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Excerpts from the Enciklopedija.com article "Semen Grushetska":
On Semen Grushetska's youth (1777-1780)
20 y/o Prince Semen Grushetsk, 1797
Under the care of enlightened statesman Prince Cathrinus Kiær, young Prince Semen Alexeivich Grushetska was educated by Einar Noss, a Goyanean protestant. His strong affection for the ideals of the Supreme Law of Goyanes made such an impression on the Severogotian scion. Semen called himself “a good Parliamentarist.”
Growing up, it became more apparent to Semen that Prince Petr Grushetska, his own father, was scheming to replace him as heir with his younger half-brother Paul who shared most of their father's aristocratic values. To defend himself in high society, Semen sought allies that preferred his company and shared his beliefs. These included Tane Audun Hroarsson, Zivko Saltykov, and Dimitar Partarieu. They all wanted to defeudalize and reform Severogotia into a constitutional parliamentary state like Goyanes.
Excerpts from the Enciklopedija.com article "Petr Grushetska":
Petr Grushetska in the Commission of Seven (1776-1801)
In 1776, Cathrinus died. He was the only person who united the Commission of Seven. It was deeply divided between the two most powerful factions in the Rokzakon: The Yakuvoniak nobility and the Valamian nobility. The Grushetskas were a Yakuvoniak house. But Petr's often refused to align with his own faction. His stubborn neutrality made him an attractive replacement for Cathrinus in the Commission. Despite being a non-hierarchal council, Petr was so loud and outspoken with his controversial, autocratic manner of speaking, that he became the public face of the Commission.
His reckless proposals to rush centralization at the expense of the power of the nobility, removing corrupt aristocrats in the bureaucracy, and improving living conditions for the peasants, cost Petr his initial favorability and led to strong Rokzakon opposition to many of his policies. He also banished Cathrinus’s lovers from Rokzakon Palace, notably Jarl Nikolay Zubov. Many of their relatives were successfully lobbied by Cathrinus for high-paying court appointments. His unpredictability combined with his eccentricity raised questions about his sanity.
Other members of the Commission of Seven were intimidated by Petr. They were unable to refuse most of his demands on matters that did not require Rokzakon approval, particularly court, diplomatic, and military affairs. His partial modernization of the military imposed strict regulations that often punished and removed officers for the slightest of blunders, many of whom were sons of opposition leaders in the Rokzakon.
Assassination of Petr Grushetska (1801)
Petr’s unpopularity with the nobility and the military led to calls for his removal. Concerned by the threat of noble sedition, Semen was approached by General Platon Zubov, Nikolay's older brother, and Tane Audun Hroarsson to plot the ouster of the increasingly-dictatorial commissioner, by force if necessary. On the night of 23 December 1801, Petr was cornered in his grace-and-favor apartment at St. Marijus Palace by General Platon Zubov, Jarl Nikolay Zubov, and other co-conspirators in his own chambers and tried to force the subdued monarch to resign. His refusal led them to murder him instead.
"Semen, my own blood!" — Last words of Petr Grushetska
Semen did not agree to the death of his father. Although the upper classes desired the elder Grushetska's removal, young Grushetska only agreed on the condition that his father was allowed to resign unharmed. The recklessness of the conspirators and the lax security in Petr’s assassination made him doubt the loyalties of both his allies and enemies.
On Semen Grushetska's youth (1777-1780)
20 y/o Prince Semen Grushetsk, 1797
Under the care of enlightened statesman Prince Cathrinus Kiær, young Prince Semen Alexeivich Grushetska was educated by Einar Noss, a Goyanean protestant. His strong affection for the ideals of the Supreme Law of Goyanes made such an impression on the Severogotian scion. Semen called himself “a good Parliamentarist.”
Growing up, it became more apparent to Semen that Prince Petr Grushetska, his own father, was scheming to replace him as heir with his younger half-brother Paul who shared most of their father's aristocratic values. To defend himself in high society, Semen sought allies that preferred his company and shared his beliefs. These included Tane Audun Hroarsson, Zivko Saltykov, and Dimitar Partarieu. They all wanted to defeudalize and reform Severogotia into a constitutional parliamentary state like Goyanes.
Excerpts from the Enciklopedija.com article "Petr Grushetska":
Petr Grushetska in the Commission of Seven (1776-1801)
In 1776, Cathrinus died. He was the only person who united the Commission of Seven. It was deeply divided between the two most powerful factions in the Rokzakon: The Yakuvoniak nobility and the Valamian nobility. The Grushetskas were a Yakuvoniak house. But Petr's often refused to align with his own faction. His stubborn neutrality made him an attractive replacement for Cathrinus in the Commission. Despite being a non-hierarchal council, Petr was so loud and outspoken with his controversial, autocratic manner of speaking, that he became the public face of the Commission.
His reckless proposals to rush centralization at the expense of the power of the nobility, removing corrupt aristocrats in the bureaucracy, and improving living conditions for the peasants, cost Petr his initial favorability and led to strong Rokzakon opposition to many of his policies. He also banished Cathrinus’s lovers from Rokzakon Palace, notably Jarl Nikolay Zubov. Many of their relatives were successfully lobbied by Cathrinus for high-paying court appointments. His unpredictability combined with his eccentricity raised questions about his sanity.
Other members of the Commission of Seven were intimidated by Petr. They were unable to refuse most of his demands on matters that did not require Rokzakon approval, particularly court, diplomatic, and military affairs. His partial modernization of the military imposed strict regulations that often punished and removed officers for the slightest of blunders, many of whom were sons of opposition leaders in the Rokzakon.
Assassination of Petr Grushetska (1801)
Petr’s unpopularity with the nobility and the military led to calls for his removal. Concerned by the threat of noble sedition, Semen was approached by General Platon Zubov, Nikolay's older brother, and Tane Audun Hroarsson to plot the ouster of the increasingly-dictatorial commissioner, by force if necessary. On the night of 23 December 1801, Petr was cornered in his grace-and-favor apartment at St. Marijus Palace by General Platon Zubov, Jarl Nikolay Zubov, and other co-conspirators in his own chambers and tried to force the subdued monarch to resign. His refusal led them to murder him instead.
"Semen, my own blood!" — Last words of Petr Grushetska
Semen did not agree to the death of his father. Although the upper classes desired the elder Grushetska's removal, young Grushetska only agreed on the condition that his father was allowed to resign unharmed. The recklessness of the conspirators and the lax security in Petr’s assassination made him doubt the loyalties of both his allies and enemies.
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