Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Circa 1914
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna circa 1916
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
Nicholas II of Russia
Posted on 07/18/2008 6:29:16 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Bayonetted and shot by drunken assassins, the slaughter of the Russian royal family shook the world. Now a new book reveals in compelling detail the horrifying final days of the Romanovs.
As the light faded, a train halted in the siding near the remote railway station of Lyubinskaya on the Trans-Siberian railway line.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“massacre of the russian royals...”
liberals are communists without total power.
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I believe it was Condi Rice (but I’m probably wrong) who said, “The Russians never miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity.”
The stupid Russians killed the Tsar and his family for not being sensitive enough to the plight of the peasants. In return they got Stalin.... Good move geniuses!
So Ronald the Great causes the Soviet Union to collapsy and the stupid Russians end up with.... Vladimir Putin! Good move geniuses!
Never forget why we don’t want communism in America or anywhere else in the world.
They mistakenly (possibly) thought he insensitive, but it may not have been so much of this, as it was that he just wasn’t the greatest leader they ever had. People often tned to think that others don’t care about their plights when in reality it is something else.
No spin, the Daily Mail is a mid range paper aimed at a middle class, conservative, readership, this is from the Saturday edition which frequently reviews books or has interesting historical articles to interest Mr and Mrs Average of 22 Acacia Avenue, Suburbia, England over their tea and crumpets on a Saturday morning before they go shopping or potter about the garden.
All quite civilised really.
It’s a takeoff on “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” by Abba Eban (attr.) after the Geneva Peace Conference with Arab countries in 1973.
It was picked up in Russia and used there by Russians themselves, and although I don’t recall Condi or Ronaldus Magnus using it, I could picture it with either of them.
What a wonderful description!
soon coming to a theater near YOU.
"Poor Tsarina...punished with all those babies... The assassins were just helping her out and got a little carried away..."
“There they would face a firing squad just 78 days later - and exactly 90 years ago this week.
To coincide with that anniversary, their last wretched days have been chronicled in an explosive new book.
Using previously overlooked documents and witness accounts, it tells the story of the family’s final moments in unprecedented detail.”
The anniversary of the their deaths, the new book out, and the fact that just recently, the bodies of Maria and Alexei were positively identified, most likely.
I get a lump in my throat whenever I see those pics and think of the horror.
So, pogrom’s are simply manifestations of insensitivity?
Communists are liberals who mean it.
I cannot even begin to imagine the horror those young ladies went through. The period of 1914 though 1918 was extremely harsh on young men, but I cannot imagine how any one could be so brutal to such beautiful young ladies.
So do I. I read everything I could get my hands on when a teenager about the Romanov’s. They always interested me and seeing these pictures and reading that article brings back the tears I cried and horror I felt when I read of that family’s murders.
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