A Dysfunctional Austrian Family

A dysfunctional austrian family

Hi! I recently saw my drawing of Klemens, Schwarzenberg and L'Aiglon on Twitter, and I thought it's been a while since that, so I saw myself forced to do an update :D

(the drawing itself)

(reference)

I believe the worst thing about these two (as with many other historical characters who are fairly local figures in one way or another) is that there is almost no literature even in English. Like, at all.

Fortunately, that’s not the case with Metternich, since he is too big of a mess on a scale of world history, while Schwarzenberg… Well, he is a real deal only for the German-Czech-Austrian world. Thus, the most part of available sources, where he is mentioned, is in German. Or French. And Czech, obviously! 🇨🇿

There is also one Russian biography of Metternich which is absolutely superb and seems to be my favourite (not biased here in any way, for sure~) where their partnership plays a fare role in Klemens’ life narrative. However, that’s practically the only form in which Schwarzenberg exists out there among all those thorough researches on the Napoleonic affairs.

And even then there are no specific works focusing on their common efforts! Everything has to be done ourselves. As usual. 😤💔

I was once reading a Japanese biography written about Metternich.

In that book, there was also a little bit about Schwarzenberg, who was Metternich's "confidant".

I will try to find out more about this relationship………🤔

I was finally able to obtain a book I’ve been wanting for years:

It is absolutely gorgeous. 242 pages of Murat’s letters (including images of the originals) and lovely artwork.

If the spirit of true political partnership doesn’t looks similar to this, I don’t know what else would describe it even more perfectly.👇

I kept that wonderful photo of an exceedingly friendly phone casing for ages, since I knew from the first sight whom it would belong to in a modern!AU of some sort. And now I have a photo of another object (thanks, the almighty Internet) which is like a perfect match to the other! 💜💖

Yep, enormous stress and overwork of the years 1813-1815 is creeping on Metternich - slowly but surely, meanwhile Schwarzenberg has a very straight-forward message behind his amiable and obliging appearances that can be clearly seen between the lines after all he had to deal with at the same period of time…

It is definitely going to lead to a redraw of some sort, thus stay tuned~ ✨

Congratulations on being accepted into the VK Napoleonic ask! (I scroll through it occasionally).

Oh, thank you very much) 🌺

Due to the occasion there’s probably going to be much more info-oriented drawings with details on some biographical aspects or simply about the epoch itself…

At least, I hope so. 😂🇦🇹

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