Peter Iii Of Russia - Tumblr Posts
“Hypothetical, a woman who has loathed you, tried to kill you, overthrown you and imprisoned you walks into a room and tells you she loves you. What do you do?”
peter, at all times: 😍😍😍
endless the great scenes - 1/? “i miss my mother today. oh, she would’ve loved this.”
Betsey Pegged Alexander?(Hamilton) Nah, let's be real.
Catherine the Great pegged Peter III.
Iykyk.
Well, I suddenly remembered the movie "Vivat, Midshipmen!" ("Виват, гардемарины!" in russian, i dunno how to translate it right), and in particular this dummy. I didn't really like how he was presented in the movie (especially the 25+ year old actor playing him, although in the movie he is a 15 or smth year old teenager), but I liked his appearance, so I quickly sketched a couple of doodles with this image of him.
GOD, HE'S SUCH A SILLY LITTLE SHIT, I JUST CAAAN'T!
P.S. I also really liked the moment when Peter kicked Brummer in the stomach. He deserved it.
Silly with a dog. I really like the idea of Peter having fun with dogs, so here it is. I also remembered one fanfic based on the movie "Vivat, midshipmen!", where Peter tried to train a dog named Hector. God, I love to draw this silly boy.
P.S. I'm still a bit insecure about my cartoonish artstyle and whether it's acceptable to draw historical figures that way. I hope I'm not offending anyone, sorry in advance.
I also don't know how to draw Peter as an adult yet, so for now he'll be a teenager in my sketches
Peter reading letters from Frederick. I mean, can you blame him for such reaction? This man wrote about how if he were a pagan, he would build temples to Peter and pray to him as to some kind of godlike being. My dude Peter clearly wasn't ready for that. He literally wrote back, "You've confused me so much with your praise that I don't know how to respond." Bro just doesn't understand basic flattery.
Their relationship was such a mess
I'll probably post less in the next couple of weeks since college is killing me
me waking up in the middle of the night after dreaming about mermaid-Peter
My imagination's getting kinda freaky, help
Dear God, please take my brain away. And my hands. Please.
I'll try to draw a colored reference or something like that soon, if the college spares me
I'm not entirely happy with how this piece turned out, but I won't work on it any further because I'm afraid I'll ruin it even more.
SSOOOOOO
This is mermaid Peter. A couple of facts about him, cause I got too silly while drawing him:
• he hates his fish nature and would like nothing more than to become human (he just thinks that humans are cooler than mermaids).
• instead of smallpox scars, he has fish scales visible in places, which he also hates.
• collects all sorts of human trash from the bottom and thus has collected himself a collection of toy soldiers and various army attributes.
• for a long time couldn't understand why the violin doesn't play underwater (fish-brained dummy).
• in his spare time stalks one land-based man named Frederick.
Okay, I'll stop there. Let's just pretend those three posts didn't happen. Please.
Some crappy sketches from college.
Ok, maybe I'll stick around this concept for a little longer. I absolutely love hcs for this silly from @halwardthefirst and especially these ones + my hc that mermaid!Peter likes to eat worms. Y'know, cus he's half fish. And also brainless blorbo.
Couple of sketches before I go to bed. I'm still trying to figure out this man's character, but I feel I'm getting closer.
And yeah we're getting angsty with the last one. I mean, if this goober hates his nature so much, why wouldn't his human idol do the same if they ever met? Once again, thanks to @halwardthefirst, I love your ideas for this messy merman
And also, ngl, sometimes I just wanna find some pathetic man and crush his ribs with my embrace. That's partly the point in this case. I'm very normal about this dead dumbass russian emperor, I swear
A little rant post with fast sketch as a treat.
Sooo. I wrote down some characteristics of this man that I think would rather fit him. Let me note right away: this is not an approach to Peter as a historical figure. With the differences and contradictions in information about him that we are dealing with, it is impossible to say anything specific about him in 90% of cases. Rather, I am creating a character based on my vision, headcanons and some information that I know about him. I am not a historian and do not claim to be historic. Please do not be offended.
So, in terms of character, I imagine Peter as:
• rather naive
• not the most responsible, if he is not interested in the matter
• quite infantile
• rather smart and witty, but has not learned to use his mind properly
• nervous
• impressionable
• quite a simple man
• frivolous
• meticulous
• stubborn
• hot-tempered and generally with a changeable character
• childish
• talkative, but at the same time secretive (although he does not know how to lie convincingly)
• straightforward to the point of rudeness
• a dreamer
• well, and cowardly, let's be honest
There's more other qualities I'd gave him, but I don't remember them at this moment, so let's stop here.
What follows is my lengthy discussion of some of Peter's particular ways of thinking as I see and know them. The topic is vast, so I have only touched on some aspects, of which there are in fact many more. Again, this has very little to do with a real historical figure. Don't take it seriously.
The reason for such a set of personal qualities is most likely the peculiarities of his upbringing (in particular, the years of physical abuse he experienced) and the almost constant loneliness that he faced in Russia. However, in my opinion, he himself is partly to blame for the latter. He probably couldn't cope with the shock of such sudden and large-scale changes in his life (in particular becoming a russian heir all of a sudden) and preferred to remain who he, in his own opinion, always was and should be - a german, a Holstein Duke, a lutheran, etc. This was his psyche's way of protecting his own self, but this same method later played a cruel joke on him. He himself began to create a psychological barrier, a gap between himself and others. In fact, he locked himself in his own little world, the order in which he considered the only correct one. This was banal escapism, to which Peter, stubborn by nature, resorted for twenty years. He resisted any external pressure (for which I blame one specific period of his upbringing and am very angry about this) and was very reluctant to change his behavior pattern, which pushed people away from him even more. He did not want to understand them, and they did not understand him. He got close to those around him only if they supported his hobbies and indulged his inclinations, which often harmed him. And this also later led to his defeat in the political struggle with his wife.
Also, escapism could manifest itself in games with soldiers, passion for the army, and so on. The army was also like a separate small world with its own clear laws and hierarchy, in which Peter felt quite comfortable and safe. There's also place for a compensation for the lack of control over his life and the circumstances with which he lived until the death of his aunt.
It is also worth mentioning the complexes and insecurities that he certainly had. Their list includes his desire to match the image of a soldier (in this case, a Prussian one), which existed at that time. This image was closely associated with such external attributes as drinking, smoking a pipe, and various uniforms and other army things. But these are all external signs that Peter resorted to, since he himself - nervous, sickly, afraid of thunder, blood and the sounds of gunfire - could not match this image. This has a very direct relation to the influence of toxic masculinity on Peter (which is quite a big and complex topic on its own, so I won't go deep into this), as a very subtle person, as well as to another complex of his, connected with his sexual life. There is no clear answer to what the problem was, but most likely it was phimosis. One way or another, Peter's perception as a man suffered because of this, and he understood it perfectly well. That is why he tried to demonstrate and prove that he was a man in all other, external ways. He drank, smoked, showed cruelty that was not typical for him, while not being some kind of evil person. It can also be mentioned that he tried to prove his masculinity first of all to his wife, who, as it happened, took on the leading role in their relationship, but I will not go into this. One way or another, Peter clearly did not overcome these teenage complexes and lived with them until the end of his life (although he clearly wouldn't admit it), which, in fact, is very sad. Man just wasn't meant to be the ruler of an entire country and circumstances only made things worse.
And in the end we have a very lonely man who never managed to grow up and decided to replace reality he didn't like with a little world he only felt comfortable in. He tried to find his happiness, but circumstances and his own personal flaws did not allow him to do so. A very depressing outcome, but the history of the vast majority of royal families is depressing and full of existential drama, so nothing new.
In the end Peter, in my opinion, was neither a fool nor a misunderstood genius. He was just a weirdo. In those conditions and at that time in which he lived, there probably was simply no place for such a person. And that's sad.
I wanna squeeze this man in hug so hard you can't even imagine
Doodles before sleep.
Some more facts about merman!Peter:
• when he is nervous, he unconsciously tugs at his hair and instinctively covers his gills with it
• prefers to swim in rivers so as not to swim out into the open sea (his aunt lives there)
• hates to openly show his fear and gets very angry when he is forced to do so (it applies to human Peter too btw)
• can make a high-pitched dolphin-like screech when suddenly startled
• he can breathe air outside of water, but he uses a human respiratory system to do so, not gills (I haven't fully thought through the anatomy of mermaids in this AU yet, sorry)
• his gills are very sensitive
I just suddenly remembered how about a year ago I read a Frederick/Peter fanfic, where Peter was not killed and he fled to Prussia, where Frederick comforted him once after a nightmare, because this creature was heavily traumatized by the events of the coup.
It was the first fanfic about Peter that I read, and yes, it was definitely an experience. Now this mental image lives in my head rent free whether I like it or not I like it
The fic is in russian, but anyway here ya go :3
https://ficbook.net/readfic/8058164
Hope the link will work.
I just suddenly remembered how about a year ago I read a Frederick/Peter fanfic, where Peter was not killed and he fled to Prussia, where Frederick comforted him once after a nightmare, because this creature was heavily traumatized by the events of the coup.
It was the first fanfic about Peter that I read, and yes, it was definitely an experience. Now this mental image lives in my head rent free whether I like it or not I like it
definitely not me feeling the constant urge to make any sort of content featuring one specific russian emperor until hyperfixation burns itself outta brain