The Guns of August
Posted on 07/16/2023 6:56:07 PM PDT by DallasBiff
That the end of the Russian Empire brought about by Russian Revolution also resulted in the former Emperor’s execution now feels like an inevitability. However, though his monarchy was overthrown, Nicholas and his family were related to many other royal families, thanks to Queen Victoria’s habit of arranging marriages for her offspring across Europe.
In the 15 months from his abdication to his death, royal relations still in power debated if and how they should grant the family asylum, with many of the Romanov descendants believing King George V of England, the czar’s cousin and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, could have saved them.
Would this have been a possibility, or were they doomed from the start? Here’s how the events unfolded leading up to their brutal deaths
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Still amazes me how Europe was plunged into a devastating war, and with first cousin kings being on opposite sides.
One word...mobilization.
My fault Russia was allied with Britain, but the royal families were so inter-related back then.
King George V and Tsar Nicholas looked almost like identical twin brothers.
The brutal murder of Nicholas and his entire family including young children was just part of many evil acts to start the legacy of the communist Soviet Union and its leaders over time.
I don’t believe you were wrong “first cousins” - I believe Kaiser Wilheim was in Germany.
The end of World War I bringing about the fall of the Royal houses of Russia and Germany both would lead to extraordinary carnage in the years to come. The concept of “royalty” is one thing to discuss academically, but it is far less likely had in that particular point in time those royal houses remained intact that we would have ended up with the tens of millions of deaths resulting from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Thanks for posting.
The fall of Russia was orchestrated faster than anybody could react to it. Very well orchestrated.
agree
there has always been a deep state
bump
Because the king didn’t want the socialist to decend on england
It was France that was allied with Russia. Britain was aligned with Belgium, and that’s what brought the Brits into the war.
Something major is left out of this ‘history’ by this woman Rappaport— the political situation in Britain. The Prime Minister was Lloyd George (not Church of England, but a Labor favoring, who was Baptist. This is important in those days as to the State Religion/Monarchy House of Lords interconnections, and the working people were not happy about mobilization. Lloyd George played a crucial role is warning off King George- when George had the capabilities, and could have had the timing. Labor favored the Bolsheviks as they organized against British defense manufacturing and the War, and it was they put Lloyd George in Labor from Parliament into the position of Prime Minister). Appeasing the workers so they would not strike against Vickers, etc.
Labor was not helpful, even resentful of WWI and UK’s commitments to the French and Russians vs. The Tsar’s cousin (again the relationships) Kaiser Wilhelm, who was nuts and power mad at the same time (the war started with a Serbian nationalist killing the heir to Austro-Hungary and his wife. And the actions of the Russian foreign minister getting “taken” by Austro-Hungary’s foreign minister. Serbs aligned with Russia in all history).
HMS Marlborough came in to the Black Sea and Crimea and picked up the Dowager Empress and many of the Romanovs— the Bolshies killed every one they found, but there was a window to rescue the Tsar’s children if not Nicholas and Alexandra- these were real thugs, and the White Russians almost freed the family in Ekaterinberg.. Lenin ordered the murders- it’s in the Russian archives on paper, and what is very important is that German Foreign Minister convinced the Kaiser to support Lenin and 70 0f his conspirators to be allowed to leave Switzerland, travel to St. Petersburg in a German military protected train, loaded with German gold specie (coins) and carry out the revolution. Wilhelm was pushed being told they would WIN the war by removing the Tsar and causing them to leave the war. It did not happen that way. Germany lost, the blowback was Communists became a major threat to Weimar, and the powers went with Hitler to ‘control’ them.
Wilhelm was nuts and exiled to Holland (he wrote letters to Hitler thinking Hitler would restore the german monarchy).
Nicky’s cousin, Der Kaiser is the one who allowed Lenin to enter Russia.
They really destroyed western civilization. 30 centuries of it was lost in WWI.
All these royal idiots ended up destroying Europe for good with this stupid war.
It was Kaiser Wilhelm II who sent Lenin and 32 other bolsheviks on a special sealed train to Russia for the intent of getting Russia out of the war. Everything ended up with the Romanovs murdered and Kaiser Wilhelm bundled off to Holland to die in exile in 1941.
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