Posted on 12/07/2008 2:36:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of political repression and should be rehabilitated... Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their five children, doctor and three servants were shot dead by Bolshevik revolutionaries in July, 1918. Lower courts had previously refused to reclassify the killings, which had been categorised as simply murder... The Romanovs were shot by a firing squad without a trial, in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. The Supreme Court "declared as groundless the repression of Tsar Nicholas II and his family and ordered their rehabilitation", the judge's decision said on Wednesday. The ruling overturned a decision by a Supreme Court panel in November 2007 not to rehabilitate the imperial family... Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, official attitudes to the royal family have changed dramatically. In 1998, their remains were reburied with great ceremony in St Petersburg... A spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, Georgy Ryabykh, said the decision "strengthens the rule of law, restores historical continuity and 1,000 years of state tradition".
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Link for what as in which of my several posts on this thread? Some of what I said was what I remembered from books. If you mean about moving there, I might be able to find it again. I can't think of what other link you might mean w/o reading all my posts again.
I'd forgotten that Alexis' condition was kept secret from the public, but I believe you are correct about that.
Just got back up and running after multiple computer probs so am trying to catch up and still have a few kinks to straighten out here.
I apologize. The link to the movie Nicholas and Alexandra.
It was worse because the Tsarina ran everything with Rasputin, who didn't care about anything except preserving himself and his position. Politicians who could have saved Russia were either dismissed or fired because Rasputin didn't like them.
Rasputin also didn't want a constitutional monarchy because he would have been dismissed by the government. It was only the autocracy protecting his position within the Imperial Family.
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