history meme ∙ (4/6) women ∙ murasaki shikibu(c. 978 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a nickname; her real name is unknown, but she may have been Fujiwara Takako, who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.(+more)
game of thrones meme: three colors [2/3] → green
“run you clever boy”
no words for how much love i have for the fact that margaery has a granny to take care of her
Colorful Night Santorini, Greece by George Papapostolou
“The lowest among us are no different from the highest, if you give them a chance…”
Hannibal NBC S01 E09 DL links here
history meme | five assassinations: the romanov family, 1918
After Emperor Nicholas II’s abdication in early 1917, the Imperial family were put under house arrest at the Alexander Palace in Saint Petersburg. The family, along with their loyal servants, were sent from the former Imperial Russian capital to the far lands of Siberia in a town named Tobolsk and later Ekaterinburg in the Urals. In the summer of 1918, the city was threatened by the advancing Whites. The hasty decision was taken by the Bolsheviks to kill Nicholas, his family, and his servants. During the early hours in the morning of 17 July 1918, all of the prisoners was taken to the cellar room of the Ipatiev House where they were staying and then were informed of their fate moments before being mercilessly massacred. Even the innocent children, the youngest only 13, was not spared. The legend has it that the young grand duchesses had to be finished off with bayonets as they had stuffed jewels in their blouses which had deflected the bullets. The Church of All Saints in Ekaterinburg were built on the site of the assassination.
