Russian nobility was actually remarkably francophile/phone, as a sort of self conscious thing after around Peter I's time/ you can read (or watch an adaptation) of tolstoy's war and peace to see a point in time where this becomes kinda problematic (the Napoleonic wars). But many aristocrats would almost exclusively speak french and do things like seek out french speaking tutors and domestic staff. similar problems during the first world war, since much of the higher nobility also had mixed foreign backgrounds (irish, baltic german, etc.) - but of course France was allied with Russia at the time. So a french name is really not implausible for the child of a Russian noble c. 1900-1920.ikinari yuri 👍
thank you for the chapter. was anybody surprised the character named Charlotte was a noble??????? when she announced she came from a family of factory workers i was just ???? what fuckin kind of factory workers would name their kid a french name??????
i dont think ive ever even heard a noble family name their kid Sharlotta. it's just too french for russia.
anyhow, japanese logic. i eat my yuri crumbs anyways thank you
It's not really specific to the Russian nobility, the French culture was as predominant in Europe for a long time as the Anglo culture has become nowadays, and French was the lingua franca of the European aristocracy and beyond.Russian nobility was actually remarkably francophile/phone, as a sort of self conscious thing after around Peter I's time/ you can read (or watch an adaptation) of tolstoy's war and peace to see a point in time where this becomes kinda problematic (the Napoleonic wars). But many aristocrats would almost exclusively speak french and do things like seek out french speaking tutors and domestic staff. similar problems during the first world war, since much of the higher nobility also had mixed foreign backgrounds (irish, baltic german, etc.) - but of course France was allied with Russia at the time. So a french name is really not implausible for the child of a Russian noble c. 1900-1920.