NationStates Jolt Archive

''The bear kills the lion, he is no more.'' I am Vladimir, now in another realm, of which Man goes after his death. I have seen the bear kill the lion, by that the Russian Bear, under our Tzar, slay the British lion and take India, annexing Afghanistan as well. I was there to see it all, as my memoirs record. I saw the British flag lowered, and the emblem of our state, the Russian Eagle, rose in its place.

Our forces consolidated our power, and I was named an assistant to Lord Ignatieff, one of the nobles who was in power in Russian India. We were under the Tzar until 1917, when we were independent, due to the Revolution of the Leninist Movement. God knows what happened there.

This will be my record of events, as far as my mind can remember. However, that I cannot due now, as I have to depart. I bid you farewell.

A note to the reader- I am going offline right now, when I come back I will try to continue Vladmir's records of the seizure of India. I got the idea reading on the Great Game of Britain and Russia, and by reading the Flashman Papers of George Fraser (which also mentioned the Great Game). Bye now.

Before India, I, Vladimir Volkov, to use my full name, was born in the city of what is now St. Petersburg, or Petrograd. I had loving parents and one sister. My mother was a devout "Protestant", as the Catholics called those who separated from them. My family was Protestant, and so was I but I had friends among the Orthodox, who I respected. My father was an offical and my sister was wanted by many men, for her beauty. I'd see men ogling her, trying to get to her. She settled on some man from Moskva (Moscow), and I would see her again in the future, when she moved there.

I was educated in an academy, where I learned French and German, along with English. I was an honor student, with top marks. As a young man, I fell in love with a girl named Anna, the same name that Anna Karenina had, in the book by Tolstoy. Anywho, we married and I was in charge of a family, when my first child, who I named Anna was born.

I tell you this, so you would know my background, and my life before India. I was aquainted with Ignatieff during my job as an offical, Papa had gotten me in the business. I was sent to Central Asia, and soon to India....

Note to readers-Instead of writing stuff on my nation, I thought I write stuff in the way of a man who lived through the time.

Instead of boring you, the reader, with things, let me go directly to the invasion, or ''Operation Tzargrad'', named for Constantinople, held by the Turk. Now, the Russian plan was to cross through Afghanistan (which I could say was loyal to the Motherland), Kashmir and other areas and march through India. We would meet at Delhi (now called New Moscow), and then force those British out, as they did the French and others.

The invasion was helped by Afghan forces, as well as Indians. Some Indians, who supported independence from Britain fought with us, not knowing that we too would rule them, and by judgement, we hoped better than Vicky (Queen Victoria, as a British man once said) did.

Now, the invasion commenced, and I was a colonel, until Ignatieff called me out to serve him as an assistant. I hated him for that, as I wanted to serve Russia in war. However, I could serve her through diplomacy.

As time progressed, the British were slowly being forced back, to the sea where they came. Of course, we Russians had land borders to India, and the Government and perhaps His Majesty, the Tzar were waiting for news.

Finally, the dream of any invader came. The day the enemy gives up. I, Ignatieff and others met with British officals. It was said that Lord Palmerston was to be attending, but he did not. Anywho, I was a signer of the Treaty of Delhi, which ceded India and Afghanistan to Russia. However, as for Burma, that too was ceded to us, as well as other lands. For example, how could the British get to Tibet now? We took Burma and had a link to Siam, and through there to France's Indochina.

When the treaty was signed, we Russians sang God Save The Tzar and celebrated. Some scoffed at the British, those British now know what it is like to lose one's land, so they said.

I was appointed a minister around Bombay, now called New St.Petersburg. Russian was being spoken in India, and we treated them nicely, by them I mean our Indian subjects. The Tzar ruled India/Afghanistan/Burma and other lands collectively as Russian India until the day came, when the Tzar was overthrown in the Revolution. I myself watched from Heaven as my motherland fell. I also watched Russian Indian forces protect our land from the Bolsheviks and I saw them fight the Japanese invaders during World War II.

In the end, I hope that my nation, that I worked to found, will continue to exist for many years and perhaps centuries. I hope Providence be with the land.