 merrie says: Alexei was one of the more compelling of the victims, drawing sympathy because of his hemophilia. His mother's terror of the disease and fear that he would not live to gain the throne were key to her falling under the thrall of the hypnotic and sexually ravenous self-declared holy man Rasputin, who exerted vast influence on the royal family. Rumors persisted that some of the family had survived and escaped. Claims by women to be Anastasia were particularly prominent, although there were also pretenders to Alexei's and Maria's identities. "It was 99.9 percent clear they had all been killed; now with these shards, it's 100 percent," said Nadia Kizenko, a Russian scholar at the University at Albany, State University of New York. "They say that as long as the last soldier remains unburied, the war continues," Lukyanov told AP. "So long as the last victim of Bolshevik terror and the Communist regime remains unrehabilitiated, the repression will continue." very interesting clip! thanks! Sad story, but it did cause a good movie to be made and a cartoon wasn't bad either. Seriously though it was pretty clear, considering Lenin's paranoia, that they wouldn't leave this to chance. Note that they didn't make a public spectacle of the killing, but killed them quietly without anyone knowing. There were plenty of people who admired and revered the royal family. Some speculate that Rasputin was to blame for the way things turned out (the family was so distracted with Alexey's disease that they took the eye off the ball and let Lenin and his crowd take over), but it's hard for me to believe that was the case. They had Lenin in jail and totally underestimated the danger, the countr... Thanks all for the comments and POPS. Russian history is totally intriguing, and it's tumultuous political arena makes it all the more so. It's kind of funny remembering the old school years... we were certainly taught about the Czar to a degree of how bad he was and then how the revolution in 1917 took him out of commission, but they never taught us what happened to the family. And I don't recall anyone asking, but when you're a kid in school, especially in USSR, you look for ways to skip classes and play soccer, not get details of what transpired, which I'm sure even if someone asked wouldn't get answered, since nobody at that level had such information and if by some chance they did - talking about it would've been a professional suicide (possibly worse). But Russian history is very interesting and rich, which is partly to... |
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