Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna Part II

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
Mini-series which aired on NBC based on Peter Kurth's biography "Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson". The movie begins with the last days and execution of the Romanovs and then goes into the life of Anna Anderson who appears in this film in 1923 and died in 1984 after claiming for over 60 years to be Grand Duchess Anastasia.

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[RomanovMartyrs]

Give me some proof then, that the Tsar was bad. Name some specifics. I'm a Russian History major and can refute them all.

God bless the Romanovs.

[BH206L3]

@jb26508 Well that was the Nature of the Soviet's.  Only the beginning of what Russia would have to cope with for the next 70 years. The Soviet Union was a horror.

[Karenjadegirl]

@RomanovMartyrs The Alexander Palace Time Machine

[DimSimToughBitch]

@RomanovMartyrs Oh yes, it was Maria according to the Russians and Anastasia according to the Americans.

[RomanovMartyrs]

@APRIL62318 You need to research white army attrocities.

[RomanovMartyrs]

@suki1615 Nothing wrong with the idea of communism, and even though there were brutal acts by the Bolsheviks during this time in history, the White army committed just as many attrocities (if not more).

[RomanovMartyrs]

@DimSimToughBitch Anastasia was found in the original grave- It was Maria and Alexei who were found later, according to Russia. I have heard that some US scholars believe it was Anastasia in the later discovery, but I tend to side with who Russia recognises. At the grave site, it is Maria and Alexei's tombstones missing burial dates, not Anastasia's.

[RomanovMartyrs]

@Karenjadegirl Source?

[coombeslauren]

@RomanovMartyrs I wouldn't say he was a bad man, just not cut out to be Tsar. His father never educated him in how to rule, and he didn't have the right personality to rule Russia. It's pure bad luck that he was born into a role he didn't want or should have had.

[RomanovMartyrs]

@MEXICANWAVES Might want to Wiki Search "White Terror (Russia)". It existed. But this was not Nicholas's fault- by this time he was arrested. The imperial government was to blame for tyranny; Nicholas was as much a victim of circumstance as anyone else. But Lenin was actually very popular- elected Chairman of People's Council in 1917 and as the war went on became more followed. Of course the children didn't deserve to die, but many justified it after deaths of so many of the workers' children.

[RomanovMartyrs]

I suggest to you reading some Okhrana records or Fontanka 16. As for WWI (something I can never agree with), I too dislike that Russia was involved. However public support for the war when Russia entered was overwhelming. Without Russia, Paris would have fallen, though unfortunately it was saved at the cost of almost 1 million Russian lives. Lastly, I dare say what came after the last Tsar wasn't much better: Between 1917 and 1922 alone Lenin's regime was responsible for over 4 million deaths.

[RomanovMartyrs]

After Plehve's assassination, his police continued with a plan he'd created which led to Bloody Sunday. The Tsar didn't know what had happened until afterwards (similar to the Khodynka massacre, which, upon being informed of, the Tsar cancelled his plans and went there in person to distribute money/support to the victims). After Bloody Sunday, the Tsar met with heads of the army in attempt to make them understand their error and even took the blame himself, but he'd NEVER ordered them to fire.