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@@WyattRyeSway That's very interesting. You rarely get to hear what those outside court and government circles thought about the situation (I'm assuming your family weren't in those circles as they were quite small, but do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) so that's a fascinating insight. Thank you for sharing it.
@@HistoryCalling .....my family were nearly peasants. My great great great grandfather (I’m 19) had to get special permission to live in the city because he was Jewish but ran a manufacturing business and was very very good at it. The tsar was extremely antisemitic. At the time, newspapers published cartoons that were anti-Rasputin and anti-Alexandra. Many implied they were having an affair and the tsar was a puppet. A few indicated he was having sexual relationships with the girls as well. Most of these were published after Nikolai II went to the front and left German imbecile wife in charge. The tsar was verbally abused by his father all of his childhood and not given any real training on how to be a leader. He was insulated from the masses so had no idea his wife was loathed and no idea Rasputin had a very well deserved reputation for drunken orgies, power trips with the elite class women of Petersburg etc. When told by courtiers, he refused to believe it. He was dim and sadly married someone dimmer than he was. In addition, Nikolai II could have some charm and had a silly playful side. She had almost 0 personality. None (apparently). Part of that may have been losing both parents before she was my age (a sister and her mother died when she was around 6 or 7 or something). She was apparently dim and just a rather sad person. Then she gives birth to a son who basically had a terminal disease. They knew it was carried in her line (though they were cousins, letters seem to indicate she knew it came from her) and she was devastated. Her letters to Nikolai II, when he was at the front though, show she was so deluded she thought Alexei would one day rule Russia. There was no way. He was lucky he lived as long as he did. She would sit nights by his bed, while he literally screamed in agony, while other times she sat by him in his wheelchair, and she thought he could one day rule Russia? That’s beyond delusional. In my family, it’s said that Rasputin held these really bizarre orgies in the banyas, so you went when you figured he would not be there or you didn’t go. You are aware before he was murdered, there was an attempt on his life where he was nearly disemboweled, right? Too bad she wasn’t successful then.
@@WyattRyeSway Thank you for such a detailed response. I've heard a lot of the stories surrounding Rasputin's behaviour before and agree that the Tsar and Tsarina were really deluded about the type of person they were dealing with. Yes, it seems unlikely that Alexei would have had a long life, though perhaps had things been different he might have lived long enough to marry and produce a son of his own, as Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold did.
@@HistoryCalling ....that’s possible. In my opinion, Russia was never going to accept a German woman leading them. Not at that time. The end came when he married Alexandra. When he pretty much put her in charge, it was just too much. Alexei was popular. If he was born earlier and had a son by that time, Rasputin would not have been needed. History.....full of a lot of “if only’s”.
I just wish that Alexei and the sister’s remains would be allowed to be buried with the rest of the family. It seems cruel that they continue to be kept separate after two DNA tests have proven who they are.
Amazing and tragic piece of history. An entire family plus wiped out in the most brutal fashion. I always find your videos fascinating, and for the most part enjoyable. I've always had a macabre interest in the Romanov's story. thank you for clearing up many falsehoods related to it. Such as they were killed in the afternoon while sitting for what they thought was a pose for a family portrait.
@@HistoryCalling Ive heard the portrait story, but as a means of getting them to the basement in the middle of the night. Something about needing the portrait as a record before they were moved. Then once all in the baseme t they were read the death sentence.
Now that the Soviet State Archives (GARF) are open…many falsehoods about the Imperial Family have been disproved. It is important to read books that use these first hand documents. As much as the Bolsheviks hated the Romanovs, they kept every letter, diary, notes, even love letters between the Tsar and Empress.
Oohhh, this was fantastic! Outside of the various Tudors that have always fascinated me, or Egyptian pharaohs, the Romanov's, and Rasputin too, are up there for me.. great quality audio, and the details - eugh, love hearin' it, hahha. 🌹🌹
King George should at least have saved the children. Could he really not have brought them in (perhaps secretly) and hidden them, and eventually helped them disappear into safety?
I think that I watched a documentary once that said that England had some secret plan to get the Romanovs out of Russia and hide them in England unknown to anyone, but the plan wasn't carried out in time. I could be wrong though.
England was then, as it is now, a constitutional monarchy. George V could not, and did not, offer the Romanovs political asylum. That is an oft repeated myth. Only Parliament had the power to grant political asylum to the Romanovs. There is a certain romance looking back at some of these royal families, but the fact remains that Czar Nicholas was an ineffectual leader. His abysmal decisions led to brutal hardships not only for the citizens but even for the military.
Especially since Tsarina Alexandra was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The Royals, all of them, suffer from toxic, malignant narcissism. WAM Syndrome.
There’s an historical debate as to whether George actually wanted to have his cousin flee to Britain, or rather whether his wife wanted them too. She was Mary of Teck and she was allegedly extremely jealous of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsar Nicholas II’s wife. She apparently felt that Alexandra was far more beautiful and lavish than her in style and dress, and this would have made her feel rather dowdy in comparison when in her company. It’s been speculated that it was Queen Mary who didn’t want the Romanov’s to come to Britain for this reason - they’d make the British Royal Family look too ordinary in comparison… It seems like a very silly reason when your cousin, your blood relative and his entire young family are in such dire need of help, but we don’t know how much King George knew of the extent of the situation the Romanov’s were facing. Many Russian people didn’t know the extent of the problem and were kept very much in the dark as to the Royal family’s suffering and eventual murder. They were murdered (let’s call it what it was) in the dead of night in the Siberian winter and hastily buried in secrecy. It’s easy to speculate that King George genuinely didn’t believe that the Bolshevik’s would dare do such a thing. This was the 20th Century and to kidnap and murder an entire Royal family was unheard of, most were made to renounce the throne and then exiled from their homeland never to return. I don’t believe George nor Mary believed it would ever end in murder. I’m sure they would’ve secured parliament’s backing to have them exiled to Britain if they thought complete family annihilation was on the cards…..
Actually It wasn't Anastasia who was found with Aleksey, It was Maria. They both still haven't been given a proper burial alongside with their Parents.
It’s so cruel. They recognise them as saints and the Russian Orthodox Church pays no respect to the dead or there saints. They should bury Alexis and his sister whoever she may be with the rest of their family as a sign of respect.
I don't know why I find the story of the Romanov's so much more tragic than any other I can think of from real history, including the princes in the Tower.
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They were so out of touch with reality. Nicholas was a firm believer in autocracy, to a point of fanaticism. There were so many movements of change in Russia and if he had played his cards right, Russia could of become a constitutional monarchy. Alexandra lived in a bubble - so worried about the health of the future Tsar, that she forgot the land he was meant to rule over. Rasputin's influence over both and their unwillingness to hear anything against him, made a bad situation, disastrous. WWI's Russian losses, associated with Nicholas ineptitude to command the troops were the final straw. To be honest, I've never felt sorry for Alex and Nicholas, but the children were absolutely innocent and that's the real tragedy. In the end, by failing Russia, they ended up failing their own children and opened the door to decades of Russian and Ukraine suffering.
Yes, I agree they were in a real bubble and not competent rulers. I think you're right that had they played their card differently, there would have been a very different and much more positive outcome.
I agree. Alexander was foolish to not begin teaching Nicholas about his coming responsibilities as ruler when he was 19 or 20. Actually, he should have been learning this things from an academic standpoint while a teenager (high school age). Just look at how differently Elizabeth and Margaret were educated after the death of George V when David (Edward VIII) abdicated. Elizabeth was 12, but when it became apparent that Albert would become George VI and that eventually Elizabeth would become queen, her education was immediately geared to preparing her for her role as such. Had Nicholas’ education been approached in the same manner and Alexander taken his role seriously as not only tzar, but also preparing the future tzar, things might very well have happened differently. The same could also be said for Alexandra. She was clueless when it came to having empathy for her people. She was never taught how to be the wife of a ruler or what her duties to her people would be.
@@ItsJustLisa to be fair, Queen Elizabeth II always had Prince Phillip in her ear about his family's near death escape from Greece. I think that heavily influenced her also.
i completely agree. had they listened to their people's needs and actually realised how the world was changing, the story would be completely different.
George V was 1st cousin on his mother's side to Nicholas, & 1st cousin on his father's side to Alexandra......& after Parlament approved assilem for the Romanovs, George V was so worried about his crown that he revoked their only real chance. For what it is worth, President Wilson turned them down
@@nomadpurple6154 Not at all, at the time the British public viewed the Russian monarchy as tyrannical due to their autocratic rule of Russia. At the time of the Russian Revolution there was a huge rise in the left wing anti-monarchy Labour party and also WWI was being fought. The monarchy was alreay hanging on a shoe string due to its German roots (hense why George changed the family name to Windsor) so saving the Tsar and giving him refuge in Britain whilst so many British men we off dying in trenches could have tipped the scale and led to George and his family suffering the same fate the Romanov's did. As George's monarchy was a constitutional one unlike Nicholas's he had to go with what the public wanted and felt...also at the time George refused Nicholas asylum, Russia was under the control of the Provisional Government who were willing to exile the Romanov's from the country, nobody at the time had any idea that the Bolshevik's would eventually take over and murder the family. I have no doubt George was haunted by that fact for the rest of his life
I hadn't ever heard that the Tzar's brother was briefly recognized as King, before abdicating that same day. Whatever became of him? Did he have a family as well? Where are they now?
A Russian couple one of whom was from royalty moved to Canada long ago. No it was not Anastasia. They were a very hard working couple who were devoted both to helping build peace and to avoid any extremists too so they could bring up their family well enough same as everyone else without them having to collect more money after she had abdicated her Russian royal status.
It's tragic when royals, especially children, became seen not as people but as symbols in revolutions. There are two life stories that always make me cry hardly: Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and Tsarevich Alexey. Tsarina Alexandra had a portrait of executed queen and her family, like she was doomed too for such a fate...
I understand the whole Royal family was canonised. Where the servants also cannonized? The Royal family had limited choice in them going into this terrible situation but the servants had choice some of them some left and some willingly went into captivity knowing what their fake could be. Where the servants canonised? There were 5 at the final murder and there was one that was killed a few days earlier. He had been taking care of Alexi and he was shot for refusing to let the bolsheviks be rough with the very ill Alexi. Are these 5 also cannonized( as I hope they were)
Yes, from looking at their Wikipedia entries, they were apparently canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (not the same as the Russian Orthodox Church which canonised the family).
Dr. Botking, Anna Demidovna, Kharitinov and Trupp were murdered along with Nicholas Alexandra and their children on 17th July 1918 in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg.
@@HistoryCalling Is it known what became of the guards who had refused to partake in the murder? Those were crazy times, disobedience could easily equal to death sentence.
Hard to say one liked it but very informed - thank you, makes you wonder how that 17 year old coped later in his life, also, wonder how many of the executioners managed to keep some jewels. Set them up for life. No one deserves that - no one. It was truly barbaric. Those poor children , what a terrifying 20 minutes or so it must have been. Man can be very cruel. Thank you 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺👵👵👵
I know. It was awful. I'm not sure if any of the executioners managed to sneak away some of the jewels. There were an awful lot of them (jewels, I mean), so it's certainly possible. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Went into some pockets at the assassination, and the rest were sent to Moscow where stones were pulled from their settings and sold for the glory of the revolution
@@HistoryCalling Not sure what is worst...parents seeing their children die or children watching the murder of their parents. 😢 I am a new subscriber and may I say I adore your channel. As a fellow history buff I was ecstatic to come across your amazing videos...so well researched, such interesting content (particularly the stuff on my faves..the Tudors!) and so beautifully presented. I'm blocking out this weekend to go through all your backlog. Keep up the amazing work...💖
Probably very similar to the terror experienced by people on Bloody Sunday, the Japanese War, World War I and the Anti-Jewish pogroms which Nicholas was responsible for, either directly or through his arrogant & utter incompetence. Every one was sad & tragic but the Royal adults truly brought it upon themselves by their callous treatment of others.
I know. As I was researching/writing/recording/editing it, I kept thinking 'why am I doing this? I feel like crying every time I get to the execution.' Ultimately I think theirs is a story worth remembering though, so I stuck with it.
Also a tragedy was the massacre of the many totally innocent people who ,whilst peacefully demonstrating outside the Winter Palace, were killed by soldiers on the orders of the Tsar.
I think people do not realise the situation that was in the world by this time and it is more interesting to attract audiences by the tragedy without taking about the reasons. As I understand the revolutionary atmosphere was in the Europe and in England too. So the English king just didn’t want to spoil his reputation by taking Russian tsar as the whole world new his crimes against Russian workers and people in general. Especially on Bloody sunday
@@tatianakrupskaya8873 Nicholas was a bloody tyrant. Nobody abroad wanted him. It was also impossible to get them out to the west. That is why Kerensky sent them to Tobolsk in the east.
They were a wealthy, humble and beautiful family and I'm always sorry to relive their story and their Tragedy. ❤️ I wouldn't personally judge Aleksandra too hard on her relationship with Rasputin seeing he helped her son Several times and as a mother is totally understandable. I can only imagine what she was going through!
Yes, I don't think there was anything going on between the Tsarina and Rasputin either. He wasn't a good person for the family to have around them, but as he made Alexei better, I can understand how they became so attached to him.
@@HistoryCalling I imagine that if a woman everyone dislikes started bringing a random skeevy looking guy who claimed to be a mystic to her house, everyone would prefer to think the worst of her, and that's where the rumors came. Even more so as Alexei's illness wasn't public knowledge, even in the court. From what I've read, he was the only one who managed to help him in his worst moments. Good move for the family, bad move for the politics
They were rulers of their time. The executions were barbaric and cruel. The king of England was too frightened to offer sanctuary to his own cousin I hope his decision haunted him.
My favorite book is Nicholas and Alexandra the final chapter by Robert K Massie. The use of DNA at the time of it being written was so new. I also found the use of photo screening as identification was interesting. Additionally talking about the reasons for the Anastasia vs Maria debate maybe a good video
Wow why aren’t they putting the son and daughter with their family? After what happened to them they deserve at least that. Now it’s obvious political.
That is not true. It was completely impossible to get them out to the west. That is why Kerensky sent them to the relative safety of Tobolsk in the east.
I’m curious, how do we know ANY of what is considered to be facts as to HOW and what order they died? Who were the actual witnesses and/or what is the source of these facts? Was it a journal or written report? Eyewitness?
This is awful. Ive followed their story since i was a kid and JUST LIKE in todays world, we go and we drag innocent children into adult issues, and then they end up suffering for it. Its not right and its inhumane if said children dont even grasp what the adults are talking about and have no control over their surroundings what so ever. The children shouldnt have been touched, but instead taken somewhere else and at least just "re-educated" or whatever. Kill the father FINE, but the mother AND her kids?? nawww thats just wrong.
Disgusting. The inhuman acts of those assassins is shocking. I don't care if they were drunk. Being able to do that to a children and a family is a crime against humanity, and I hope they were punished.
Nicholas, Alexandra, Alexei then Olga and Tatiana (not sure which first) and finally Maria and Anastasia (again, not sure which first as there's some confusion as to which two girls woke up as they were carried out to the truck and if it was even one girl or two).
@@HistoryCalling thanks by the way I was going to ask am why don’t you do questions that would change are history example what if Hitlor was still alive or he won world war 2 or what if lady Jane grey who was 9 days queen took the English throne in 1603 I think this would be interesting to se how it would have changed are history if these events happened and I also think this would help your RUclips channel grow because it would allow you to understand what if these events happened and what would it be like today by the way I loved this video
@@raumaanking I've considered that actually, but there are just so many variables that I think it would be incredibly difficult to put a video together on a 'what if' topic. I haven't ruled it out though. I'm glad you enjoyed the video :-)
@@HistoryCalling oh your very welcome but the lady Jane grey one would be so interesting because if she did become queen in 1603 she would have done many different things even though most likely she would rule for like 7-8 years or something because she would have been like 66 years old taking the English throne and also the hole guy fawkes that bit would be very interesting and what lady Jane grey would do
@@raumaanking Ah yes, whether Guy Fawkes would have tried to blow up her parliament is indeed an interesting question. Of course she might have died of natural causes long before 1603 and it might have been her child or one of her sisters or their descendants who held the claim to the throne. Like I said, soooo many variables ... :-)
It;s all politics. The church backed itself into a corner over recognition of the remains of the Romanovs. Maria Vladimirovna was also playing politics. At the funeral of Nicholas and Alexandra along with three of their daughters, Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia along with Dr. Botkin, Demidova, Trupp and Kharitinov, the church refused to pronounce their names. The remains of Maria and Alexis have undergone repeated DNA testing proving them to be accurate. The church doesn't like the reality.
Russia's geopolitical situation was very complicated, Romanovs were stuck in the past, Nicholas was unsuited for leadership (but firmly believed in his divine right), and frankly, I believeTsarist Russia was racing to its natural end. That said, I wish the outcome of the revolution was different. I am Polish, so I do not have a single good thing to say about bolsheviks, communist, Lenin, Stalin, and their helpers. Romanovs had to go as rulers, but I feel bad about their brutal end. They would've gone on really nicely as a country gentleman family. And I don't think Nicholas would've tried to regain his throne during WWII. Once the weight was off his shoulders, I think he would have made peace with it. Although, I can see the family being used for propaganda in WWII by UK government.
Why didn't George V, at the very least, agree to allow the Czar's children to exile to Great Britain? From many accounts I have read, Nikki and George were very close. (It was often pointed out that they looked more like brothers than cousins.) I honestly don't know how King George could have lived with his conscience, knowing a small act of kindness on his part could have prevented the innocent children from being brutally murdered. Tragic in the extreme.
I think it probably was a big burden on his conscience. I will say though that I don't know if the children would have been allowed to go without their parents, or would even have wanted to.
@@HistoryCalling you must remember that sisters were quite old already . Olga was 22. Tatiana -21.Maria -19. Anastasia 17. They could have traveled on their own.
@@junglesuperstar9270 it was completely impossible to get them out to the west. St. Petersburg and Moscow were both in the hands of revolutionaries who would have gleefully imprisoned or murdered them. That is why Kerensky sent them to the east to Tobolsk. They were prisoners of state once the revolution occurred. They could go nowhere.
@@davidlogan4329 ohhhh. How did other members of the royal family escape ? As well as thousands and thousands of other people ?. I know u are an ignorant westerner who knows zero about Russian history and geography . Typically people left through south of Russia -Crimea or Siberia or Far East to china . So, they had chance .
Many were murdered (arguably even more horribly than these Romanovs) and a few, including one of the Tsar's sisters and his mother (if my memory serves), escaped.
You know, I think he made a terrible mistake in not taking them in, but I also have sympathy for him as I don't think he realised how precarious their situation was and I would imagine he had awful guilt afterwards and for the rest of his life.
I disagree with this idea, I feel sure that if George V had of offered to take the family in, they would have been stopped from leaving the country one way or another. In the end their fate would have been much the same, sadly.
King George V got out from the Crimea in April 1919 the Romanovs he could including Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and many of her family. It was completely impossible to get Nicholas and his family out to the west in 1917. They were trapped. That is why Kerensky sent them to the east. Both St. Petersburg and Moscow were in the hands of revolutionaries in 1917. There was no way out.
The story about bullets bouncing off jewels sewn into clothing has been questioned recently, and now dismissed as almost certainly untrue. Helen Rappaport and Helen Azar have some very interesting videos on the romanovs. The influence of Rasputin is now also thought to be highly exaggerated.
@@bobbidazzler1343 Prince Michael has a beard like George V and Nicholas II. He looked different when he was younger and shaved. Freddie looks more like Princess Michael.
Not surprising as his grandmother Elena was Nicholas II's first cousin, and his grandfather Prince Nicholas, Elena's husband was Nicholas II's second cousin.
So so sad 😥 I mite b wrong but if the mother wasn't friends with that rusputin guy would that have got murdered just so very sad x another brilliant video 👍👍👍
In regards to the succession according to the Pauline House rules created by Paul I women could inherit the throne as his mother was Catherine the Great. Okay she usurped the throne and may have murdered her husband the rightful Emperor Peter III. He was an innefectual ruler like Nicholas II. The reason he changed the rules was Number 1 due to the fact that Paul was the rightful ruler and not able to rule as his mother thought he was not good enough to be Emperor. Number 2 was the fact that Russia had been ruled for almost a century by women due to the lack of males in the Romanoff family. He therefore arranged that a female member of the family can only inherit if there are no males left in the family.
That’s because the church doesn’t want them to be found they want the missing children to remain martyrs-no wonder so many are leaving the churches in horde’s
I saw In Search of a Lost Princess which had me convinced that Arch Duchess Maria escaped the execution and died in S. Africa. It was the facial comparisons that were done by two different forensic departments that had me convinced. But it would have been kinder if Maria had died with her family, because this Granny Alina by all accounts lived a half life being afraid of being caught. I bought the book The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal. Beautiful photographs. The Tsar and Tsarina were directly responsible for what happened to the children. They were innocent. Finally. Excellent documentary. I have subscribed to your channel. Very insightful details. I will watch other videos too.
I had someone trying to justify the murder of the family to me a little while ago. It was really distressing because they were murdered so brutally. One day I hope to visit their graves and pay my respects
Video footage of the czar and his family, super cool, & sad. :( Killing a whole family though, disgusting & sick. (Sick, here, not meaning cool, but, gross, brutal, etc.)
The British royal family betrayed the Tsar and his beautiful family. In good times they were together but when tragedy struck threy did not even lift a hand to help the children.
Do we know if George V dealt with lifelong guilt over his decision not to grant sanctuary for Nicholas II and his family? I know that he was the quintessential “stiff upper lip” type of Englishman, but were Queen Mary, his children, close family, friends or religious leaders aware of any kind of regret on his part for his refusal to allow his cousins to move to England? Even if he thought that he was doing the right thing surely he must’ve grieved the death a cousin who’d he’d been so close to and who’d looked like his twin when they were younger.
It was completely impossible to get the Romanovs out. Nicholas was a bloody tyrant. Both St. Petersburg and Moscow were in the hands of revolutionaries. There was no way out to the west. That is why Kerensky sent them to the east to Tobolsk. All the family abroad had tried to help Nicholas, but he refused to listen to their wise advice. He also refused to listen to his family inside Russia. All the Romanovs in the north of Russia were murdered in 1918 and January 1919. Those in the Crimea were rescued in April 1919. Nicholas was advised to send his wife and children to the Crimea in January 1917. He did not listen and stupidly refused. Revolution broke out not long after and they were all trapped. Worth noting that Denmark, Norway and Sweden refused any offer of sanctuary. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway were a first cousins of Nicholas as was King Christian X of Denmark and Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden. It's also worth noting there was a German blocade of the Baltic Sea. There was no way out.
The tsar and tsarina deserved what they got. They were completely out of touch with reality, in their tiny luxurious bubble, making terrible decisions for the nation they were ruling over. And they taught their children alike. What happened to them was horrific, but no less horrific than what they themselves caused to so many people by turning a blind eye. As to why they were killed: the new ruling class, the communists, were insecure of their station and longevity and were worried about an international intervention, counter revolution or something similar in the Romanov family's behalf.
What happened? Is plain English selfishness! When your cousin the king of England Georg 5th refuses to save you from the Bolsheviks and sentences you and your family to death. But he did not fail to collect the chest with Russian royal treasures and crowns, which we can still see worn by the English monarch. Nothing new for English politics till now :)
It might have been rather difficult to extract them once they were imprisoned. The Romanov jewels were plucked up by the magpie Queen Mary. Rather heartless.
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Rasputin and hatred for Alexandra. My family lived in Petersburg at the time. He was about anyone could talk about apparently.
@@WyattRyeSway That's very interesting. You rarely get to hear what those outside court and government circles thought about the situation (I'm assuming your family weren't in those circles as they were quite small, but do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) so that's a fascinating insight. Thank you for sharing it.
@@HistoryCalling .....my family were nearly peasants. My great great great grandfather (I’m 19) had to get special permission to live in the city because he was Jewish but ran a manufacturing business and was very very good at it. The tsar was extremely antisemitic.
At the time, newspapers published cartoons that were anti-Rasputin and anti-Alexandra. Many implied they were having an affair and the tsar was a puppet. A few indicated he was having sexual relationships with the girls as well. Most of these were published after Nikolai II went to the front and left German imbecile wife in charge.
The tsar was verbally abused by his father all of his childhood and not given any real training on how to be a leader. He was insulated from the masses so had no idea his wife was loathed and no idea Rasputin had a very well deserved reputation for drunken orgies, power trips with the elite class women of Petersburg etc. When told by courtiers, he refused to believe it. He was dim and sadly married someone dimmer than he was. In addition, Nikolai II could have some charm and had a silly playful side. She had almost 0 personality. None (apparently). Part of that may have been losing both parents before she was my age (a sister and her mother died when she was around 6 or 7 or something). She was apparently dim and just a rather sad person. Then she gives birth to a son who basically had a terminal disease. They knew it was carried in her line (though they were cousins, letters seem to indicate she knew it came from her) and she was devastated. Her letters to Nikolai II, when he was at the front though, show she was so deluded she thought Alexei would one day rule Russia. There was no way. He was lucky he lived as long as he did. She would sit nights by his bed, while he literally screamed in agony, while other times she sat by him in his wheelchair, and she thought he could one day rule Russia? That’s beyond delusional.
In my family, it’s said that Rasputin held these really bizarre orgies in the banyas, so you went when you figured he would not be there or you didn’t go.
You are aware before he was murdered, there was an attempt on his life where he was nearly disemboweled, right? Too bad she wasn’t successful then.
@@WyattRyeSway Thank you for such a detailed response. I've heard a lot of the stories surrounding Rasputin's behaviour before and agree that the Tsar and Tsarina were really deluded about the type of person they were dealing with. Yes, it seems unlikely that Alexei would have had a long life, though perhaps had things been different he might have lived long enough to marry and produce a son of his own, as Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold did.
@@HistoryCalling ....that’s possible. In my opinion, Russia was never going to accept a German woman leading them. Not at that time. The end came when he married Alexandra. When he pretty much put her in charge, it was just too much. Alexei was popular. If he was born earlier and had a son by that time, Rasputin would not have been needed.
History.....full of a lot of “if only’s”.
I visited their graves at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. They were covered in the most beautiful flowers.
I'm so jealous. I would love to visit the Cathedral and pay my respects. I'm glad their graves are so well maintained.
@@HistoryCalling St. Petersburg is wonderful! You must go someday! The Winter Palace and the Hermitage are breathtaking.
@@maryann4827 Yes, the Winter Palace looks amazing. It's definitely on my 'to visit' list.
@@HistoryCalling It's really staggering. Room after room just encrusted with solid gold from floor to ceiling.
@@maryann4827 Sounds like the Russian version of Versailles (also on my 'to visit' list).
I just wish that Alexei and the sister’s remains would be allowed to be buried with the rest of the family. It seems cruel that they continue to be kept separate after two DNA tests have proven who they are.
And there is no logical reason why they shouldn't be buried with them. What is wrong with the Russian Orthodox church for God's sake?
Amazing and tragic piece of history. An entire family plus wiped out in the most brutal fashion. I always find your videos fascinating, and for the most part enjoyable. I've always had a macabre interest in the Romanov's story. thank you for clearing up many falsehoods related to it. Such as they were killed in the afternoon while sitting for what they thought was a pose for a family portrait.
HI Brad. Thanks for watching and commenting. I hadn't heard the afternoon, portrait story, but it was definitely a 'middle of the night' job.
@@HistoryCalling Ive heard the portrait story, but as a means of getting them to the basement in the middle of the night. Something about needing the portrait as a record before they were moved. Then once all in the baseme t they were read the death sentence.
Now that the Soviet State Archives (GARF) are open…many falsehoods about the Imperial Family have been disproved. It is important to read books that use these first hand documents. As much as the Bolsheviks hated the Romanovs, they kept every letter, diary, notes, even love letters between the Tsar and Empress.
It's so sad. That poor family, and especially the children :(
It is a bit cruel
Oohhh, this was fantastic! Outside of the various Tudors that have always fascinated me, or Egyptian pharaohs, the Romanov's, and Rasputin too, are up there for me.. great quality audio, and the details - eugh, love hearin' it, hahha. 🌹🌹
Thanks Rose Ella-Grace. Glad you liked it. Yes, the details are horrific. It was a really terrible end.
King George should at least have saved the children. Could he really not have brought them in (perhaps secretly) and hidden them, and eventually helped them disappear into safety?
I think that I watched a documentary once that said that England had some secret plan to get the Romanovs out of Russia and hide them in England unknown to anyone, but the plan wasn't carried out in time. I could be wrong though.
England was then, as it is now, a constitutional monarchy. George V could not, and did not, offer the Romanovs political asylum. That is an oft repeated myth. Only Parliament had the power to grant political asylum to the Romanovs. There is a certain romance looking back at some of these royal families, but the fact remains that Czar Nicholas was an ineffectual leader. His abysmal decisions led to brutal hardships not only for the citizens but even for the military.
Especially since Tsarina Alexandra was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
The Royals, all of them, suffer from toxic, malignant narcissism.
WAM Syndrome.
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There’s an historical debate as to whether George actually wanted to have his cousin flee to Britain, or rather whether his wife wanted them too. She was Mary of Teck and she was allegedly extremely jealous of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsar Nicholas II’s wife. She apparently felt that Alexandra was far more beautiful and lavish than her in style and dress, and this would have made her feel rather dowdy in comparison when in her company. It’s been speculated that it was Queen Mary who didn’t want the Romanov’s to come to Britain for this reason - they’d make the British Royal Family look too ordinary in comparison… It seems like a very silly reason when your cousin, your blood relative and his entire young family are in such dire need of help, but we don’t know how much King George knew of the extent of the situation the Romanov’s were facing. Many Russian people didn’t know the extent of the problem and were kept very much in the dark as to the Royal family’s suffering and eventual murder. They were murdered (let’s call it what it was) in the dead of night in the Siberian winter and hastily buried in secrecy. It’s easy to speculate that King George genuinely didn’t believe that the Bolshevik’s would dare do such a thing. This was the 20th Century and to kidnap and murder an entire Royal family was unheard of, most were made to renounce the throne and then exiled from their homeland never to return. I don’t believe George nor Mary believed it would ever end in murder. I’m sure they would’ve secured parliament’s backing to have them exiled to Britain if they thought complete family annihilation was on the cards…..
Part of me always hoped that the myth of Anastasia's survival was true. It made me sad when it was confirmed that she was found with her brother.
Actually It wasn't Anastasia who was found with Aleksey, It was Maria. They both still haven't been given a proper burial alongside with their Parents.
Remember, we cannot trust what they say. She did escape ❤
It’s so cruel. They recognise them as saints and the Russian Orthodox Church pays no respect to the dead or there saints. They should bury Alexis and his sister whoever she may be with the rest of their family as a sign of respect.
I know. Hopefully they will be buried with the rest of their family at some point. I don't think there's any real doubt who the bones belong to.
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@@HistoryCalling Why do you think the Russian church is so adamant not to recognise the remains?
@@EP-yd7vz it's all politics. Alexis and Maria's remains will be eventualy buried.
I don't know why I find the story of the Romanov's so much more tragic than any other I can think of from real history, including the princes in the Tower.
They were so out of touch with reality. Nicholas was a firm believer in autocracy, to a point of fanaticism. There were so many movements of change in Russia and if he had played his cards right, Russia could of become a constitutional monarchy. Alexandra lived in a bubble - so worried about the health of the future Tsar, that she forgot the land he was meant to rule over. Rasputin's influence over both and their unwillingness to hear anything against him, made a bad situation, disastrous. WWI's Russian losses, associated with Nicholas ineptitude to command the troops were the final straw. To be honest, I've never felt sorry for Alex and Nicholas, but the children were absolutely innocent and that's the real tragedy. In the end, by failing Russia, they ended up failing their own children and opened the door to decades of Russian and Ukraine suffering.
Yes, I agree they were in a real bubble and not competent rulers. I think you're right that had they played their card differently, there would have been a very different and much more positive outcome.
If only czar Alexander ll wasn’t murdered by the criminal elite, he would’ve made Russia into a constitutional monarchy
I agree. Alexander was foolish to not begin teaching Nicholas about his coming responsibilities as ruler when he was 19 or 20. Actually, he should have been learning this things from an academic standpoint while a teenager (high school age). Just look at how differently Elizabeth and Margaret were educated after the death of George V when David (Edward VIII) abdicated. Elizabeth was 12, but when it became apparent that Albert would become George VI and that eventually Elizabeth would become queen, her education was immediately geared to preparing her for her role as such. Had Nicholas’ education been approached in the same manner and Alexander taken his role seriously as not only tzar, but also preparing the future tzar, things might very well have happened differently.
The same could also be said for Alexandra. She was clueless when it came to having empathy for her people. She was never taught how to be the wife of a ruler or what her duties to her people would be.
@@ItsJustLisa to be fair, Queen Elizabeth II always had Prince Phillip in her ear about his family's near death escape from Greece. I think that heavily influenced her also.
i completely agree. had they listened to their people's needs and actually realised how the world was changing, the story would be completely different.
Very sad. I think it's sad that they could not have had sanctuary in Britain. 🌷
I know. I'm sure that haunted George V, knowing that he potentially could have saved them.
George V was 1st cousin on his mother's side to Nicholas, & 1st cousin on his father's side to Alexandra......& after Parlament approved assilem for the Romanovs, George V was so worried about his crown that he revoked their only real chance.
For what it is worth, President Wilson turned them down
Further demonstration of how cruel & selfish royalty is.
Yes! So sad!
@@nomadpurple6154 Not at all, at the time the British public viewed the Russian monarchy as tyrannical due to their autocratic rule of Russia. At the time of the Russian Revolution there was a huge rise in the left wing anti-monarchy Labour party and also WWI was being fought. The monarchy was alreay hanging on a shoe string due to its German roots (hense why George changed the family name to Windsor) so saving the Tsar and giving him refuge in Britain whilst so many British men we off dying in trenches could have tipped the scale and led to George and his family suffering the same fate the Romanov's did. As George's monarchy was a constitutional one unlike Nicholas's he had to go with what the public wanted and felt...also at the time George refused Nicholas asylum, Russia was under the control of the Provisional Government who were willing to exile the Romanov's from the country, nobody at the time had any idea that the Bolshevik's would eventually take over and murder the family. I have no doubt George was haunted by that fact for the rest of his life
Humans can be so cruel to one another.
I know. It's when you hear about stories like this that you really see some of the worst in humanity I think.
Yes. Like starving people of your country to death .
I hadn't ever heard that the Tzar's brother was briefly recognized as King, before abdicating that same day. Whatever became of him? Did he have a family as well? Where are they now?
Murdered by the Bolsheviks in June 1918 I'm afraid, so he was dead even before this branch of the family were killed. :-(
@@HistoryCalling Thanks for the answer, Terrible shame.
His brother was taken out into the countryside and shot along with his faithful doctor the night before Nicholas and his family were killed
@@HistoryCalling his body and that of his secretary have not been found.
@@acidmack1041 it was earlier.
It’s mad how their story mirrors so much of the French Revolution and the royal family there
Yes! I was just listening to the story of Marie Antoinette and her family’s demise ! Many similarities.
A Russian couple one of whom was from royalty moved to Canada long ago. No it was not Anastasia. They were a very hard working couple who were devoted both to helping build peace and to avoid any extremists too so they could bring up their family well enough same as everyone else without them having to collect more money after she had abdicated her Russian royal status.
The Tsar’s youngest sister Grand Duchess Olga. She died in an apartment above a barber shop….
Your videos are so well researched. Thanks for making these!
It's tragic when royals, especially children, became seen not as people but as symbols in revolutions. There are two life stories that always make me cry hardly: Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and Tsarevich Alexey. Tsarina Alexandra had a portrait of executed queen and her family, like she was doomed too for such a fate...
I understand the whole Royal family was canonised. Where the servants also cannonized? The Royal family had limited choice in them going into this terrible situation but the servants had choice some of them some left and some willingly went into captivity knowing what their fake could be.
Where the servants canonised? There were 5 at the final murder and there was one that was killed a few days earlier. He had been taking care of Alexi and he was shot for refusing to let the bolsheviks be rough with the very ill Alexi.
Are these 5 also cannonized( as I hope they were)
Yes, from looking at their Wikipedia entries, they were apparently canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (not the same as the Russian Orthodox Church which canonised the family).
Dr. Botking, Anna Demidovna, Kharitinov and Trupp were murdered along with Nicholas Alexandra and their children on 17th July 1918 in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg.
Christ, imagine just coldly impaling two already dying young girls. Sick.
I know. It was a horrific end. I always think it actually makes the likes of Anne Boleyn's death seem almost merciful by comparison.
@@HistoryCalling Is it known what became of the guards who had refused to partake in the murder? Those were crazy times, disobedience could easily equal to death sentence.
Absolutely sick, sick, sick, sick
Hard to say one liked it but very informed - thank you, makes you wonder how that 17 year old coped later in his life, also, wonder how many of the executioners managed to keep some jewels. Set them up for life. No one deserves that - no one. It was truly barbaric. Those poor children , what a terrifying 20 minutes or so it must have been. Man can be very cruel. Thank you 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺👵👵👵
I know. It was awful. I'm not sure if any of the executioners managed to sneak away some of the jewels. There were an awful lot of them (jewels, I mean), so it's certainly possible. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Hi History Calling! Do you know what happened to the jewels the girls had sewn in their undergarments? Thanks for another great video!
Went into some pockets at the assassination, and the rest were sent to Moscow where stones were pulled from their settings and sold for the glory of the revolution
@@koloagirlthank you!
Such a sad & tragic end that befell an entire family. I cannot imagine the terror they all felt in that basement knowing what was coming....
I know. I think the parents were the luckiest as it was all over for them right away.
@@HistoryCalling Not sure what is worst...parents seeing their children die or children watching the murder of their parents. 😢
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Probably very similar to the terror experienced by people on Bloody Sunday, the Japanese War, World War I and the Anti-Jewish pogroms which Nicholas was responsible for, either directly or through his arrogant & utter incompetence.
Every one was sad & tragic but the Royal adults truly brought it upon themselves by their callous treatment of others.
I hope they believed as they were told, being moved due to the Whites getting closer to Ekaterinburg ….that way they were not immediately scared….
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I know. As I was researching/writing/recording/editing it, I kept thinking 'why am I doing this? I feel like crying every time I get to the execution.' Ultimately I think theirs is a story worth remembering though, so I stuck with it.
Horrid ending for them, absolutely horrid. Made my skin jump up in goosebumps.
Very interesting video as always
Thank you so much :-)
They really should buried the last to siblings and let them be at peace with their family.
It's all internal politics within the Russian Orthodox Church. That's why Alexis and Maria's remains are still not buried.
Also a tragedy was the massacre of the many totally innocent people who ,whilst peacefully demonstrating outside the Winter Palace, were killed by soldiers on the orders of the Tsar.
I think people do not realise the situation that was in the world by this time and it is more interesting to attract audiences by the tragedy without taking about the reasons. As I understand the revolutionary atmosphere was in the Europe and in England too. So the English king just didn’t want to spoil his reputation by taking Russian tsar as the whole world new his crimes against Russian workers and people in general. Especially on Bloody sunday
@@tatianakrupskaya8873 Nicholas was a bloody tyrant. Nobody abroad wanted him. It was also impossible to get them out to the west. That is why Kerensky sent them to Tobolsk in the east.
They were a wealthy, humble and beautiful family and I'm always sorry to relive their story and their Tragedy. ❤️
I wouldn't personally judge Aleksandra too hard on her relationship with Rasputin seeing he helped her son Several times and as a mother is totally understandable. I can only imagine what she was going through!
Yes, I don't think there was anything going on between the Tsarina and Rasputin either. He wasn't a good person for the family to have around them, but as he made Alexei better, I can understand how they became so attached to him.
There was nothing humble about them, they were autocrats who believed they were better than others and had a right to rule - like Putin.
@@HistoryCalling I imagine that if a woman everyone dislikes started bringing a random skeevy looking guy who claimed to be a mystic to her house, everyone would prefer to think the worst of her, and that's where the rumors came. Even more so as Alexei's illness wasn't public knowledge, even in the court. From what I've read, he was the only one who managed to help him in his worst moments. Good move for the family, bad move for the politics
Humble ??????
They were rulers of their time. The executions were barbaric and cruel. The king of England was too frightened to offer sanctuary to his own cousin I hope his decision haunted him.
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How terrible. ☹
My favorite book is Nicholas and Alexandra the final chapter by Robert K Massie. The use of DNA at the time of it being written was so new. I also found the use of photo screening as identification was interesting.
Additionally talking about the reasons for the Anastasia vs Maria debate maybe a good video
5:05 That sounds extatly like Anastasia.
The whole fate of this family is disgusting.
Wow why aren’t they putting the son and daughter with their family? After what happened to them they deserve at least that. Now it’s obvious political.
POlitics within the Russian Orthodox Church.
Very very sad.
The way they were murdered was appalling and without merit or efficiency. they could have all been given safe passage to the UK
That is not true. It was completely impossible to get them out to the west. That is why Kerensky sent them to the relative safety of Tobolsk in the east.
I’m curious, how do we know ANY of what is considered to be facts as to HOW and what order they died? Who were the actual witnesses and/or what is the source of these facts? Was it a journal or written report? Eyewitness?
Mostly the Yurovsky Note as well as testimony of Medvedev.
This is awful. Ive followed their story since i was a kid and JUST LIKE in todays world, we go and we drag innocent children into adult issues, and then they end up suffering for it. Its not right and its inhumane if said children dont even grasp what the adults are talking about and have no control over their surroundings what so ever. The children shouldnt have been touched, but instead taken somewhere else and at least just "re-educated" or whatever. Kill the father FINE, but the mother AND her kids?? nawww thats just wrong.
Re-educate at the age of 22?
Disgusting. The inhuman acts of those assassins is shocking. I don't care if they were drunk. Being able to do that to a children and a family is a crime against humanity, and I hope they were punished.
Sadly, none of them are ever put to justice. All died with old age.
In your opinion what order do you think the Romanovs died in
Nicholas, Alexandra, Alexei then Olga and Tatiana (not sure which first) and finally Maria and Anastasia (again, not sure which first as there's some confusion as to which two girls woke up as they were carried out to the truck and if it was even one girl or two).
@@HistoryCalling thanks by the way I was going to ask am why don’t you do questions that would change are history example what if Hitlor was still alive or he won world war 2 or what if lady Jane grey who was 9 days queen took the English throne in 1603 I think this would be interesting to se how it would have changed are history if these events happened and I also think this would help your RUclips channel grow because it would allow you to understand what if these events happened and what would it be like today by the way I loved this video
@@raumaanking I've considered that actually, but there are just so many variables that I think it would be incredibly difficult to put a video together on a 'what if' topic. I haven't ruled it out though. I'm glad you enjoyed the video :-)
@@HistoryCalling oh your very welcome but the lady Jane grey one would be so interesting because if she did become queen in 1603 she would have done many different things even though most likely she would rule for like 7-8 years or something because she would have been like 66 years old taking the English throne and also the hole guy fawkes that bit would be very interesting and what lady Jane grey would do
@@raumaanking Ah yes, whether Guy Fawkes would have tried to blow up her parliament is indeed an interesting question. Of course she might have died of natural causes long before 1603 and it might have been her child or one of her sisters or their descendants who held the claim to the throne. Like I said, soooo many variables ... :-)
Current Russia is thus explained.
Lein hated the Romanovs, because his brother was tried and hung.
The Russian people hated the Romanovs.
What’s the reasoning for the church not recognizing the last two bodies as Romanovs?
It;s all politics. The church backed itself into a corner over recognition of the remains of the Romanovs. Maria Vladimirovna was also playing politics. At the funeral of Nicholas and Alexandra along with three of their daughters, Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia along with Dr. Botkin, Demidova, Trupp and Kharitinov, the church refused to pronounce their names. The remains of Maria and Alexis have undergone repeated DNA testing proving them to be accurate. The church doesn't like the reality.
How horrible
What a violent and horrible death. I keep forgetting it was not fast. Awful
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Russia's geopolitical situation was very complicated, Romanovs were stuck in the past, Nicholas was unsuited for leadership (but firmly believed in his divine right), and frankly, I believeTsarist Russia was racing to its natural end. That said, I wish the outcome of the revolution was different. I am Polish, so I do not have a single good thing to say about bolsheviks, communist, Lenin, Stalin, and their helpers.
Romanovs had to go as rulers, but I feel bad about their brutal end. They would've gone on really nicely as a country gentleman family. And I don't think Nicholas would've tried to regain his throne during WWII. Once the weight was off his shoulders, I think he would have made peace with it. Although, I can see the family being used for propaganda in WWII by UK government.
Why didn't George V, at the very least, agree to allow the Czar's children to exile to Great Britain? From many accounts I have read, Nikki and George were very close. (It was often pointed out that they looked more like brothers than cousins.) I honestly don't know how King George could have lived with his conscience, knowing a small act of kindness on his part could have prevented the innocent children from being brutally murdered. Tragic in the extreme.
I think it probably was a big burden on his conscience. I will say though that I don't know if the children would have been allowed to go without their parents, or would even have wanted to.
@@HistoryCalling you must remember that sisters were quite old already . Olga was 22. Tatiana -21.Maria -19. Anastasia 17. They could have traveled on their own.
@@junglesuperstar9270 it was completely impossible to get them out to the west. St. Petersburg and Moscow were both in the hands of revolutionaries who would have gleefully imprisoned or murdered them. That is why Kerensky sent them to the east to Tobolsk. They were prisoners of state once the revolution occurred. They could go nowhere.
@@davidlogan4329 ohhhh. How did other members of the royal family escape ? As well as thousands and thousands of other people ?. I know u are an ignorant westerner who knows zero about Russian history and geography . Typically people left through south of Russia -Crimea or Siberia or Far East to china . So, they had chance .
Now I know why the Russians are Hated so much..
I hate politics. Royal being far worse
What happened to their extended family?
Many were murdered (arguably even more horribly than these Romanovs) and a few, including one of the Tsar's sisters and his mother (if my memory serves), escaped.
@@HistoryCalling Yes the mother died in her native country Denmark,the sisters Olga in Canada and Xenia in England.
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George V of England could have saved the family and didn’t. That’s almost as shameful as the murders.
You know, I think he made a terrible mistake in not taking them in, but I also have sympathy for him as I don't think he realised how precarious their situation was and I would imagine he had awful guilt afterwards and for the rest of his life.
Agree now they are trying to rewrite history saying that he couldn't 🐂💩
I disagree with this idea, I feel sure that if George V had of offered to take the family in, they would have been stopped from leaving the country one way or another. In the end their fate would have been much the same, sadly.
King George V got out from the Crimea in April 1919 the Romanovs he could including Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and many of her family. It was completely impossible to get Nicholas and his family out to the west in 1917. They were trapped. That is why Kerensky sent them to the east. Both St. Petersburg and Moscow were in the hands of revolutionaries in 1917. There was no way out.
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The story about bullets bouncing off jewels sewn into clothing has been questioned recently, and now dismissed as almost certainly untrue. Helen Rappaport and Helen Azar have some very interesting videos on the romanovs. The influence of Rasputin is now also thought to be highly exaggerated.
Today's Duke of Kent looks very like the Tsar.
I think you mean Prince Michael of Kent. He is the image of the Tsar as is his son Freddie. X
@@bobbidazzler1343 Prince Michael has a beard like George V and Nicholas II. He looked different when he was younger and shaved. Freddie looks more like Princess Michael.
Not surprising as his grandmother Elena was Nicholas II's first cousin, and his grandfather Prince Nicholas, Elena's husband was Nicholas II's second cousin.
So so sad 😥 I mite b wrong but if the mother wasn't friends with that rusputin guy would that have got murdered just so very sad x another brilliant video 👍👍👍
Such a tragic story
In regards to the succession according to the Pauline House rules created by Paul I women could inherit the throne as his mother was Catherine the Great. Okay she usurped the throne and may have murdered her husband the rightful Emperor Peter III. He was an innefectual ruler like Nicholas II. The reason he changed the rules was Number 1 due to the fact that Paul was the rightful ruler and not able to rule as his mother thought he was not good enough to be Emperor. Number 2 was the fact that Russia had been ruled for almost a century by women due to the lack of males in the Romanoff family. He therefore arranged that a female member of the family can only inherit if there are no males left in the family.
Nicholas had total power to alter the succession laws. He stupidly never did.
done in by their own incompetence.
Sorry said Duke of Kent, meant to say Prince Michael of Kent.
The Duke of Kent looks like his cousin the late Duke of Edinburgh, and you are right Prince Michael looks like his twice over cousin Nicholas.
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The fact the assassination was so botched was just a foretaste of how inefficient and pointless the Soviet era would be. What a waste.
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I saw In Search of a Lost Princess which had me convinced that Arch Duchess Maria escaped the execution and died in S. Africa.
It was the facial comparisons that were done by two different forensic departments that had me convinced.
But it would have been kinder if Maria had died with her family, because this Granny Alina by all accounts lived a half life being afraid of being caught.
I bought the book The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal. Beautiful photographs.
The Tsar and Tsarina were directly responsible for what happened to the children.
They were innocent.
Finally. Excellent documentary. I have subscribed to your channel. Very insightful details. I will watch other videos too.
None of them escaped. They were all murdered in the cellar room of the Ipatiev House.
Factual comparisons done on 100+ year old photos is junk science. Even modern facial comparison science is sketchy at best
It seems to me they were killed because of their association with Rasputin and the way they mismanaged their country. So vary sad.
I had someone trying to justify the murder of the family to me a little while ago. It was really distressing because they were murdered so brutally. One day I hope to visit their graves and pay my respects
in addition to their.. odd way of standing when they got murdered.
they got told it was a picture that was happening.
I Have always heard Yurovsky starting shooting without saying anything.
Wow that’s horrifying. 😱
Such a sad story. Wasn’t Alexandra the daughter or granddaughter of Queen Victoria? All Europe’s royal families seem to be related.
But nobody helped .
Alexandra was the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's daughter, Princess Alice who married the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany.
Video footage of the czar and his family, super cool, & sad. :( Killing a whole family though, disgusting & sick. (Sick, here, not meaning cool, but, gross, brutal, etc.)
George V should of brought them to England. They could of been moved later. Once George V said No.... their fate was sealed.
It was completely impossible.
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The British royal family betrayed the Tsar and his beautiful family. In good times they were together but when tragedy struck threy did not even lift a hand to help the children.
That is not true. It was also impossible to get them out to the west once the revolution broke out.
Terrible that the children got the worst of it
Millions of ordinary Russians died during the bloody reign of Nicholas II. Many innocent children died.
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Do we know if George V dealt with lifelong guilt over his decision not to grant sanctuary for Nicholas II and his family? I know that he was the quintessential “stiff upper lip” type of Englishman, but were Queen Mary, his children, close family, friends or religious leaders aware of any kind of regret on his part for his refusal to allow his cousins to move to England? Even if he thought that he was doing the right thing surely he must’ve grieved the death a cousin who’d he’d been so close to and who’d looked like his twin when they were younger.
It was completely impossible to get the Romanovs out. Nicholas was a bloody tyrant. Both St. Petersburg and Moscow were in the hands of revolutionaries. There was no way out to the west. That is why Kerensky sent them to the east to Tobolsk. All the family abroad had tried to help Nicholas, but he refused to listen to their wise advice. He also refused to listen to his family inside Russia. All the Romanovs in the north of Russia were murdered in 1918 and January 1919. Those in the Crimea were rescued in April 1919. Nicholas was advised to send his wife and children to the Crimea in January 1917. He did not listen and stupidly refused. Revolution broke out not long after and they were all trapped. Worth noting that Denmark, Norway and Sweden refused any offer of sanctuary. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway were a first cousins of Nicholas as was King Christian X of Denmark and Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden. It's also worth noting there was a German blocade of the Baltic Sea. There was no way out.
If they had to be killed it could have been done humanely, my goodness. Bayoneting them again and again? And why kill the servants?
They were all murdered. The servants chose to stay.
The tsar and tsarina deserved what they got. They were completely out of touch with reality, in their tiny luxurious bubble, making terrible decisions for the nation they were ruling over. And they taught their children alike. What happened to them was horrific, but no less horrific than what they themselves caused to so many people by turning a blind eye. As to why they were killed: the new ruling class, the communists, were insecure of their station and longevity and were worried about an international intervention, counter revolution or something similar in the Romanov family's behalf.
What happened?
Is plain English selfishness!
When your cousin the king of England Georg 5th refuses to save you from the Bolsheviks and sentences you and your family to death. But he did not fail to collect the chest with Russian royal treasures and crowns, which we can still see worn by the English monarch. Nothing new for English politics till now :)
It might have been rather difficult to extract them once they were imprisoned.
The Romanov jewels were plucked up by the magpie Queen Mary. Rather heartless.
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How could King George have turned his back on that poor family particularly the innocent children 😢
Millions of ordinary Russians were murdered during the reign of the last Tsar. Most were innocent.
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I will forever wish that the animated film of Anastasia was accurate.
It was absolute garbage. They were all murdered.
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Barbaric end to anyone's life.
Millions died under the misrule of Nicholas. Their deaths were also unnecessary and barbaric. Think about that.
I have thought about it. In great depth. I always do. @@davidlogan4329
The sisters were wearing the world's most expensive bulletproof vests
You should call this WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SWISS CHEESE? This is so full of factual holes.......
Could you give some examples?