Well, Lenin was not a very peaceful man; neither was his successor, Stalin. Both people were responsible for the death of millions of Russians during the period before world war II. Conclusion: The Romanov exploited the Russian people, true, but Lenin and Stalin were actually the"red" tsars of Russia in those days. Besides that, it's sad to kill the young four girls en and the boy. No matter what your convinction is, it still is an atrocity
This video is really impressive and cruel simultaneously. Really I feel a lot of grief for this family.This video draws tears from me. But the video is very good.
This is inaccurate. Not only did the Tsar have no need to carry his son, but there were eleven of them due to the house servants. Plus they were all brought down to the underground layer of the house to be murdered.
Still...it was HORRIBLE. How on earth could you bring yourself to murder children!? T~T
It was natural for the russians to kill them very easily
1 the tsar killed thousands of russian people not only in bloody sunday but even babies were dying from hunger and the tsar with his family were living in luxury since his fortune was 30000000000 in dollars all coming from russian people
2 if they had let the children live then those children would have the power to bring monarcy back in russia.
You don't protect a family who is blamed for your family's death and your country's misery...
Rasputin was weird , he said if a Royal kills him the Romanov will die , and some died the prediction came true.A prince killed him , he tried so many times to kill Rasputin , but Rasputin didn't die , he died when he was thrown in a river , Rasputin froze to death.
I read an article about their lives , it said they were selfish , had food to eat while people in Russia were starving.The Romanov didn't do much to help the Russian people , many Russians hated them , specially Alexandra because she was from Germany a foreigner and the enemy of Russia.Alexandra's and her husband were cousins , but they were so in love , incest is gross.
Alexandra and nicholas where related but not as close as cousins.
but they both where cousins to King George V (Nicholas mother Dagmar and George`s mother where sisters and Aleandras mother and George´s father where siblings)
Most of the European Royals were related , i don't understand why their cousins didn't help them.The Romanov were the grandchildren of Queen Victoria and she was the daughter or grand daughter of the mulatto princes Queen Charlotte .
The British did help, thats why they were sent to the basement as they were scared if the whites would regain the Tsar, thinks could go back to normal
no alexei was shot with all the others, he died quickly, probably instantly, but sadly his sisters suffered a lot longer and were probably bayoneted to death because of the jewels sewn into their clothing.
The things that happen beacause of our races ignoranance are So sad,annyoing,regretful,and,most of all,SAD!the thing they did to poor Alexi to kill him was,because of the deses,they did not shout him but gave him many many cuts.Like paper cuts,knife cuts & stabs etc. makes me cry thinking bout it...Once upon a decmember...
My godfather and uncle Seraphim Pavlovich Rojdestvesky served under Admiral Kolchak. They were to liberate the Tsar, but unfortunately they arrived two days late and could not locate any bodies, only blood. He lived long enough to see the fall of Soviet Union and the tricolor fly over the Kremlin once again. We know where the orders to assassinate the Tsar came from and I think you do too!
I like the music! does anyone know more of those kind of russian songs? It's very emotional, I like it. Also the Video. You guys should read something about Rasputin, it's very interesting
This family is very ideal. I used to watched Anastasia the cartoons film and feel in love by it. I searched it on Google and was surprised by the truth of it all. Very tragic story. RIP To this family. At the very least they are all together.
If the Russian people had been told about Alexi's haemophaelia, and seen his strength and courage in facing it, they would hav bub proud f him, & the illness wouldn't hav bin seen as shameful. 2day, celebrities talk openly about ailments they or friends & family have, & work 4 cures! This video s mostly from "Nicolas & Alexandra" - & it makes me wish I cud go back n a time machine & help them all!
The Russian people would have been absolutely horrified by Alexei's illness. You forget that these were the early years of the Twentieth Century. They wanted their rulers to be godlike.
okay so maybe Nicolas was not the best leader, maybe he did make bad choices for his country, but that still does not make his and his families murders right! even if he did do things that did make it right to execute him, they did not have to kill his wife and children, especially the children, the oldest was only around 21 and the tsarevitch was 13. they had no right to kill those poor children.
kazimo000: Rasputin did not give bad advice. He was the person who was healing Alexei. The Tzarina trusted him with the heir's life. Their relations killed him, but he had warned the family that he would die. If it was because of their blood, then they would crash and burn. If it wasn't, they'd rule happily. That was his curse.
hearbreaking..romanov family were innocent they thought it was just a simpe picture taking.I hate to see the end of this video it made me cry ..but its nice..God bless you all romanov family..Good bye..
Nicholas, himself, certainly was NOT innocent. When he ordered mutinous peasants to be tried and executed by travelling court marshals, the first trials led to appeals for mercy by the convicted peasants. Nicholas's response was that he did not want to receive any appeals; the sentences were to be carried out immediately. Thousands were hung. He was deservedly called "bloody Nicholas". As for the Empress, there were probably excellent charges to be brought against her too.
I don't remember that, did they think it was a simple picture taking ? i thought the story was they had to leave and he made them wait in that room for a few minutes. him and those people coe in and they realise they were going to be killed. I dnt remember anything about a photgraph being taken. lol but i'm not an expert in this story.
Well they were told they were to take a picture of all of them before they left, but surely with the set up, they probably knew they were going to die
wow....breathtaking clip! Left me speechless for a while! I always liked learning about the last Imperial family of Russia. But i never wrapped my brain around why they were killed. This was amazing! GREAT job! I LOVED IT!
Lenin and espacially Stalin knew which noxious and cruel terrors they were doing. Tsar Nicholas II just didn't know what was going on in his country because he was not a good leader just as he was a good family man. This was no reason to kill him and his whole familiy. He didn't deserve that because he was not an evil person in contradistinction with Stalin.
Very true. When his father died he was basically forced to be tsar and be a leader, with no experience in leadership he shouldn't of been tsar. Yet he didn't want to be. he was more a father role than a leader role. It does make me so sad when i think about his family who also had to die just because he wasn't a good tsar, yet he didn't want to be a tsar in the first place. God Bless Them All Romanovs.
well, in the official records, from the point of view of history, they killed them so that the then opposing white army, couldnt use them as a banner of unification amongst the factions. churchill even sent english soldiers to russia to help the counter-revolutionary forces (white army). although that failed.
Deserved their fate or not, I still find it a story full of sorrow. The poor children. And the same way I think of it for Marie Antoinette and Louis 16th...take a step back. Don't look at them as "THE ROYAL FAMILY." Look at them as they are at their whole lives, regardless of the country (bad, I know). Take out the Royal. It wasn't just a monarchy desstroyed, but a family who loved one another. It wasn't simply regicide. This video makes me want to cry.
They were guilty of neglecting their country yes, but it's because the health of their son took precedence...they loved him so much, more than their people and country. You chose an appropriate song without realizing it. The song is about love for Russia.
no one has the right to judge. God is the only one who has that right. and no one definitely has the right to take someone's life....whether they are guilty or innocent. May the Romanovs rest in peace.
yes,many people suffered in the time of Nikolaj II,but still...that is not the proper way to handle teh situation,especially to die...And the children didn't do anything.
The Tsar & Tsaritsa where not innocent. In his dying breath, I hope Nikolasha understood full well his personal responsibility for the terrible deaths of his beloved, and absolutely innocent children, who paid for his crimes with their lives.
true they werent children apart from the two younger ones, but even if they werent children that doesnt matter, that doesnt make any difference...they were still innocent! although i agree, nicholas and alexandra were guilty, they were still good ppl and they didnt diserve to die!
i think thats it's horrible, he may not have been a good ruler, but it didn't mean that he was a bad person. they shouldn't have killed him and his family. other things could have been done.
I can think of several other options. However, the bolsheviks were quite paranoid of anyone laying claim to the throne, and their fears clouded their judgement.
he wasnt a bad ruler... after doing my research i read that his wife was giving him the wrong orders which she got from resputin, he was taken the orders becuase he has given up... everything was going smoothly till resputin shows up to help thier son... he cursed them
Striking split personality of the 20th century. On the one hand, it was a golden age for the arts, medicine and science; on the other, more people were massacred by tyrannical governments during the 20th century than was the case during all the preceding 19 centuries put together.
Actually there was the lady-in-waiting, footman and cook that died alongside them. This movie was a hollywoodized movie based off Robert Massie's book.
I wrote my senior thesis on the reign of Nicholas II. The figure of Nicholas is truly tragic. He was a loving family man, but was not well equipped to rule. By all accounts he was a mild man who simply should never have been Tsar.
Yes he was a beautiful man, but he wasn't trained to rule a vast Empire. Even Dagmar (his mother) begged the paraliment to not put Nicholas on the throne and was pushing for the decision for Mikhal to take over. Alas they went with tradition and made Nicholas Tsar thus sealing his fate.
In the witness statment, they were told they were getting a photograph taken (a strange request isn't it considering it was nighttime, I am sure they would of gotten a hint from that statement alont).
While they were being put into postion, Alexandra requested two chair,one for herself (as she had bad legs) and Alexei (who was recovering from an accident in Tobolsk).
But it was a sad ending to a once powerful and beautiful dynasty.
Anastasia was the only tsarevna from royal family that wore her hair on her forehead, due to small scar she recived as a child, she was quite abit of a tomboy.
all monarchs should be killed, how could anyone have sympathy for these types of scum, no mortal should be worshiped and bowed to as if they were a "god"
Not all men are not equal. I am neither attractive as Brad Pitt or as intelligent as Einstein, etc. There are people that are smarter, better looking, more industrious, etc than others. Historically, humanity has fared somewhat better under monarchs than either authoritarian or "democratic" regimes, just in the amount of people eliminated from this planet.
i dont know much about wat happended to tehm but its heart breaking i mean why do people hav to be like this might sound gay ,, but i think we should just love each other n forgive... we hav so much hatred in the world ... n wats is going on evry where affects everyone ... cause we all live in the same place n we r all the same
Actually there were 11 people Olga Tatiana Marie Anastasia Alexi Nicholaus, Alexandera dr botkin Alexandras ladyinwaiting, and the childrens tutor and it was really inacurate the clock on the wall said 3:30 but the shooting happened at 1:30 and it didn't take that long for the Bolsheviks to come in and start shooting Yurovsky left the room for at least 3 seconds and they all came in and then Yurovsky said the speech about the execution Nicholaus says what? and then fire
whats the name of the girl who is right to the girl behind Alexandra? Is it Anastasia, Olga, Maria or Tatjana? Maybe someone can tell me the name of this actress.
You can blame Lenin for it because in a new book "Ekaterinburg," an Oxford historian details the proof she's discovered that he specifically ordered the execution of the entire Imperial family. It's no longer evidentially tenable to claim it was the independent actions of a rogue local soviet.
War breeds death. And revolution the greater part of death. When maddness take the place of common sense. Childern are the innocents of war. They are all saints now in the Orthodox Church. And so they now wear the crowns of saints who gave there life for love of God and country.Yes change ws needed in Russia at the time. They poor were suffering greatly. But still no reason for killing childern. All we can do pray for peace... Little Alexi, pray for us...
i cried when i saw this video ,i just cant imagine how innocent the romanovs was ,they thought it was just a simple picture taking but evetually a murder plot,so sad .you know if i was the muderer i cant do it indeed..
As Tom Paine said of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, "Burke mourns the plumes and forgets the dying bird." You weep over the Romanov family and you forget with Nicholas and Alexandra did to Russia.
They are now saints all of them in the Orthodox Church. To take the life of a child, any child, is wrong. Not to mention the others deaths that early morning.War is evil. And revolution breds war. As we should know. Looked what here in the USA in the 1700's. Yes Russia needed change. And the poor at that time were in very great need. It was ripe for the revolution. However it doesnt bless the death of childern. Little Alexie, pray for us....
Not a lot, there are only two poeple missing, a chambermaid and a cook (don't know their names) 10 people in total, the picture only depicts 8, In the movie the chambermaid is separated from the family after the train is stopped at Yekaterinburg and the cook was written out. Again not a lot, just two.
it is all relative a change was needed in russia the tsars popularity wasnt the best people didnt like him cause he lost the war against japan were many died, russia´s economy was on a desperate need of a change too, is the same thing that happened during the french revolution, we think now that it was brutal and in fact it was brutal, but war is like that, look at what happened to Sadam Husseim( another autocrat) however no1 seems to care about him.
Ok dreadful story...Kids shouldn't be killed. But who can blame Lenin for that? And since Russian people didn't want a czar it was people's choice. Why their countries didn't help them? I mean countries like Denmark and England? But it was a fault to kill them exile would be better.
No, the people never approved of this gangster hit on the Royal Family. In fact, Russians were never told that the Russian Royal family was murdered. Their assassination was conducted in secret. This is EXTREMELY well known among educated circles.
he should have left with his family while he had a chance also if he would have had more sons and less daughters it would have made a difference, its all sad though.
I cried during this video. Both the fate of the Romanovs and the song were sad. They didn't deserve that.
Okay,maybe Nikolaj didn't know how to rule properly,but that was exaggerating!An angry nation is bound to do anything,even really rash things. This reminds me(sorta)of the fate of king Alexander and queen Draga(serbian monarchs) who where stabbed to death and then thrown of an incredible height. I don't believe that murduring you superiours is the best way to solve a problem.
Nikolai II had no need to carry his sick son.For that there was a former marine, a Latvian by nationality who remained loyal till the end and was killed together with the Romanov family.
I agree that Nicholas II was deemed every inch as unfit to lead the Empire as Stalin was mentally unstable to lead the newborn Soviet Union. Even his father alexander III doubted he ad the will to run an Empire.
I don't deny that his death and that of his family (with the disputed exception of Anastasia) was harsh, but at the same time, I don't feel sorry for his incompetence and his religious zealotry. His reign marked the Golden Age of Porgoms.
This film has a few distortions in it . Just to name two. 1. Alexei was 14 and much too large for his father to carry him like a doll.2.There is only one other person murdered along with the family in this film actualy there were others.
what was that thing on that boy's leg? can he not walk or something, at my school we're just starting to learn about this whole thingy, and I think my teacher said something about the boy being sick or something, I might be wrong though, I wasen't paying attention.
he had hemophilia - a blood clotting disorder. He injured his leg a few scenes earlier sledding down the stairs and they are keeping it braced in place to slow blood flow(and probably keep bones aligned if he fractured it)
murder was not a good choice, murder will never be a good thing no matter how evil the person was.. i think that a family would have done much better than stalin, lenin and the third one, they killed more people and children than freakin' hitler! so you might want study that a bit.. but remember murder is never an opcion!!
I want to make sure that all three conspirators get credit for their act of inhumanity. Though Trotsky would later deny it, Jakob Yurovsky received orders from Lenin, Trotsky and Sverdlov. Yurovsky was under Sverdlov's command and he gave the order to kidnap the Romanovs on their way back to Moscow, as history indicates there is no doubt as to his purpose: MURDER.
Well, Lenin was not a very peaceful man; neither was his successor, Stalin. Both people were responsible for the death of millions of Russians during the period before world war II. Conclusion: The Romanov exploited the Russian people, true, but Lenin and Stalin were actually the"red" tsars of Russia in those days. Besides that, it's sad to kill the young four girls en and the boy. No matter what your convinction is, it still is an atrocity
Geense1963 2 years ago 166
This video is really impressive and cruel simultaneously. Really I feel a lot of grief for this family.This video draws tears from me. But the video is very good.
TVWPbyYPMC96306 2 years ago 49
I´m learning russian now..so this song is very important to me
cahlindinhaloira 2 years ago 29
I love their history..
cahlindinhaloira 2 years ago 107
I too
It's so sad :(
rayodesoldeamanecer 2 years ago 29
This is inaccurate. Not only did the Tsar have no need to carry his son, but there were eleven of them due to the house servants. Plus they were all brought down to the underground layer of the house to be murdered.
Still...it was HORRIBLE. How on earth could you bring yourself to murder children!? T~T
gOtHiCxAnGeLxox 2 years ago 13
Orders. And to make sure that there was no one to inherit the thrown. I'm not saying it wasn't horrible. But it is understandable.
Cuannaruin 2 years ago
It was natural for the russians to kill them very easily
1 the tsar killed thousands of russian people not only in bloody sunday but even babies were dying from hunger and the tsar with his family were living in luxury since his fortune was 30000000000 in dollars all coming from russian people
2 if they had let the children live then those children would have the power to bring monarcy back in russia.
You don't protect a family who is blamed for your family's death and your country's misery...
ihateutube100 2 years ago
It was an execution, not murder.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Rasputin was weird , he said if a Royal kills him the Romanov will die , and some died the prediction came true.A prince killed him , he tried so many times to kill Rasputin , but Rasputin didn't die , he died when he was thrown in a river , Rasputin froze to death.
lovesexpistols134 2 years ago 4
I read an article about their lives , it said they were selfish , had food to eat while people in Russia were starving.The Romanov didn't do much to help the Russian people , many Russians hated them , specially Alexandra because she was from Germany a foreigner and the enemy of Russia.Alexandra's and her husband were cousins , but they were so in love , incest is gross.
lovesexpistols134 2 years ago
Alexandra and nicholas where related but not as close as cousins.
but they both where cousins to King George V (Nicholas mother Dagmar and George`s mother where sisters and Aleandras mother and George´s father where siblings)
Rain89Sweed 2 years ago 3
Most of the European Royals were related , i don't understand why their cousins didn't help them.The Romanov were the grandchildren of Queen Victoria and she was the daughter or grand daughter of the mulatto princes Queen Charlotte .
lovesexpistols134 2 years ago
The British did help, thats why they were sent to the basement as they were scared if the whites would regain the Tsar, thinks could go back to normal
irishbrumy 2 years ago
George V had to think of his own position.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Were u aware that male model Luka Magnotta is related to the Romanov family ? OMG
russianprince111 2 years ago 7
:'(
solomasosa 2 years ago
no alexei was shot with all the others, he died quickly, probably instantly, but sadly his sisters suffered a lot longer and were probably bayoneted to death because of the jewels sewn into their clothing.
hugapug84 2 years ago 2
im pretty sure only one or two died instantly. the chief executioner's own account has him having to shoot alexei again after the initial firing.
cmstophe 2 years ago 15
The things that happen beacause of our races ignoranance are So sad,annyoing,regretful,and,most of all,SAD!the thing they did to poor Alexi to kill him was,because of the deses,they did not shout him but gave him many many cuts.Like paper cuts,knife cuts & stabs etc. makes me cry thinking bout it...Once upon a decmember...
T-T
HaraMecheo98 2 years ago
R.I.P romanov family.
sauron170 2 years ago 10
Heartbreaking...
dan1940210768 2 years ago 5
Godbye romanov ,God bless you all....
with so much love ..
from philippines..
pedroisog2009 2 years ago 5
I used to think that Anastasia and her family were fiction, but when I found the truth, I was horrified! :(
SimpsonsRule4ever 2 years ago 12
My godfather and uncle Seraphim Pavlovich Rojdestvesky served under Admiral Kolchak. They were to liberate the Tsar, but unfortunately they arrived two days late and could not locate any bodies, only blood. He lived long enough to see the fall of Soviet Union and the tricolor fly over the Kremlin once again. We know where the orders to assassinate the Tsar came from and I think you do too!
Nikolaii257 2 years ago 12
a few Romanov´s are still alive ´caus they went into a exil i believe in France or Spain but not all Romanov´s are dead
HORSTMEISTERlofi 2 years ago 3
I like the music! does anyone know more of those kind of russian songs? It's very emotional, I like it. Also the Video. You guys should read something about Rasputin, it's very interesting
AFW333 2 years ago
is this a movie oh wow that's sad the kids should have lived the father meh
the mother meh the kids omg ana was 17
maria and tatania were 21 alex was 13
whynews100 2 years ago
how sad, how terribly sad. but i agree, i'd rather die with my family than alone.
lafilledebeatles3 2 years ago 11
This family is very ideal. I used to watched Anastasia the cartoons film and feel in love by it. I searched it on Google and was surprised by the truth of it all. Very tragic story. RIP To this family. At the very least they are all together.
faevolturi 2 years ago 4
If the Russian people had been told about Alexi's haemophaelia, and seen his strength and courage in facing it, they would hav bub proud f him, & the illness wouldn't hav bin seen as shameful. 2day, celebrities talk openly about ailments they or friends & family have, & work 4 cures! This video s mostly from "Nicolas & Alexandra" - & it makes me wish I cud go back n a time machine & help them all!
UTAOUB 2 years ago 4
Actually his illness was publicly disclosed in 1912, and it increased hatred for Alexandra.
ObamaRules4Ever 2 years ago
The Russian people would have been absolutely horrified by Alexei's illness. You forget that these were the early years of the Twentieth Century. They wanted their rulers to be godlike.
mafaldacrumbwitty 2 years ago 3
the story is so sad
regardless of how bad a leader the father was
murdering a boy who was barely 14 is disgusting
RIP Alexis
amendris 2 years ago 8
okay so maybe Nicolas was not the best leader, maybe he did make bad choices for his country, but that still does not make his and his families murders right! even if he did do things that did make it right to execute him, they did not have to kill his wife and children, especially the children, the oldest was only around 21 and the tsarevitch was 13. they had no right to kill those poor children.
hugapug84 2 years ago 13
no the oldest was 22 not 21 the 2nd oldest was 21
muppetgirl101 2 years ago 2
kazimo000: Rasputin did not give bad advice. He was the person who was healing Alexei. The Tzarina trusted him with the heir's life. Their relations killed him, but he had warned the family that he would die. If it was because of their blood, then they would crash and burn. If it wasn't, they'd rule happily. That was his curse.
crzyaznsroxursox 2 years ago
he looks young to me
starhealer14 2 years ago
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starhealer14 2 years ago
Seeing Alexei always makes me want to cry. he was only 13. It's so sad :'(
MNKYMNKYMNKY 2 years ago 7
hearbreaking..romanov family were innocent they thought it was just a simpe picture taking.I hate to see the end of this video it made me cry ..but its nice..God bless you all romanov family..Good bye..
05angus 2 years ago
Nicholas, himself, certainly was NOT innocent. When he ordered mutinous peasants to be tried and executed by travelling court marshals, the first trials led to appeals for mercy by the convicted peasants. Nicholas's response was that he did not want to receive any appeals; the sentences were to be carried out immediately. Thousands were hung. He was deservedly called "bloody Nicholas". As for the Empress, there were probably excellent charges to be brought against her too.
mc0558 2 years ago
I don't remember that, did they think it was a simple picture taking ? i thought the story was they had to leave and he made them wait in that room for a few minutes. him and those people coe in and they realise they were going to be killed. I dnt remember anything about a photgraph being taken. lol but i'm not an expert in this story.
AbBiE13579 2 years ago
Well they were told they were to take a picture of all of them before they left, but surely with the set up, they probably knew they were going to die
ALileInsanity 2 years ago 4
bravo!excellent from greece
olimpios66 2 years ago
This song is so beautiful.
ForEverSnoopy 2 years ago
wow....breathtaking clip! Left me speechless for a while! I always liked learning about the last Imperial family of Russia. But i never wrapped my brain around why they were killed. This was amazing! GREAT job! I LOVED IT!
SerenaLA14 2 years ago 2
that video is so true
SuPeRsWeEtNeSs420 2 years ago
tht was great!i luved the video!But i didnt u show them being shot???
Also,did they kno they were about to be killed?I wuld have asked why r we going into a empty room.?
lexilu935211 2 years ago
i dont understand it still why did the kids have to die what did they ever do i cry for so many hours whatching this clip
bluepunkchic13 2 years ago 2
It showed there could be no going back.
ObamaRules4Ever 2 years ago
they had to die because the russian soviet revolution didnt ever wanted a tsar on the throne again!
warlight2333 2 years ago
They weren't children any more.
HarveyCartwright 2 years ago
i really liked this. very well done. song is beautiful!
iluvwilliam4ever 2 years ago
it makes me feel sad when i think about what the family must have endured during their last hours in that small room
mulan187 2 years ago
when they were like in a family portrait was that when they were about to be shot
gsgsgstdsss 3 years ago
omg..everytime when i look to this clip i cry... ...... God bless u,Nicolas, and yr family!
anechkabananochka 3 years ago
I find more reasons to cry for the russian people who suffered under this incompetent despot.
Walkemor 3 years ago 2
which one? Nicholas II? Lenin, Stalin, Which russian despot are we talking about?
Jakezing 2 years ago
Lenin and espacially Stalin knew which noxious and cruel terrors they were doing. Tsar Nicholas II just didn't know what was going on in his country because he was not a good leader just as he was a good family man. This was no reason to kill him and his whole familiy. He didn't deserve that because he was not an evil person in contradistinction with Stalin.
VlaamsArdennees 2 years ago 7
Very true. When his father died he was basically forced to be tsar and be a leader, with no experience in leadership he shouldn't of been tsar. Yet he didn't want to be. he was more a father role than a leader role. It does make me so sad when i think about his family who also had to die just because he wasn't a good tsar, yet he didn't want to be a tsar in the first place. God Bless Them All Romanovs.
AbBiE13579 2 years ago 4
well, in the official records, from the point of view of history, they killed them so that the then opposing white army, couldnt use them as a banner of unification amongst the factions. churchill even sent english soldiers to russia to help the counter-revolutionary forces (white army). although that failed.
teddythebenny 2 years ago
is it anastasia suppose to be the lost princess of russia...
veeapril023 3 years ago
Yes, but the missing remains turned out to be Marie's.
jeveuxlesoleil 2 years ago
but house of romanov is still alive most are cousin to nicholas 2 last king of russia .
muffles12 3 years ago
Deserved their fate or not, I still find it a story full of sorrow. The poor children. And the same way I think of it for Marie Antoinette and Louis 16th...take a step back. Don't look at them as "THE ROYAL FAMILY." Look at them as they are at their whole lives, regardless of the country (bad, I know). Take out the Royal. It wasn't just a monarchy desstroyed, but a family who loved one another. It wasn't simply regicide. This video makes me want to cry.
VintageVampiress 3 years ago 4
Only Alexis was a child.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
I cry every time T-T poor fasmily!!!!!!!!!
yarvh00 3 years ago 3
I tried to watch this before but feared the end.
Finally got up the courage to see it through today.
Thank you for a gentle end as tragic as we knew it was.
Very well done!
transdcr 3 years ago
They were guilty of neglecting their country yes, but it's because the health of their son took precedence...they loved him so much, more than their people and country. You chose an appropriate song without realizing it. The song is about love for Russia.
VintageVampiress 3 years ago
Excellent video though I couldn't bear to see the end!
I am glad that at least they had each other in their final moments.
transdcr 3 years ago
who is the guy with the cane
vladorama55 3 years ago
Atleast they gave them chairs lol.
Oh people should just calm down, what happens happens and EVERYTHING happens for a reason.
atonsgard 3 years ago
ah...ah...ah...I...just don´t...know what...I wished to..write now
timberwolflonewolf 3 years ago
no one has the right to judge. God is the only one who has that right. and no one definitely has the right to take someone's life....whether they are guilty or innocent. May the Romanovs rest in peace.
tweetybird37406 3 years ago 8
You think this video is sad. The truth was much much worse. I really think what happened to the Romanovs was unfair.
123jog123 3 years ago 9
the song is called "Russia"
highwayman06161987 3 years ago 3
don't know the words but love the song
sunsandstars20 3 years ago
this video is...so sad...Good job
romanovyaya 3 years ago 2
very impressive movie.
especially if you understand words of the song
xlumixxx 3 years ago 2
I'm not saying that killing those children were the correct way but he shouldn't die with his family his family and his children didn't do any thing.
mitrasalehi 3 years ago 6
yes,many people suffered in the time of Nikolaj II,but still...that is not the proper way to handle teh situation,especially to die...And the children didn't do anything.
Damn you,now I'm crying...
CountessOfWhores 3 years ago 5
The Tsar & Tsaritsa where not innocent. In his dying breath, I hope Nikolasha understood full well his personal responsibility for the terrible deaths of his beloved, and absolutely innocent children, who paid for his crimes with their lives.
TagsNOLA 3 years ago
That's a horrible way to die. I feel so sorry for them, especially for the children who were innocent
milky1milky 3 years ago 14
They weren't children any more, and they weren't innocent.
ObamaRules4Ever 3 years ago
I disagree with you....you can't stop trubles in this way... althought they weren't innocent,i think that's the worst thing you could do...
avrilettabella 3 years ago 9
They weren't children any more, and they were just as guilty as Nicholas.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
true they werent children apart from the two younger ones, but even if they werent children that doesnt matter, that doesnt make any difference...they were still innocent! although i agree, nicholas and alexandra were guilty, they were still good ppl and they didnt diserve to die!
lilmizzspac 3 years ago 3
Only Alexis was a child. And they all deserved what they got.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
his name was alexei.
xmerrilyx 3 years ago
I am English, so it is Alexis. Thank God that the great King-Emperor George V did the right thing in 1917.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
it's horrible!!!! I'm crying...really
Aleksandra333love 3 years ago 10
i think thats it's horrible, he may not have been a good ruler, but it didn't mean that he was a bad person. they shouldn't have killed him and his family. other things could have been done.
HawkSong116 3 years ago 4
They had no choice.
ObamaRules4Ever 3 years ago
I can think of several other options. However, the bolsheviks were quite paranoid of anyone laying claim to the throne, and their fears clouded their judgement.
shounenbat510 3 years ago 4
There's always a choice.
Anonymous31195 3 years ago
he wasnt a bad ruler... after doing my research i read that his wife was giving him the wrong orders which she got from resputin, he was taken the orders becuase he has given up... everything was going smoothly till resputin shows up to help thier son... he cursed them
kazimo000 3 years ago 3
que pena...
Danstyc 3 years ago
Very beautiful.
I definitely like it.
Blacksly91 3 years ago
I hate the fact that they killed all of the children. They were so beautiful! D:
hxcchick 3 years ago 4
There were 11 people killed in that room.
paulusmagirl 3 years ago
they had no rights killing the children
SouthDownIPLO 3 years ago 34
Yeah they did. Think about all the tens of millions of children who were killed during the reigns of Nicholas II and his father Alexander III.
JohnRogersly 3 years ago
Striking split personality of the 20th century. On the one hand, it was a golden age for the arts, medicine and science; on the other, more people were massacred by tyrannical governments during the 20th century than was the case during all the preceding 19 centuries put together.
belianis 3 years ago
The Song is About Russia....
Destenation94 3 years ago 2
There seems to be another mistake in this movie...whre is the devoted servant woman?
Have some respect for a family that were human beings.
God bless them.
aminad031105 3 years ago 6
Actually there was the lady-in-waiting, footman and cook that died alongside them. This movie was a hollywoodized movie based off Robert Massie's book.
TsarObezyanka 3 years ago 5
I wrote my senior thesis on the reign of Nicholas II. The figure of Nicholas is truly tragic. He was a loving family man, but was not well equipped to rule. By all accounts he was a mild man who simply should never have been Tsar.
cmurphy2826 3 years ago 5
Yeah, just like Charles I was a good king because he was a loving husband and father! Idiots.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
And both men despite that were very poor Kings for various reasons and paid the price for this.
deadmonarchs 3 years ago
Yes he was a beautiful man, but he wasn't trained to rule a vast Empire. Even Dagmar (his mother) begged the paraliment to not put Nicholas on the throne and was pushing for the decision for Mikhal to take over. Alas they went with tradition and made Nicholas Tsar thus sealing his fate.
TsarObezyanka 3 years ago 10
=( its like Alexandra knows somthing isn't right here. But then again you wouldnt.. Dingey grey room with two wooden chairs..
either way they still came to the same fate..
itzjustmenow 3 years ago 2
In the witness statment, they were told they were getting a photograph taken (a strange request isn't it considering it was nighttime, I am sure they would of gotten a hint from that statement alont).
While they were being put into postion, Alexandra requested two chair,one for herself (as she had bad legs) and Alexei (who was recovering from an accident in Tobolsk).
But it was a sad ending to a once powerful and beautiful dynasty.
TsarObezyanka 3 years ago 4
It is sad but I did know you speak Russia. =)
But I really feel sad......
=(
ruby7001 3 years ago
So so so sad, but there were more people killed and they didn't know the were going to be killed.
abby850 3 years ago
this made me cry..it is very sad..and the musics sad.
withorwithoutyou09 3 years ago
Thank God that George V was King of Great Britain.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
which one is anastasia?
IamWitch23 3 years ago
Anastasia was the only tsarevna from royal family that wore her hair on her forehead, due to small scar she recived as a child, she was quite abit of a tomboy.
Chudakov77 3 years ago 2
the one with the bangs.
tiannap 3 years ago
this puts me to tears...
minebowl 3 years ago 2
all monarchs should be killed, how could anyone have sympathy for these types of scum, no mortal should be worshiped and bowed to as if they were a "god"
ALL MEN ARE EQUAL
kjb86 3 years ago
All men ARE equal, so NOBODY deserves to be killed, monarch or otherwise.
melinaemilymay 3 years ago 12
kjb86
Your're from my neck of the woods;I'm embarrased that there's someone so stupid in New West.
All men are equal?Not women?I live in com-
munist China where NOBODY's equal and that is their platform!Talk about god?If you say one derogatory word about Mao,you're in the clinker.
Monarchs are't worshipped,their are respected.They represent our countries.
You live in the best constitutional monarchy and are too stupid to know anything but the word "scum".
God Save the Queen!
apekkapoika 3 years ago 2
Not all men are not equal. I am neither attractive as Brad Pitt or as intelligent as Einstein, etc. There are people that are smarter, better looking, more industrious, etc than others. Historically, humanity has fared somewhat better under monarchs than either authoritarian or "democratic" regimes, just in the amount of people eliminated from this planet.
blucher45 3 years ago 6
i dont know much about wat happended to tehm but its heart breaking i mean why do people hav to be like this might sound gay ,, but i think we should just love each other n forgive... we hav so much hatred in the world ... n wats is going on evry where affects everyone ... cause we all live in the same place n we r all the same
it sucks :(
lilylila09 3 years ago
Actually there were 11 people Olga Tatiana Marie Anastasia Alexi Nicholaus, Alexandera dr botkin Alexandras ladyinwaiting, and the childrens tutor and it was really inacurate the clock on the wall said 3:30 but the shooting happened at 1:30 and it didn't take that long for the Bolsheviks to come in and start shooting Yurovsky left the room for at least 3 seconds and they all came in and then Yurovsky said the speech about the execution Nicholaus says what? and then fire
AwesomeSweetChick 3 years ago 2
The Communist party thought they would let them spend some family time together before executing them.
We are really nice people despite the lies about us.
kogallie94 3 years ago
I agree the children were innocent,but after all we are talking communism here.
NEMESIS1999 3 years ago
Very Beautiful!
pjrcorreia 3 years ago 2
whats the name of the girl who is right to the girl behind Alexandra? Is it Anastasia, Olga, Maria or Tatjana? Maybe someone can tell me the name of this actress.
ElisabethFan94 3 years ago
okay the one to her right is marie and i dont know her actual name.
indydramaqueen 3 years ago
isn't it maria?
creolerose09 3 years ago
creolerose09
What difference does it make? They're actors in a movie. It's not a documentary!
apekkapoika 3 years ago 2
left to right: olga tatiana anastasia maria
hazelstears 3 years ago
very sad...tragic..no words.:(
Anarchy99S 3 years ago 2
three servents, a doctor, and yes their dog died with them
wcsdrummer 3 years ago
three servents, a dog, and a doctor died with the family
wcsdrummer 3 years ago
You can blame Lenin for it because in a new book "Ekaterinburg," an Oxford historian details the proof she's discovered that he specifically ordered the execution of the entire Imperial family. It's no longer evidentially tenable to claim it was the independent actions of a rogue local soviet.
gboleyn 3 years ago
in 2:26 from left to right who's who
sunsandstars20 3 years ago
War breeds death. And revolution the greater part of death. When maddness take the place of common sense. Childern are the innocents of war. They are all saints now in the Orthodox Church. And so they now wear the crowns of saints who gave there life for love of God and country.Yes change ws needed in Russia at the time. They poor were suffering greatly. But still no reason for killing childern. All we can do pray for peace... Little Alexi, pray for us...
babyycat 3 years ago
i cried when i saw this video ,i just cant imagine how innocent the romanovs was ,they thought it was just a simple picture taking but evetually a murder plot,so sad .you know if i was the muderer i cant do it indeed..
05angus 2 years ago
As Tom Paine said of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, "Burke mourns the plumes and forgets the dying bird." You weep over the Romanov family and you forget with Nicholas and Alexandra did to Russia.
mc0558 2 years ago
They are now saints all of them in the Orthodox Church. To take the life of a child, any child, is wrong. Not to mention the others deaths that early morning.War is evil. And revolution breds war. As we should know. Looked what here in the USA in the 1700's. Yes Russia needed change. And the poor at that time were in very great need. It was ripe for the revolution. However it doesnt bless the death of childern. Little Alexie, pray for us....
babyycat 3 years ago
not to nitpick, but this scene is quite inaccurate...
Unfortunately, a lot more people died with the family in that room on that night. Even one of the family dogs.
9BallQueen 3 years ago 10
and Nicholas wasn't sitting.Only his son and wife were.
tinker1953bell 3 years ago 2
Not a lot, there are only two poeple missing, a chambermaid and a cook (don't know their names) 10 people in total, the picture only depicts 8, In the movie the chambermaid is separated from the family after the train is stopped at Yekaterinburg and the cook was written out. Again not a lot, just two.
mcmlxvi 3 years ago
it is all relative a change was needed in russia the tsars popularity wasnt the best people didnt like him cause he lost the war against japan were many died, russia´s economy was on a desperate need of a change too, is the same thing that happened during the french revolution, we think now that it was brutal and in fact it was brutal, but war is like that, look at what happened to Sadam Husseim( another autocrat) however no1 seems to care about him.
ETRA007 3 years ago
Ok dreadful story...Kids shouldn't be killed. But who can blame Lenin for that? And since Russian people didn't want a czar it was people's choice. Why their countries didn't help them? I mean countries like Denmark and England? But it was a fault to kill them exile would be better.
Loxandra1312 3 years ago 10
No, the people never approved of this gangster hit on the Royal Family. In fact, Russians were never told that the Russian Royal family was murdered. Their assassination was conducted in secret. This is EXTREMELY well known among educated circles.
rodina988 3 years ago
Very sad what happened to them,from royal family to common prisoners,everyone agrees the children didn't have to die like that and it was wrong.
bigguy49b 3 years ago 16
Such a happy family. They have no idea that their lives would be a tragedy in the end. Very sad.
alluring696 3 years ago 14
Tragic, I must say.
ichiisnotDEAD 3 years ago 8
omg, very sad and very good!
Gemini114 3 years ago 7
R.I.P.
Alexandr72 3 years ago 9
he should have left with his family while he had a chance also if he would have had more sons and less daughters it would have made a difference, its all sad though.
rajimen84 3 years ago
They never had a chance to leave.
AnastasiaExpert 3 years ago
the story of the romanov's story is sooo sad and tragic....
sheirmaine02 3 years ago 6
Great song made me cry
TaraSerbia 3 years ago 6
I cried during this video. Both the fate of the Romanovs and the song were sad. They didn't deserve that.
Okay,maybe Nikolaj didn't know how to rule properly,but that was exaggerating!An angry nation is bound to do anything,even really rash things. This reminds me(sorta)of the fate of king Alexander and queen Draga(serbian monarchs) who where stabbed to death and then thrown of an incredible height. I don't believe that murduring you superiours is the best way to solve a problem.
Great vid,btw!
leonegrl91 3 years ago 2
So true. Have you read " Nicholas and Alexandra " by Massie ?
operamichael 3 years ago
Alexandra prob. could have stopped it if she weren't so desperate for a cure and became under Rasputin's influence!
yellowmnm15s 3 years ago 2
One Correction: Alexi had a disease so his father DID carry him like a doll because he was basically crippled...even if he was 14
lilredspaz 3 years ago
Nikolai II had no need to carry his sick son.For that there was a former marine, a Latvian by nationality who remained loyal till the end and was killed together with the Romanov family.
strauja 2 years ago 4
Thank you for your incredible and touching video . Bye .
Gigiuls 3 years ago
I agree that Nicholas II was deemed every inch as unfit to lead the Empire as Stalin was mentally unstable to lead the newborn Soviet Union. Even his father alexander III doubted he ad the will to run an Empire.
I don't deny that his death and that of his family (with the disputed exception of Anastasia) was harsh, but at the same time, I don't feel sorry for his incompetence and his religious zealotry. His reign marked the Golden Age of Porgoms.
DNLARS145 3 years ago
This film has a few distortions in it . Just to name two. 1. Alexei was 14 and much too large for his father to carry him like a doll.2.There is only one other person murdered along with the family in this film actualy there were others.
picassoui 3 years ago
i'm sure they were expecting to be saved, right up to the last minute.
deritpeehs 3 years ago
what was that thing on that boy's leg? can he not walk or something, at my school we're just starting to learn about this whole thingy, and I think my teacher said something about the boy being sick or something, I might be wrong though, I wasen't paying attention.
ballettgirl4544 3 years ago
he had hemophilia - a blood clotting disorder. He injured his leg a few scenes earlier sledding down the stairs and they are keeping it braced in place to slow blood flow(and probably keep bones aligned if he fractured it)
Hitchcockfan101 3 years ago 2
жалость к российской нации:(
such a pity
aliselv 3 years ago
murder was not a good choice, murder will never be a good thing no matter how evil the person was.. i think that a family would have done much better than stalin, lenin and the third one, they killed more people and children than freakin' hitler! so you might want study that a bit.. but remember murder is never an opcion!!
Petiza94 3 years ago
I want to make sure that all three conspirators get credit for their act of inhumanity. Though Trotsky would later deny it, Jakob Yurovsky received orders from Lenin, Trotsky and Sverdlov. Yurovsky was under Sverdlov's command and he gave the order to kidnap the Romanovs on their way back to Moscow, as history indicates there is no doubt as to his purpose: MURDER.
bkohatl 3 years ago
Does anyone know why they didn't try to go to Denmark, after all the tzar's mother was danish royalty?
his299 3 years ago
Please I am interested in obtaining this movie, which I have to do, thank you!!!!
alexita1508 3 years ago