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However, however, my friends, if you've been following along on this channel for a long time, or if you have been following along over on Aquarius Rising Africa where we discuss these deep dives into these very suspicious historical figures, you will know that history, for better or for worse, whether the history we've been given is true or not, is one of my absolute favorite subjects. And just recently, I was in the last few months, I realized why history is one of my favorite subjects. History is nothing but an academic class of gossip. That's all history is. It's academic gossip. Where, in what other academic subject, for example, can you literally have a full-on conversation about the fact that Catherine de Mareci, the last queen of the Valois dynasty, put cow poo in her hoo-ha in order to attract her husband. If you missed that video, I will link it down below. Literally, guys, there are classes across the world in university, wrench history classes, where they literally talk about Catherine de Mareci's hoo-ha. History is one of the most fantastic reality shows, days of our lives. It's one of the best, most entertaining subjects we could ever, ever go into. And if you're a younger person watching this, hopefully you're not too young, because we're not super appropriate on this channel, but if you're like a teenager or early 20s and you're in college, maybe, maybe, maybe me talking about history being a gossip class will hopefully change your perspective on history and hopefully it will help you enjoy that class a little bit more, because this is some juicy, juicy stuff. Now, because I love this stuff and because I just want to gossip with you, I decided to go ahead and film this video. Even though today I was supposed to be cleaning the toilets, I've already done that though, and just doing some household work and finishing up some research, I literally was like, I got to talk to someone. I've got to spill the tea with someone. Even though right now, as I'm pre-recording, I'm talking to myself, I know that once this goes up on Monday, you guys will be able to respond to this, and I cannot wait to hear what you guys think of this juicy, juicy, juicy, juicy tea that we have to talk about today. Now, with that being said, we right now are talking about the Romanov dynasty, that big old dynasty over in Russia that ruled for about 300 or so years. Now, if you've been following along since the beginning, you know that we ended it. Talk about some juicy gossip. We ended 2023 talking about Rasputin and the cult that worships his lingam. Again, gossip. Like, there's a museum in Russia that still has pickled in a jar Rasputin's manhood. This is why history is fabulous. This is why it's fantastic. It is literally academic gossip. But anyway, I decided since we ended 2023 with Rasputin, I decided that we would start 2024 talking about the big, big conspiracy of Anastasia Romanov, whether she survived the ill-fated night in the early 20th century when the Bolkovich Revolution allegedly took the lives of her and her family. But when I started to research just that one story, I realized that the Romanovs, the Romanovs, listen, listen y'all, if you think your family is crazy, I guarantee you they got nothing on the Romanovs. I mean, do you guys remember Catherine the Great's furniture when we covered her? Holy crap. So when I was studying Anastasia Romanov, initially, I realized we got to go back to the beginning. We got to talk about these people because, oh my God, like, oh my God, thank God, this is not my family. I think anybody who has a lineage like this probably deserves a lifetime of free therapy because hello. But anyway, with that being said, I will link all of our past episodes on the Romanovs down in the description box below in case you missed them. It's not necessary to go in order. However, if you would like to go in order, we did start with the original Anastasia Romanov, the original. There wasn't original, which that's the beginning. And eventually when we're done with this series, we'll get to the end, which is the grand conspiracy of the more current Anastasia Romanov. We have covered Peter the Great, the psychopath. I mean, wow, talk about a douchebag. Peter the Great, we have covered Catherine the Great. And then last week, we talked about Paul, her son whom I actually feel a little bit sorry for because I think Paul is like the poster child of PTSD. But today, we're going to be talking about Paul's oldest son, Alexander the First, or Alexander the Blessed. Listen, ladies, listen, ladies, or men if you happen to also date men. If the guy you're dating has been labeled the blessed by his mother or his grandmother, I would say in my opinion, run for the hills. Run for the hills. Like anyway, but we have to, we have to. I thought after we covered Catherine the Great, of course, we had to cover her son Paul because he brought the Knights of Malta, the ultimate secret society into Russia. Juicy, juicy, juicy. Again, that episode's down below in the description box if you want to hear about that juicy stuff. All the secret society stuff is super juicy, right? Like what are they doing? Like what's the secret? Like what are they doing that's so secret? Anyway, I digress. Then I thought, oh, we'll just go ahead and skip over to Anastasia Romanov. But every time, I think I'm just going to go ahead and fast forward to the main event, the grand conspiracy. I find even more stuff. I find even more tea that I just want to talk to you guys about because, wow, another good thing on a more serious note about history. The reason why we do study history, assuming that the history we've been giving is correct, which again, I question that now, but that's a topic for a different day, is so that history doesn't repeat itself, which it most likely more times the most does repeat itself because we're dumbasses and we just don't, we're idiots and so we repeat the same mistakes over and over again. And this is what's so freaking fascinating again about the Romanovs. Not only are the Romanovs in fat shit crazy, but we love it. We love it. We're here for it. But they have so many conspiracies. It's not just Anastasia Romanov, y'all. It's like everyone has a conspiracy. There are so many people in the Romanov family starting at the very, very, very beginning that have allegedly faked their own debts. You know, here we are in 2024 and we're being told that like half of the people we think are gone or not gone and people who are here are actually gone and all this like crazy making that's happening, literally it's crazy making and all. I think we have some grand idea that we're like enlightened and we're the, we're awakened because we know all these conspiracies. Y'all, this has been done before. It's been done before. We're going to talk about it today. Another conspiracy about the Romanovs where somebody was like, yeah, I don't think I want to do this anymore. So I'm going to go fake my death. We're going to talk about it today because as I've said, as I've said, as much as I love to know truth as long as I, as much as I love to talk about these conspiracies and all seriousness in order to be awake, to be truly awake, it's more of a spiritual thing. Right. This stuff, this stuff is just the drama. This stuff is just the tea and so all the stuff we hear today about whether certain people are alive or not, that's just drama. That's just tea. Like that's not really have doesn't have anything to do with you personally and your own spiritual development, right? So let's talk about it and hopefully we can enjoy this. We can enjoy this conspiracy. We can enjoy this story. We can gossip about this story and hopefully the more on a more serious note, the more we learn that this has all been done before, the more we can pull back from the delusional thinking and start to really work on ourselves, right? Well, also, you know, enjoying some gossip every now and again. I mean, you guys know, I love my reality TV. I love watching my housewives. I love watching Vanderpump rules. I've been a diehard Vanderpump rule watcher since the very beginning. So scant of all, I was all about it when it was happening. That's that's the other part of me. And so discussing these historical events. It's just like an episode of Vanderpump rules, y'all, right? That's all it is. So let's get into it, you guys. But before we get into it, I do want to acknowledge and thank my patrons and my producers here on Esoteric Atlanta because as always without you guys, we would not be able to keep the lights on here in Atlanta, Georgia, where we do our deep dive into the wonderful world of gossip. If you would like to join our patron or our producer community, there is a link down in the description box below. And I also want to give a special shout out to Nasdaq TV, which is another sponsor of this channel. You guys know that I have a couple of series over on Nasdaq TV. I have the Esoteric Explorer series, which is another deep dive into gossip. But of course, there we don't have to deal with things like censorship or shadow banning. So I'm able to speak more freely about my research over on Nasdaq TV. I also have a series on Nasdaq TV called the Esoteric Health and Wellness series where we basically go through all of my education for all the years that I spent in India and I really try to help you in each episode. Start to understand your own self better. The true awakening, right? The true awakening to who you truly are in your spirit and your consciousness through all the subjects. The chakras, friction, prakriti, parusha, yoga. I've got exercise videos on there, all sorts of stuff. So if you guys would like to join Nasdaq TV, there is a link down in the description box below. All right, let's get to the good stuff. So Alexander I or Alexander the Blessed was born on December 23, 1777 and allegedly, allegedly died on December 1 of 1825. He was the son of Emperor Paul and his second wife, the grandson of Catherine the Great. Alexander wasn't necessarily a mama's boy. He was more of a grand mama's boy. I mean, Catherine the Great doded on Alexander like no other mother in the world. She coddled this little boy. In fact, she gave all of the love to Alexander that she could never give to her son of Paul. And again, if you refer back to our episode on Paul and the Knights of Malta, you will learn more about the turbulent relationship that Catherine had with her one and only son of Paul. Well, here's the thing. We talked about this with Paul. The reason why, one of the reasons why Catherine did not have a great relationship with her son Paul was because her aunt in law, the Empress Elizabeth had taken Paul from her after she had given birth and the Empress Elizabeth basically took Paul as her own. And then Catherine turned around and did that to Paul and took Alexander as like her own little muse, her own little mini-me. So it's like, it's like that family trauma, right? It's like family wounds that keep repeating themselves over and over and over and over again. She was super overprotective of Alexander, whereas Alexander's father Paul was neglected a lot as a child. In fact, again, there were stories where Paul would fall out of his crib and like no one would come get him. And he, they would come and find him in the morning just like on the floor. But in the flip, Alex was like, I'm going to call him Alex because that just sounds more natural. Alex was like absolutely just like, talk about like a helicopter parent. Like he was coddled. He was just, it was just too much. It was too much. His grandmother just was obsessed with him. In fact, his grandmother actually named him. I have my thoughts on that. I get it. Like I get their family pressures with names at least in some in my family that it was that way. Like I have a huge issue, just a little personal note. Like I have a huge issue with my own name. I, I, my name, Bryce, is my mother's maiden name. And it's a family name. My sister and I, all of my cousins, we all have family names that we just did not, in my generation, like you did not give your kid a name that was not in the family, right? And I really like question like why my parents did that to me. There were tons of family names they could have picked from that were feminine. And I kind of like, I have a bit of a grudge against my parents because like they didn't think about the fact that I was going to have to live with this name as a female. But I don't feel, but because it is a family name and because it is my mother's maiden name and I love my mother's family. I love my, my grandparents. I don't feel like I can change it because I feel like that would be disrespectful. So, you know, basically like, like in my opinion, the moral of the story is like be careful what you name your children. Like you might think a name is fun or interesting, but think about that child. Like that child's got to live with that name for the rest of their lives. I would give anything to have a female name, anything. Like I have such trauma around my name and I like, I just, I want to know why my parents did this to me. That's anyway, story for a different day. But with Alex, I see like his grandmother came in and she named him and she named him after Alexander the Great. Y'all, we've gossiped about Alexander the Great. I will also include that video down in the description box below because we know, I know, you know, my tea spillers. Alex the Great was a cannibal. Like that man was so deprived and deranged. He was, he was the person who brought in like secret societies where they do funky parties. If you guys know what I'm talking about, like these parties that many celebrities are now coming out and talking about, like these types of parties, like parties I don't want to go to like eyes wide shut, stop. You know, like that's what Alexander the Great did. He was a cannibal again and he did bad things to children and in a very flamboyant funeral. Again, I will include that episode down in the description box below because talk about some juicy, juicy stuff. So Catherine the Great, who historically has a reputation for not being saintly or virtuous. Like can we, again, can we talk about the furniture that she had? She's now naming her first grandson after somebody who was a cannibal and who also had weird little parties and drank a substance that came from the human body. I can't say it on YouTube. You guys know what I'm talking about? That substance. So you're naming your grandson after this monster. Interesting, right? Parents have nothing to say about it. That's who he is. He's Alexander. He is the grandson of Catherine the Great, not the son of Paul. He's known as the grandson of Catherine the Great and again, she just coddles and like she is all over him like white on rice, you guys. Like she just, this child is her obsession. It is said that at a very, very young age because Alexander was just so, he was the blessed, right? He was the golden child where Paul was the scapegoat. Alexander was the golden child. And because he just was so fond over in the court, it is noted that at a very young age, Alexander started to show signs that he was actually going to be really good at politics. He was able to do things like he was able to get people to tell them everything about themselves, like spill their deepest, darkest secrets to Alexander. And Alexander would like not react. Like he was really good at hiding his emotions and he wouldn't tell them anything about himself. I mean, I kind of know people talk about this trait. I'm sure you've had people like this in your life too. People that just like can get information out of you but then tell you nothing about themselves and they show you no reaction. And on top of that, people started realizing that at a very young age, Alexander, Alex, he started to learn how to also manipulate emotions. So not only would he not show emotion, but when he needed to, when it served him, he could manipulate emotion. From all intent and purposes from a very young age, it was quite clear that Alex was going to be a great czar. Now, we know from our previous episode or previous two episodes that Catherine actually wanted to like write Paul out of the will, like not let her son be czar and give it to Alex, but for grandson. We kind of saw that with Queen Elizabeth, right? People were speculating that Queen Elizabeth would like skip over Charles and go straight to William. That didn't happen. But with Catherine, we do know that she had actually planned to do this and she died before it could come to fruition. So when she died, Paul like ran to her secret files of wills and like destroyed the will so that he could become the czar. Again, go back and watch that episode if you missed it. But nonetheless, Paul throughout his life was showing signs that he was going to be quite a good politician, quite a good, a good ruler. However, around his teenage years, he started to express concerns. Like he didn't want to be the czar. In fact, I haven't written down here. He said in one of his letters to his friends, y'all, he said, I swore to myself to refuse it one way or another. Now this is foreshadowing. So yes, foreshadowing for sure. Alex, our friend Alex here, even though he's got the where with all and the intelligence to obviously rule and be a politician, like he's had to survive with his grandmother, Captain McGrady's obviously learned from her. He doesn't want it like he and most of his letters to his friends. He even says like he doesn't think that he is worthy of the position destined to him. He doesn't want to be a prince. He doesn't want to be the czar. But grandma wants to like give him the Zardem and skip his dad. But he actually like loves his dad, which is really interesting and that's going to kind of come into the story later down the line. Now we know with the Roman offs, especially the men in the Roman offline, we have a history of mental disorders. We know Paul, as I said, I believe that Paul had severe PTSD. I think he had what we call now in 2024 complex post traumatic stress disorder, CPTSD. We know that he suffered from paranoia. We know that his father, Peter the third, the one that Catherine, you know, kicked off the throne. He was severely mentally disturbed. We also know that Peter the Great, who is Alexander's great-great-grandfather, was a literal psychopath, like was a literal narcissistic psychopath, a narcopath as my therapist used to call them. So we have this history of extreme mental disorders. And for the most part in Paul's childhood, it wasn't apparent that he had the same mental disorders that his predecessors had had. Like he seemed like a pretty well-adjusted, grounded kid. However, if you are familiar with the channel HGTutor, I will tag it down below. It's a fantastic channel. It's this guy who claims to be a narcissistic psychopath. And he talks a lot about this disorder, this mental, you know, the way that they are. And he says something in a lot of his videos that when it comes to being a narcissist, for example, you could have the narcissistic gene, but it could never be triggered. So someone can go throughout their whole life and be a normal person with the narcissistic gene, but the narcissistic gene is just never triggered. And I think that's kind of what we're seeing with Alex. I think with Alex, he had the obvious leaks. We're going to get into it, guys. Like I'm talking about this for a reason. Like he had the gene to be mentally disturbed, schizophrenic. I know that's what a lot of scholars believe. Whatever was going on with his family, he had that gene. I just don't think that it was triggered for a while. And in fact, the first triggering we see of this gene is when he was a young kid, like a young kid, like a teenager, he was working with the military and a cannon went off actually this side, went off by his left ear and it was too close to his ear. So he went deaf in his left ear. Because he went deaf in his left ear, he had this growing sense of paranoia that kind of snowballed his whole life. Like he would hear courtiers and like his people laughing in the halls and they might be laughing about something completely like just a joke they told and he would get paranoid that they were laughing at him and listen. Like I kind of get it because like I can't hear. I've talked about that a lot. I have really bad hearing. My boyfriend gets mad at me a lot because he'll say like I'm yelling when I don't think I'm yelling. Like I think I'm just talking normally and but I've always had really bad hearing. I do listen to my music pretty loud too. And I did live in Los Angeles for a very long time. It wasn't hanging around the big music spots. And so I did have stereos and equipment in my ear but I kind of get that like it sucks when you can't totally hear something especially when you're in a situation where somebody is speaking lightly and you're constantly having to like really focus on what they're saying to hear what they're saying or you're having to say like pardon or excuse me or can you repeat. It does start to get to you. So I get it. I get it with Alex. I get it but my lack of hearing has not made me schizophrenic. His just kind of what happens is it tends to it seems like it grows this gene of paranoia that's already there and in fairness to you guys like in fairness to he's part of a royal family. We know we know we know that the royal families aren't like other families like they will they will unalive each other in a heartbeat to get what they want. So I think anybody born within a chaos of a royal family is going to already have a sense of like righteous paranoia like I'm not I'm not shaming them for that like holy crap you know go watch Game of Thrones like and that's literally what this is Game of Thrones. So I just think that the you know is like the perfect storm. So he's already starting to kind of show signs but it's more like again like social stuff like he thinks people are laughing at him you know as as at this point in his young adulthood and around the age of 15 we see that Catherine allows Alex to kind of pick his wife. She she lets him choose between two sisters and he ends up picking Louise the oldest sister and she is a princess of Barden this territory of Barden and she agrees and she converts to Russian Orthodoxy and she takes the name Elizabeth. So around the age of 16 Alex and Elizabeth get married and this happened on October the 9th of 1793. Now again Elizabeth is two years younger than Alex. So Alex is 16 and this makes Elizabeth 14 years old. 14 years old. Your brain isn't even done developing until you're in your mid-20s and at this point obviously the father Paul is still Catherine is still alive Catherine is still. Zarring you know she's still alive. She doesn't pass away until 1796 right. So Elizabeth now her name is Elizabeth. She moves to Russia to be Alex's wife. The future is arena of Russia and she's beautiful like she is this drop dead gorgeous woman and she not only is she beautiful physically but it is said that she was also very virtuous and very kind and very soft spoken. In fact you guys she was so pretty and I don't really understand this so someone can explain this to me please do but men in the court would form like clubs around her beauty and their love for her. I don't know how I would feel about that. I mean I might be flattered it's always flattering when somebody compliments you but you're going to form a club around the way I look and it's going to inspire your love. It's a little stalkerage that's kind of weird like that's I don't know and you're 14 at that like you're 14. Well Paul we know at this point Alex's father Catherine's son Paul is like deep in his issues his trauma and he wasn't very nice to Elizabeth like she had a lot of pent up anxiety because Paul would like berate Elizabeth and I have empathy for Elizabeth in this situation because my dad would do the same thing like my dad and I released a video the other day kind of talking a little bit about this with my dad was really like paranoid about my sister and me being snobs or feeling entitled which we never were so we never were those things but he would like beat us down because of it so that we would be humble right and all that turned into was me having massive trauma and me being abused as a child. So the same thing kind of happened to Elizabeth but her father-in-law so on once on one hand you've got this court that's like fawning over you. On the other hand your father-in-law is like verbally assaulting you and meanwhile you're new to the country like you're learning the language you're having to adjust you just married this guy this kid that you don't really know you know it's a political marriage in fact even though Alex was also pretty good-looking like he's one of the best-looking like the Romanovs weren't that they weren't that cute like you know they were kind of inbred like they weren't that cute. Royalty typically isn't that cute but Alex was pretty good looking I can say that for his age he was pretty good looking and she was beautiful so they're kind of this like you know poster child this you know Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston back in the day you know kind of this like you know this this some you know everybody wants to be around them wants to be with them but over time they kind of like grow apart because they're not really you know there's a political marriage so it's not like it's a love marriage and so and I will say like I really like their relationship we'll get more into it I can't really explain it but I do like their relationship they're just like besties they become like besties and out of everyone in the court even though they're not in love with each other and oddly they don't even lust after each other even though they're both really good looking they seem to really kind of have each other's backs so even though they're not in love they do both of them do take on other lovers they're really close they're really close like their besties and with them we'll go ahead and just cover this they did have two children themselves both of the children did not live very long so Alex himself had like six other kids with his mistresses but obviously these are not you know in the in the line of the blood that takes the crown so they don't count so it's not like they were infertile they did obviously have two children that didn't survive past infancy and then he had these six other kids that were you know I hate to use the word bastard that's what that's the word they use back then they were with his mistresses so with that being said Elizabeth and Alex never had there after their two children passed away they didn't have any errors of of their own which which we'll get into a little bit later in the story about who then takes the crown after Alex but anyway I digress so he's married at 15 to this beautiful beautiful beautiful woman his grandmother dies like three years later his father then takes over the throne and again that's Paul Paul is you know just very mentally disturbed and we know that Paul's reign was very short in fact Paul was assassinated on March 11th of 1801 and Alex knew that his father what they so Alex knew that the powers that be the the you know the people around the czar the advisors the nobles we're going to try to get Paul to abdicate the throne and that's what Alex supported we talked about this last week Alex was like okay I understand like the country's falling apart I don't really want to be bizarre like in all honesty like I don't want to do this but like the country falling apart and I know that I've been educated to do this so like just get my dad to abdicate so I can you know try to try to save this this country and the nobles were like sure sure Alex we'll just get him to abdicate well of course I didn't happen Paul was unalived and now boom Alex is now the czar he's the king he is some kings he's now the czar as emperor Alex revoked a lot of his father's decrees he restored the rights and privileges to the nobles he wanted to reform the empire in the name of enlightenment he put together a group of young educated men to advise him these young men were educated in Europe and like his great great grandfather Peter he wanted more of a Western approach to his reign through this new group of advisors Russia was rebuilt universities became available to everyone censorship laws were relaxed and surfs now had the opportunity to potentially buy their freedom if their owners allowed it this created a new class of people in Russia called the freed flowers now we know that in 1798 from last week's episode two years into Paul's reign so we're backing up a little bit Napoleon Bonaparte had taken over the island of Malta and because of that the Knights of Malta had to regroup and find a new home and so Paul Alex's dad had invited the Knights of Malta to come and live in Russia and this made Paul the 72nd grand master of the Knights of Malta so during this time of now Paul dying in 1801 and and Alex becoming the new czar the King's of Kings who doesn't even want to be there in the first place he's like invited to a party doesn't want to go to we've also got in the background of this mess Napoleon we got Napoleon doing the Napoleon things Napoleon everywhere he was just you know taken over Europe and I talked about Napoleon in a lot of stories actually in my New Orleans playlist the various New Orleans which I will put down in the description box below the whole playlist I talk a lot about Napoleon because Napoleon played a huge part in United States history because of the Louisiana purchase so we've got this problem we've got this guy named Napoleon Bonaparte who is just going all over Europe just he probably had a small wiener you know just got to go like lifted like I'm peeing everything and he crowned himself Napoleon that is crowned himself the Emperor of France on the 2nd of December 1804 not now my friends Napoleon was born out of the French Revolution like he was part of this like French Revolution which no one revolutions like the French do like let me tell you something like the French know how to throw a freaking revolution but he is one of the reasons why the French Revolution at the end started to unravel itself because you go from like one dictator to another dictator right it's it's we got to learn from these mistakes so in this new revolution that we're kind of in globally we can like not have the same thing happen again where we just go back into another another control mechanism but from Alex's perspective that would be very stressful like here you are you're the czariest of czars and you don't want to be you like don't want to be the czariest of czars but you have to be the czariest of czars because you were born the first of like 10 children that's your birth order so like boom you got to do it your dad was a mess you really you know initially in the start of your zardom you want to bring a more liberal approach to your reign you want to educate your people you want to relax the censorship laws you do restore the rights of the nobles and I really thought about that a lot like we need rich people you know his father like really hated the nobles I don't blame them because the nobles end up unaliving them so I get I get there was tension there but you do need rich people like we need rich people a poor man's never given me a job like we do need people that can economically employ others let's just say so there's we're in a time of like you know during this time to we look especially the American Revolution just happened America's a fledgling country over there the first country did not have over here I'm an American not to not have a monarchy like there's just so much going on in the world and as I've said with Catherine a great like planetarily astrologically what was going on then is also going on now so we see a lot of similarities of what's happening what was happening on a bigger scale but for Alex's because that's who we're that's who we're gossiping about right now for Alex's perspective like that would be really stressful like you're bizarre of like one of the biggest environs in the world and you got Napoleon on your back backdoor and you like don't even want to be here anyway so with that being said with all the stress of Napoleon we see Alex like he goes off to war he fights some battles he's not really good on the battlefield bless his heart he probably went that athletic and so he decides he's gonna let the military people do their job he's just gonna worry about politics in now again I've said many times before I'm not a military channel I don't find a lot of joy in military history I only talk about what's necessary to tell the story on this channel but there are a lot of really great military channels out there if you would like to look more into the Napoleonic Wars and what happened with Alex since more specifically Russia but there is one thing that we've got to talk about and this was something that happened in 1807 so in 1807 Alex and Napoleon decide that they're gonna have a little meeting and they're gonna try to negotiate like a peace treaty sounds great right but of course they didn't just meet on some battlefield or like at someone's house over coffee they were extra they went to a little river and Napoleon's troops were on one side and Russia's troops were on the other side and they constructed a freaking raft and I don't mean like raft is probably a bad way to describe this it was like this Austin it was like this this like floating pavilion that was constructed specifically for this meeting what is royalty do this this isn't like like that we like in French history in English history when Henry VIII goes to France to meet the King of France to negotiate his daughter Mary's engagement to the Dauphin of France and that didn't work out but anyway they go in they like create this like village of like carpets and gold just for this one meeting are like you I know Marie Antoinette didn't really say we'll let them eat cake but it's just that like like you live in a different world like you live in a different reality like what do you mean you built basically like a floating stage for a two-hour meeting the audacity the audacity of these royals Alex Alex Alex listen buddy you got freaking people starving in your home country you still even though you're trying to reform the surf dumb you still got surfs which are slaves and you're building a floating pontoon boat that's probably nicer than most people's houses or a two-hour meeting with a man Napoleon who probably had a very small wiener like let's just be honest why else would Napoleon do what he did got to prove his manhood somehow right but anyway guys I had to tell you guys about that because it's just so extra so they sign this peace treaty it was all about like them agreeing to work with them against England and it's just military stuff that I just don't find interest in again there's other channels that you can you can listen to to get more details about the military stuff but the peace treaty doesn't really last that long they never do do they around this time though and I get it I get it Alex I totally get it he was so stressed out like so stressed out about everything going on that he didn't even want to be a part of that his paranoia started to get even worse and he started to become even more paranoid about his father's own death and the role that he potentially played in his father's own death because he knew that they were going to do what they did many historians do believe that Alex had schizophrenia I don't know I'm not a therapist I just know that these Romanoff men are all a little wackadoo and have some really crazy delusions but there are a lot of people in the world that are a little wackadoo and have some crazy delusions have you been a telegram lately so I'm not really judging I just like this is just hot gossip for this story so Alex is starting to basically fall apart mentally he his popularity kind of goes up and down like at one point he becomes really popular like a less celebrity like Brad Pitt popular but then he's not popular anymore like it's just kind of going up and down and again I'm gonna reiterate he doesn't even want to do this job like he doesn't even want to be here like his his father Paul wanted the job his grandmother Catherine wanted the job like he don't want the job you don't want the job he doesn't want it and he's having to do it so I think that burnout and that aggression on top of the fact that you already have the propensity to have paranoid schizophrenia is making things a lot worse around this time Alex starts going back he starts backtracking because in the beginning remember you guys in the beginning he wants to like relax the censorship laws he wants to have education for everyone these are some like pretty good ideas he wants to give the slaves and serves an opportunity to like be free you know these all seem to be pretty pretty good ideas and all of a sudden he starts becoming tyrannical he's like heavier censorship you can't say these words and all these free thinkers in Russia these philosophers these people who have these grand ideas this group of people who who are educated in Europe that he relied upon to advise him because of their progressive thought he now starts to like follow them he starts to like have people follow them with that being said I just want to give a shout out to the three letter agency person who's following me because I know I know I got someone following me all you guys watching probably got a three letter agency man following you too so we're free thinkers right we challenge the status quo you know we're anti-censorship where you know all the things that Paul was initially and now he's not anymore so he's just making enemies everywhere and I think I personally think that his more tyrannical behavior his need to censor more his need to like stalk his friends who are free thinkers is because of his paranoia I don't think it has anything to do with any grand conspiracy as far as like the NWO or like you know God or Lucifer or whatever I think it's just strictly his own mental craziness his crazy making honestly so because at this point like dude is like seriously needs to be medicated at this point like he's so I don't think any of these actions he's taking are with him thinking about the betterment of his people I think it's more his mental disorder or is making these decisions if that makes sense as Alex starts to go down this slippery slope Elizabeth his wife his bestie she really starts to step in and help him and she does help him a lot in fact this is why I kind of love their relationship because again even though they're not like pointing each other and they're not like attracted to each other or in love with each other they still do even though they're not in love with each other they love each other right and Alex had said many times to his friends as well that he wished that he and Elizabeth could just go live in some quiet little town by themselves so even though Alex wasn't intimate with Elizabeth nor was he attracted to her that way he still loved her enough and trusted her enough that the one person that he wanted to go like live in a small little house by a river quietly by himself was Elizabeth like she he wasn't interested in bringing any of his mistresses he wanted her with him and I think that's kind of sweet I think that there is definitely a sweetness to that relationship even though they were not living as man and wife should live they still really loved each other and I think out of ever all the players in the story I think that their relationship is the only relationship that has a sense of true love even though they again weren't intimate they really cared for each other and when she saw that he was really struggling mentally she just stepped in and she just really was with him and tried to help him work through this mental stuff that he was going through and around this time to sadly as they say we'll get into it maybe not but as they say Elizabeth develops tuberculosis that was a big thing back back then and so Alex at this time is like okay the one person in this whole world that I actually love has tuberculosis and this was not good at this time period absolutely not good so what what do we know people have tuberculosis are had tuberculosis back in this time they were usually told to get out of cities they needed to go be in fresh air and so Alex is like okay okay we're gonna go now like we're gonna leave St. Petersburg and we're gonna go to the south of Russia to a town called Tigan Rock and we're gonna like live there and I find this this part of the story really sweet because Alex like packs up he moves them to the south of Russia he cleans out the house they say he swept the house himself how adorable he swept the house himself it was a smaller house he put all the furniture and its place he really got the cell that the house ready and set for Elizabeth Elizabeth came down and for two months they basically lived in this town as just private citizens they would read stories to each other every day from their favorite books they would pray together they would walk around the town and just chat with the locals like no big deal like they were just one of the people beautiful beautiful beautiful however there's one problem Alex is still bizarre our boy our boy Alex he has literally gone to this town and just live in this beautiful life but he's still bizarre like you forgot like oh yeah like you got you're like the CEO of your own country so and he's just like you know I'm just gonna go I don't want to do this anymore I'm taking my toys and going home so he's kind of dealing with this because what's happening now because he is bizarre but he's not zarring is revolts are starting to happen like a civil war is like literally looming and Russia because Alex just decided just gonna move to this gonna be normal just gonna live a normal life and Alex had expressed to some friends that he thought since he had been this are for like 25 years that like by this time had been like 25 years that he should retire he should just get to retire he's like you know the military guys get to retire but with that being said the military guys were even like in Alex at this point here's why I want I want to express this too because in Alex paranoia and delusions he did something good but it kind of turned bad like he made these like military bases like we have now where people's family the military men their family could come live with them but but if the family had a child who was a boy at the age of 7 that boy was required to enlist in the military and therefore by law by the age of seven these boys were no longer no longer governed by their parents but by the state is that ring about so even though Alex is down in the south of Russia living out his fantasy with Elizabeth of just being a normal person he's neglected the fact that he's the czar and he's made a mess and people are pissed they're pissed but but two months into this little hiatus Alex gets typhus for those who don't know what type is like a gnarly fever gnarly fever with rashes we don't really get it that much anymore but like he died he died of typhus oops oops this kid who never wanted to be the czar anyway started off on a good run but got more and more and more paranoid because he's got a family history of this finally live in the life he wants to live and then oops he gets typhus and dies now once again I said earlier that Elizabeth and Alex did not have any surviving children so obviously it's going to go to the next brother in line it's going to go to Alex's brother but but the interesting thing is that Alex had already talked to his brother Nicholas about Alex abdicating to Nicholas so there is evidence that Alex was not planning on holding on to the throne for very much longer anyway so the news breaks that Emperor Alex the first Alex the Blessed has died at the age of 47 of typhus and then six months later Elizabeth his wife died too of tuberculosis and then almost immediately y'all y'all almost immediately there was conspiracy theories that he had faked his dad and the crazy thing about this conspiracy theory and this is why it's so juicy is that this conspiracy is still debated today among scholars because there is a lot of proof that he might have faked his death like a lot of proof and this comes in a man named Fyodor Kuzmik now Fyodor Kuzmik was a hermit that lived in the south of Russia he greatly resembled Alex he spoke multiple languages which typically only happened if you were royalty he also was deaf in his left ear he was the same height same build as Alex and even to this day scholars pour over the two signatures the one of Fyodor the one of Alex and that is something that is undeniable even scholars who doubt the conspiracy have to say it's the same handwriting Fyodor also refused to speak about his earlier life is also believed that his wife Elizabeth faked her death as well and she spent the rest of her days as a nun now Fyodor died in 1864 and if Fyodor was actually Alex that means that he lived into his late 80s because he was born in 1777 which was a pretty long life for a person assuming that that was Alex and I just think how interesting like how interesting again as I started off this episode like we somehow think that we're the first generation to have like all these conspiracy theories no we're not no we're not there's nothing new under the Sun my friends there is nothing new under the Sun this has been done before this is all been done before this has all been done before all right you guys so as always please join us over at 10 o'clock a.m. Eastern time on Aquarius Rising Africa we're going to discuss this again with Shanti and you guys can participate live in that conversation let me know your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below what do you think do you think he faked his death or do you think he actually died this was just a kid a silly conspiracy theory what do you think all right y'all have a wonderful wonderful day if you are in the United States of America today we do have an eclipse and I know it 304 p.m. my time we're going to put our little sunglasses in and go in and watching it because it's going to get dark in Atlanta it's supposed to get the darkness is supposed to be between 82 and 85 percent so we're this is the second time in seven years this has happened so if you're also in a country that's going to be able to observe the eclipse let me know what you think what happened in your country and yeah yeah all right you guys I'll talk to you later bye