‘Hello, Prince,’ she whispered,
I just picked up on Nikolay being called Prince (which I rightly connectd to the Devil somewhere in my notes for Part 1 Ch 2) and Pyotr wanting to make him Ivan Tsarevich, which essentially means Prince. So wanting to replace the 'Russian God' with Nikolay, Ivan Tsarevich, is not only the deification of man but also the usurpation of the Devil to ascend to the throne of God.
this would've been more seemly if I had come to this thought during the actual Ivan Tsarevich chapter…
