👑 This account explores a simple, wild idea:
what if modern Ukraine - free, democratic and modern - crowned a ceremonial monarch?
Not a czar. Not a dictator.
A Nordic-style figurehead, as in Norway or Denmark.
A symbol. A legacy. A future.
Welcome to #KyivCrown.
Let’s imagine.
Such a committed, well-positioned and experienced friend of Ukraine in the #West would make a perfect symbolic Hetman figure for public diplomacy and the historical continuity of Ukrainian statehood. Shall the #Count become #Hetman again?
So, if #Ukraine were to #crown a symbolic figurehead, what are the options other than genetically engineering the Skoropadskys out of extinction? In fact, there are some. Let’s look at the first one: Count Gregor Razumovsky, the descendant of the last #Hetman of Ukraine. 🧵
Count Rozumovsky often visits Ukraine despite all the risks. He has friends and supporters and promotes his family legacy, which he fully bequeaths to the Ukrainian nation.
Under Kyrylo’s hetmanship, Ukraine was Europeanised, and the cities such as Baturyn and #Hlukhiv had a Western feel, with French parks, balls, tea parties, coffee houses, prospering trade, arts and crafts. A Western-style university was planned.
The Rozumovskys are sometimes criticised for their pro-imperial opportunism and failure to thwart the destruction of Ukraine’s autonomy. But there is so much more to this wonderful family, like this beautiful church in #Kozelets.
Sanctitati Vestrae congratulationes ex parte gentium Ucrainorum atque Ruthenorum ex animo deferuntur, una cum humillima invitatione ad urbem Leopolim, civitatem Leonis, benigne invisendam #PopeLeoXIV#Leopolis#Lviv#Vatican#Ukraine
Congratulations, Your Holiness, and welcome to Lviv - Leopolis, the city of Leo, the spiritual home for 5 mln Greek Catholics! Ukrainians hope you will choose it for one of your fist visits. #leonxiv#LeoXIV#PopeLeoXIV#Pope#NewPope#Vatican#Ukraine
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This is practically our manifesto. What do you think? Unconventional, sure - but if we imagine Ukraine as a Nordic-style monarchy, should Prince Harry restore the Kyiv Rurikids or shall we go for Count Rozumovsky, or else invite a Habsburg? #KyivCrown#UkraineMonarchy#Ukraine
Looking forward to breaking 1,000,000. This is the spirit of the Kyiv Varangians, the princely hosts of Sviatoslav and Mstyslav-Harald, of Prince Ostrogski's heros of Orsha (with Belarusian, Polish, and Lithuanian comrades), and of Cossacks who broke more than one wannabe empire.