Also no fucking wonder they had a revolution immediately after all these things were made, it seems like the Romanovs were spending the entire country’s gdp on these god damn decorations. The whole exhibit felt like
Food for peasants $200
Working conditions $150
Military $800
Fancy Egg™ $1.2 billion
Utilities $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family dying (they’re being killed by revolutionaries)
Vitaly Polyakov, After Storming the Winter Palace, depicting a soviet revolutionary in awe of the wealth and luxury that the royals lived in.
It hits pretty hard. Poor fuck, finally grabbed a rifle and stormed the castle, only to find the nation's wealth squandered away on this stupid bullshit while him and his family starved.