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The paradox of the situation is, comrades, that in Romania there is no king. Romania - Republic from 1947 year. But look how, in a non-existent King has a daughter who lives in Oregon.
It reminds me of how at a conference I met a Russian prince. Or graph - I just do not remember who he was there, but it just so and were presented with a title of nobility. "And now the prince of this report is something" - all grown-up.

After the conference, I decided to go to the prince and ask what kind of country it is the prince. In Russia there is no nobility in France, where the Russian prince lives from birth, the same way there is no nobility. From what the hell did he then Prince?

Because someone's heir? Well, you never know who is whose heir. In those days, when the nobility was, the people, of course, recognize the right of hereditary nobility, but that does not mean that they recognize him until now. In those days, in addition recognized and division of people into the class, and separate legislation for each class of people - gender, race, rank, and so on. But if someone's distant ancestor possessed once slaves in the United States, the US current descendant of no longer has the right to own the descendants of those slaves, how much would he not assured everybody in their own right to the inheritance.

Son of the prince, king, or a graph, I do not know, Baron of the country where the nobility and the monarchy abolished - exactly the same one as distant descendant of the leader of the Iroquois, or Genghis Khan. And the fact that they still feel as if they belong to any special rights (even if it is only right to call himself "Prince"), it means no more than the opinion of psychiatric patients, confident that he - the reincarnation of Napoleon crowned by the Galactic Council Emperors Galaxy. And some respect, they called themselves "counts", they will except in the eyes of the weak-minded. Not to mention the fact that in these times of birth is no longer considered a merit born.

Naturally this thing works both ways: birth in the family of the former prince does not make one above the other, but you can not accuse someone just because he was born in such a family. However, what people in this way seems it did so, the Khoi-what about it says a foreign citizen wants himself out of the blue to add credibility. Wants to take credit and the virtual services to rise above others.

By the way, with the Russian aristocracy historically turned out that way. Initially, the aristocrats were in fact military caste. Their feudal inheritance to give them a reason, and in exchange for the obligation in the event of war on their own equip themselves and their people all necessary. Many, then, of course, belonged to topple them happiness as thanks Heaven for the very existence of this people - especially those who have not received the inheritance as a result of committed feats, but simply inherited - but duties are not removed even with them. There, somewhere between private property and service to the state, and it's all settled down.

But over time, the aristocracy still more ofigevala priori greatness of their own, pushing the abolition of more and more responsibilities, but adding up power, until finally, Catherine II did not put a fat point, meaning the final process. Since the nobility could almost everything and there was nothing for it is bound. This, if anything, was in the late eighteenth century.

By inertia particularly ideological still continued to do something useful - joined the army, for example - but the trend can not be fooled. If you can and want to, on average it will do, but because the October Revolution was almost entirely the nobility class parasite. That, of course, could not but affect the attitude of the general public to the said class.

Part of the nobility, who still retained decency, about his nobility forgotten and were involved in the construction of the Soviet state. But it was a relatively small part. And the part that more, or simply fled abroad or joined the ranks of white. Many now believe that White would return with all my heart monarchy, preservation of the Orthodox faith and the salvation of the country, but no, most commanders of groups, collectively called "white", like any other: rescue, preserve and return to their own privileges - noble, bourgeois, property and stuff like that. That "it is presumptuous cattle" thrown out of power back to the plow, namely, factories and special rights returned to their former owners. Some were for the sake of this even willing to hand over Russia, which they supposedly protected, anyone who rein Bolsheviks. For example, the British.

This sense of narrative is that these supposedly princes, counts and dukes in the case of Russia is not even synonymous with "former employees of the Russian state" and synonymous with "class parasite." And proud of their origin to their descendants succeed only because we over twenty years on television regularly broadcast noble balls, cadets and crunch French bread.

Allegedly, it was the color of the nation, who left. Horseradish there. The color of the nation it was a hundred years ago, and then only with great reservations, plus amendments to the peculiarities of those times, and by the end of the nineteenth century from this litter except that a small handful of pearls could nakovyryat. In between, respectively, as something in between. We certainly remember Suvorov, Kutuzov, Bagration and more variety of figures, but the nobility at the time covering benches accumulated under two million, and specific examples, you know, this general counterexample to compensate already simply can not.

A normal person, so would have to be presented as a sort of "writer, winner of the Stalin Prize, Alexei Tolstoy," or "Lieutenant-General Mikhail Bonch-." You can just by name, without transcripts, but the "prince" or "Duke" - no, thank you. Do not these baseless Ponto - nobles have, thank God, no more.

In general, something like that I was going to present the prince, it is possible in a rude manner. But suddenly it became clear that the Russian prince in Russian does not speak. In French and in English it is normal, but with the Russian did not happen. Endeavor to formulate all of the above in plain language Russian prince, I did not. But recently, after reading a short note, to which reference is given in the beginning of this article, the case somehow surfaced in memory painfully similar to "Daughter of Romanian King" on not speaking in Russian Russian prince.

How to write, comrades journalists not "daughter of the Romanian king" and "daughter of a Swiss citizen who calls himself the King of Romania", if you so want clarification. I agree that in this filing, it does not sound so pathetic, but it really is not so pathetic. King - not a king, and his daughter is not "royal».

However, in the case of this Romanian King of the situation is somewhat more complicated. He, having been for many years a puppet fascist government, at a convenient moment led his arrest, declared war on Germany and joined the Soviet Union. After the abolition of the monarchy emigrated, lived in Switzerland. In an attempt to regain the throne is not seen, but still married to the princess, and continues to consider himself a prince. That is real merit he still has, despite all priduri with titles of nobility.

Is there merit in the notorious prince, could not figure out, but the logic of naming must be exactly the same. If he insists on the title of prince, then call it in this case, "a French citizen who calls himself a Russian prince." So crap was visible.

We have freedom of speech in France too. Everyone has the right to consider themselves anything but others also have the right to consider it to those they see in it.

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