{"id":45135,"date":"2018-10-08T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=45135"},"modified":"2024-04-25T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T04:00:55","slug":"the-romanovs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2018\/10\/08\/the-romanovs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romanovs: A Look at the Historical Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
On October 12, 2018, Amazon will release The Romanoffs<\/em>: a new show from Mad Men<\/em> creator Matthew Weiner. I am fairly excited about that, as I imagine many are, insofar as Mad Men<\/em> was one of the best TV shows to ever grace our screens.<\/p>\n It was also, though, a show that paid exceptional attention to historical detail; down to making sure they got the weather right if they told us what the date was. A pink cake box<\/a> aside, Mad Men<\/em> was exceptional in its historical accuracy, and so I imagine that this new show—even if it is not set in an historically distant time—will play with, or at least allude to, the actual history of the Romanov <\/a>dynasty in Russia.<\/p>\n So, I set about doing a little research. I am in no way claiming to be an expert in Russian history, and there are a good 300 years of it that one could dig into, but I thought that at least a little something about the end of the era and its beginning might be helpful to set the stage for what I hope is another exceptional show from Matthew Weiner.<\/p>\n The Romanov dynasty began with the ascension of Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov in 1613. The country was exiting what has come to be known as the \u201cTime of Troubles<\/a>\u201d that began with the death of Feodor Ivanovich<\/a> in 1598 and included a terrible famine that was apparently responsible for the deaths of some 1\/3 of the population. Things were not good in Mother Russia.<\/p>\n