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My ancestors lived in Russia at the time. They were supporters of the Tsar and saw the inherent evil that was the Bolsheveiks. There homes were taken over by the Bolsheviks and they were forced to live in one room of the house. Some of them starved during the blockade. My ancestors fought with the White Army and my Great Grandfather (on my Dad's side) was martyred when he was murdered by the Red army for being an Orthodox preist.

My relatives that were killed or starved to death under the Bolshevieks are the Russian people you write of...and they were in full support of Tsar Nicholas II.

Tsar Nicholas did not refuse to go into exile. He hoped to go to England and take his family with him. The British refused to accept him and he and his family were taken prisoner and sent to the Ipatiev(sp?) house in Ekaterinberg where they were eventually murdered in cold blood by the communists.

My ancestors lived in Russia at the time. They were supporters of the Tsar and saw the inherent evil that was the Bolsheveiks. There homes were taken over by the Bolsheviks and they were forced to live in one room of the house. Some of them starved during the blockade. My ancestors fought with the White Army and my Great Grandfather (on my Dad's side) was martyred when he was murdered by the Red army for being an Orthodox preist.

My relatives that were killed or starved to death under the Bolshevieks are the Russian people you write of...and they were in full support of Tsar Nicholas II.

I know this is very late in posting here but since this subject popped up again in another thread and a link to this thread was there, I'll reply anyhoo.

I'm also into studying Russian/Soviet history as well as being a fan of the Russian Royal Family. My family has had history in the Russian Revolution too, unfortunately, they were for the Communists. I'm trying like heck to verify this, but according to family history, my great, great grandfather was a Red Army general, he worked under Lenin as the story goes. He told his son to get out and go to America, he had enough sense for that and actually, my great grandfather fought in our (U.S.) Army in World War I. He married a Russian Jew, she suffered under the pogroms in Russia so I have suffering in my family too.

Nicholas II and his family did not deserve to die, it is a criminal act in my eyes. If I was around then, I would have been fighting against my great, great grandfather, I guess like the U.S. Civil War, you had cases of families fighting each other, brother against brother, sister against sister and all that. Heck, there are times I wish I could take a few of my buddies, a huge Sikorsky "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter or a load of Hummers or Escalades and save the Royal Family. B-) I'd go apesh** on their Communist guards, especially their leader. I wish the Communists lost, it would have saved a world a lot of hurt.

Nicholas II, I believe was a good man, sometimes a bit indecisive, maybe he was that way with all the things going on, the 1905 war with Japan was a mistake, maybe if that had not happened, things could have been different. Also, his son had hemophilia, that was a big thing that ate on his mind for sure.

As to the daughters, I'll be honest, they were drop dead gorgeous, Maria and Olga were my favs, but I would have been honored to have any of them on my arm.

It was so dang wrong what happened to them. If I was there either by magic or technical means, I would not want to harm my great, great grandfather but if it came down to it, the more important thing is "to do the right thing," and if it means fighting against him and saving the Royal Families lives and beating the Communists, I would do so. Reading what happened makes me very sad. It is like in today's world, we are seeing liberals who are so entrenched in their beliefs where they would do the same to us if they could.

Although I'm a believer that only the person himself or herself should answer to society and to God in the afterlife for any crimes and sin to where we are all individuals, if I ever could and my family's history is true, I would apologize for any wrongdoings my ancestors ever did.