The Romanov's Death (The Lost Prince)

This is, in my humble opinion, the most emotional scene ever made on the Romanov's death. It's from the mini-series "The Lost Prince" (BBC) and I found the video on www.frozentears.org

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[franzfaramir]

well, they had it coming, "if you sow misery, you will reap anger."

besides if you read the detailed history of the Civil War you would see that the Bolsheviks had no choice in the matter. more importantly, there are many more deserving of your tears, and they are dying NOW. as we speak.

oh the hypocrisy of liberalism..

[jum1801]

Why are any of you even having this discussion? It gives honor to claims of the Communist apologists here who argue that the Soviets :"had to" kill the Romanovs. The very idea is ludicrous; as if it can be defended to kill children. The Soviets were thugs and brutes who instituted a barbaric and brutal system out of their desire to become the new rulers. They were far more cruel, murdering tens of millions more, than even the worst of the czars (who were a very bad lot).

[namiaf]

i can't bear the murder of the romanov's it has haunted me eversince i came to know about it. before it i had a fairytale view of monarchy kings and queens! the children didn't deserve to die!

[livedreamincolor]

Why is burning the bodies and pouring lye on them such a major sore point? It's kind of after the fact. Besides, they could get enough DNA to prove identidy (thru Prince *sshole Phillip in the UK using matralineal-excuse sp.-DNA). And (Tori Amos reference, lol) "Yes, Anastasia" was there (in the basement-the kill room) Russian history, going back to the Mongol invasion, is the most traumatic history of any people I know of. It explains much of all the repressive cruelty be it whoever in power

[livedreamincolor]

There's truth to both arguements. Killing the Romanovs was awful, but the Tsarist regime was every bit as violent and repressive as Stalin. Take an Imperial Russian History course. They still had serfdom in the 1860's! Also, they were gathered under the guise of needing a "proof of life photo" that's how they lined them up. And the jewels in the dress? All the females deflected the bullets due to that. Freaked out the shooters. This is from an interview of a firing squad member decades later.

[ujump411]

Okay... there are some parts that are not right, like the boy Alexei couldn't walk. But, looking at both the history side of the movie side of this, I don't want to be too picky. It's still a good portrayal of what happened.

[jedimasterjoe]

If he had saved his cousins (the romanovs) from being murdered, then I would have more respect for George V.....he just abandoned them for his own political reasons, I believe that if they were brought to England, there wouldn't have been any trouble. I wonder what he was truly thinking when he was told of their brutal execution....how could he do that...especially to the czar's children. They didn't even deserve to die, they were totally innocent, so young ,at the beginning of their lives.

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[MermaidBlueFins]

I laughed at this scene, don't get me wrong. I have seen a lot of Romanov protrayals of the execution scenes from various movies.

What I found funny was the servent telling George that the family were living in a farm house. When in reality they were living in a mansion of a wealthy merchant. lmao.

[BoborGlenn]

This is actually a really bad portrayal of the Romanovs. In the movie Alix and the daughters speak Russian all the time when they rarely spoke it. Alix the least as she always struggled with the language. She was largely raised in England, close to her English Mother and family, English her first language. She was a German pirncess but the family never spoke German. And she was very well acquainted with English ways, she preferred them, she was not arrogant as she is portrayed in this movie.

[aaronmarasigan03]

@RichardElden He was 13 poor Alexei.., R.I.P the Romanovs...

[aaronmarasigan03]

The Bolsheviks do not have to pour acid and burn the bodies.... They should have never killed the Romanov family because some of them did not deserve to die...The royal children weren't able to fulfill their dreams in life and Alexei wasn't able to be emperor of Russia. If they were not murdered I'm sure the Romanovs would still rule Russia.But, It's too late to change it. They are now dead and in heaven and we could not change the past if only we could.. I could change the past,I could...