Posted on 07/17/2021 4:44:56 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In the small hours after midnight on the night of July 16-17 90 years ago, the former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, children, and four family retainers, were shot in a Yekaterinburg basement by their Bolshevik jailers.
Doting family man, vacillating dictator, as weak and rich as Croesus … the doomed Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias was a man small of stature. His reign emerged under a bad star when 1,300 Muscovites were trampled to death in the crush for his coronation largesse; 18 years later, Nicholas‘s support for Serbia against Austria-Hungary was instrumental in pitching Europe into World War I, a blunder for which he reaped a whirlwind long in the making.
When an anti-Bolshevik force approached Yekaterinburg (or Ekaterinburg), where the deposed royals had been stashed in a commandeered private residence,* Yakov Sverdlov (for whom the city was subsequently renamed) ordered the prisoners shot — not only the tsar, but his beloved wife, their hemophiliac heir, and those four daughters who had to be bayoneted because the state jewels secreted in their corsets shielded them from the gunfire.
The executioners (here’s the account of their leader; here’s another guard’s version) did their best to destroy and conceal the remains, helping fuel subsequent rumors that one of the children had survived and escaped.....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
90 years ago,
in 2008
Dear ole Maw was birthed in 1917 lasted longer
Nice to see a church was built at the location.
The Royal Martyrs deserve no less.
Those filthy evil Bolsheviks are the same type that are now running the USA.
Biden is the leader of the USA Bolsheviks. The same fate is going to happen to them. Justice is coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BWgm_pe4k0
“The Bizarre Life Of Victoria’s Disabled Grandson | Crippled Kaiser | Real Royalty”
New evidence re kaiser wilhelm Germany and WW1
very interesting
We got to see their tombs in St. Petersburg. Finally after all those years re-buried in cathedral. People were putting flowers on their markers there.
The Czech Legion’s Amazing Trek Across Siberia
So powerful had the Legion become, on July 17, 1918, when the Bolsheviks learned that a contingent would soon be rolling through Yekaterinburg, the commissars ordered the entire Russian royal family, which had been in custody there since the 1917, shot — lest the Legion liberate them.
So is the rumor...
When Berlin learned that 60,000 Czechs and Slovaks were planning to depart Russia and rejoin the war in France, it demanded Moscow derail the fugitives. Fearing a renewal of fighting with Germany if they refused, the communists obliged.
In one astonishing coup, the Legion even managed to secure a deposit of Czarist gold at Kazan – which they packed onto eight railroad cars and took with them.
As Russia descended into Civil War, the Czechoslovak Legion became one of the strongest factions in the country. It soon arranged an alliance with the counter revolutionary White Russian forces.
Picture of the Royal family at 6.06 and right after that a picture of Marie one of the children. An absolutely heartbreaking beautiful girl. What a shame what was done to them. Look till the end when she moves her eyes and smiles.
That was utterly fascinating. Thank you for posting the link.
Thanks for the hotlink!
Charles, William and Harry’s great great uncles (Nicolas and Wilhelm).
As much as I personally admired Piłsudski, his biggest mistake was not helping the Whites in the Civil War, his help may very well had tipped the balance in favor of the Whites, but his hatred of the Tsars was greater than his hatred of the Bolsheviks at the time.
Sverdlov was an antisemitic communist. Stop deflecting from the Germano-Bolshevik revolution
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