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a-a-ra-s-s-s-s-a-s-s-a-s-a-s- Welcome to the Russian rulers podcast. Episode 68, death to the Romanovs.

Last episode, Nicholas II, Tsar of all Russia, was forced to abdicate,

leaving Russia without a Romanov ruling the country for the first time in over 300 years.

Chaos gripped the country, especially in the capital of Petrograd.

After Nicholas abdicated, the royal family was trying to go to Great Britain to stay there in exile.

Seemed like a good plan, because he was related to the monarch there at King George the 5th and to top it off his wife Alexandra was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

It made perfect sense to everyone. of course openly criticized that saw in the past and many of King George's ministers recommended against granting asylum, especially his

secretary, Lord Stamfordham, who was worried that allowing Nicholas to stay in England might stir up problems on the home front, which they did not need given the state of the war effort against Germany and Austria.

Nicholas and his family were kept as virtual prisoners by the provisional government in their

home at Sarskoy Salo.

It was a pleasant enough place to be kept hostage, but the problem that the family had was boredom.

They were so used to a social life and having free reign to do as they pleased when the sorrow was in power.

They were kept under close watch and guarded, not so much to stop them from escaping, but to

stop them from being attacked by members of the left who wanted all Romanov's dead.

This hatred of the Romanov family is best described by a 16-page pamphlet put out by the Moscow Soviet of Workers Deputies.

Here are some excerpts I found in the book The Romanovs by Lindsay Hughes.

Any who might contemplate restoring the Romanovs should ask themselves who they were and what care they took of working people. A popular anti-dynastic history begins with the election of Michael by the

will of the Boyars, then Alexis, in general, supported by the noble landowning class, to whom he was quiet and humble over indulging them.

Peter the first was clever, decisive, and energetic, but extraordinarily severe and cruel, and cared nothing about working people, building

St. Petersburg on bones.

The author cast aspersions upon the morals of Catherine I, who was drunk the whole time, went with officers and died of a bad disease which she probably caught from Peter.

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