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The Real Rulers of Russia | Not Who You Think

The Romanov dynasty is one of the most famous royal families in history. Almost none of it is true. For three centuries, the Russian Empire was governed by a machine that had almost nothing to do with Russian blood. Lithuanian princes occupied the noble councils. A German dynasty sat on the throne. Baltic Germans ran the armies and built the secret police. The official narrative was constructed on top of all of it, carefully, deliberately, to make sure nobody looked too closely. Using the Velvet Book of sixteen eighty-seven, the genealogical records of the Gediminids, and the documented careers of Baltic German commanders during the Napoleonic Wars, we trace exactly who held real power inside the Russian Empire — and why the history books have been telling a cleaner story than the evidence supports. #russianempirehistory #romanovdynasty #Gediminids