to say to his son to "leave for America" so he did. Maybe your gr gr grandfather would tell you to leave for Russia now. I was poking around the net, and that was one of the odd places suggested for people who feel they might want to leave the country didn't seem so much because of the economy but other things. There is inflation around Moscow (and Siberia, too, I think), but you can buy a house, granted probably not like ours, in one of the smaller villages for $1,000 to $5,000. I have no idea what life would be like there, think restrictive in some ways but freer than ours in other ways.
Did you ever find out what happened to him?
Maybe your gr gr grandfather would tell you to leave for Russia now. I was poking around the net, and that was one of the odd places suggested for people who feel they might want to leave the country didn't seem so much because of the economy but other things. There is inflation around Moscow (and Siberia, too, I think), but you can buy a house, granted probably not like ours, in one of the smaller villages for $1,000 to $5,000. I have no idea what life would be like there, think restrictive in some ways but freer than ours in other ways.
Did you ever find out what happened to him?
Hmmmm, the bad thing about Russia now is they are too much tied to the oil market, I know they have industry over there, they do make cars and such but beyond that, oil and military stuff, they don't seem to make too much. I do plead ignorance on knowing their whole economy but I just feel that Russia should diversify a bit. Still, they do have a flat income tax, an idea advocated by Steve Forbes and many libertarian and conservative groups. Also, I think you can even own an automatic weapon over there all you do is buy it. I think in some ways, they are freer than us, other ways not.
My great, great grandfather, well, I never knew what happened to him although if I could go back in time and go against him to save the Romanovs, I would. I would try my best not to harm him physically, but I believe doing the right thing is the most important of all and what happened to the Royal Family was very terrible. No one deserves to die like that unless they are really, really horrible, I think they were innocents caught up in a terrible time and Nicholas II tried to do the right thing but the libs back then hated him so much, well, you know what happened.
Here is a site I found on Olga:
http://www.livadia.org/trw/olga/
I've also had other ancestors from Russia as well, my grandmother's mother was a Russian Jew who had two villages burned out form under her during the pogroms.
I think the idea of emmigrating to Russia is nuts. They way Putin is going things could get very bad. Then there is the climate. If you are not from the upper midwest, you cannot even begin to imagine how unpleasant summer and winter can be. Four years in Iowa was enough for me.