lost, but the general feeling quickly faded and the government led by the Regent, Tsesarevich Nicholas, who was taught and supported by Sergei Witte, the Russian minster of Finances, started gaining support once again and the riots ended. The Tsesarevich and Yudenich, who had become closer friends during the last few years and even more so during the war. Began to rework the Russian military, which was a project that could make even the most efficient administrator go insane by the sheer size of the project. What furthermore made it difficult, was the sheer amount of new recruits which had joined the army following the war, many inspired by either the new government or by Yudenich and his victories being romanticized in many new works of art. [align=center] [/align][align=center] The Russian soldiers [/align] In 1894 the death of Tsar Alexander III sent the nation into grief but yet it was as if time had not stopped. While the nation mourned, they looked towards the future under the coming Tsar, who had already controlled the nation since 1891 when his father, Alexander, had shut himself away in the Winter Palace until his death. [align=center] [/align][align=center] Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II [/align] With the death of the previous Tsar, a change once again happened. The new Tsar being more in line with his grandfather, Tsar Alexander II “The Reformer”, than with his own father. As such the change in foreign policy quickly followed, Russia once again sought closer ties with the German Empire, as well as shook off some of the desires of his father, who had sought closer relationships with the Italians. It was largely due to this new political desire that Tsar Nicholas in 1894, quickly after his coronation became wed to Alix of Hesse. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, and cousin to the newly crowned Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, upon her marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, she took upon herself the regal name of Alexandra Feodorovna. But even more importantly, the new Tsar continued the industrialization which he had worked hard to achieve even during his regency. Over the course of the last 10 years, the Russian industry had grown to almost twice its size in 1890. [align=center] [/align][align=center] Russian industrialization [/align] As such many Russians had their lives greatly improved, with the new flow of money that came into the Empire it allowed people who in their youth, barely had enough to keep food on the table, to actually buy new modern things such as radios. Russian demographics of 1900 Government: Absolute Monarchy Ruler: Tsar Nicholas II Government: Panslavic (Reactionary) Population: 133.649 million Land area: Well that is a damn good question. Ethic groups of Russia: 48,7% Russian, 17,8% Ukrainian, 4,6% Byelorussian, (71,1% accepted cultures) 8,2% Polish, 20,7% other, GDP: 39.658 Billion (million with the eco analyzer but that is a low number compared to history) (2nd), PR. capital 29.673 (mediocre) Literacy: 81,4% Economy: Industrializing (In a boom) Army: 1.117.000 in active service, 552.000 in training and 1.956.000 to be mobilized in case of war. |
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| CynicalLiberal | Oct 24 2014, 11:46 AM Post #17 |
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Spain has carefully thought over every aggressive war of France it partook in. In regards to the defensive war that France finds itself in, Spain is honor-bound to aid a long-term ally. Perhaps Russia should remember that before aiding France, Spain was under constant threat from certain parties. No other nation offered to aid Spain, so Spain took the best offer it was provided at the time. Spain has nothing against Russia nor it's allies, nor even Germany, but Spain does have enemies that France used to be able to aid against. If Russia would be willing to offer aid against the true enemies of Spain, perhaps Spanish foreign policy could be reworked. Until then, have a pleasant day.
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