Le professeur Roberto Gonzalez a publié une critique perspicace et très bien écrite de la dernière contribution d'Eurohistory à l'étude de la dynastie des Romanov : DEATH OF A ROMANOV PRINCE de Terry Boland et Arturo Beéche .
La mort d'un prince Romanov β La vie prometteuse et la mort prΓ©maturΓ©e du prince Oleg Constantinovitch Β« Le cercueil fut descendu dans la tombeβ¦ BientΓ΄t, un tumulus fut Γ©rigΓ© au-dessus. Il fut rapidement recouvert de couronnes, de fleurs et couronnΓ© d'une simple croix de bois. La vie prometteuse du prince Oleg Γ©tait terminΓ©e. Β» La mort d'un prince Romanov suit le bref parcours de la vie du prince Oleg Constantinovitch, l'un des membres les moins connus de la puissante et privilΓ©giΓ©e famille impΓ©riale russe. C'Γ©tait un jeune homme talentueux, dotΓ© d'un gΓ©nie intellectuel et artistique. Oleg Γ©tait le fils douΓ© du talentueux grand-duc Constantin Constantinovitch, qui Γ©crivait sous le pseudonyme de KR. Le grand-duc Γ©tait un ami de TchaΓ―kovski, qui mit en musique ses nombreux poΓ¨mes, qui crΓ©a des cercles littΓ©raires pour ses troupes, traduisit Hamlet en russe et Γ©crivit Le Roi des Juifs, une piΓ¨ce originale que lui et ses fils jouΓ¨rent. Le lecteur suivra le prince Oleg Constantinovitch, sa famille et ses cousins ββimpΓ©riaux, tandis que sa vie le mΓ¨ne Γ travers le luxe des quatre magnifiques palais de la famille : Pavlovsk, Γ TsarskoΓ―e Selo, le palais de marbre Γ Saint-PΓ©tersbourg, le palais Constantin Γ Strelna et le domaine d'Ostashevo prΓ¨s de Moscou, ainsi que de nombreuses vacances en CrimΓ©e. Le jeune prince bΓ©nΓ©ficiait du programme le plus libΓ©ral en matiΓ¨re d'Γ©ducation littΓ©raire, scientifique et artistique. Il fut le premier Romanov Γ Γͺtre inscrit dans une Γ©cole civile et sortit diplΓ΄mΓ© du lycΓ©e impΓ©rial de Saint-PΓ©tersbourg, oΓΉ il remporta en 1913 la mΓ©daille Pouchkine pour ses rΓ©alisations acadΓ©miques. Γ l'Γ’ge de 21 ans, le prince Oleg Constantinovitch Γ©tait au sommet d'une brillante carriΓ¨re et d'une grandeur personnelle lorsque la PremiΓ¨re Guerre mondiale Γ©clata. Puis la tragΓ©die frappa... La Mort d'un prince Romanov emmΓ¨ne le lecteur sur les champs de bataille du front de l'Est de la PremiΓ¨re Guerre mondiale. Des batailles sanglantes se sont dΓ©roulΓ©es dans le nord de la Pologne et dans les lacs de Mazurie en Lituanie. C'est lors des combats que le prince Oleg mena ses troupes dans des charges de cavalerie hΓ©roΓ―ques contre les Allemands.
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Review by Prof. Gonzalezβ¦
I became more familiar with personal character and domestic world of Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia, especially in relation to his large immediate and extended families.
The beginning chapters increased my comprehension of the extent of the Konstantinovichi branch of Romanov wealth and lifestyle.
My appreciation and liking of the Konstantinovichi branch grew as it became apparent that they were not indiscrete contributors to the short-sighted, dynasty-destroying sniping of Nicholas II and Alexandra and the concomitant competition from within the mainline Alexandrovichi, the Vladimirovichi and some members of the Mikhailovichi and Nikhailovichi branches of the Romanov Imperial Family.
Numerous photographs throughout the book enhanced my learning.
Bolandβs explanation of those early weeks of the Russian Empireβs entry into the Great War, especially the insufficient training of calvary regiments on flat fields which singularly failed to prepare horse and rider to navigate the terrain they actually encountered in battle on the Eastern Front, was the first time that civilian me understood this flawed planning.
The differences between German and Russian standards of battle field medical facilities and transports was clarified for me more than ever before in this work.
I was highly conscious of my stunned, then startled reaction by the nature of Prince Olegβs war wound.
Surely, Iβve read and own βGilded Prism,β βMemories of the Marble Palace,β and the diary entries of Olegβs father K.R., but I had not grasped until reading this book the hideousness of Olegβs fatal injury.
Which is just as well, because I am inclined to immerse myself in reading again relevant parts of those other works. Just as I βfollow-upβ by reading for myself some of the references cited in every book I read.
But I was left wondering if better battle field medical facilities located nearer to the Eastern Front could have saved Prince Olegβs life.
As a retired Latino counseling psychologist (culturally imbued with the Sorrowful Mother at the Foot of The Cross, which I find similar to the devotion to the Mother of God Orthodox iconography), the worst human suffering I ever saw in my clinical practice were bereaved parents.
Bereaved parentsβ anguish is most often physically manifested in excruciatingly painful, violent abdominal diaphragm spasms that leads the sufferer to feel like they are being ripped in half.
So, both personally and professionally, I came away with much more compassion for Prince Olegβs father K.R. and, more than ever, for the Princeβs mother βMavra.β
Given my own educational background and decades of field-based live-supervision of graduate level individual and family therapists, I found βDeath of a Romanov Princeβ to be a humanizing case study of one of the lesser known Romanovs.
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