Empress Ekaterina of All of Russia
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Official account of Empress Ekaterina of all of Russia.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Full NameVasilia "Ekaterina" Petrovna Romanova Birthday3rd of July Age27 y/o Zodiac SignCancer Sex / GenderFemale / Female SpeciesWitch NationalityRussian EthnicityCaucasian Sexual OrientationHomosexual Romantic OrientationBiromantic Relationship StatusMarried AccentRussian and English mix BirthplaceSt. Petersburg, Russia Living Situation Languages SpokenFrench / Russian / English
Blood StatusPureblood Wand WoodCherry Wood Wand CoreUnicorn hair Wand Length9 ¾ and quite bendy flexibility PatronusA dove BoggartAn assassin Exotic?No
Vasilia Romanova was never taught to be an empress. Whatever she's learnt now, she's learnt in a matter of months. Whilst she is terrified of being like her great great grandfather, Tsar Nicholas II, plagued by a weak, indecisive character, she does share his positive traits. His loyalty to his family is something she strongly believes in, his penchant of appreciating nature and the quiet parts of life is something she also shares. Like him, she doesn't quite like to live the lavish life a monarch can invite. Vasilia prefers to dress simply (not boring but not extravagant) and finds little value in jewelry and expensive perfume. Whilst she appreciates art, she'd prefer them to be viewed by everyone in a museum or gallery rather than in her private quarters. Vasilia is the type to dress up as a 50s house wife, just because they have pockets in their dresses, and bright colours galore. Can she wear these in the royal court? Not really, no. She is full of soft smiles and flowers. If the sun rise could be a person, it would be Vasilia. Especially considering she's always awake at the crack of dawn. Vasilia, though she has a list of names different people refer to her as, is nice to everyone she meets, or at least she tries to be-Vasya is a pacifist at heart and doesn't like violence-she's seen what it does to people, she's seen the consequences of it. Vasilia is the type to try her best to win people over and is quite sensitive to what other people think of her (she has to be, her life depends on it really).
Painfully optimistic, it's only recently that life has started to drag her down. However, she never turns to anger. Vasilia deals with everything quietly and without complaint. She's much more likely to turn her attention onto something she enjoys as she processes the events around her. This doesn't mean she ignores her trauma, she just doesn't take it out on the world around her and doesn't hold anyone to blame besides the most obvious figures. But even then, Vasilia is forgiving, maybe a bit too forgiving. Whilst this often works in people's favors, this can backfire at times. In truth, Vasya has the potential to be a very good monarch, one of benevolence and kindness, it just doesn't suit Russia very well. However, she's also a hard worker and isn't quite as weak willed as people might think of her. She knows how to put work into something and can be very clever. She isn't stupid and has a mind that constantly ticks away. In short, Vasya is colourful and bright in a motherland known for her vicious winter.
Tsar Nicholas the II ascended the Russian throne in 1896 and even confessed that he 'knew nothing of being a ruler' and was dreadfully unprepared to take on the throne for he lacked the strength and willpower of his father before him. Even the day of his coronation was a foreshadowing of the tragedy that was his reign. The death of more than a thousand people during the coronations festivities and the following public fallout over the imperial court's response set the stage of the final moments of Tsarist Russia. Scandal after scandal, bloodshed after bloodshed, plagued the next twenty years with Nicholas being nicknamed 'Bloody Nicholas' after Bloody Sunday that invoked the failed revolution. Nicholas ruled with the belief that god granted him the throne and that it was his duty to rule as an autocrat so when the people pushed for a state duma, who were voted in, he was firmly against it and revoked as much power from it before it opened in 1906. Revolution was brewing under Nicholas's nose and the issues the population suffered from was only exacerbated when the first world war broke out in 1914.
One of the most frequent rumours that plagued the royal family was the presence of Grigori Rasputin. Employed to help try heal the youngest son's hemophilia, he had a reputation of being a womaniser and a drunk. The rumours surrounding he and the Tsarina were abundant and many people assumed the two were sleeping together. What the muggle world did not know was that Rasputin was a Russian wizard and was highly versed in wandless magic. Though he hid behind the facade of being a religious man, he used his magic to heal afflictions impossible for muggles to heal on their own. Russia's muggle and magical world was often interwoven with one another, Rasputin, a wizard, being in such a high influential position in the muggle world was proof of how the lines between the worlds were blurred. The Russian magic of ministry often caught flack from international bodies at the time about their constant interaction with the muggle world and that they were breaking the statute of secrecy. In 1913, Alexandra gave birth to her sixth and final child, Grand Duke Nikolai, or Nicholas the III. In truth, however, Rasputin was the true father but Alexandra never figured it out as her son looked too much like to her features for it to be obvious.
The young duke was kept out of the public eye completely due to how unstable both the political world was and Alexei's health was. If Alexei were to die from an injury then the duke would be a viable replacement to become the tsarevich. So Nicholas the third was removed from history and any public records, telling people he was a ward whose parents had died. In 1916, Nicky the third's true father, Rasputin, was murdered by Felix Yussupov through poison and shooting him at a short range before finally drowning. After his body was found, a certain body part was immortalised by his daughter who made a memorial around it in her home. One year later, the provisional government would have taken power from the Tsar and placed them into home arrest.
In July, 1818, during the civil war, the Bolshevik's executed the Romanov family in Yekaterinburg where they had been placed under house arrest. The white's had been closing in and the reds refused to allow the opposition to have a symbol to unify them. Nicholas the II, Alexandra, Anastasia, Maria, Olga, Tatiana and Alexei were all shot and buried in a forest nearby. However, their youngest son, five years old at this point, was not there with them. For just after she found out her father abdicated in 1917, Alexandra knew their time was running short and sent Nicholas to England with a noble to keep him safe. No one knew, except this one noble, about Nicholas's true identity and so he was allowed to depart Russia for England. The initial plan was to follow him there soon after but this dream of the Romanovs was shortly lived.
The last remaining Romanov child grew up in England knowing full well who he was and what he had lost. The noble, who he called his affectionately called his uncle, was well aware of the magical world for he was a squib but his family had ties in the muggle world that he was still able to flourish in the muggle world. So he wasn't too taken aback when he realised Nicholas, who went more by Kolya, was a wizard by the time he was eight. Kolya flourished in Hogwarts and everyone was well aware of his heritage. (Surely it was no wonder then that rumours that a secret child survived the execution were rampant in the muggle world, though people believed it to be Anastasia rather than a second son). He never returned to Russia for they often closely mirrored the events occurring in the muggle world, a consequence of interacting so much-the ideals and ideas seep into one another, and they had quickly eradicated the autocratic ministry in the years following the Russian Revolution in the muggle world. Thus, it was quickly made clear that Kolya was not welcome back in Russia. It was even believed they'd try assassinate Kolya but the protection of the British ministry and the royal family ensured that no harm came to Kolya.
Kolya lived a relatively quiet life compared to his ancestors. He became an academic and spent his time studying what he loved-the history of centaurs. However, he remained in high standing with high society, especially the Sacred 28's despite his modest career and wealth. When he was nearing his thirties, he married Nina Shacklebolt. A quiet life. In 1935, they welcome their first daughter, Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, who was soon followed by their final child, Yekaterina Nikolaevna Romanova. For the next sixty years, life was pretty normal. Kolya didn't talk much about his heritage and they never returned to Russia. Deep down, Kolya felt disenfranchised in his mother country and didn't have a high opinion on the country that murdered his family. Maria married a Peter Crouch but they struggled to have children and it wasn't until the early years of 1995 did they have their first child
Yet in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. For a period of time, this didn't affect the magical side of Russia but the domino effect had began. Of course, unlike before, this revolution was not from below but from the top. The Soviet Union collapsed because of internal factors and nationalism and magical Russia was no different. They were left without a proper ministry and it was soon becoming a vacuum for power and the remains were desperate for some stability. So the collapsing ministry looked outwards and realised that the family that they once scorned could be their solution. They contacted the remains of the Romanov family and, like the French once did themselves, offered them back the throne with the condition that it would be a constitutional monarchy. Whilst they would have influence, the ministry would have the majority of the power. Kolya rejected this completely. He'd grown bitter in regards to Russia and it could collapse for all he cared. So they asked Maria, his eldest daughter, who, to the surprise of everyone, agreed. Agreed to move to Russia and leave behind her life in England with the hopes of improving Russia, building it into a better, democratic state. Kolya never spoke to her again.
For the next fifty years, Magical Russia was as stable as it could be, especially compared to their muggle counterpart. Maria's children married happily and had children. By the time the grandchildren were born, there was almost a small army of them running around. They only had two palaces to move between and so the children were all raised together and there were times they forgot they were cousins rather than siblings with one another. Olesya Romanov was the tsarevich, still remaining that it was always the first born son who ascended the throne, although it was made sure that if the reigning tsar birthed no sons then the daughter could ascend without it passing to an uncle or a cousin.
When Maria was 102, she decided to step down in favour to her son, Pyotr, to take the throne when he was 42 years old. Revolutionaries had always been a thing. Not everyone agreed for the Romanov's to take back the throne but it was never an issue for decades. Russia had slowly become more and more progressive with civil rights, though they considerably lacked behind surrounding countries. Pytor had six children over the years but only had one son, Olesya. The Russian royal family had never been the happiest family. They all drank a lot and multiple members had been lost to a multitude of incidents. Pytor's own brother, Alexei, committed suicide when he was 33, having given birth to only one child. Eudoxia's partner was murdered in a brawl in 2043.
However, the worst happened in 2044.
As the country became more and more progressive, more and more open to the outside world, the more people began to wish to return to the old days, return to communism. They believed that it was the ministry who decided it was a failure-not the people. They believed that they gave up to quickly and that they should give communism another go but ensure that the central government wasn't a dictatorship. If anything, their ideals aligned themselves with the Mensheviks rather than the Bolsheviks ideals of a communist state. Yet, with the reestablishment of the throne, their dreams were essentially crushed. It's difficult to say they hold the majority of people's views but there was enough to launch an attack.
It was during a Christmas parade and all the royals were attending as well as key ministry officials, including the minister of magic. By this point, Vasilia, the third in line, had married Polina after same sex marriage had officially been legalised and recognised in magical Russia only a few years before hand. Whilst it caused some tremors through Russia, it wasn't quite a scandal considering there was little chance that she was to ascend the throne.
Everything happened so quickly. There was flashes of light, explosions, before people started screaming.
The aurors managed to best the revolutionaries, some dying but most being arrested.
The aftermath, the number of dead, wasn't able to be confirmed for nearly a week. However, amongst those numbers, was Pyotr, his wife Margaret, his two eldest children, Olesya and Olga, and his younger brother, Konstantin and his own wife Khristina. Eudoxia's youngest child, Tatiana, was crushed to death by the crowd after falling out of the carriage during the fight. The minister and another official died as well.
Vasilia almost didn't survive the attack, in fact she's been told it's a miracle she did. It took three months for her to fully recover. A wing of the most private palaces had transformed into an infirmary designed to heal the royals who had survived the attack. Of course, now they were heavily protected with the ministry finally cracking down on the rebel groups. It wasn't just royals and officials who'd been hurt, it had been innocent civilians who had come to watch the parade. Vasilia, even though she was in a coma as the healers worked to heal her, was declared the heir to the throne. Of course, being in a same sex marriage didn't ease the flames of civil descent and more conservative groups spoke out against this announcement, thinking it should go to the next male family member, in this case Ilya, but due to one of Maria's reforms, it had to go to Vasilia. By the time she recovered, a month after she woke up, her coronation was already being prepared. The quicker they got the crown on her head the better.
In October 1944, Vasilia was crowned the empress of Russia.
She decided to take the name Ekaterina as her royal name, a nod to Catherine the great, in hopes that it would ease some worry over her rule. As the ministry worked to stabilise Russia once more, they suggested to the royal family that they take some time in England, especially with their own coronation occurring, as it would be good to help build connections with foreign ministries. Their relationship had been very good with England, considering their connection through Kolya, who had only recently passed away. Whilst he never made up with Maria, he did meet his grandchildren, some of them even attending Hogwarts, and many holidays to England had been made across the generations, so going for an extended holiday in England made sense. Plus, if you went far back through the royal lineage, you'd find that they're all connected somehow through the muggle royal families. Now, in 2045, they're situated in England, barely a year after what has been dubbed 'Bloody Christmas'.
Back-tracking twenty six years, Vasilia was born the third in line and life was fine for the first twelve years. She grew up surrounded by people and life was good-she was happy. She learnt how to dance, how to play the piano. She enjoyed playing checkers with whoever would play with her. She was, for all intents and purposes, happy for these years. She loved gathering old historical artifacts. Nothing big-stamps from the USSR, small Russian orthodox statues, postcards with famous Russian actors on them. Vasilia was always one of the more low key royals. Everyone knew she existed but she never gave a huge impression to people. Vasilia was also very down to Earth-she made bread by hand for the fun of it and would rather spend her day getting lost in the woods than watching a movie. Vasilia once told her mother that when she grows up, she's going to go live in a treehouse. More often than not, her family often laughed Vasilia off and no one thought to push her into more serious training as a royal. With her two older siblings, they were content with letting Vasilia spend her days trapped in both nature and her head and didn't make her go through rigorous training that Olesya, her only brother, and Olga, the eldest daughter, went through. The chances of both dying were slim-so they thought. Vasilia was the type of girl to turn up at school with pigtails. The type that everyone made fun of but still kept around because she was nice.
Her first magical incident was when she was nine years old. She'd been waiting for her incident for years now-both her older siblings had them when they were five. Yet she was lagging behind and people were noticing. However, it happened one morning as she was staring into a mirror. Vasilia's hair was an absolute mess and she couldn't get the hair style (three braids tied back into a knot) that she wanted. Then, a second later-her hair moved on it's own until everything was in place. She was thrilled and told everyone the second she saw them.
Two years later, she attended Koldovstoretz. At first, it was fine. People were nice to her, invited her to things-why wouldn't they? She could get them places. Parents pushed them to make friends with the royals. There were small groups who voiced their displeasure about the royals but Vasilia was only dimply aware of them for the first four years. During this time, a girl named Polina got close with her. Polina was the daughter to Pyotr's bodyguard. Unbeknownst to Vasilia, the family was revolutionaries who dreamed the return to the life before the return of the Tsar's. Using every pathway they could to spy on the royal family, they pushed Polina to befriend Vasilia and end up courting her. Not that this provided a lot for them-Vasilia was blissfully unaware and rather naive, never really paying attention to what her family talked about. The first attack against her, though, was in her fourth year as she walked down a street. Polina ended up defending her from the assailants. This event was viewed favorably by both families-it meant that the royal family knew Vasilia was safe and that the royal family had begun to trust Polina and draw her into their closer circles.
This attack was almost a foreshadowing to what will happen in her fifth year. By this time, Polina's parents had gotten impatient. They wanted to bring the royalty to their knees. And the easiest royal they had access too was Vasilia. Using Polina to drew her to their home, they kidnapped Vasilia. She spent nearly three weeks in a basement, having been apparated to what she eventually found out was Finland. She still holds the scars on her neck and arms from the ordeal. Vasilia didn't talk a lot to people about what happened down there. She didn't change completely but the topic made her more somber. Who saved her was Polina, who confessed to the officials about who had done it and where they most likely were. Whilst this actions saved Polina from persecution, it meant the end to her relationship with Vasilia. Polina's parents were arrested and jailed, given a life time sentence. Vasilia chose to finish her education at home, preferring home schooling and to be surrounded by family than going back to school.
Vasilia graduated from home and life was generally back to normal. Whilst she wasn't quite an active royal, she did often tour the hospitals across the empire. Health was something she was interested in and seeing the consequences of violence both first hand and within those walls had a tremendous affect on her. Other than that, she spent most of her time studying ancient plays, mostly Greek. She was particularly interested in how magical figures affected muggle history. When the marriage law passed to allow same sex marriage, Vasilia was happy but she didn't pay much attention to it. She hadn't dated anyone since Polina and hadn't been looking. She suspected she'd end up a fun aunt sort of role rather than having a family of her own.
However, their paths were to cross again once more. Polina had begun to work as an auror and, as fate would have it, ended up working for the royal family again as one of their bodyguards. Most people would have complained, or be stand offish, but not Vasilia. She was distantly polite. Even when they asked her if Polina should be transferred somewhere else, she said no. She didn't want to cause a fuss. If the ministry were willing to trust her and give her a second chance then so could Vasilia. Didn't the power dynamic rest upon the mutual trust between the royals and the ministry? But what happened was then inevitable. The two began to trust one another again, with Polina often trailing after Vasilia when she went out into the public and other official tours, so naturally with the added time together, the pair began to fall back into old dynamics and this time-the love was truly genuine. They kept it quiet at first but there's only so much a Russian can keep from their family, especially as close knit as the Romanov's and family members soon picked up on them. Of course, at first, they were distrustful of Polina but eventually got won over, enough that they supported the pair marrying. Considering Vasilia was third in line, no one really had a reason to stop them. Some people in the empire opposed it, naturally, but most saw it as a step forward.
They were never an issue.
Until Bloody Christmas.
Having been detailed beforehand, the event won't be rehashed again. Vasilia, injured greatly, was unconscious for months whilst her older siblings and their partners were buried not far from where she lay. Vasilia didn't make any of their funerals (which affects her greatly) but ended up being given their forgiveness when she found out their ghosts haunted the plaza in which the massacre occurred, forever trapped in the space that hosted their demise.
It was when the crowd rested upon her head for the first time that everything hit Vasilia like a brick. That she, despite all odds, had ended up becoming Empress of Russia. A role that she had never wanted, that no one had prepped her for. Whilst so many people rushed to support her, Vasilia felt like an imposter. She made her royal name Ekaterina, a nod to Catherine the Great, a previous Tsarina. Throughout her recovery, Vasilia became more and more quiet. She'd always been quiet but maybe not to this extent. Sleep was scarce and she often spent her nights either reading up on her father's journals (maybe somewhere in there would give her instructions on how to lead) or embroidery. Or going back to reading ancient Greek plays. Vasilia didn't have the character to be a ruler and she was terrified of being like Tsar Nicholas II. And maybe she was. Still, conservative groups began to pop up now that the rulers were officially two women. Whilst it's possible that they are a loud minority, it was decided that the royal family took a holiday in England for the time being. And Vasilia decided to go-she didn't want another massacre happening any time soon. In truth, she might even be considering what her great grandfather keeps on telling her in his letters to her: step down, the throne isn't worth it.
Face ClaimElizabeth Olsen Eye ColourGreen Hair ColourDark brown Height5'5" Weight58 kg Voice Type Blood TypeO Positive Distinguishing MarksScars Body StyleScarred but fit TattoosNone PiercingsJust ear lobes ScentOranges and lavender
FatherPyotr Romanov MotherMargaret Romanova Full SiblingsA lot Half SiblingsNone Guardian(s)Nobody SpousePolina Ruslanovna Romanova, Empress of all of Russia ChildrenNone Other RelativesIn laws and cousins
Given [ Vasilia ]Queen Middle [ Petrovna ]Daughter of Pyotr Surname [ Romnova ]Daughter of Roman
NicknamesVasya Favourite ColourOrange Favourite MovieLittle women Favourite SongFolk songs Favourite FoodMeatballs Favourite DrinkBaileys LikesReading / dresses with pockets / nature Dislikespolitics / cruelty / nationalism / extravagance LovesHer family / Sewing / Flowers LoathesNo one and nothing!! First KissPolya First CrushPolya First LovePolya First TimeWhen she was 16 PetsShe has a pet cat OccupationPrincess Sports PlayedTennis Instruments PlayedPiano and violin SmokerSocial DrinkerShe's Russian AddictionsN/A GoalsBecome better AchievementsShe made this huge tapestry that she brings everywhere with her Biggest HopeThat she'll be able to win over the Russians Biggest RegretNot paying attention to 'how to be a ruler' lessons she was allowed to get out of as a kid Best MemoriesHer wedding day Worst MemoriesThe three weeks in Finland Mental Illnesses*She has mild depression
- She has PTSD
Criminal RecordN/A Medical RecordN/A
