History Characters / TNOTaboritsky

->'''Party:''' Obshchestvo Vozrozhdeniya Rossiyskoiy Imperii

->'''Party:''' Severo-Russkiy Osvoboditel'nyy Front

->'''Party:''' Imperskiy Torgovyy Konsorcium

->'''Party:''' Zaural'skiy Komitet Spaseniya [[note]]Trans-Ural Rescue Committee[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Sovet Direktorov

->'''Party:''' Kilka Melkikh

->'''Party:''' Iskyplyonnaya Chernaya Liga

->'''Party:''' Bratsvo Kaina

->'''Party:''' Qazaqstannyn Halyqtyq-demokratialyq Partiasy [[note]]People's Democratic Party of Kazakhstan[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Evraziyskaya Nacional'naya Komissiya [[note]]Eurasian National Commission[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Bastilyary

-> '''Party:''' Ryurikovy Loyalisty

->'''Party:''' Sibirsky Anarkhichesky Sovet [[note]]Siberian Anarchist Council[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Sibirskaya Chernaya Armiya [[note]]Siberian Black Army[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Imperskie Loyalisty [[note]]Imperial Loyalists[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Obshchestvo Vozrozhdeniya Rossiyskoiy Imperii

->'''In-Game Description''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]] In a distant, faded memory, on these faraway, remote lands, there was a dream. A dream of a peaceful Russia, free from all strife and suffering, under the caring guidance of one of God's many servants, a son of Men himself. \\\

[[caption-width-right:156:Taboritsky, the Eccentric Monarchist of Komi]]%%Don't you dare write Ust-Sysolsk here for "accuracy"; Komi is shorter and sounds better, and Taboritsky is a Komi leader, not an "ohbutthenamegotchangedtoustsysolsk" leader

* AscendedExtra: By the time the HRE reaches Midnight, all but one of the original warlords present at the start of the game is dead either through the HRE's war of conquest or during the regional unification wars before Taboritsky's armies began marching east. As a result, most of the non-HRE remnant warlord states have figures who'd otherwise only be generals and ministers promoted to leaders.

* SecretCharacter: Mikhail Pervukhin, Alexander Zvyagin, Abaddon/Anatoly Motsny, Sultanakhmet Kozhikov, Yevgeniya Taratuta, Alexei II/Michał Goleniewski, and Nikolay Artamonov are all characters that were added to the game in the After Midnight update and are only playable in post-Taboritsky Russia.

* TheCaligula: Taboritsky is one of, if not ''the'' most deranged and delusional rulers in TNO, beating out other Esoteric Nazis like Josias zu Waldeck-Pyrmont ''and'' Heinrich Himmler in terms of sheer unhinged madness and detachment from reality[[note]]In fact, the only individual who can compete with Taboritsky in the "completely AxCrazy" department is Velimir from the Aryan Brotherhood, who ''still'' managed to be a little more sane than Taboritsky by offering token bits of PragmaticVillainy here and there[[/note]]. From the very beginning, Taboritsky displays his fanatical dedication to unreal beliefs like divine purity and Alexei's survival, as well as extreme erraticism and ruthlessness. His ideology, a freakish synthesis of Tsarism, fundamentalist Christianity, and German National Socialism, is a result of fanatical desire to deliver a purified Russia to a near-divine Alexei, and the delusional belief that only fundamentalist National Socialism can bring out this purity. As Taboritsky's sanity continues to worsen, his mental illness escalates into straight-up schizophrenia, as he begins to have and believe in his hallucinations and his writings degenerate into incoherent ramblings.

Nabokov, had I known it would lead to this, I\\

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: He manages to convince even a governor of Holy Russia of his authority and omnipresence by recounting his atrocities and shameless cruelty behind closed doors, despite having Taboritsky's goons having top security to prevent any spies and eavesdropping.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: He manages to convince even a governor of Holy Russia of his authority and omnipresence by recounting his atrocities and shameless cruelty behind closed doors, despite having top security to prevent spies and eavesdropping.

* CantBelieveISaidThat: He's willing to create a speech depicting Alexei's divine right to rule as God intends, despite being a Communist and atheist, but he's fine with such speeches if it means keeping people's hopes up.
* ChummyCommies: Even after taking the mantle of a monarch, Goleniewski still considers himself a communist, and his economic policy stresses the importance of workers' self-management and collective property.

* ThePowerOfActing: Goleniewski did some theater training in the past, once even portraying a Russian nobleman. This lets him further his image as a messianic and inspiring Tsar, despite personally being a rather down-to-earth atheistic communist.

** In OTL, Larionov was only an anti-communist writer affiliated with the White Army, later serving in the Russian Liberation Army. In ''TNO'', he ends up in Komi like Taboritsky and can becomes his Head of Government and a field marshal, loyal to the Imperial Cult and the monstrous government Taboritsky creates even after the Regent's death.

* MeetTheNewBoss: Just like Taboritsky, Larionov is a delusional, mass-murdering authoritarian who starts out with an already pretty tenuous grasp on reality that is gradually worsened by deteriorating mental health. Downplayed ever so slightly in that he is willing to adopt some slightly less insane policies out of PragmaticVillainy that Taboritsky was simply too fanatic to ever consider.

->'''Ideology:''' Christian Democracy[[note]]Liberal Conservatism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Christian Democracy[[note]]Liberal Conservatism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Christian Democracy[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Christian Democracy[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism

->'''Ideology:''' Fundamentalism[[note]]Ultramilitarism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Fundamentalism[[note]]Ultramilitarism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilaitarism

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]In the chemical ridden hellhole that is Russia, hatred thrives, new and old. Viktor Aleksandrovich Larionov is one such symbol of old hatred, the newest Regent of the Holy Russian Empire following Taboritsky's footsteps.\\
Formerly a soldier in Wrangel's White Army during the Civil War, and later, an officer of the ROA during World War II, Viktor came to become a close associate of Taboritsky. Following his death and Shabelsky-Bork's disappearance, Larionov was appointed head of cabinet following the power struggle, after which he made use of his Shturmoviki to purge any opposition, proclaiming himself as Blessed Regent of the Holy Russian Empire.\\

!!''Nikolay Talberg''

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Poland is an idea, a little flame kept alive in the hearts of every living Pole. That flame burns within Ryszard Jerzy Kukliński, and within every Pole in his Autonomous Soviet Liberation Army. Once an officer in Nowa Polska, Kukliński has gathered together a ragtag assortment of Poles, Kazakh freedom fighters, antifascists and Russians taking command of his little slice of Kazakhstan.\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]No amount of reactionary thuggery could ever extinguish the flame of Bolshevism in Russia, and Mikhail Georgiyevich Pervukhin is living proof of that.\\
With the death of Kaganovich and subsequent collapse of the Tyumen government, Pervukhin followed his last orders and led the last few Stalinists on an odyssey towards the Southern Urals. There, he found fertile ground for a revolution, which he planned for and organized from a mountain hideout, in expectation of the moment for Taboritsky's reactionary monstrosity would finally collapse. When that day came, the Bolshevik coup was swift, and General Secretary Mikhail Pervukhin was sworn in as chairman of the Orenburg Revolutionary Communes.\\
In other circumstances, it is likely that a regime so fanatically dedicated to the ideals of the late Kaganovich would be intolerable to any population that aspires to a dignified living. In fact, there could scarcely have been a less-fertile breeding ground for a dictatorship of the proletariat as totalitarian as Pervukhin's, than the patchwork former anarchist villages around Orenburg. Such was the extent of sheer oppression practiced by Taboritsky's men, that an eventuality so unlikely became first a foretold certainty, and then a fact. Indeed, for many whom just a decade earlier professed an unbound love of liberty and freedom; Pervukhin's cult of personality, all-encompassing iteration of the NKVD, and absolute control over every facet of economic life; are now harsh but fair measures.\\

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Even as Hadji-Umar Dzhiorovich Mamsurov leads a nation, his heart still screams in defeat.\\
In a better time, Mamsurov was a commander in the Ural League, protecting his people from the tides of tyranny that had surrounded them. When Taboritsky's men invaded, Mamsurov fought them to the end, but to no avail. As Mamsurov lost contact with battalion after battalion, the truth gradually became clear to him -- the Ural League was gone, and his men were alone.\\
With the guard's destruction, many lost hope and surrendered to the Regent and his madmen. Yet Mamsurov did not -- could not -- let go of the dream. As the Empire rose and fell, Mamsurov and his band of partisans never ceased their struggle. Years later, when Taboritsky's death tore apart the Empire, Mamsurov at last arrived to liberate whoever could be saved from the madness to come.\\

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Dmitry Yazov was wrong. The Teuton, for all his disgusting evil and inhumanity, was but one great enemy of the Russian race. Taboritsky and his followers were not Teutons, but Russians horribly ridden by a Germanic ideological disease. In germ warfare, only the proper precautions and vaccinations can prevent an outbreak amongst your own population. To Alexander Ivanovich Lazarenko and his Redeemed Black League, hidden from the surface in their deep Plan Hydra bunkers, only the cold embrace of the earth ensured the purity of his soldiers.\\
Russia a corpse writhing with maggots, with each rancid grub wearing a uniform and proclaiming nations of their own. The Russians, once thought by Lazarenko to be the race to save Mankind from the horrors of Nazism is now polluted beyond redemption. That is the ultimate cruelty of the Teuton, to have poisoned the very essense of the Russian race.\\

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]As Shturmoviki commander Anatoly Andreevich Motsny watched as the Russian monster state collapsed, he was a man lost. After the death of Sergei Taboritsky, the empire was shattered, its armies scattered across Russia. As warlords and subhumans fought each other in the ruins, Motsny and his unit took hold of the fortress city of Omsk. It was in Omsk that Motsny learned the gut-wrenching truth: Taboritsky, His Most Holy Regent to the Blessed Tsar, was nothing more than a disguised Jew. The revelation shook the devout Motsny to his very core and forced into doubt all he had ever believed in.\\
As Motsny ruined his own flesh and imbibed hallucigenic drugs in search of the truth, the answer became painfully clear. Taboritsky was indeed a holy man, the true prophet of God, just as he was a Jew. If God would permit this vile creature to be his servant on earth, then what use was there in worshipping him? Motsny felt terribly alone, cut off from his faith and alone in a hostile world. That was, until a second epiphany came to him. If God would ally himself with the Jews, then His enemy, mighty Lucifer, must be the true savior of mankind.\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]An opponent of the USSR during its existence, Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev is a man with philosophical inclinations, who has nonetheless been spurred to action in his country's time of need. Nearly conscripted during the first war with the Germans, the USSR fell before he could be brought to the front. Zinoviev made his way to the newly established Central Siberian Republic in the aftermath, seeing it as a beacon of relative tolerance and stability, and joined the Bastillard society, rising to a undistinguished position within its leadership. With the rest of the leadership of the Bastillards dead or missing as a result of the vicious purges of the Empire, he has taken charge of the rebuilding of Tomsk, large portions of which were levelled by imperial forces. Deeply haunted by the devastation of the Modernist and Humanist societies, Zinoviev is very willing to compromise in order to ensure the continuation of much needed stability.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]When Boris Nikolaevich Krylov refused his father's offer to be made a prince in his kingdom, he remained as a general in the kingdom's military. But his position wouldn't last -- as the city of Kemerovo fell to their enemies, Boris narrow escaped the probable fate of the rest of his family.\\
Hiding out as a fugitive in the Central Siberian wilderness, he eventually settled in a small village under an assumed name. As the Holy Russian empire swept eastwards and established their administration within Siberia, nightmarish atrocities descended upon the population of Siberia as the Blessed Regent's agents turned brother against brother and father against son.\\
When the news came to Boris that the Regent had died, he believed it to be false. But as the wanton killing ebbed, and the terror evaporated, dread was replaced by anxiety -- what would be the future for Siberia?\\

->'''In-Game Biography (The Silent Regent):''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]] \\\

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the Dirlewanger Brigade. Both groups are a band of far-right merciless killers that terrorize the people of the Southern Urals. But, unlike the Brigade who at least had a goal to get loot and become rulers of the Southern Urals, the Imperial Guards of the Purification Zone have no meaning behind their slaughter. Evtukovich and his men have no desire to go home, to stop fighting, or even take power. Just to keep killing since that was the last legitimate order they've gotten.

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Fundamentalism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Fundamentalism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilaitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. - Revelation 22:13\\

I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." - Revelation 22:13\\

* PyrrhicVillainy: Taboritsky's unification of Russia only results in burning Russia east of Moskowien and Kazakhstan to the ground and subsequently dying sometime after reunification, turning a standard TheBadGuyWins scenario into a horrifying dipiction of this trope as the HRE breaks into peices and may never unite again, let alone take back RK Moskowien from the Germans.

* AllForNothing: Multilayered. Ultimately, because Alexei ''is'' dead, no matter how utterly Taboritsky crushes the life out of Russia to "purify" it for the tsarevich it by definition cannot ever be enough to bring him back. He ultimately perishes in terror and despair after being confronted by this fact in a vision, which happens shortly after he achieves national unification. After Taboritsky's death, any territory he managed to conquer and subsequently terrorize as Regent will once again collapse, creating a second warlord period even more horrific than the first which forever destroys any hopes of a united Russia. The new sucare more often than not utterly mad and too weak to try to pursue national unification if they wanted to; many do not.

* AllForNothing: Multilayered. Ultimately, because Alexei ''is'' dead, no matter how utterly Taboritsky crushes the life out of Russia to "purify" it for the tsarevich it by definition cannot ever be enough to bring him back. He ultimately perishes in terror and despair after being confronted by this fact in a vision, which happens shortly after he achieves national unification. After Taboritsky's death, any territory he managed to conquer and subsequently terrorize as Regent will once again collapse, but this time it creates a total anarchy in which there is no semblance of an actual functioning government anywhere in the former empire, forever destroying any hopes of a united Russia. Even when the successor states do emerge, they are more often than not utterly mad and too weak to try to pursue national unification if they wanted to; many do not.

* DownerEnding: Of all the possible warlords who can unify Russia, the development team considers Taboritsky's ending to be the absolute worst for Russia itself (though not the entire world, that honor goes to Hyperborea and the All-Russian Black League, both of which are likely to start a global thermonuclear war and end the world), which is known as the 'failstate'. Taboritsky's mad rule of Russia causes the country to collapse so catastrophically that it has no successor states; Russia simply becomes an absolutely lawless wasteland, with the ideological, societal, and demographic madness inflicted by the Holy Russian Empire being so severe that it [[RayOfHopeEnding seemingly]] kills off the very idea of a Russian nation, ''forever''. Depending on who wins post-collapse, it can get ''even worse''.

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* OldSoldier: In his 50s by the time the Holy Russian Empire collapses, Altunin has been fighting against the evils of Fascism for most of his life by this point, ever since the days of the Soviet Union.
* YouAreInCommandNow: With every other high ranking leader from the WRRF dead by the time of Midnight thanks to Taboritsky's conquest of western Russia or being hunted down by Larionov and his Shturmoviki, the leadership of its remnants falls to the otherwise lower ranking Altunin.

* AllForNothing: He realises that all of his attempts to save his people were for nothing and they will die as if he had done nothing at all.

* Expy: Aside from the obvious WRRF influence, the NRLF also mirrors Konstantin Rokossovsky and Pavel Batov's Sverdlovsk, who also use Soviet heraldry and iconography despite not being classed as Communist or Socialist. Of course unlike Sverdlovsk, Altunin and the NRLF don't really have a choice there.

* HopeSpot: The leadership of the NRLF believes they have found enough aid to save everyone within their borders, then it arrives and they realise it can barely feed a third of Archangelsk for a week and nothing else is coming.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Aside from the obvious WRRF influence, the NRLF also mirrors Konstantin Rokossovsky and Pavel Batov's Sverdlovsk, who also use Soviet heraldry and iconography despite not being classed as Communist or Socialist. Of course unlike Sverdlovsk, Altunin and the NRLF don't really have a choice there.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A GoodShepherd that genuinely cares for the people under his leadership while keeping a religious-esque government makes him a second Alexander Men in the wastes of post-Midnight Russia.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Aside from the obvious WRRF influence, the NRLF also mirrors Konstantin Rokossovsky and Pavel Batov's Sverdlovsk, who also use Soviet heraldry and iconography despite not being classed as Communist or Socialist. Of course unlike Sverdlovsk, Altunin and the NRLF don't really have a choice there.