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German Russians
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Right up until 1943, Germans were found right across Eastern Europe - and not just as Order Police or Wehrmacht troopers. They lived there as naturalised citizens. One consequence is that when reading accounts of the North-Eastern (Polish/Baltic) and South-Eastern (Belorussian/Ukrainian) Fronts of World War I it is nigh-impossible to tell which side a general is on based just on their names. For instance, on the one side you might have General Paul von Hindenburg and on the other, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (or, as was the case during the disastrous—for the Russians—invasion of East Prussia by the Russians in 1914, German general Hermann von Francois—a descendant of French Huguenots who settled in Prussia, itself worthy of a trope—opposing his Russian counterpart, Paul von Rennenkampf, a Baltic German). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Much of this ethnic mix-up dates back to the time of Peter the Great, who recruited a great many German artisans and nobles to as part of his plans for modernizing Russia. They also formed the nobility and gentry of the Baltic provinces which he conquered from the Swedish Empire (This is one reason why the city of St. Petersburg has a Germanic namenote wich though was originally Dutch Sankt-Piter-Boerch but soon changed a bit). (Incidentally, the Baltic Germans predate the rise of Russian Empire by centuries—many German merchants, mercenaries, and crusaders settled in the Baltic regions from high Middle Ages on). Since the direct line of Romanovs was finished on Peter's daughter Elisabeth Petrovna, Russian throne was occupied by descendants of his other daughters married into Germany, who were effectively ethnic Germans (Catherine the Great was (also) born as a German princess); with their encouragement, a large number of Germans emigrated to St. Petersburg and made colonies in other parts of Russia, including a region around part of the Volga River (becoming known as the Volga Germans) and, later on, modern Southern Ukraine (Novorossiya). Between 1795 (the third partition of Poland) and 1919 (the re-creation of Poland), Russia shared a border with Prussia/Germany. And then, you have all the Russians who moved from the Soviet Union to East Germany, and who are now citizens of a united Germany. Meanwhile in West Germany, the laws made it relatively easy for Russians to gain citizenship there too, provided that they were able to prove German descent (like e.g. the aforementioned Volga Germans). The situation in today's united Germany is similar. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })It is therefore not surprising that German characters appear a fair bit in Russian literature, especially from the earlier periods. These characters are often portrayed in the stereotypical German manner - humourless and efficient - but there are exceptions. After this time, World War I and the Great Patriotic War tends to colour Russian perceptions of Germans, as can be seen by Communist propaganda. Whereas Americans may be depicted as fat capitalists, Germans are imperialistic brutes and monsters. Surprisingly (or maybe not), this was strictly limited to wartime media, and even in WWII official propaganda encouraged differentiating between Those Wacky Nazis and Germans as a people—as Stalin said in 1945, as his armies were marching into heart of Germany, "Hitlers come and go, but the German people go on forever." Germany's Vernichtungskrieg to totally annihilate the Soviet peoples disinclined Soviet citizens to actually go along with that, however, as in their anger many found it difficult to remind themselves that there was a difference between the inherently genocidal Nazis and the genocidal-for-now ordinary Germans note Official Soviet policy seemed to go back and forth, but there were some widely-published-by-the-official-Soviet-propaganda-ministry "gems" (for varying values of "gem") such as a number of heavy-handed pieces from Ilya Ehrenburg from 1942. To be fair, Ehrenburg, being Jewish, has had his own bone with the Germans, and he actually took flak from some Soviet officials on that, and was denounced in Pravda just as the war was ending, possibly to try and downplay the excruciatingly bad PR that the USSR took on their well-documented mistreatment of the Germans in Berlin and elswhere. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Unrelated to Commie Nazis. Examples: |
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Hoffman, an old bum from the Peterburg's graveyard in Brother. | |
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Erast Fandorin, his surname being a corruption of von Dorn. Somewhat similar to the name of the 18th century writer Denis Fonvizin, originally von Wiesen. | |
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Ivan Arnol'dovich Bormental from Mikhai Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog (positive example too). | |
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In the German police series Tatort, Münster Kommissar Frank Thiel's assistant Nadezhda Krusenstern is from a German-Russian family that emigrated to Germany after 1990. | |
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Crime and Punishment has the Marmeladov landlady Amalia Ivanovna Lippewechsel with her Funetik Aksent and generally petty and obnoxious personality. | |
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Several of the important characters in the Book/mini-series Centennial are of this stock (having imigrated to the US in the late 19th century). | |
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Andrey Karlovich Stolz from Oblomov (a very positive example). | |
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Mello from Death Note is said to be this in some fanworks, based on his real name Mihael Keehl, although no one is sure of his exact ethnic background. | |
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Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp, the formalist who invented Propp's Functions of Folktales was born to a German family, studied Russian and German philology and was a college teacher of German. | |
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