 Before we get into the video today, I just want to give a quick shout out to one of our sponsors, Gnostic TV. Gnostic TV is ancient wisdom reimagined. This is a Netflix for those who are spiritually curious and want a place to go where there is no censorship. I personally am doing a whole series on Gnostic TV called The Esoteric Explorer where I am providing exclusive content to Gnostic. Gnostic TV is a host to all sorts of different content creators, many of whom are your old favorites. If you would like to check out Gnostic TV, there is a link down in the description box below. The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was born on the 18th of June 1901 at the palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was the third and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra. Anastasia was a Romanov through her father's bloodline and the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom through her mother's bloodline. In a world built on pecking orders and elitism, Anastasia Romanov was born in the highest tier of humanity. However, on July 17th of 1918, Anastasia Romanov, her three sisters, her young brother Alexei and her parents, the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia were executed. The Empire of Russia was fighting for its life. And the people of Russia had turned to the Volsheviks in hopes that they would save the dying nation. Now, one of the greatest conspiracies of our time ever since the assassination of the Tsar and his family is the possibility that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov actually survived her execution. This conspiracy turned global when many people over the decades have popped up claiming to be the princess. Now, the last Monday mystery we did of 2023 was that of Rasputin, someone that I believe was partially responsible for what was about to happen in Russia after the execution of the Tsar and the Tsarina. And I thought, what a great way to kick off 2024. Since we ended with Rasputin and his weird little cult that he had, why not start off 2024 with one of the greatest conspiracies in mysteries of our time? I personally thought that this would be a pretty quick video. However, if you have been on this channel for a while, you know that I really like to understand all the spinning pieces that are going on around the moment that a mystery or a conspiracy is started. And this case, just like many of the other cases before it, is not simple and it's definitely not going to be fast. Because you see, my friends, in order for us to understand what really happened to the Romanovs, we have to go back to the beginning. We have to go back to the beginning to understand why in 1918 five innocent children were assassinated. We have to go back to understand why the people of Russia were hoodwinked into believing these white hats called the Bolsheviks were going to come in and save them. When in reality the Bolsheviks were just as evil, if not more evil, than any other ruling party in the world. We have to go back to the beginning so that we as human beings can see the similarities between the time of Anastasia Romanovs' execution and our time so that we don't make the same mistakes that our Russian brothers and sisters did way back in the beginning of the 20th century. So my friends, we have to go back 371 years to the birth of the first Anastasia Romanovs. A woman who would go on to be the matriarch of the Romanovs dynasty. A woman who was also murdered. Throughout this timeline we're going to see all sorts of juicy and potent information like witchcraft, faked executions, and a hell of a lot of poisoning. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like as always such a very, very special thank you to all of our patrons and our producers here on Esoteric Atlanta. If you would like to join our patron and our producer community, there is a link down in the description box below. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce and today in the very, very first Monday mystery of 2024, we are going to be unpacking part one of the conspiracy of Anastasia Romanovs' execution by going back and looking at the original Anastasia Romanovs. It's stories like these that make me question why people don't like history because in my opinion, history is one of the most entertaining and scandalous subjects that we as humanity will ever get the luxury of studying. I think sometimes people forget that when we're looking through the halls of history, we're looking at stories of people's lives, people like you and me, people who had to survive in circumstances that you and I have never even had to experience because of our modern times. And during this time of a great awakening, we know that any type of monarchy system or any type of matrix where there is a pecking order, an elite bloodline, somebody's life is more valuable than somebody else's life depending on their last name is nothing but purely satanic. We know from the law of one that on the good time, the good timeline with God, with the light that everybody is equal, every human life is equally valued. And I for one agree with that. I think the person sweeping the street is just as valuable as the president of the United States. I think we're all human beings and we all deserve to be treated with some respect just for being human beings. With that being said, I know that in this time of great awakening, we're very quick to judge people who are born into the royal families. We're very quick to want to say off with their heads with people who are carrying some sort of last name because of the lottery of their birth. And I have said many times that I don't feel this way because I feel like every human being just as Martin Luther King Jr. said, don't judge my children by the color of their skin but the content of their character. I believe the same thing can be said for us when we are born into certain families or who have certain last names. I think that every single person who's born into a royal family deserves the benefit of the doubt that they are born into something that they didn't pick. And so when I talk about the Roman offs, I'm coming at this from a purely academic perspective. Now where we're starting, the monarch we're starting with, which is the Rurik Empire with Ivan the Terrible. I do believe that Ivan was pretty terrible as his name states. I don't believe that he was up to anything good for the people. But all the other people involved in these stories, I don't want to cast too much judgment because we don't know what it was like for them to have to survive under these circumstances. I have said many times before that if I had been born into these time periods, I would have much preferred to be a peasant than to be born into any of these royal families. Because these royal families, it was literally Game of Thrones. They were killing each other for no reason except for the reason of absolute power. An absolute power, as we know, corrupts absolutely. And so where we're starting with this story, and again, I'm going to reiterate this. When I was studying Rasputin, when I started with Rasputin, I realized that at the time of Rasputin's murder, at the time of Bazaar and the Zarbina's execution in 1918, that the world of St. Petersburg specifically reminded me so much of where we are right now in 2024. I almost said 2023 there, 2024, where we have this elite group of people, the Bilderberg group, all these leaders of our countries who are living in an opulence, right? We saw this during the lockdown when Nancy Pelosi was eating ice cream, you know, gourmet ice cream in her gourmet kitchen, while the rest of the Americans were struggling to pay the bills since the government had literally shut our businesses down. We're seeing the same thing globally happening, not just here in the United States, but of course all over the world. We're seeing the desecration of the middle class, the desecration of the bourgeoisie, which technically guys, I know it's like, invoked to say bougie these days to mean like wealthy, but bourgeoisie actually means middle class. That's what it means. And to desecrate that is to take away the power from the people. Now in St. Petersburg, at the time of the Tsar and the Tsarvinas' execution along with their children, if you remember from the Rasputin episode, people were so broke and so poor that they were having to steal bread. I mean, hello, we're seeing that happening today. Even in the United States of America, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, people are having to steal groceries in order to survive. And at this point, the Russian people had been brought to the brink of desperation. And in walks the Bolsheviks, a group of people promising the Russian Empire, the people of Russia, a better tomorrow. A group of people basically saying that the problem lies with the fact that the Tsar and the Tsarina have absolute power and are living off of the backs of all of the working Russians. And the Bolsheviks were not wrong about that. They were not wrong. There was truth to that. However, the Bolsheviks were just as evil and just as dirty as the monarchy. But the people of Russia were so desperate for a savior that they turned to the Bolsheviks. They believed that the Bolsheviks were going to bring them money, bring them stability, possibly bring them better health. This is terrifying to me because we see this in our world today. There's a group of people that believe that there is some plan by the White Hats to bring us Nisara, which is just money they're going to give us and bring us these things called med-beds. And so people are surrendering to this magical thinking of this another group that's going to come in and save them, like knights in shining armor, just like the people of Russia thought the Bolsheviks were going to do the same thing for them. And what ended up happening was one of the most devastating things our world has ever seen, which was the USSR. Now, it's fascinating to me. I said this to my boyfriend yesterday. I was born in 1983. My personal view of Russia, no offense to any Russians watching right now, this is not about you. It's about the government system, which I think we all at this point know it's nothing to do with the people. I think of Russia as being very poor, as being very destitute and cold, and people just struggling to survive. But again, I was born in 1983. And so I was born only a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. So when I was born, communism was in full swing. We were in the Cold War. And so that, again, is my perception of Russia. Soon after the Berlin Wall fell, I've said this before on this channel. There were some kids that came over to my school, my little elementary school from same age as us from Russia. And I remember being shocked at what they looked like. They were so skinny and they had these ripped up clothes. And just the reality that these kids were my age and they looked like they were paupers. That has greatly affected me as an adult. My views on Russia and the pain I feel for the people that have experienced this level of tyranny and control in their life. But before Russia fell to the Bolsheviks, it was one of the mightiest empires that our world has ever seen. The Russian Empire was a huge dominating force for most of its modern world existence. I don't even think modern day people can even comprehend the amount of power and influence the Romanovs had. For the 300 years they were in power, people like Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, these rulers that we all study in school, and the snowball, the snowball effect of what was happening throughout the generations is what led to the handicap of the USSR. I think sometimes those of us who have souls, who know right from wrong, who have morals and actually care about our fellow man, sometimes I think we forget how sinister the dark forces can be. The dark forces know that a certain amount of people are going to start to become aware of the problems, are going to become aware of the nefarious deeds of the ruling class, and they're going to want to find a solution. And so the nefarious ones, the dark ones, sinned in what we call controlled opposition, a Trojan horse, if you will. People who were saying the right things, the Bolsheviks were saying the right things, but had alternative intentions. So both, in my opinion, both the Bolsheviks and the structure of the ruling empire were both headed by dark forces. And because dark forces don't care about each other, they just kind of put those two together to see who would win. My fear, again, is that the exact same thing is happening now. We don't know who the white hats are. We don't know who they are. We don't know their true intentions. But people say if something seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. And I know that when someone gives you money, it comes at a cost. For the Russian people, that cost was great. For the Romanov children, that cost was great. Now, as I stated in the beginning, I do have an opinion on whether Anastasia Romanov survived her execution or not. Now, I'm going to hold back on my opinion, though, until the very last part of this multi-part series over this conspiracy surrounding this little girl. But I will tell you this. My opinion is not based on magical thinking. My opinion is based on my own research and the facts that have been presented in this case. I'm also someone that is not going to rely on another human being to save me. I'm also someone that's going to rely only on myself and my own sovereignty and my own autonomy to save myself. And so as we go through these deep dives into the Romanov family and into what ultimately led to the destruction of the Tsar and the Tsarina, I ask you, my friends, to consider the possibility. Consider both possibilities. Consider the possibility that Anastasia Romanov was executed that night in 1918. Also consider the possibility that she wasn't. Have an open mind and do not let your feelings or your opinions about a certain story crowd the facts. You know, we make fun of the leftist, the normies, saying feelings aren't facts. Feelings aren't facts. But I find myself having to say that in our own community from time to time. Feelings are not facts. Opinions are not facts. Facts are facts. So with that being said, let's get started with the House of Romanov. The House of Romanov was the Imperial House of Russia from 1613 to 1917. This bloodline came to power by the crowning of Michael of Russia, or Michael I, the first Romanov after the fall of the House of Rurik. The Rurik dynasty had ruled Russia for over 700 years. The namesake of the House of Romanov from Michael I came from Michael's great aunt. Again, another woman named Anastasia Romanov. She was the wife of Ivan the Terrible. Anastasia Romanov was probably born in 1530. She was the second daughter of Roman Yurovich. Now Roman Yurovich was a boyer and a boyer is like the aristocrats of the court of the Imperial Palace of Russia. He was the highest level of power in this feudal system right under royalty. And to be an aristocrat, at least I know from the monarchies of Great Britain and of France, which they're all related, to be an aristocrat to be a boyer means that you literally come from the same bloodline as the ruling monarch. Meaning that you probably share a common ancestor with the monarch. So this is all just this cesspool of elite bloodlines, elite people. And of course the boyers, the aristocrats in any type of feudal system or any type of court system across the world, they're the people who have eligible daughters to marry to the reigning prince, right? The heir apparent to the monarchy. Not only do they have their daughters that they can marry off to the monarchy, but they are usually in positions of influence over the monarch. We also know that Anastasia's father Roman Yerevich was a big-time military leader. He fought under the Grand Prince Vasily III. Now at this point, the monarch of Russia was not the Tsar yet. That would come with Ivan the Terrible. They were just the king, the prince, the queen. That was it. Because the term Tsar actually comes from the term Caesar. So with Ivan the Terrible, we're going to have the introduction to this idea that the rulers of Russia were more than just kings and queens. They were literal caesars, literal impers of this vast nation. Now I do want to acknowledge that Russia, the empire we know today, was not the same as the Russia we see now. I know there's a whole history behind that, but for the point of this story, we're not going to super talk about land and fighting over land and the expansion of land. Again, there's lots of great channels out there that go through military history. But the military history is not necessarily important to the story of Anastasia Romanov, the first leading to the last Anastasia Romanov. So if that's something that you're interested in, you're not going to get that here in this video, but there are many other people out there on YouTube that can talk you through the military history of the Rurik clan, especially under Ivan the Terrible. I do want to point out that it's kind of ironic that the Romanov started with an Anastasia and ended with an Anastasia. That's pretty karmic if you asked me. But nonetheless, let's get back to what was going on with Anastasia Romanov, the first in the 16th century. Now during this time, it was common for the aristocrats, the boyars of Russia as well as other courts in Europe to have what they called a bride show for the young upcoming buck, the young prince to pick his bride. Now this kind of reminds me of two things. This reminds me of what we would call a male order bride, but there's also a lot of similarities to what we call the debutantes here in the southern part of the United States, where I am from. The debutante society, I mean, we did debutantes where your daughter, the aristocrats of the south, your daughter's presented after her first year of university comes back and is presented in a grand ball to the society as being eligible for marriage. Now of course in my day when this was done, it was more a cultural thing. It wasn't like my dad was literally like, here's my daughter, come marry her. No, it wasn't like that. It was more just kind of a high society party, more than anything. But back in these days, it was definitely very serious. And so the boyers would get these invitations and these invitations meant that they would bring their daughters, their eligible maiden daughters in to basically beyond display for the prince, the young prince and probably his father had a lot to do with it too, to pick which woman he fancied, like which girl looked the best to him. Obviously these were only aristocratic women. Again, the invitations were sent to the boyers. So it wasn't like some peasant was sneaking in and putting their daughter on display. No, it was all children, women of men that the royal family knew and trusted. And so their daughters then for political reasons were obviously eligible to be the wife of the monarch and then breed children for the monarch. But it's definitely not based on the intellect of the woman or whether the woman and the man have chemistry together or have things in common. It's literally a beauty contest. Which lady, which maiden does the young prince, the young buck fancy the most? So Anastasia Robynoff being the daughter of a boyer who's also a great military leader, of course she gets an invite. Of course her dad gets to bring her to the palace, to the Kremlin palace to display her in the off chance that Ivan IV, the son, the prince, the son, obviously the third would potentially pick her to be his bride. Now the pride show again was held at the Moscow Kremlin. This was a fortified complex in the center of Moscow which includes five palaces, four cathedrals with a wall and towers around it. And just a little trivia for you. This is where today the Russian president lives. So the Kremlin is a very popular area in Moscow. It's still a seat of power for the presidency of Russia. And part of it is a museum now, so you're welcome. If you're in Moscow, you can go and check out the Kremlin. It's not all of it is being utilized by the ruling parties of Russia, only part of it now. So I thought that was kind of some interesting trivia. Obviously this Kremlin is located in my opinion on some sort of a lay line because why, again, would they still be using it all these years later? Just some interesting trivia there. Anyway, Anastasia Romanov this year of this bride show was one of between 500 and 1,500 girls. I know that's like an 1,000 person mark difference, but I just thought just how great that number is. Like all these girls, hundreds of them, are coming into this palace in the hopes that this prince, this young buck will potentially fancy them. Like potentially think they're hot enough to want to marry them. Oh, to be a fly on the wall for this event. I cannot imagine the chaos between... Jimmy, do you guys, we hear these stories of like beauty shows where like girls were like tripping each other and like messing with each other's makeups and stuff. Do you think the girls in the bride shows were like messing with each other's makeup and messing with each other's jewelry in order to like get rid of the competition? I don't know, surely there were some girls that were just brought there by their dads because they were forced to and didn't really want to be there. I just think what a spectacle this must have been. But nonetheless, Anastasia Romanov was picked by Ivan IV pretty quickly. Now it is said that she was not the prettiest of all the girls and there was a possibility that Ivan IV didn't know her prior to this bride show because of her father. Because of her father's influence in the Royal Monarch political dealings. And that makes sense to me, right? Like my dad owns a veterinary clinic with two other men and I kind of know their kids, right? Even though their kids and my sister and I all went to different schools, we were all kind of around the same age and like we knew each other. We weren't like friends, but we knew each other because our dads were business partners, right? So I can understand that like he would have known of her through the relationship that her father had with his father, the monarch. And so with that being said, what follows with Ivan and Anastasia's reported relationship doesn't shock me. So obviously Ivan really liked her as a person and pretty quickly picked her. So for that with Ivan, I kind of think that's kind of adorable even though he ends up being like this horrific monarch. I think that shows some humanity within him that he picked the girl, picked probably his childhood crush, the girl that he actually knew to be his wife. And so on February 3rd of 1547, Ivan IV and Anastasia Romanov were married at one of the chapels in the Kremlin. And it is at this point that we start to see the beginnings of the downfall of the House of Rurik where we will eventually go into the House of Romanov which comes through Anastasia Romanov's family. Although I doubt she knew this at the time because she surely did not live to see this happen. Now it is stated that again Ivan IV and Anastasia Romanov had a really great marriage. And as we know back in these days it was very common for the ruling monarch, the king, to have mistresses because obviously most marriages were politically arranged so there really wasn't a lot of love, maybe not even lust between the two married couples for most cases, the queen, the wife didn't even care, that her husband had a mistress. Now I do want to point this out because I've heard this talked about on other podcasts and it seems that people don't really understand why the king was allowed to have mistresses but the queen wasn't. A lot of people think it was, you know, misogynistic, if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander, how come the queen couldn't do it but the king could. And yeah, I do agree it's not fair but this is why the queen could not have her own lovers. We're talking about bloodlines. For these people, bloodlines are really important. Again what I said in the beginning, elitism, pecking orders, monarchs, kings, queens, chosen ones, these are all part of the negative path. They value their blood over other people's blood. That is why kings always married within aristocratic circles knowing full well that the aristocrats and the king do have a common ancestor many generations back proving they are both the queen and the king are from the same bloodline. And in order to keep the bloodline pure, they need to make sure that the queen is only pregnant with the king's child. Even though that's not fair, when you look at it that way, it makes sense. This is back during a time where they couldn't do obviously blood testing. Now there are certain factors that point out whether someone's RH-negative or not which that's I'm RH-negative, my boyfriend's RH-negative, that's what they like. They like the RH-negative people. There are certain side effects that RH-negatives have that they can tell the baby is of a specific bloodline. I've done videos on that. I'm not going to get into that in this video. I will link those videos down in the description box below. That's something you're interested in. But nonetheless, it was very, very important. And so if a woman were to potentially get pregnant with some guy that is not a royal bloodline, it would throw a wrench into this elitist pecking order. So that is literally why. That is why it was considered treason for a woman, a wife, a queen to have an affair because they want to make sure the baby she's pregnant with is actually the king's baby. But nonetheless, I have the fourth and Anastasia, it is said he never took a mistress. He loved his wife so much. They had such a good relationship that he never felt the need to go outside of the marriage. It is written by many of his court people that Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the Fourth, as he was known at this point, he hadn't gotten terrible yet, was feverishly in love with Anastasia. I wonder what that's like. I mean, my boyfriend don't song me, but I don't know if I've ever had a man be feverishly obsessed with me. I don't know, that might kind of drive me crazy. But nonetheless, by the time Anastasia Romanov was 30, she would be dead. Even though their marriage was very short, she would produce six children for Ivan. Now what follows with Ivan the Terrible after the death of Anastasia Romanov, his beloved wife, reminds me a lot of Henry VIII of the United Kingdom. Actually, there's a lot in these stories. I mean, history repeats itself. That's why we need to study history, right? Because we need to learn from our ancestors that something. What's the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result? We're seeing a lot of these patterns play out over and over and over again throughout history. We see disastrous results, and so therefore it's our responsibility in 2024 to not repeat these same mistakes. It's important we look at these stories. But nonetheless, there are a lot of similarities between Ivan IV here and Henry VIII. We are also after Ivan IV's death, at Ivan the Terrible's death, we're going to see a lot of similarities between the crossover from the House of Valois to the House of Bourbon in France. I'll link those videos down below too. So we're seeing this battle for power. And Ivan IV, it is said that he became Ivan the Terrible after Anastasia Romanov died, because he was like so freaking pissed off that she died. Why was he pissed off that she died? Because he believed that she was poisoned. He believed that she was poisoned by the boyars, by the aristocratic elite. Now, what's interesting is that Ivan would go on to marry multiple times after Anastasia. Anastasia would actually be the first of what we have logged as six wives. Again, just like Henry VIII. But there are some historians that believe it could have actually been up to eight wives. We only really know about six of them. And we're going to talk about some of those wives because shit gets wild, you guys. It gets freaking wild. Like, this is so juicy and so scandalous. But nonetheless, Ivan the Terrible, Ivan IV got real mean after Anastasia died. I laugh because it makes me uncomfortable. Like, I feel really sorry for the people who have had to endure his reign. And he was pissed off because, again, he believed that the boyars, the aristocratic elite had poisoned his beloved wife. Now, at this time, there was no proof that this had happened. There was no proof at this time that she had been killed. She got really sick. She had a slow death. She was on her deathbed. You know, people got sick easy back then. They passed away easier back then. People think it could have just been it was her time. But here's the kicker, my friends. Here's the kicker. He wasn't wrong. Because in the 1990s, they actually exhumed her body to allow archaeologists and forensic scientists to test her bones to see if she was poisoned or not. And y'all, she had such high levels of mercury poisoning that they were like, they've been right about this. They might have been right about her being poisoned. Now, some of the archaeologists and the forensic scientists will say that back in those days they did use mercury for a lot of health treatment. So it could have been. There's a possibility that it could have been an accidental poisoning. Like, nobody did it intentionally. I have my own opinions on that because if you guys, if you studied all the Tartarian things, I think they were using mercury. But I don't think it's as dangerous as we think it is in a certain way. So I personally think Ivan is crazy and psychotic as he might have been. I think he was right. I think they took out Anastasia Romanov for a reason. I don't specifically know what that reason is, but we're going to get into the wives that are to follow and the disaster that became the House of Rurik after her passing. Now, I also want to mention here that in 1547, the year he married Anastasia Romanov, Ivan the Terrible decided that he won't go and be a king no more, but he was going to be an emperor. That is when he officially crowned himself the Tsar. So this is where we get the Tsar from. So it is important not only that we start with the last little family of the Ruriks because of Anastasia Romanov and her name, her family line being the ones that take power after the House of Rurik falls, but also because this is when we start seeing the use of the word Tsar in Tsarina. And again, this comes from the word Caesar. So he's like, I'm not a king. Ivan's like, yo, I'm not just a king. I'm like super king. I'm like super king of the empire and all these other kings. They're not as kingly as I am. I'm the king of all kings. I'm just the king guest of them all. And so I'm going to be Caesar. I'm going to be the Tsar. And my wife's going to be the Tsarina. So this is where this kicks off. No, I'm going to go through the six wives that we have after Anastasia. And I, too, want to make, I meant to make this apology in the beginning. I'm not Russian, you guys. I don't speak Russian. I'm a girl from Atlanta, Georgia. So if I butcher these names, I apologize. I do not mean them in any disrespect by not saying their names properly. I'm just not Russian. So excuse me as I try to pronounce all of these names. Now, at the marriage of his second wife, two things are happening. We've got the marriage going on and we've also got this creation of this like super secret police, not so secret police group of people. This is all I can explain them. They were created by the Tsar, by Ivan the Terrible, to basically go around the court of Russia and terrorize people to try to figure out who killed his beloved Anastasia. Now, they did do that. Like they tortured and executed a lot of boyers, a lot of aristocrats. I'm telling you guys, like if I had to live in this time, let me be a peasant. Please just let me be a peasant because this bullshit, the opulence of gold and wealth and lots of clothes, it's not worth it. If you're constantly like fearing for your life because some crazy king thinks she might have poisoned his wife and so you're going to be tortured to death, I just let me be a peasant. Please just let me be a peasant because this is crazy. Now his second wife was a woman named Maria Timurkova. I hope I said that right. We're just going to call her Maria. Now, she, I want to know more about this girl because listen, like this girl got accused of some witchy shit. Like I want to know more about her. She reminds me a lot of Amboilan in the sense that I don't think Amboilan was doing any witchy shit though, but kind of the reputation that this woman had. Now, apparently this woman, Maria, was being kind of pushed on Ivan before Anastasia Romanov died, but like Anastasia Romanov was on her deathbed. Like she knew she was dying and so I don't think it was any secret that because her husband was the king, the czar, the kingiest of kings, that it was going to be necessary for political reasons for him to marry again. Now remember, she's already birthed him six children, two of which are boys. So the line of succession was already sealed through Anastasia. However, again, political purposes, they do want to have the monarch married. I mean, think about Elizabeth I, who was ruling at this time as well, that are about to rule, that it was kind of scandalous that she never married, right? That they need the monarch married. And so with this Maria chick, she was kind of being presented to Ivan before Anastasia Romanov passed away. And it is said, the legend states that Anastasia was really concerned about this. Like Anastasia accepted that he was going to have to get remarried. She accepted that, but she did not want him to marry this Maria chick. She felt a certain way about this woman. And in fact, it is stated in legend and folklore that Anastasia actually told him on her death bed that this woman was practicing witchcraft. Maybe she was, because here's the thing, my friends, this woman, Maria, apparently was like super gorgeous, like super ready for the time. But wasn't like super smart. Like she didn't have, and I don't mean she wasn't super smart. She might have had like street smarts. She obviously knew how to concoct some spells, but she wasn't savvy and politically smart. The type of smart she needed to be, to be the Zarina. And so there was like illiteracy there. And she was known to have this vile temper, like super nasty woman. Like really mean. And so after Anastasia died, it is believed that Ivan was cast, a spell was cast on him. And he was taken by this Maria chick and he married her. Now this secret police that I said was simultaneously happening at the same time was reportedly pushed on Ivan by Maria. She, I think it was like a rouge to figure out who killed the original Zarina. I'm going to figure it out with this task force of this like secret not so secret police force who were all clad in black robes. How terrifying is that? I think she wanted death and destruction. I think that she was looking for some sort of like bloodshed. And I don't know was she involved in black magic? We know with black magic there has to be bloodshed and so was she using this to fulfill her own needs in her own power, her own working with the dark side, the dark lord of this world. I don't know, it's just super interesting. But she was apparently just nasty to Ivan's children, not the best stepmother in the world. And of course Ivan's children, especially the sons, are his heirs. So that's important. But they're the kids with his wife that he loved dearly. They remind him of his wife that he loved. And so this was not going to fly. And he said that after he married Maria, he immediately started to regret it. Like all of a sudden the witchcraft, the spell casting wore off. And I laughed because she didn't live that much longer because he poisoned her. He married her on the 21st of August 1561 and by September 1 1569, the girl was dead. She was only 25 and she was dead. And yeah, like it is widely believed he poisoned her. He was like enough with you. So people who think that poisoning someone is a girl, a woman's way of killing no. Men do it too. Men do it too. He was just like dropping that poison that cyanide, that mercury into her, into her potions and boom, she was gone. His third wife was a woman named Sabokina. Marfa was selected just like Anastasia was selected. There was another bride show. They put another bride show after he got rid of the witch and he selected Marfa. She was one of 12 finalists and she married him when she was only 18 years old. That marriage took place on the 28th of October 1571 and 16 days later Marfa was dead. Bought to be another poisoning. My friends Bought to be another poisoning. See, with Henry the 8th over in the UK women were like freaking out like please don't pick me please don't pick me because Henry the 8th had a tendency to get rid of his wives too. I can imagine at this point it's probably the same for Ivan. People are like oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, I don't want to go to the bride show because his wives end up dead. The fourth wife was a woman named Anna Kulsovaia and this woman was there was a bit of problems with this woman by government standards because remember Russia is under the Russian Orthodox Church it is believed that four wives were one wife too many and so the church was like dude, you can't get married again. You've already gone through three wives, you're just going to have to be a widower for the rest of your life and Ivan kind of pushed back and said well I didn't actually consummate my marriage with Marfa. After all she married me when she was sick aka dying of poison and she died 16 days later so we never had a chance to actually consummate the marriage so there was a bit of a loophole here for him to marry the next girl. Ivan had to jump through some hoops obviously to get this woman to be his wife but he succeeded and on April 29th of 1772 he married this Anna chick however two years later in 1774 Ivan would send Anna to a monastery to be a nunnery because she bored him sexually I mean women can you imagine that like being sent to a monastery because you're just not adventurous sexually. Thank you God we live in 2024 thank you God. Fifth wife. Wife number 5 this was another Anna Vasilchkova probably said that wrong but another Anna and he married her in 1575 without the church's permission so he was pulling a Henry VIII where he was like screw you I'm the kingiest of kings I'm the czar I do what I want because I'm the kingiest of kings I win in the super king competition and so I will marry who I want so he married this Anna chick and then she too bored him sexually she got sent to a monastery with the other Anna. Now the sixth wife was a woman named Maria Fedorovina and she married him in 1581 she soon had a child and as we know from many royal stories if you can secure a child if you can get yourself knocked up especially with the son you're pretty safe. So regardless of how he felt about her she gave birth to another son this is another security for the Rurik house we do know however that in 1582 he was trying to divorce her and he was in correspondence with Queen Elizabeth I of the United Kingdom trying to be hitched to one of her relatives a woman named Mary Hastings but in 1584 he passed away before that can happen leaving the third son with Maria to continue to be illegal heir to the throne and this will come into prominence during the times of trouble during the friction when the house of Rurik does collapse. Now Fedor the first was then put on the throne after the death of his father he was not the heir to the throne though he was technically the spare the heir to the throne was Ivan the fourth's first son with Anastasia which was a man named Ivan Ivanich but unfortunately Ivan was killed by his father in 1581 during a rage a fit of rage he died from blunt force trauma to the head by a specter but because Ivan was the kingiest of all kings obviously there was no murder charges brought upon him for you know killing his own heir in a fit of rage knocking him on the back of the head and Fedor even though he was the spare he was not prepared to become the kingiest of all kings he was not prepared to be the czar he did believe that he was mentally handicapped maybe he had some disabilities and so he was constantly his whole rule was being governed by a regent by another man who was really calling the shots for him because he didn't have the mental capacity to do so he also showed no interest in politics and he was married but he had no heirs now he kind of reminds me of the 16th of France kind of like the one who married ranch went out like they didn't have kids for a while he was often depicted as being kind of child-like didn't really care about politics you know this is why I don't I'm not against nepotism I'm not against if you have a family business and your child grows and learns a family business and takes it over I'm not against that if you can do that for your kids that's awesome but when it comes to things like this just to give somebody power to know who they are in a birthline is disaster right people should earn that they should earn their leadership roles through voting through working hard for the people having the people decide so we see this periodically throughout history where you'll have this long line of kings and all of a sudden you'll get to one of the heirs and the heirs just just don't want to do the job you know it's not ready for the job it's not his thing to rule so we have a Theodore the first now the sixth wife her son that she had with Ivan the fourth another heir was a boy named Dimitri and this is going to get interesting because it is believed that Dimitri actually passed away from a seizure in 1891 but what we're going to see when we come into the death of Theodore we're going to see popping up claiming to be Dimitri saying that they had escaped an assassination the same conspiracy that we're going to see 300 years later with the second Anastasia Romanov now again when Theodore the first was on the throne the person the regent that was ruling Russia for him was literally his brother-in-law his wife's husband so an outside family member and after Theodore died without any heirs the parliament kind of considered just giving these our role to the brother-in-law because he had already been ruling Russia through Theodore up until this point however the country was falling apart under Theodore again Theodore I don't think he should be blamed for this I really do after looking through everything I think he was not mentally literate enough or had the mental capacity to even understand what was happening that's how I just I think that modern times we would understand this and would not give somebody with these limitations this much power because we entered into what's called the times of trouble here in Russia and I kind of put in my notes like this whole beginning of the house of Romanov started in what they call the times of trouble and I feel like it kind of ended in like a second times of trouble it was just a catastrophe like nothing there was chaos there was poverty the country was falling apart at the death of Theodore it is stated that the times of trouble began in 1598 with the death of Theodore I Anastasia's son and ended in 1613 with the ascension of Michael I cousin of Theodore Anastasia's great nephew but during these 15 years there's just a lot going on we have this what historically is known as false Dmitri I the false Dmitri where this guy pops up and says Maria's son Dmitri also the second son of Ivan the fourth so technically I'm the one that should take control of the empire since my older half brother has now died so parliament don't give my empire to his brother-in-law give it to me because legally it's mine he claimed that he escaped political assassination when he was eight years old so people have believed that he died of a seizure in 1891 Maria before the false Dmitri popped up the mother believed her son was dead and blamed Theodore's brother-in-law the guy that was puppeting the empire on the assassination of her son because she believed that the brother-in-law wanted to be the czar he wanted to be the king-iest of kings and wanted to get rid of his competition which would have been her son but when this false Dmitri started popping up saying she changed her tune and she was like yeah wink wink that's my kid he totally escaped assassination she was like what happened was is we knew that Theodore's brother-in-law was going to be sending assassins to take out Dmitri and so I had Dmitri sent to a monastery to hide and we put another boy in his place and just had him kill some peasant kid and so at that point Parliament because the mother was saying yeah that's my kid because remember if her kid's in power then she also has power through him Parliament then goes as to go whoopsie daisy we gotta give Dmitri he now gets to be the king-iest of kings Dmitri gets to win this battle and so brother-in-law you gots to go we're gonna give the rule to Dmitri and so the first false Dmitri ruled as Tsar from the 10th of June 1605 to the 17th of May 1606 only 11 months into his reign the boyers were like I don't think this is actually Dmitri and so they killed him in this time period though the Tsar Dmitri had married a woman who was technically the Tsar Reena and so she ran off into hiding where lo and behold she pops up again with the second false Dmitri there would be three false Dmitri's in all but I really want to look at the second one because he was coming going no I'm Dmitri I'm the real Dmitri so what the mother had said was true that I had been hidden off in a monastery and some other poor poor chap, poor peasant boy had been killed in my place but the other false Dmitri was another decoy because here I am I'm the real one I've got a ton of faked executions here my friends and so the wife of the original false Dmitri then just slides on over to the second false Dmitri and says yes this is my boo this is my man this is going to be my baby daddy and so she has a baby with the second false Dmitri and now this is a problem because if this is actually the real Dmitri Dmitri then not only is he the Tsarist of Tsars and the Kingist of Kings but this son, this baby boy that his wife has is now heir to the throne and she names him I think she did this on purpose she names him Ivan after what would be Dmitri the second false Dmitri's father Ivan the Terrible to be like look I even have a name after Ivan IV this is going to be Ivan V of the Rurik House now the second false Dmitri is kind of like dies like he gets sick and dies whatever and so the wife of the second the wife of the first and second false Dmitri and her kid who's a baby marries another guy named Ivan and thus we have some rumblings of an opposed opposition because at this point the parliament's like this is too much we just need to get rid of the house of Rurik and so they are now trying to find the next beautiful person to be crowned the kingiest of kings the new czar and so they find this kid named Michael the first now Michael the first are just Michael at this point is a Romanov he is the great nephew of Anastasia Romanov the first wife of Ivan the Terrible in fact Michael's grandfather Nikita was Anastasia Romanov's brother and so he does carry the bloodline of the aristocrats and does technically have a claim to the throne in fact his claim to the throne was so great that he and his mother and father had all been exiled when he was like 3 years old at this point he is now 16 so for the last 13 years of his life this Michael kid has grown up in a very small town in a monastery very quiet life out of the spotlight of the game of thrones that is happening with the royal court just completely oblivious to what's going on the parliament decided that they were going to put Michael on he would be the one they would place on throne unbeknownst to him because he was so young and because they saw him as being quite naive and they thought he would be easier to control and so they sent word that Michael was going to now be the czar of Russia so at 16 years old Michael the first was crowned the first Romanov ruler of Russia and I think the parliament was completely dead wrong because the Romanovs ended up being again one of the most powerful empires this world they brought Russia they brought Russia up from the dead they brought Russia into this massive empire people like Peter the Great, Catherine the Great all these great Romanovs in 300 years they totally changed Russia in Russia's place in the global world well at first when Michael was crowned the wife of the first false Dimitri and second false Dimitri with the son that she claimed with literally the heir to the throne her husband after this I guess third husband decided to create an uprising and in honor of Ivan Dimitri's son Ivan the Terrible's grandson now Ivan the baby the little boy was only three years old at this time and this to me is the saddest part of the story and I will say this again no child deserves to be executed no child deserves to be assassinated I don't care who their parents are I don't care what their bloodline is they are a child they are innocent they are not in control of their lives they are looking to their parents for survival this three-year-old had no clue that he was being used in a pawn for power by his psychotic mother and his even more psychotic stepfather so what happens next to me is absolutely appalling I can say the same thing about the Romanoff children in 1918 the descendants of this the fact that they were gunned down by the Volkovich as children is appalling it's appalling and I've seen this mentioned in certain truth or communities about the royal children that we have today George Charlotte Lula Lucy these kids and how we should get rid of the I'm just I can't even say it because they are children when I look at those little kids I see children innocent children all right children should never never be hurt for political reasons never they are innocent it does not matter I will say it again so I'm blue in the face of the people in the back can hear me it doesn't fucking matter who their parents are they are children and they deserve to be helped they deserve to be honored and they deserve to be protected so what happens next is horrific the stepfather Ivan he takes little boy and he creates an uprising with people because now this new guy the Romanoffs are in the throne and they want to bring their works back through this three year old little boy now obviously a three year old little boy cannot rule so if this were to work if they were to get rid of the Romanoff family and be crowned three year old boy be crowned czar then that means that the mother and the stepfather would then be regent and be in control of Russia so it's not even about this little boy that again this little boy is strictly a pawn in this game of thrones they are captured the stepfather is hung drawn and quartered and the little boy is hung at three years old that is the most heartbreaking of this whole story but nonetheless we start now with Michael the first the first ever ruler of the Romanoffs in this part one of the conspiracy behind the execution of Anastasia Romanoff in nineteen eighteen and we're going to leave it with that today I'm going to go through a few more of stories from the Romanoffs on Mystery Monday just to build up so we have a better idea of what's happening around what all the moving parts are when we get to that fateful night of July 17th 1918 where our conspiracy begins alright you guys let me know your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below make sure to join us over on Aquarius Rising Africa at nine a.m. this morning eastern time for a live discussion we're going to have a live discussion again I dropped this earlier so you guys can watch this do your own research and then we can discuss it live as a group on this story so alright you guys I hope you're having a wonderful start to your new year and I will talk to you soon bye everybody