Footage of the Romanovs
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The informal stuff is very touching - a happy family with an unhappy destiny.
Thanks Nick.
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Nicholas II never wanted to be the tsar. He even said he was unprepared. As for entitlements and royal privileges, he lived pretty simply in Tsarkoë Selo, the tsar's palace.
He slept on an army cot. His children took cold showers except in the evening or when they were sick.
Also, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were all Nicholas and Alexandra's children, so I would think that all their fates are equally tragic, not just Anastasia's.
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hi lajmh - always is ... .
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It was the Bolsheviks.
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This is a silly simplistic distortion of what happened.
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hi cockerhill1 - yep, a real conflict of family loyalty vs international politics, cheers, nick
Photos of Grand Dutchess Tatiana show that she was a beautiful girl. She and her family might have survived the Russian Revolution if the UK government and monarch had acted more bravely.
Garrison446 1 month ago
hi Garrison446 - just watched a documentary on the Romanovs and apparently the British government offered asylum to the Romanov family but then had to withdraw it at the insistence of King George V (seen in telegrams from the king to the PM) - i guess he imagined the Russians in England might import revolution and make his own throne less stable - a shameful episode for the british royal family
nickwallacesmith 1 month ago
too bad i ain;t got a time machine
halosapien1 1 month ago
hey halosapien1 - and sadly mine has broken down, leaving me stranded in 2012 :<
nickwallacesmith 1 month ago
Just like steppin back in time. Though I would never admit it, this is even before my parents were born.
lajmh 4 months ago
hi lajmh - same here - my grandparents' time - love the time travel thing though!
nickwallacesmith 4 months ago