After the abolishment of court arabs (pretty sure that was the title) I don’t think there were that many black people in the Soviet Union, and the few that were around didn’t have crosses burned in their yard.
Google AI is uniquely useless in searching for this, “court arabs Russia” brings up nonsense about Russia discriminating against muslims, similar nonsense for ussr, and ““court arab” USSR” has it go “google AI can’t do this”
I pretty much got my question answered with the wiki page on the Arabian hall though, basically just four gaudily dressed bodyguards who pretty much were the official door openers preceding the tsar
Idk i see some people talk about “court arabs” but the wiki page for the Arabian hall and some others just refer to them as “Ethiopians” (in quotes because they weren’t lol) or “Blackamoors” and then one site i was looking at talking about Jim Hercules called them “the Abyssinian guard”
It doesn’t really matter though i was just like “what” and wanted to know what sort of role or function a “court Arab” did but the tl;dr seems to be that they opened doors for the Tsar and Tsarina
After the abolishment of court arabs (pretty sure that was the title) I don’t think there were that many black people in the Soviet Union, and the few that were around didn’t have crosses burned in their yard.
There were a bunch of Africans coming there to get a university degree. This is worse than segregation actually
Google AI is uniquely useless in searching for this, “court arabs Russia” brings up nonsense about Russia discriminating against muslims, similar nonsense for ussr, and ““court arab” USSR” has it go “google AI can’t do this”
it seems to be spelled arap, there still isnt much english info but african servants were a common thing in all the european monarchies
I pretty much got my question answered with the wiki page on the Arabian hall though, basically just four gaudily dressed bodyguards who pretty much were the official door openers preceding the tsar
Try Jim Hercules, I think he had the title and I do remember that name.
Idk i see some people talk about “court arabs” but the wiki page for the Arabian hall and some others just refer to them as “Ethiopians” (in quotes because they weren’t lol) or “Blackamoors” and then one site i was looking at talking about Jim Hercules called them “the Abyssinian guard”
It doesn’t really matter though i was just like “what” and wanted to know what sort of role or function a “court Arab” did but the tl;dr seems to be that they opened doors for the Tsar and Tsarina
I may have remembered the title wrong. But i was pretty sure. Darn
I saw other people use the phrase so idk lol
Let’s agree that the court title was an ethnicity and that it has no relation to the person holding it, that way we’re clear