Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Meet Igor the Angered Russian
For my Nationalism/Great War I have decided to write a diary of a disgruntled Russian citizen named Igor. Igor is inherently grumpy, but becomes especially steamed when the Russian Government fails to satisfy him. He is not very fond of the Tsar, often mocking his "divine right". Igor hailed from Pokrovskoye, the same Russian village that Rasputin had lived in before he was adopted by the royal family. Igor rejoices in the assassination of Rasputin because he believed that Rasputin was a fraud and his rise to power only led him to lose faith in the Tsar. He recognized that Russia was instrumental in starting World War One because of its religious ties to Serbia. He was ecstatic when the Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown by the bolshevik party and actually fought in a militia for the Bolshevik party in the Bolshevik Revolution
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Good idea to write from the perspective of a grumpy old man! It'd be funny to see how he responds to everything going wrong with the war. He seems very knowledgeable of what is going on in Russia, and also the Russian history, so he can form some strong opinions!
ReplyDeleteGreat choice of character and your character's residence. It sounds like your character has been around for a while, so it could be interesting to see how he compares the past and present, old with the new.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very original character. There is certainly a lot of historical context to be explained, which I am very interested in reading.
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