If you are a revolutionary planning to seize control of a country and change everything that currently exists, you must eliminate the possibility of returning to the old ways.
The only way to prevent a return to the autocratic rule of the Tsars was to eliminate them all, the Tsar, and all heirs and potential heirs to the throne.
The killing of the Romanovs was a political necessity of the time if Russia was to become a "workers" state.
Although it has been a point of debate ever since 1918, and many books have been written and movies made on the subject, it has now been conclusively proven by DNA evidence that Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their four daughters and one son, and a number of other people, were all killed and the bodies burned.
Fortunately, many of the Romanov relatives outside the immediate family escaped Russia to other countries where their descendants still live now.
Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and their five children were canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, without opposition.
The family of nicholas the second was killed by bolshevik radicals in the middle of the night during the Russian revolution by a firing squad.
The Term Russian Steamroller means the Imperial Russian Armed Forces (or simply the Imperial Army of Russia) back in 1914, when the Tsar Nicholas II was ruling the country.
Following World War I, Tsar Nicholas of Russia was forced to abdicate. When Russia plunged into civil war, the Tsar and his family were imprisoned in St. Petersburg before being moved to a facility in the Ural Mountains area known as Ekaterinburg. On July 17, 1918, The Tsar, his wife and their children were murdered.
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Seeking Anastasia is a romantic notion that takes some of the harshness from the reality of the true story. For the better part of the twentieth century following the Russian Revolution, life in Russia, the Soviet Union and the better part of Europe between WWI and WWII and immediately following were difficult and uncertain socially and economically. Until the use of DNA for positive identification came into use, there was no real harm in the fantasy that Anastasia be could found alive.
In (and even before) 1917 in Imperial Russia, the Bolsheviks gained mass-support for numerous reasons. Most of the reasons, however, centered on the corruption, inefficiency, and failures of the Russian royal dynasty and its administration as the governing power in Russian.
Yes, the Romanovs were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918
The soviet union murdered the the russian Royal Family (Romanovs)
Tsar is the Russian term for the equivalent of an emperor. They are considered emperors/an imperial family because that is what they are.
No. The Revolution was brought about by poor performance of the Russian army and the unpopularity of the Imperial Family.
Imperial Russian Navy was created in 1696.
For Russian Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses (HIH) the correct form of address is: His / Her / Your Imperial Highnesses For Russian Prince and Princesses (HH) of the Imperial Family the correct form of address is: His / Her / Your Highnesses
Imperial Russian Air Service was created in 1910.
Imperial Russian Air Service ended in 1917.
Tsar Nicholas was the last Tsar of Russia, who was murdered with his family during the Russian Revolution
The Russian people showed their loyalty to the tzars because they and their family would end up murdered if they did not. The royal family was killed by Lenin who worked to very much the same modus operandi.
Joseph Stalin.
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov murdered the character of Alyona Ivanovna in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 Russian novel, Crime and Punishment.