The relationship between Russia and Germany was quite deep, especially between the royal family. The six Tsarist Russian monarchs before Alexander III all had German blood. Starting from Alexander III, the Tsarist Russian court and nobles began the process of russification. The relationship between the two sides began to cool down and gradually became hostile, and most of the reasons fell on Alexander III's wife, Queen Maria.

The queen's father was Christian IX, known as the European grandfather.[]

His eldest son was King Frederick VIII of Denmark. He married Princess Lovisha, the daughter of King Karl XV of Sweden. He had four sons and four daughters. Christian IX of the eldest grandson inherited the Denmark throne, called Christian X, and the next grandson inherited the Norwegian throne, called Hakon VII.

His eldest daughter Alexandra married Edward, the eldest son of Queen Victoria of England. After Edward ascended the throne, he was called Edward VII. Their descendants ruled Britain until the later generations of King I lived.

After many twists and turns, the second son later became the King of Greece, known as George I. He reigned for more than 50 years and established a relatively democratic constitutional monarchy. Through the war with the Ottoman Empire, he expanded Greek territory and successfully held the Summer Olympics in 1896. After the end of the First Balkan War, when the Balkan Alliance formed by Greek Prime Minister Elefsellios Venizelos was about to win, George I was assassinated in Greece's newly acquired territory Thessaloniki, after which Greece gradually fell into turmoil.

The second daughter is Alexander III's wife, and now she is renamed Maria Feodorovna.

In addition, Christian IX also had a young son named Valdema, who was the most ineffective in the family. Although Christian IX was the great-grandson of King Christian III of Denmark and Norway, in the past three hundred years, countless defilements occurred in history. The glory of the family is no longer as glorious as it was back then. Christian IX's original territory was just a small priest named Schleswig Holstein, composed of two states. Later, he had good luck and married a Danish princess as his wife, and his life began to rise to prominence. In 1863, he officially became the King of Denmark.

Perhaps it was his own experience that inspired Christian IX. When his children became adults, he began to marry the European royal family. Over time, the family grew up and he also received the title of European grandfather.

But life is unsatisfactory, ten things.

Logically speaking, Christian IX became the king of Denmark, so the territory naturally included Denmark and the lands of Schleswig Holstein, whom he originally ruled. But some people raised objections to this and firmly opposed it, and this person was Otto von Bismarck!

It is said that in 1861, William I had just replaced the throne of crazy Frederick William IV and became the king of Prussia. At this time, Prussia was in trouble with internal and external troubles and the mountains and rivers were broken. William I began to expand his army and prepare for war as soon as he came to power, but then he had a conflict with the parliament. As a last resort, he had to accept Bismarck's orders to become the inner minister, but Bismarck was stubborn and as long as he became the prime minister, he refused to take office. In desperation, in 1862, William I made him the ambassador to France.

Later in the House election, the liberals won an absolute victory. Their political propositions were completely opposite to those of King P.P. As soon as they took power, they stopped all the allocations for military reform. Under boycotts, the government and the House of Commons fell into a deadlock, and under such a major contradiction, Bismarck became the only possible candidate to become Prime Minister.

On September 23, 1862, William I finally recalled Bismarck and appointed him as prime minister and minister of foreign affairs.

On September 26, Bismarck firmly said to the parliament in his first speech in the House of Commons: "The major issues of the present day can not be solved through speeches and majorities' resolutions...but should be solved with iron and blood!"

Because of this sentence, Bismarck was nicknamed "Iron Blood Prime Minister". Then William I said to Bismarck: "I know the ending very well. They will cut off your head in front of my window in the Opera Square, and then cut off my head later."

Bismarck responded: "Since you will die sooner or later, why do you die more decently? ... Whether you die on the gallows or on the battlefield, there is no difference... You must fight to the end!"

William I deeply agreed with this, so the king and his subjects appreciated each other and formed a strong relationship, which sounded a bit like Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's affectionate feelings.

Of course, Bismarck is also a mortal, and there is actually no good way to resolve conflicts between the government and the House of Commons. This problem is broken at the root. So we settled down and adopted the Great Shintoshi to attract the public's attention through external contradictions, thus temporarily putting the problem on hold. To put it bluntly, it is the same as magic.

At this time, Prussia was far from the strength of World War II decades later. It challenged the world's strongest, and pushing the Eurasian and African continents was to commit suicide. So picking the soft persimmons was the best choice. Unfortunately, Denmark became this soft persimmon.

Speaking of which, Prussia attacked Denmark, there was no reason. Before, due to the split of Prussia, Denmark, as its northern neighbor, often interfered in Prussia's internal affairs and interfered in internal affairs. The two sides had already had many conflicts, and the few Prussians who were preparing for military affairs were just an excuse to send troops.

In 1861, Denmark planned to incorporate the states of Schleswig and Holstein into its territory, but Bismarck began to provoke trouble at that time, leaving an excuse for war. What he did later was to communicate with other European countries and not allow them to interfere in the matter. Then, due to the alliance between Austria, he jointly launched a military force in Denmark.

In the Treaty of Vienna signed on October 30, 1864, Denmark gave up the two places. On August 14, 1865, the two countries reached the Gastein Delegation, which assigned Holstein to Prussia, and Schleswig belonged to Austria. But this was actually Bismarck's conspiracy, because the Schleswig obtained by Austria was not only small in size, but also surrounded by Prussia. In this way, Austria would easily conflict with Prussia, so this was a fuse that pushed Austria to the war with Prussia, and there was indeed a war afterwards.

A few years after Christian IX took over the throne of the Denmark King, his original small principality was divided by Prussia and Austria. However, he did not dare to fight, so he could only complain to his children with anger, saying that his father was his second daughter, the Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna. After blowing a bunch of pillows in his husband's ears, he finally blew away the blood relationship between the Tsarist Russian royal family and the Prussian royal family, becoming increasingly hostile.

In order to better meet the German confrontation that is now in Europe, Tsarist Russia has developed relations with Germany's archenemy France, which is also an important reason why France sent envoys to St. Petersburg this time.


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