Jadwiga Andrzejewska (1915–1977), Polish actress. She was very popular in the 1930s.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a poet whose work was definitional to the glamour of Roaring Twenties America. She was born in 1892 and when she was just seven, her mother divorced her father and took her and her sisters to live in Maine. The Millay household was one of strong, intelligent, independent women and the bond they shared is one of the most fascinating I've ever read about.
Millay wrote poetry from a young age, and when she was twenty, her poem Renascence got the attention of a wealthy woman who decided to sponsor her way through college. She went to Vassar and was nearly prevented from walking at her graduation for breaking curfew one to many times, but her classmates all rallied to defend her and the headmaster relented.
People could not stop falling in love with this woman. In her Vassar years, many women fell head over heels for her. She also had many affairs with men. When she did marry, in 1923, she and her husband loved each other dearly, but neither gave up the relationships they had on the side, they "lived like a pair of old bachelors."
Her poetry is beautiful and aside from being the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she was also such an evocative wordsmith. Themes of love, death, and nature are prevalent throughout, but she has a unique twist on them. I really appreciate the way that women are depicted in her work as whole beings with wants and needs outside of being a chaste object of desire for a male narrator.
And also she's very beautiful. I could only attach one picture here but she really is very good to look at.
Konstantin "Koča" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Константин "Коча" Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans. He is on occasion referred to as "the man who saved the Yugoslav Partisans", because it was he who anticipated the weakest point in the Axis lines on the Zelengora–Kalinovik axis, and devised the plan for breaking through it during the Battle of Sutjeska, thus saving Josip Broz Tito, his headquarters and the rest of the resistance movement. After the war, he served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, before moving to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs and spent the final years of his political career as Vice President of Yugoslavia.
Audie Leon Murphy, US Army. Most decorated US soldier in WW2. He was turned away from every other branch for being too short.
When he came back, he became a Hollywood star for a while, even starring in a biopic about his life called “To Hell & Back”. I was married in the home he shared with his sisters at the end of his life.
The salad bar on his chest there? He won them all during the war, serving in Europe.
King George V and his son Prince George . They are easily the Most Handsome Royal Men ever 😘
Otto of Greece (1815-1867) Ruled Greece for 30 years (1832-1862) was also Prime Minister, made two terms. He can steal my money, dignity, he can do whatever he wants on me.
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902-1947), a Free French tank commander and great World War II general overall. Risked his life to escape France by evading the Germans TWICE and swimming across a canal despite being injured, and was able to take the small Free French force and turn it into a competent and strong army. Sadly he died in a plane crash but I believe his legacy should be honored by what he was able to do with the limited resources he had. Leclerc may not be the most attractive man on here but for me he makes up for it in terms of his actions and demeanor, I mean who wouldn’t want a war hero who fought for years in the desert for the good of his country? I just love his beautiful eyes and goofy smile along with his hair and mustache, I am not even hiding it anymore I genuinely need him so bad.
Let me introduce you to Otto of Greece. What do you think, I personally would fall on my knees and give him my soul and my money.
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GASPARE PACCHIEROTTI! (1740-1821)
One of the greatest castrato opera singers of all time, perhaps exceeding Farinelli. Not only a virtuoso possessed of a huge vocal range from soprano to tenor, able to sing any style with great taste and sensitivity to the intention of the composer, a consummate actor, with great intelligence and judgment about drama and music, but also a pleasant, kind, and gentle person, modest to a fault. All the biographers write in praise of his character, and in Susanna Burney's diaries (quoted extensively in Linda Kelley's Susanna, the Captain & the Castrato, in which Pacchierotti is so cute it's criminal, GAH) a portrait emerges of a sweet, shy, and also funny and charming man with a good word for everybody, a serious dedication to his craft, lifelong struggles with stage fright, and deep empathy.
He was also ugly. This didn't stop women from falling in love with him left and right. But he was embarrassed by it and didn't like portraits. The above portrait is flattering, but there are also plenty of surviving images that are... not.
In 2013 Pacchierotti was exhumed and studied by anthropologists. I was really sad to see the commentary around the internet circuit often leaned "freak show", leaning on lurid fascination with bodily difference (rather than similarity, which was also found by the study). He even got skull-shamed for having a weird face. Poor man is 200 years dead and people are still calling him ugly. This was a person who was a lot more than a physical oddity; we can no longer hear his voice, but we can remember his inner beauty.
"If he had not been a singer, he would probably have been a poet; for his ideas, even in current conversation, ran involuntarily into poetical imagery ... when he was highly animated in conversation, the effusions of his imagination resembled his cadences in music, by their excursionary flights, and impassioned bursts of deep, yet tender sensibility. ... Timidity and animation seemed to balance his disposition with alternate sway; but his character was of a benevolence that had no balance, no mixture whatsoever." -Memoirs of Doctor Burney, by Frances d'Arblay
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Have you seen Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil?
He had a full beard and beautiful blue eyes
A recent crush of mine - Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, British soldier and historian, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, 1785-1860
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Tiberius Julius Sauromates II Philocaesar Philoromaios Eusebes
Practically nothing is known about him, but omg isn't he good-looking?! I think that's enough.
Photo taken by me from the "Acropole Museum".
King George V (1865 - 1936) He was a brilliant king (and a very good-looking man with regal demeanor)
During his reign, the world faced significant trials, including WWI and the immense changes that followed. George V provided stability, embodying the steadfastness and resilience that his kingdom needed during those turbulent years.
He worked tirelessly to foster unity and goodwill both at home and abroad.
George believed in the importance of diplomacy and collaboration, forging alliances and strengthening relationships with other nations, all while maintaining the dignity and honor of his nation.
p.s I love his eyes and his beard
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Behold Branko Miljković (1934-1961), a Serbian poet, often called 'the Prince of Poetry'. One of his most famous poems was 'Uzalud je budim' ('In Vain I Wake Her'). He was super cool and talented, I mean look at him!
Stanislav Shatsky. Is he a history crush of an elder teacher from my uni? He seems to be. Her lecture was, like, "He was so handsome in his youth and he had a beautiful voice!" So... He worked with street children, with difficult children in the late Russian Empire and the early USSR. He helped them to enter into a rich intellectual and social life, to realize their importance and abilities. An innovator, an experimenter. Something like that.
So yes. I dedicate this post to an elderly teacher from my university being so enthusiastic about a historical personality.
their love story is so heartbreaking yet so sweet and rare.
the fact that Nicholas always supported his wife, no matter what, he! He helped Alix even when she blamed herself for having given birth to a sick child...
he accepted the truth, that's why he is a hero in my eyes😌 I used to read their love letters, danger my boyfriend was better than Shakespeare! ngl I fall in love with him the way he treated Alix, no lover always by his side😩 find you a man like Nicky who can give you the princess treatment 💅✨
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Nicholas II of Russia For our 100th post, I’m going to do one of my personal top history crushes. [This mod is a huge sucker for the Romanovs; this may get long.]
Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia, and part of the famous Romanov house. He was both a cutie and a downrightgood lookin’hunk of man. He also had a perfect beard. And I wish he were my papa, because he was a happy, adorable father as well. But his story is not a very happy one.
When he succeeded his father in 1894, he had very little experience; unfortunately for him, it showed. He thought expansion into Manchuria sounded fabulous, but Japan kicked his ass, resulting in riots in Russia. In January 1905, on ‘Bloody Sunday’, the army in St Petersburg shot at a crowd demanding radical reforms. People really started hating on Nick, and he pretty much was forced to grant a constitution and establish a parliament, the Duma. Yeah whatever, he still had a lot of control.
So WWI comes along and Nicky decides “HEY I’m the TSAR and I have POWER, so I’m going to directly command the Russian army!” Bad move, Nicho. This only lead to every failure that the military felt to be directly associated with him. His image was crying.
Nicholas stayed out of the public eye a lot [no surprise there], letting his wife, Alexandra, be the voice of the government. She wore the pants in their relationship, anyway. Russia was looking pretty awful by this time; people were broke and starving, and they had Alexandra and her BFF Rasputin to point their shaky fingers at.
In December 1916, Rasputin was [finally] killed, and a few months later huge riots and demonstrations had taken over St. Petersburg. The army finally said “screw you” and Nick had no alternative but to abdicate. A sad little provisional government was established in their place, later overthrown by the Bolsheviks.
Here’s where things get super sad for the former tsar. So the Bolsheviks decide to keep Nicholas and his family as prisoners, essentially. On July 17 1918, as anti-Bolsheviks approached Yekaterinburg, the family was moved to another room; they thought they were being put somewhere more safe because of the protesters. Just kidding! Here’s some executioners with revolvers pointed at you instead [this was probably Vladimir Lenin’s doing].
They say Nick’s last words were “you know not what you do.” He was the first one to die. His 4 girls survived the first hail of bullets; the sisters were wearing over 1.3 kilograms of diamonds and gems on their clothing, which served as freaking armor. The poor girls were then stabbed with bayonets and shot at close range in the head.
And so ends the sad, fail life of Nicholas II. Welp, at least he looked good.