Nicholas_II_of_Russia_painted_by_Earnest_Lipgart
How many students of history know that he didn't really want the job. He tried to get his brother to take the position, but he opted out. When the people suggested he make the government a Constitutional Monarchy, he said no. He felt that if he was going to be the boss, he wanted to be the "big boss." Thus, in many ways, he wrote his own destiny. It was Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Communists, who made the decision to murder the Czar, the Czar's wife and their five children, two servants and the family dog. For many years, the information about the assassination of the last Romanovs was kept a State secret, however, in 1992, the party released all of the gruesome details, photos, location, etc. The family then gained Sainthood and a royal funeral and burial. Two of the bodies were never found. It is one of history's most grizzly chapters, but it does not even touch the tip of the iceberg of many of the events in Russia's long history of death and torture of its citizens.
Nicholas_II_of_Russia_painted_by_Earnest_Lipgart
How many students of history know that he didn't really want the job. He tried to get his brother to take the position, but he opted out. When the people suggested he make the government a Constitutional Monarchy, he said no. He felt that if he was going to be the boss, he wanted to be the "big boss." Thus, in many ways, he wrote his own destiny. It was Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Communists, who made the decision to murder the Czar, the Czar's wife and their five children, two servants and the family dog. For many years, the information about the assassination of the last Romanovs was kept a State secret, however, in 1992, the party released all of the gruesome details, photos, location, etc. The family then gained Sainthood and a royal funeral and burial. Two of the bodies were never found. It is one of history's most grizzly chapters, but it does not even touch the tip of the iceberg of many of the events in Russia's long history of death and torture of its citizens.