In a worldview that spits upon the notion of God, people can justify murder, even that of the innocent and the holy. They say, "It's for science!" or "It's for the nation!" or some other vain thing. In the end, they seek to destroy and deny the evidence of their sins, for even in the time of Cain and Abel, the blood of the murdered scream for justice in the conscience of the guilty.
Neka je Slava Svetom Ruskom Romanovu! Budite dostojni vasih predaka mucenika i idite njihovim stopama bez straha.
Hvala ti za sve sto si ucunio za Srbski narod,jer da nebi tebe Mucenice,nebi bilo i mog dede,a nebi bilo i mene.Neka ti je vjecna Slava za Vjeke Vjekova
is it true that when they went into that room they didn't know they were going to be executed? In the movie, it seemed as if even the father (Nicholas) didn't know that they were going to be executed.
@0720Rico I think the British army found out and tried to save them secretly, but failed since they couldn't get past security and to the family without getting killed first. Basically it was a "follow-me-if-you-want-to-live," situation.
I'd like to enlighten diddymuck down below as to why revolutionaries blew off Alexander II's legs, Nichlolas's grandfather, the tsar who "freed" the serfs: the law was a half-measure because the "freed" serfs had to pay their former owners. The serfs had been emancipated, but of course, they were made to pay for it.
Unfortunately for Russia, little was done to prepare Nicholas II to be an autocratic Emperor. He had two opportunities two survive and chose to take neither. One was to give up the autocratic power and become a constitutional monarch like his cousin George V when he came to the throne. And the other was give the power to Stolypin when he had the chance. He took neither mainly do to his wife who wanted all the power and prestige but chose to do very little with it, thus bringing on the deluge.
I think the way they were grouped together and shot dead was unbelievably monstrous.
I don't care what the czar did.If he committed a crime against his people HE should be punished for it, not his family. How could they have the heart to kill women and a little kid?!
You watch this movie. You watch other videos about Tsar Nicholas II. Yet you never see him mingle with the common people talking to them, discussing with them their problems, grievances or anything at all. He lived in an escapist, dream world. And look at the luxury of his lifestyle. No other monarch anywhere in Europe hid from his people.
You can't blame the people for reacting the way they did to him at the end.
God Anastasia put a brave face on didn't she. At least they didn't go along with the myth that she survived the revolution and lived elsewhere away from harm.Still the casting for this was great
@TSNicholasNAlexandra Yes, don't you love it when socialists/communists claim they care about ALL the people and at the same time, they massacre an entire family (including 5 children; one who is handicapped). I'd love to pull Lenin's body out of its glass case, dig up Stalin, fish Osama out of the sea, take the "Final Solution" Nazis, al Queda, cremate them, pour their ashes in a big toilet, let everyone take a big huge piss into it, then send it off with one big flush!
What a wonderful, delightful, charming revolution! And we know what was to come: millions massacred on the orders of the lousy revolution at the rate of 50,000 a month. And thereafter, decade after decade of oppression, corruption, arbitrary arrest, murder, horror, starvation, year after drudging year for the whole Russian nation. And then exporting their foul, putrid revolution to the far corners of the earth. And some dare to call it progress....
You see when they enter all the Grand Duchesses have a scared look in their eyes and Anastasia is fierce and then she still has the fierce look on the face and she doesn't move when the guns are drawn
@loulie1997 one started screaming while there were burying them because (it was) Maria who was notably not shot properly and only scraped in the head and so she went unconcious and then she woke up and apperently was kicked in the head until silent by the soldier.
the very touching scene is when the Tsar finds himself helpless to protect his family. he made too many mistakes...and never listened to his well wishers...
lynne frederick as tatiana...probably one of the best cast parts ever. however the portrayal of nicky and alix left a lot to be desired imo . this last scene annoys me for so many reasons, so much of it is wrong and ridiculous. i don't get how you can try and make a film historically correct, base it on something like massie and still get it so wrong. mind you, i guess the more you know, the more you'll see is wrong.
i couldn't imagine what the kids went through. to die so young, when you have done nothing wrong your entire life, makes me wonder what those so called 'men' were thinking when they looked those people in their eyes, and shot them in cold blood.
Now I have to say that Hitler was actually a very lucky man.
No death is more horrible than a death in an extremely hostile and malicious environment. When you know before a violent end you will be tortured mentally and physically and after it your body will be spitted on and multillated. Most "dictators" met such ends, like Mussollini. Hitler, though desperate, was surrounded by the ones who still worshipped him and would follow him blindly to the grave. And he had Eva Braun at his side.
Marie and Alexandra were both foreign princesses whose native lands were detested by the people over whom they ruled. Marie was an Austrian princess who was queen of France, and Alexandra was a German princess who was empress of Russia.
Lynne Frederick always seemed to play tragic characters who died violent deaths, including Catherine Howard in Henry VIII and his Six Wives, and, as here, the Grand Duchess Tatiana. The same goes for Helena Bonham Carter, who portrayed both Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey. Interesting thing about Alexandra: she was obsessed with Marie Antoinette, constantly stared at her portrait in the Winter Palace, and said she would meet the same fate as her! Different style of death, but no less violent.
Good movie, but a few inaccuracies. The executions were not that quick, in fact, the killers had to leave the room to reload (the smoke and stench made it difficult for them to see as they reloaded), as only a few of the victims died instantly, including the Czar and Czarina. Also, what about the other servants? We only see Dr. Botkin here, but there were also the cook, maid and valet. And where is Jimmy, the pet cocker spaniel who also died with the family?
Exactly, because (as if the Bolsheviks really cared about protocol) a formal charge of treason had to be issued so as to "justify" the executions (as if the children and the servants were in any way accountable for whatever "crimes" the Czar committed against the people). To this day, it remains debated as to whether Lenin issued the order for their deaths, or whether this was a decision on the part of the Czar's captors. I tend to agree with the former.
I find it an interesting direction choice to have Anastasia be the one person in that room who remains totally motionless when the guns are all drawn.
had to watch this movie in high school i remember it well this last scene all i could think to myself is his movie was very well done, it didn't make me sad at the end i felt sorry but not sad then i just went into doing my work since i had to take a quiz on the movie, i think this might be the most used movie for actual schools when getting into this subject in history
wel that was sad ! my stomache just turned a round:s brrr they killed them so cold:s but why didn't they escaped or somehow ? why didnt the romanov did something to save his family!!!!!!
The king of England (Nicholas and Alexandra's cousin) had the option to bring them to England, but he refused since it would be seen to be supporting the Romanovs.
I teach at the college level, and I have Marxist leaning colleagues who tell students in their history classes that the Romanovs got everything they deserved, including the children. Remember, the far left is JUST as dangerous as the far right in this country, even more so, since they control academia, the entertainment industry, the media, and to a great extent, the court systems.
This was truly a superb movie and deserved Oscar recognition. The main character that I felt sorry for was the young boy Alexi who realized early on that he had no future thanks to the bumbling of his father.
In reality the executions were pretty terrible, it was not quick shots like in this film. The girls were bayoneted when they would not die from the gun fire, even then they had trouble killing them with their rifle bayonets because of the jewels they had sewn in their clothing. Also, poor Alexis did not die quickly and was forced down and shot in the head.
I wish they would have gone more in depth about after the shooting cuz the bodies were moved a few times and two of the bodies were buried somewhere else. but also the maid was shot with the rest of the family:( inaccurate but still good
@Lab356 yeah, totally agree, my class just finished watching this today, and it was so intense in the room, and we were all upset at the end. very well done, top scene
its good that they didn't show the shooting as it factually happened cuz at least three of the four girls survived the original shooting but were finished off with bayonets, that would have been bad
@PhillyBoy264 Actually I don't know where you got that info from, But in reality. Maria, was still alive. She was sitting down screaming...Yurovsky, put a pillow over her face, and shot her in the face. Then as he walked back, he heard the young prince alexis moan in pain. He shot him, but he was still alive. So they had to stab him several times before he died.
Cannot imagine being any one of them even for a minute ! waiting to be dead, knowing that and above all watching your loved one being killed in front of your eye !!
@truvianni The children didn't have anything whatsoever to do with how the country was governed. The Grand Duchesses volunteered as nurses for the Red Cross at the outbreak of the war and the Empress opened the Winter Palace as a hospital for the wounded soldiers. But, one never hears about that.
and to think that the women in that room sewed diamonds to their corsets so after the the men were killed they just kept shooting at those beautiful women, wondering why they wouldn't die. It took them three times as long to kill them. Bullet after bullet of pain. A documentary on them says one of the guards wrote in his diary that when they went out in the woods to bury them (Marie or Anastasia they don't know which) and started screaming. They hit her in the head with a gun until she stopped.
They have cut so much of it out. In the movie, which I saw in cinema 40 years ago, Alexandra crossed herself and the execution was far more graphic.
Lenin ordered the execution because the White Army was getting close to rescuing the Romanovs. He couldn't have that because The Revolution would then have had a genuine alternative. The question is then, had they been rescued, would Nicholas been a kinder, gentler, tsar???
@67rml He was always a good Tsar. The problem is, that we in the West have grown up believing Soviet Propoganda. I am Russian, and I used to believe that whole story that they were in a hurry to kill them, and that Nicholas was not so nice....If you study history now, you would realize that the execution of the Romanovs was ritualistic and performed by Masonic-Satanists, like Yurovsky and his team.
The assassination of the Czar and his family is lasting evidence of the criminal and sadistic behavior of bloodthirsty Communism. The beastialization of humanity is a goal of Communism now being carried out by godless consumerism and modern day materialism.
The Russian people was so much better off without the Royal family weren't they? Only not.I think history shows that what came after was just as bad if not worse.Royals of the time believed in a DIVINE right to rule and were kept quite isolated and insulated, in fact, from the true state of the people. From what I've read The Romanovs were devoutly religous and mostly certainly naive. He should have abdicated a lot earlier and put himself and the rest of his family in exile.
If Russia taught us anything, it detailed that a communist world, no matter how noble its intent to the people, requires people oriented basically decent people to maintain it! If the founders pass and new people, perhaps less honorable than their predecessors, take over, you're asking for a ultimate power to be in control of what could be the ultimate tyranny.
guys, i understand that murder is inhuman, but do you realize how the Russian population lived like? Worse than beasts, treated as 'speaking objects'. The revolution gave people hope. Imagine yourself living in a country and having to struggle to death for you and your family, while you know there are people living in big palaces and having balls. How would YOU feel like? I don't think you would be so sympathetic with the Romanov anymore.
@beetemper So why did they assassinate the extremely liberal and people's friend Alexander II, his grandfather, who was the author of the Emacipation Reform of 1861, giving literally human freedom and citizenship to all of Russia's serfs. He also set in place Local Self Government for farm and rural areas. They murdered him just for being Tsar.
@diddymuck because he passed a few laws that made almost no difference to the people and he continued to live lavishly with harsh taxation, religious persecution and war. he was more liberal and kind than other tsars but that really isnt saying much
@diddymuck no because as i just proved it was for his actions and lifestyle not just his title of tzar. also the way you say "just for being" underplays the oppressive nature of the tzar.
@InsaneAsJoker and the tsar is automatically assumed to be oppressive and lavish, even though mass reform and citizenship to all residents occurred during the reign of Alexander II.
@diddymuck he isnt automatically assumed to be oppressive and lavish. he WAS oppressive and lavish. alexander ii reforms were mostly symbolic and did little to actually improve peoples day to day lives.
Is too easy to get sorry for the execution, yes I named execution instead of murder, and the first guylty is Nikolai himself and not the executioners. It was too foolly from his part not put His family safe in time. Maybe this is one of the fouls of the monarqui's sistem, it allows one faken losser without balls be in head of the high command. With that kind of friends as NIKY who needs enemies!
Is too easy to get sorry for the execution, yes I named execution instead of murder, and the first guylty is Nikolai himself and not the executioners. It was too foolly from his part not put His family safe in time. Maybe this is one of the fouls of the monarqui's sistem, it allows one faken losser without balls be in head of the high command. With that kind of friends as NIKY who needs enemies!!!!!!!!
Isnt it intoresting.....How if you lok Anistasia dose not move she just stares strait on...Yet the others all say there last words and scream? This is one of the most saddest storrys I have heard from mother russia.....When I heard about this as a child I thought..."Well did they ever get away I wonder? And Anistasia and Maria? Did any of them live?" Sadly as much as we know they where all killed...god bless...........
My dear THENINKCIRCUS why people, You include, was trying to save one of them. There were so many especulation in the matter after the thing happens, despite the fact that there was no way of one of them geting alive.
@hernandovalerio Rather true dear friend though perhaps barryed alive? Just a guess? Though the Jewels that protected them might have done a little good...All is in secret....Or so it seems
God , or their Jewels as You said, protec the Fools, if the fools don't abuse of the God's protection and stay too long......
Nikolai had not balls enougth for a ruler of Russia, but at last, he should had take care of the safety of his family.
I am a mexican guy living in Russia the last 23 years, my wife and may Dother are russians, and I have the greater respect and afection for the russian people.
Can someone please tell me WTF just happened? Why did Nicholas and his family get taken in by people? Who are they? Why were they being held in? What was the white army? Why did Nicholas and his family have to die? I don't get it!
@PotatoTomatoBeef They were taken by the Bolsheviks who were a revolutionary group against the royal family and even though the Tsar abdicated, they still felt the need to murder the family. Basically they were murdered for no reason.
@PotatoTomatoBeef It was the commutists and well you see they deside to kill them.....Or at least if you belive that one escaped AKA Anistasia But basicly thats wat happened
The Bolshevik/communist cowards. The Romanov family was a kind one and did not deserve this , Russia has never been the same since, haunted forever by this misdeed!
Say what you want about autocracy, absolutism, and Nicholas' abilities as a ruler, but neither he, nor Alexandra, and certainly not their children deserved what happened to them. I still cannot understand how they could not get out before the Bolsheviks took over.
I love the gentle soul Michael Jayston gave to his role as Nicholas. The scene where he reunites with Alexandra after the abdication was so real I could feel the horrific loss and terror the real Tsar must have experienced. Incredible actor.
Roderic Noble, who played the young Tsarevich, also gave an amazing performance. Believe it or not, he had no training in acting before being cast in this movie! Wow.
Even though the scene is horrendous, it must have been far more terrifying for Nicholas and his family. Why not make the czar stand for trial and leave his family alone; at least there's more decency in that.
Six-pointed star of dread and the blood-red cap of communism...
Shame on all of the countries that would not accept the Romanovs in exile and abandoned them to their horrible fate. Nicholas may have been an ineffective ruler and Alexandra may have been a bit of a flake but they were not innately bad people, and they and their children deserved to be spared. I think the British royal family should be the most ashamed... they were Alexandra's cousins!
ok i hate how fake this looks. the girls are just standing there in a perfect line staring at the wall...i mean, seriously. and they dont even talk!! woken up in the middle of the night and they just stand there and watch the door
@descentlover What the movie didn't show, is that the guards that escorted them down into the cellar told them that they were going to have their photograph takenin order to get them all lined up and close together, making it easier for the firing squad to do their job.
@leananshae but still, they just stand there in a perfect line not speaking. the girls all still have long hair and anastasia isnt holding jemmy for some reason and she did in real life. they need to make a movie thats more accurate
@descentlover Fair enough... and if someone were to make a new, more accurate movie, they should also include the servants that were missing in the execution scene of this movie. Weren't there like 4 servants including the doctor that were killed with the family?
@leananshae yep. you can see them in other versions but most of the time, they are missing the dog. ive studied the family since i was little lol. i love anastasia =)
@descentlover Yes, the spirit of the Archduchess Anastasia has inspired romantic souls for almost a century now. I know she was buried along with her family in that forest, but the idea that she might've escaped still haunts me sometimes.
Lenin didn't really care about justice or peoples lives he just wanted power or he believed socialism really worked so he was either smart or stupid because only an evil power hungry man or an insane man could think forcing millions to starve was a good idea. But really it is obvious that someone who can kill millions wouldn't have a problem killing his enemy's family.
Nagorny the sailor was so loyal till the end. o-O. this is so heart breaking. its quite understandable that they wanted to kill the Tsar and the Tsaritsa, but the children should have been spared. :(
They could have let the females live because they had no power at the time. Only Nicholas and Alexi had the power to rule. (when Alexi was older) Also the servants etc should have lived because they also have no power whatsoever their not even royal.
@darkangel78921 I do have a heart it's just.....the men had the most power back then. I know it's not there fault but their families death could have prevented.
@Lauratkd1 I believe they killed the servants so there was no one alive to give their and the Romanovs side of the story when it came to their imprisonment and execution.
In this movie at the moment when they got executed, it's like Anastasia has no fear... Everybody tries to hide, but she is just standing there.... Either she dosen't have any fear, or else, she is just so chocked, that she can't move :O
The ending is accurate in essentials, even if not in every detail. (Yes, some other servants were butchered alongside the royal family, and they should also be remembered.)
No decent individual can consider these events without immense sympathy for the victims, combined with immense contempt for the killers. Bolshevik scum.
The ending is accurate in essentials, even if not in every detail. (Yes, some other servants were butchered alongside the royal family, and they should also be remembered.)
No decent individual can consider these events without immense sympathy for the victims, combined with immense contempt for the killers. Bolshevik scum.
man, nicholas should have listened to his cabinet more...rule of thumb, how u succeed is by surrounding yourself with people smarter than you and in his case the people were there but his a** was not listening...he started believing in his own false since of self...
The ending is highly inaccurate. Yurovsky read them an order that they had been condemned to death prior to them firing; this is even stated in Massie's book which this film is based on! I suppose the producers felt this version has a more "dramatic effect."
They are inhumane ...sorry but no offence...i think the Romanov shouldn't be killed....at the most they can be exiled to another country...why must they bring death to them???
As I understand it, they were executed because there was a faction in the Russian Revolution that was still sympathetic to the royal family, and the faction that was totally opposed to them did not want to leave them alive as even potential figureheads for sympathizers to rally around. I'm not a historian, though, and this could be totally wrong.
I think it is a gross disservice to the three other servants who died with the Romanovs who were not shown in the final death scene: the chauffeur, the maid and the valet. Nor was Jimmy, the pet cocker spaniel of Alexei.
@tysonkat1 No she did not her bone were discovered with the rest of the family when they found the Romanov grave . Anna Anderson who claimed to be Anastasia was a imposter
Anna Anderson was disproven as the lost Anastasia when a DNA sample of hers was tested with that of Prince Philip (husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain), and no match was registered. Philip is of the former royal family of Greece, who share blood ties with the Romanovs.
The Bolsheviks felt that, for the sake of the revolution, they needed to eliminate any blood ties or heirs to the throne. This took the steam out of the White Russian fight, that's why the whole family was executed.
How dare the Bolsheviks - no, how dare Lenin authorize this - the senseless and brutal murder of an entire family, five of the Romanoffs no more than children. I can perhaps understand why they executed Tsar Nicholas and the Tsarina, and even poor Alexei - as he would be next in line to the Russian throne, but WHY the four girls?! Ever since the reign of Catherine the Great, Russian law forbade the ascension of an Empress as sole ruler of Russia! They should at least have let the girls survive.
It was wrong to kill the children you are right. But Lenin hated the tsar and all who were on his side. Beside Trotsky was shocked when he found out they had murdered the Romanov family.
In the end revolution ended in totalitarianism, because of many factors. Lenin made mistakes and killing those children was one of those mistakes.
But in 1918, killing people was still very normal in revolutions. Today we learned that revolutions need to be democratic and peaceful if possible.
That's not a good reason, this was not the case for the Iranian Revolution. There is no reason what so ever to kill children, unless maybe their possesed by the devil.
I didnt say what they did was right all I was doing was explaining what their reasoning was. of course they shouldnt have killed the children...no one should have died that night. but they did theres nothing left to do but to continue to mourn the Romanov family
What makes the Romanoffs so special in this situation, you heartless git, is that Lenin had a choice. Soldiers have no choices - they have orders. Despite the undeniable crimes of Tsar Nicholas, did his wife deserve to die? Did the five children deserve such a horrible death? You say you will never have any sympathy for this "incompetent, useless family" - and I assume you include the children in that judgment. Tell me, what terrible crimes did they commit against the Russian people?
I suppose the Bolsheviks felt that they had no choice because of the threat of the Whites, but this was still awfully brutal. I would not wish this fate upon anyone.
They even killed beforehand two of the soldiers who protested in advance to killing the whole family. The extended family were all cruelly killed, except the few who escaped. Within months the new regime killed more than tsarism had killed in a whole century. By 1922, the Civil War had killed far more Russians than had died in World War I. This crime was not a one-off, it set the tone for the Soviet regime, at least until the mid-1950s.
In a worldview that spits upon the notion of God, people can justify murder, even that of the innocent and the holy. They say, "It's for science!" or "It's for the nation!" or some other vain thing. In the end, they seek to destroy and deny the evidence of their sins, for even in the time of Cain and Abel, the blood of the murdered scream for justice in the conscience of the guilty.
Ioannesmartialis 2 weeks ago
Neka je Slava Svetom Ruskom Romanovu! Budite dostojni vasih predaka mucenika i idite njihovim stopama bez straha.
Hvala ti za sve sto si ucunio za Srbski narod,jer da nebi tebe Mucenice,nebi bilo i mog dede,a nebi bilo i mene.Neka ti je vjecna Slava za Vjeke Vjekova
SorabskiVitez 3 weeks ago
anyone notice how the guy who plays drblopin looks kinda like lenin?
seancozzi96 1 month ago
is it true that when they went into that room they didn't know they were going to be executed? In the movie, it seemed as if even the father (Nicholas) didn't know that they were going to be executed.
caiitlinb 1 month ago
This is HORRIBLE !!! Couldn´t they atleast have let the children survuve ??!!!!
It´s so sad that somebody did not told them so they could have a chance to flee from Russia
0720Rico 1 month ago
@0720Rico I think the British army found out and tried to save them secretly, but failed since they couldn't get past security and to the family without getting killed first. Basically it was a "follow-me-if-you-want-to-live," situation.
MsRadiorebel 1 week ago
@MsRadiorebel Bolder dash!
1toscany 2 days ago
@1toscany sorry? what do you mean "bolder dash"
MsRadiorebel 2 days ago
@MsRadiorebel balderdash is a noun, that refers to 1. senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense.
1toscany 1 day ago
@1toscany 1st I am going on what I was told by someone who researched the topic for 4 monthes. 2nd I hardly dobt that this pearson and I are stutpid.
MsRadiorebel 23 hours ago
I'd like to enlighten diddymuck down below as to why revolutionaries blew off Alexander II's legs, Nichlolas's grandfather, the tsar who "freed" the serfs: the law was a half-measure because the "freed" serfs had to pay their former owners. The serfs had been emancipated, but of course, they were made to pay for it.
BroadwayJosh 1 month ago
Unfortunately for Russia, little was done to prepare Nicholas II to be an autocratic Emperor. He had two opportunities two survive and chose to take neither. One was to give up the autocratic power and become a constitutional monarch like his cousin George V when he came to the throne. And the other was give the power to Stolypin when he had the chance. He took neither mainly do to his wife who wanted all the power and prestige but chose to do very little with it, thus bringing on the deluge.
myboylollipop09 1 month ago
Filthy commie bastards! Long live the Tsar!
79Grunn 1 month ago
my uncles friends friends worked with the tsar before the house arrest!
westernskysboy124 1 month ago
I think the way they were grouped together and shot dead was unbelievably monstrous.
I don't care what the czar did.If he committed a crime against his people HE should be punished for it, not his family. How could they have the heart to kill women and a little kid?!
OldNoir 2 months ago 5
You watch this movie. You watch other videos about Tsar Nicholas II. Yet you never see him mingle with the common people talking to them, discussing with them their problems, grievances or anything at all. He lived in an escapist, dream world. And look at the luxury of his lifestyle. No other monarch anywhere in Europe hid from his people.
You can't blame the people for reacting the way they did to him at the end.
pasak2054 2 months ago
@pasak2054 Kind of like the Obamas.
skudaarkaat1 1 month ago
I once ruled Russia, then I took a bullet to the brain
88deathguy 2 months ago
Amazing movie!
chloebella17 2 months ago
Terribly sad ending.
chloebella17 2 months ago
Terrible what happened to them. What made the Bolsheviks hate the Romanov's so much. They did NOT deserve what happened to them
littleslueth2025 2 months ago 2
oh god the ending was so horrible shouldn't of watched this before bed
norisclub1 3 months ago
God Anastasia put a brave face on didn't she. At least they didn't go along with the myth that she survived the revolution and lived elsewhere away from harm.Still the casting for this was great
chocolatefountain95 4 months ago 2
Michael Jayston looks just like Tsar Nicholas. He did superb acting in this film. D. Alexandr D'Maddalena
douglasmatley 4 months ago
@TSNicholasNAlexandra Yes, don't you love it when socialists/communists claim they care about ALL the people and at the same time, they massacre an entire family (including 5 children; one who is handicapped). I'd love to pull Lenin's body out of its glass case, dig up Stalin, fish Osama out of the sea, take the "Final Solution" Nazis, al Queda, cremate them, pour their ashes in a big toilet, let everyone take a big huge piss into it, then send it off with one big flush!
WilliamDRowlett 5 months ago
What a wonderful, delightful, charming revolution! And we know what was to come: millions massacred on the orders of the lousy revolution at the rate of 50,000 a month. And thereafter, decade after decade of oppression, corruption, arbitrary arrest, murder, horror, starvation, year after drudging year for the whole Russian nation. And then exporting their foul, putrid revolution to the far corners of the earth. And some dare to call it progress....
Jacobitejim 6 months ago 2
You see when they enter all the Grand Duchesses have a scared look in their eyes and Anastasia is fierce and then she still has the fierce look on the face and she doesn't move when the guns are drawn
freedomis4abird 6 months ago 2
@loulie1997 one started screaming while there were burying them because (it was) Maria who was notably not shot properly and only scraped in the head and so she went unconcious and then she woke up and apperently was kicked in the head until silent by the soldier.
freedomis4abird 6 months ago
the very touching scene is when the Tsar finds himself helpless to protect his family. he made too many mistakes...and never listened to his well wishers...
emmanueljeba 6 months ago
lynne frederick as tatiana...probably one of the best cast parts ever. however the portrayal of nicky and alix left a lot to be desired imo . this last scene annoys me for so many reasons, so much of it is wrong and ridiculous. i don't get how you can try and make a film historically correct, base it on something like massie and still get it so wrong. mind you, i guess the more you know, the more you'll see is wrong.
TunaEars 7 months ago
Their blood is on that country's hands. For eternity!
Mowgli15221 7 months ago 2
i couldn't imagine what the kids went through. to die so young, when you have done nothing wrong your entire life, makes me wonder what those so called 'men' were thinking when they looked those people in their eyes, and shot them in cold blood.
lilshiani 7 months ago
Now I have to say that Hitler was actually a very lucky man.
No death is more horrible than a death in an extremely hostile and malicious environment. When you know before a violent end you will be tortured mentally and physically and after it your body will be spitted on and multillated. Most "dictators" met such ends, like Mussollini. Hitler, though desperate, was surrounded by the ones who still worshipped him and would follow him blindly to the grave. And he had Eva Braun at his side.
xingsheng1 8 months ago
Marie and Alexandra were both foreign princesses whose native lands were detested by the people over whom they ruled. Marie was an Austrian princess who was queen of France, and Alexandra was a German princess who was empress of Russia.
telamon2011 8 months ago
Lynne Frederick always seemed to play tragic characters who died violent deaths, including Catherine Howard in Henry VIII and his Six Wives, and, as here, the Grand Duchess Tatiana. The same goes for Helena Bonham Carter, who portrayed both Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey. Interesting thing about Alexandra: she was obsessed with Marie Antoinette, constantly stared at her portrait in the Winter Palace, and said she would meet the same fate as her! Different style of death, but no less violent.
telamon2011 8 months ago
Good movie, but a few inaccuracies. The executions were not that quick, in fact, the killers had to leave the room to reload (the smoke and stench made it difficult for them to see as they reloaded), as only a few of the victims died instantly, including the Czar and Czarina. Also, what about the other servants? We only see Dr. Botkin here, but there were also the cook, maid and valet. And where is Jimmy, the pet cocker spaniel who also died with the family?
telamon2011 8 months ago
@telamon2011 Also, the killers didn't shoot them all silently. An order of execution was read before they were shot.
DesertLynx83 8 months ago
@DesertLynx83
Exactly, because (as if the Bolsheviks really cared about protocol) a formal charge of treason had to be issued so as to "justify" the executions (as if the children and the servants were in any way accountable for whatever "crimes" the Czar committed against the people). To this day, it remains debated as to whether Lenin issued the order for their deaths, or whether this was a decision on the part of the Czar's captors. I tend to agree with the former.
telamon2011 8 months ago
I find it an interesting direction choice to have Anastasia be the one person in that room who remains totally motionless when the guns are all drawn.
KekoaOnorati 8 months ago
Я люблю Россию благодаря им Россия Гор видео Ive изучал русскую историю, так как я был 5 знаю, что мы живем в Америке
The1smallvillegirl 9 months ago
the girl with the black hair @ 3:00 almost looks like megan foxx
SportzgirlRH 10 months ago in playlist Classics @ the Movies
had to watch this movie in high school i remember it well this last scene all i could think to myself is his movie was very well done, it didn't make me sad at the end i felt sorry but not sad then i just went into doing my work since i had to take a quiz on the movie, i think this might be the most used movie for actual schools when getting into this subject in history
TwilightKou89 10 months ago
wel that was sad ! my stomache just turned a round:s brrr they killed them so cold:s but why didn't they escaped or somehow ? why didnt the romanov did something to save his family!!!!!!
girlicious1212 10 months ago
@girlicious1212
The king of England (Nicholas and Alexandra's cousin) had the option to bring them to England, but he refused since it would be seen to be supporting the Romanovs.
ZeroMyHero99 10 months ago
@girlicious1212
I teach at the college level, and I have Marxist leaning colleagues who tell students in their history classes that the Romanovs got everything they deserved, including the children. Remember, the far left is JUST as dangerous as the far right in this country, even more so, since they control academia, the entertainment industry, the media, and to a great extent, the court systems.
telamon2011 9 months ago
This was truly a superb movie and deserved Oscar recognition. The main character that I felt sorry for was the young boy Alexi who realized early on that he had no future thanks to the bumbling of his father.
newbeginxyz 10 months ago
such a sad ending. but well done, my class had tears in their eyes watching this, pretty intense that wait.
but nobody deserves this, not even your worst enemy.
jackieclark123 11 months ago
Comunists are monsters
SuperZar77 11 months ago
as a nazi killing people is normal. but killing families, the little boy with his fathers hand protecting him. Thats not us, thats a commie thing.
swastikausa 11 months ago
@swastikausa of course that's not you. we all know that nazis have never killed families or children...
logichurts 10 months ago
hey no witnesses, no positive id, no conviction.
swastikausa 10 months ago
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logichurts 9 months ago
@swastikausa stalin would have treasured you as a comrade. (nice flame, btw).
logichurts 9 months ago
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2:08 the girl in the middle looks like megan Fox
Louis10Tennis 11 months ago
2:08 the girl in the middle looks like megan Fox
Louis10Tennis 11 months ago
@hoodge95 I even thought that actress Kirsten Dunst
xicydx 11 months ago
Poor OTMAA...
What a sad ending
Ajotma 11 months ago
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In capitalistic America man oppresses man, in communist Russia it is the complete opposite
TylerG1237 1 year ago
In capitalistic America man represses man, in communist Russia it is the complete opposite
TylerG1237 1 year ago
In reality the executions were pretty terrible, it was not quick shots like in this film. The girls were bayoneted when they would not die from the gun fire, even then they had trouble killing them with their rifle bayonets because of the jewels they had sewn in their clothing. Also, poor Alexis did not die quickly and was forced down and shot in the head.
newalm 1 year ago
I wish they would have gone more in depth about after the shooting cuz the bodies were moved a few times and two of the bodies were buried somewhere else. but also the maid was shot with the rest of the family:( inaccurate but still good
bubblefrog666 1 year ago
@bubblefrog666
I agree with you about their maid, but having the whole burning and burying of the bodies would have been distasteful.
Warwickcain 1 year ago
superb film..thank u again...such a sad ending...poor people :-(
TRUEStoryFILMS 1 year ago
Best thing about this scene is the way that it is done without any dramatic music, it speaks plainly for itself, complete silence
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2441883 1 year ago
@Lab356 yeah, totally agree, my class just finished watching this today, and it was so intense in the room, and we were all upset at the end. very well done, top scene
jackieclark123 11 months ago
for me to watch this is very heart aching for me
olivarri 1 year ago 2
its good that they didn't show the shooting as it factually happened cuz at least three of the four girls survived the original shooting but were finished off with bayonets, that would have been bad
PhillyBoy264 1 year ago
@PhillyBoy264 Actually I don't know where you got that info from, But in reality. Maria, was still alive. She was sitting down screaming...Yurovsky, put a pillow over her face, and shot her in the face. Then as he walked back, he heard the young prince alexis moan in pain. He shot him, but he was still alive. So they had to stab him several times before he died.
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Communists are the scum of the Earth!
fsgallucci 1 year ago
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fsgallucci 1 year ago
it's true, no one deserves that end!
Naomi203 1 year ago 2
Cannot imagine being any one of them even for a minute ! waiting to be dead, knowing that and above all watching your loved one being killed in front of your eye !!
Nobody deserves this NOBODY :(
imalakk 1 year ago 39
@imalakk In my opinion Nicholas brought this upon himself and his family
truvianni 8 months ago
@truvianni The children didn't have anything whatsoever to do with how the country was governed. The Grand Duchesses volunteered as nurses for the Red Cross at the outbreak of the war and the Empress opened the Winter Palace as a hospital for the wounded soldiers. But, one never hears about that.
Purplecatsoup30 6 months ago 2
@Purplecatsoup30 I read about it
truvianni 6 months ago
and to think that the women in that room sewed diamonds to their corsets so after the the men were killed they just kept shooting at those beautiful women, wondering why they wouldn't die. It took them three times as long to kill them. Bullet after bullet of pain. A documentary on them says one of the guards wrote in his diary that when they went out in the woods to bury them (Marie or Anastasia they don't know which) and started screaming. They hit her in the head with a gun until she stopped.
loulie1997 8 months ago
They have cut so much of it out. In the movie, which I saw in cinema 40 years ago, Alexandra crossed herself and the execution was far more graphic.
Lenin ordered the execution because the White Army was getting close to rescuing the Romanovs. He couldn't have that because The Revolution would then have had a genuine alternative. The question is then, had they been rescued, would Nicholas been a kinder, gentler, tsar???
67rml 1 year ago 2
@67rml He was always a good Tsar. The problem is, that we in the West have grown up believing Soviet Propoganda. I am Russian, and I used to believe that whole story that they were in a hurry to kill them, and that Nicholas was not so nice....If you study history now, you would realize that the execution of the Romanovs was ritualistic and performed by Masonic-Satanists, like Yurovsky and his team.
Mark123USA 1 year ago
i watched this in class 2day and it was RLY SAD! i cant believe it! damn communist people!!! >:(
sasa33pep 1 year ago
@sasa33pep ikr??
7vballgurl 1 year ago
The assassination of the Czar and his family is lasting evidence of the criminal and sadistic behavior of bloodthirsty Communism. The beastialization of humanity is a goal of Communism now being carried out by godless consumerism and modern day materialism.
UnaVoceMiami 1 year ago 2
@UnaVoceMiami ok Mr. big words
PhillyBoy264 1 year ago
Thank you for not putting some stupid unrelated music on in the background unlike some other idiots on youtube. Many thanks :)
ChrisRockindamaking 1 year ago 31
@ChrisRockindamaking I prefer with the music..is much better
cahlindinhaloira 11 months ago
that is so sad...
ponchandra 1 year ago
The Russian people was so much better off without the Royal family weren't they? Only not.I think history shows that what came after was just as bad if not worse.Royals of the time believed in a DIVINE right to rule and were kept quite isolated and insulated, in fact, from the true state of the people. From what I've read The Romanovs were devoutly religous and mostly certainly naive. He should have abdicated a lot earlier and put himself and the rest of his family in exile.
chookfeather 1 year ago
If Russia taught us anything, it detailed that a communist world, no matter how noble its intent to the people, requires people oriented basically decent people to maintain it! If the founders pass and new people, perhaps less honorable than their predecessors, take over, you're asking for a ultimate power to be in control of what could be the ultimate tyranny.
diddymuck 1 year ago
guys, i understand that murder is inhuman, but do you realize how the Russian population lived like? Worse than beasts, treated as 'speaking objects'. The revolution gave people hope. Imagine yourself living in a country and having to struggle to death for you and your family, while you know there are people living in big palaces and having balls. How would YOU feel like? I don't think you would be so sympathetic with the Romanov anymore.
beetemper 1 year ago
@beetemper So why did they assassinate the extremely liberal and people's friend Alexander II, his grandfather, who was the author of the Emacipation Reform of 1861, giving literally human freedom and citizenship to all of Russia's serfs. He also set in place Local Self Government for farm and rural areas. They murdered him just for being Tsar.
diddymuck 1 year ago
@diddymuck because he passed a few laws that made almost no difference to the people and he continued to live lavishly with harsh taxation, religious persecution and war. he was more liberal and kind than other tsars but that really isnt saying much
InsaneAsJoker 1 year ago
@InsaneAsJoker like I said, murdered him just for being a Tsar.
diddymuck 1 year ago
@diddymuck no because as i just proved it was for his actions and lifestyle not just his title of tzar. also the way you say "just for being" underplays the oppressive nature of the tzar.
InsaneAsJoker 1 year ago
@InsaneAsJoker and the tsar is automatically assumed to be oppressive and lavish, even though mass reform and citizenship to all residents occurred during the reign of Alexander II.
diddymuck 1 year ago
@diddymuck he isnt automatically assumed to be oppressive and lavish. he WAS oppressive and lavish. alexander ii reforms were mostly symbolic and did little to actually improve peoples day to day lives.
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Is too easy to get sorry for the execution, yes I named execution instead of murder, and the first guylty is Nikolai himself and not the executioners. It was too foolly from his part not put His family safe in time. Maybe this is one of the fouls of the monarqui's sistem, it allows one faken losser without balls be in head of the high command. With that kind of friends as NIKY who needs enemies!
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hernandovalerio 1 year ago
Is too easy to get sorry for the execution, yes I named execution instead of murder, and the first guylty is Nikolai himself and not the executioners. It was too foolly from his part not put His family safe in time. Maybe this is one of the fouls of the monarqui's sistem, it allows one faken losser without balls be in head of the high command. With that kind of friends as NIKY who needs enemies!!!!!!!!
hernandovalerio 1 year ago
this part made me cry....Alexei kissing his father at the last minute....very sad.
KRIZZYBELLE71 1 year ago 2
@KRIZZYBELLE71
I completelly agreed with You, the part when Alexei kissed his father is the best.
hernandovalerio 1 year ago
Isnt it intoresting.....How if you lok Anistasia dose not move she just stares strait on...Yet the others all say there last words and scream? This is one of the most saddest storrys I have heard from mother russia.....When I heard about this as a child I thought..."Well did they ever get away I wonder? And Anistasia and Maria? Did any of them live?" Sadly as much as we know they where all killed...god bless...........
Theinkcircus 1 year ago
@Theinkcircus
My dear THENINKCIRCUS why people, You include, was trying to save one of them. There were so many especulation in the matter after the thing happens, despite the fact that there was no way of one of them geting alive.
hernandovalerio 1 year ago
@hernandovalerio Rather true dear friend though perhaps barryed alive? Just a guess? Though the Jewels that protected them might have done a little good...All is in secret....Or so it seems
Theinkcircus 1 year ago
@Theinkcircus
God , or their Jewels as You said, protec the Fools, if the fools don't abuse of the God's protection and stay too long......
Nikolai had not balls enougth for a ruler of Russia, but at last, he should had take care of the safety of his family.
I am a mexican guy living in Russia the last 23 years, my wife and may Dother are russians, and I have the greater respect and afection for the russian people.
hernandovalerio 1 year ago
@Theinkcircus
My wife comentaries in your JEWELS proteccion were " THERE IS NOT ESCAPE FROM YOUR DESTINY". Maybe She is rigth???????
hernandovalerio 1 year ago
Can someone please tell me WTF just happened? Why did Nicholas and his family get taken in by people? Who are they? Why were they being held in? What was the white army? Why did Nicholas and his family have to die? I don't get it!
PotatoTomatoBeef 1 year ago
@PotatoTomatoBeef They were taken by the Bolsheviks who were a revolutionary group against the royal family and even though the Tsar abdicated, they still felt the need to murder the family. Basically they were murdered for no reason.
AnnaAnomaly 1 year ago
@PotatoTomatoBeef It was the commutists and well you see they deside to kill them.....Or at least if you belive that one escaped AKA Anistasia But basicly thats wat happened
Theinkcircus 1 year ago
The Bolshevik/communist cowards. The Romanov family was a kind one and did not deserve this , Russia has never been the same since, haunted forever by this misdeed!
cathytreks 1 year ago
Say what you want about autocracy, absolutism, and Nicholas' abilities as a ruler, but neither he, nor Alexandra, and certainly not their children deserved what happened to them. I still cannot understand how they could not get out before the Bolsheviks took over.
e2monarch 1 year ago 3
I love the gentle soul Michael Jayston gave to his role as Nicholas. The scene where he reunites with Alexandra after the abdication was so real I could feel the horrific loss and terror the real Tsar must have experienced. Incredible actor.
Roderic Noble, who played the young Tsarevich, also gave an amazing performance. Believe it or not, he had no training in acting before being cast in this movie! Wow.
leananshae 1 year ago 2
Even though the scene is horrendous, it must have been far more terrifying for Nicholas and his family. Why not make the czar stand for trial and leave his family alone; at least there's more decency in that.
Six-pointed star of dread and the blood-red cap of communism...
contrerados 1 year ago
Shame on all of the countries that would not accept the Romanovs in exile and abandoned them to their horrible fate. Nicholas may have been an ineffective ruler and Alexandra may have been a bit of a flake but they were not innately bad people, and they and their children deserved to be spared. I think the British royal family should be the most ashamed... they were Alexandra's cousins!
leananshae 1 year ago
ok i hate how fake this looks. the girls are just standing there in a perfect line staring at the wall...i mean, seriously. and they dont even talk!! woken up in the middle of the night and they just stand there and watch the door
descentlover 1 year ago
@descentlover What the movie didn't show, is that the guards that escorted them down into the cellar told them that they were going to have their photograph takenin order to get them all lined up and close together, making it easier for the firing squad to do their job.
leananshae 1 year ago
@leananshae but still, they just stand there in a perfect line not speaking. the girls all still have long hair and anastasia isnt holding jemmy for some reason and she did in real life. they need to make a movie thats more accurate
descentlover 1 year ago
@descentlover Fair enough... and if someone were to make a new, more accurate movie, they should also include the servants that were missing in the execution scene of this movie. Weren't there like 4 servants including the doctor that were killed with the family?
leananshae 1 year ago
@leananshae yep. you can see them in other versions but most of the time, they are missing the dog. ive studied the family since i was little lol. i love anastasia =)
descentlover 1 year ago
@descentlover Yes, the spirit of the Archduchess Anastasia has inspired romantic souls for almost a century now. I know she was buried along with her family in that forest, but the idea that she might've escaped still haunts me sometimes.
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halyie 1 year ago
Lenin didn't really care about justice or peoples lives he just wanted power or he believed socialism really worked so he was either smart or stupid because only an evil power hungry man or an insane man could think forcing millions to starve was a good idea. But really it is obvious that someone who can kill millions wouldn't have a problem killing his enemy's family.
CamoJackv2 1 year ago
It wasn't fair for the Tsar and the family to die. (It was due to Nicholas's poor choices and he wasn't ready to rule--or even wanted to anyway.)
I knew that this was coming, but my eyes couldn't hold back the tears that were forming before the final ending.
The people who caused this were inhuman, and the children should have had be free. They were innocent children, they caused none of this.
hippygravy240 1 year ago 3
Nagorny the sailor was so loyal till the end. o-O. this is so heart breaking. its quite understandable that they wanted to kill the Tsar and the Tsaritsa, but the children should have been spared. :(
crimsonville 1 year ago
@crimsonville your so dumb its not ok that they wanted
to kill them i hope someone kills u the way they
were killed
halyie 1 year ago
They could have let the females live because they had no power at the time. Only Nicholas and Alexi had the power to rule. (when Alexi was older) Also the servants etc should have lived because they also have no power whatsoever their not even royal.
Lauratkd1 1 year ago
@Lauratkd1
r u sayin alexei should die?
u have no heart
its not his fault this happened
darkangel78921 1 year ago
@darkangel78921 I do have a heart it's just.....the men had the most power back then. I know it's not there fault but their families death could have prevented.
Lauratkd1 1 year ago
@Lauratkd1 I believe they killed the servants so there was no one alive to give their and the Romanovs side of the story when it came to their imprisonment and execution.
blackpython 1 year ago
@blackpython your right
Lauratkd1 1 year ago
In this movie at the moment when they got executed, it's like Anastasia has no fear... Everybody tries to hide, but she is just standing there.... Either she dosen't have any fear, or else, she is just so chocked, that she can't move :O
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The ending is accurate in essentials, even if not in every detail. (Yes, some other servants were butchered alongside the royal family, and they should also be remembered.)
No decent individual can consider these events without immense sympathy for the victims, combined with immense contempt for the killers. Bolshevik scum.
Many thanks for posting this excellent film.
danhagerdanhager 1 year ago
The ending is accurate in essentials, even if not in every detail. (Yes, some other servants were butchered alongside the royal family, and they should also be remembered.)
No decent individual can consider these events without immense sympathy for the victims, combined with immense contempt for the killers. Bolshevik scum.
Many thanks for posting this excellent film.
danhagerdanhager 1 year ago
I hope those murderous bastards suffered under Stalin's reign!.
abola2121 1 year ago
man, nicholas should have listened to his cabinet more...rule of thumb, how u succeed is by surrounding yourself with people smarter than you and in his case the people were there but his a** was not listening...he started believing in his own false since of self...
kappa27 1 year ago
The ending is highly inaccurate. Yurovsky read them an order that they had been condemned to death prior to them firing; this is even stated in Massie's book which this film is based on! I suppose the producers felt this version has a more "dramatic effect."
frtw4428 1 year ago
Yea...but nevermind...thanks for commenting back :)
TheMsindependentgirl 1 year ago
They are inhumane ...sorry but no offence...i think the Romanov shouldn't be killed....at the most they can be exiled to another country...why must they bring death to them???
TheMsindependentgirl 1 year ago
@TheMsindependentgirl
As I understand it, they were executed because there was a faction in the Russian Revolution that was still sympathetic to the royal family, and the faction that was totally opposed to them did not want to leave them alive as even potential figureheads for sympathizers to rally around. I'm not a historian, though, and this could be totally wrong.
MrsNorris55 1 year ago
I think it is a gross disservice to the three other servants who died with the Romanovs who were not shown in the final death scene: the chauffeur, the maid and the valet. Nor was Jimmy, the pet cocker spaniel of Alexei.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
this is such a tragic movie.. i think its a good movie.. but so tragic.. this should never have happened to the Romanovs
billywish 1 year ago
Did Anastasia survive?
tysonkat1 1 year ago
@tysonkat1 No she did not her bone were discovered with the rest of the family when they found the Romanov grave . Anna Anderson who claimed to be Anastasia was a imposter
misteeq64 1 year ago
@misteeq64
Anna Anderson was disproven as the lost Anastasia when a DNA sample of hers was tested with that of Prince Philip (husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain), and no match was registered. Philip is of the former royal family of Greece, who share blood ties with the Romanovs.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
the officer in charged died of a peptide ulcer, a fitting death to a murder
DeRocco21 1 year ago
Omg how scary and sad. Anastasia wasn't scared because she was prepared.
123misamisa 1 year ago
This movie is just excellent. I just love it, I've already seen it three times lol ... thanks for sharing...
PtiteSwiss 2 years ago
They could have just exiled Nicholas and his family, would have seemed a lot more sensible than shooting and stabbing the whole family to death.
Bluebelle9289 2 years ago
That's what they did in Iran, Germany, Portugal, Egypt, and Afghanistan Royalty.
MobHeataEnt 2 years ago
The Bolsheviks felt that, for the sake of the revolution, they needed to eliminate any blood ties or heirs to the throne. This took the steam out of the White Russian fight, that's why the whole family was executed.
seeifthisoneworks 2 years ago
How dare the Bolsheviks - no, how dare Lenin authorize this - the senseless and brutal murder of an entire family, five of the Romanoffs no more than children. I can perhaps understand why they executed Tsar Nicholas and the Tsarina, and even poor Alexei - as he would be next in line to the Russian throne, but WHY the four girls?! Ever since the reign of Catherine the Great, Russian law forbade the ascension of an Empress as sole ruler of Russia! They should at least have let the girls survive.
SayomiSama 2 years ago
It was wrong to kill the children you are right. But Lenin hated the tsar and all who were on his side. Beside Trotsky was shocked when he found out they had murdered the Romanov family.
In the end revolution ended in totalitarianism, because of many factors. Lenin made mistakes and killing those children was one of those mistakes.
But in 1918, killing people was still very normal in revolutions. Today we learned that revolutions need to be democratic and peaceful if possible.
UDSS 2 years ago
they killed the girls because they didn't want any of them to produce an heir that might later gain power and reinstate himself back into power.
xoxluvu4evrxox 2 years ago
That's not a good reason, this was not the case for the Iranian Revolution. There is no reason what so ever to kill children, unless maybe their possesed by the devil.
MobHeataEnt 2 years ago
I didnt say what they did was right all I was doing was explaining what their reasoning was. of course they shouldnt have killed the children...no one should have died that night. but they did theres nothing left to do but to continue to mourn the Romanov family
xoxluvu4evrxox 2 years ago
Thanks for uploading this. ^_^
ninjaharuki 2 years ago
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People died every day in civil wars around the world, soldier and civilian, man woman and child. What makes the Romanovs so special?
I will never have any sympathy for this incompetent, useless family.
neosoc 2 years ago
@neosoc ,
What makes the Romanoffs so special in this situation, you heartless git, is that Lenin had a choice. Soldiers have no choices - they have orders. Despite the undeniable crimes of Tsar Nicholas, did his wife deserve to die? Did the five children deserve such a horrible death? You say you will never have any sympathy for this "incompetent, useless family" - and I assume you include the children in that judgment. Tell me, what terrible crimes did they commit against the Russian people?
SayomiSama 2 years ago
I suppose the Bolsheviks felt that they had no choice because of the threat of the Whites, but this was still awfully brutal. I would not wish this fate upon anyone.
edwardchelski 2 years ago 2
@edwardchelski
They even killed beforehand two of the soldiers who protested in advance to killing the whole family. The extended family were all cruelly killed, except the few who escaped. Within months the new regime killed more than tsarism had killed in a whole century. By 1922, the Civil War had killed far more Russians than had died in World War I. This crime was not a one-off, it set the tone for the Soviet regime, at least until the mid-1950s.
axc19891 2 years ago
of course it is brutal. civil war is the most brutal kind of war there is. the soviets knew what would happen to the russian people if reaction won.
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
neosoc 2 years ago
RIP ROMANOV
shalomdrop 2 years ago 2
poor alexei alexandra worked so hard just to keep him safe, alive and not bleeding but then, after that, they just got killed without mercy :(
rAinbowpOps279 2 years ago 2
nicholas was very awestruck by 300 years of romanov's, he wanted to show off his power, the result was world war one.
890buddha 2 years ago
@890buddha
His mistake was the 1905 war against Japan. As for the First World War - it was the Germans who wanted the war - Nikolai just fell into a trap.
axc19891 2 years ago
Scum. RED SCUM!
CreditCruncher 2 years ago