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To start a conversation with that Tsar
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"Look, history recorded that the Tsar, Nikolas the Second and his family -- the Romanovs -- were executed by the Bolsheviks at
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Nikolas II became Tsar of all the Russias in l894
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"Bluntly, Nikolas II was a reluctant Tsar, generally timid and not very brave
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"The Tsar
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The Professor explained that it was at Stavka that Tsar Nikolas came, first to observe the war and approve moves made by army strategists, and later to take over as Supreme Commander
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"The Tsar was worried
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" A massive picture of the Tsar in military khaki appeared
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The screen showed the Tsar standing proud and erect near some birch trees
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When the officer recovered, the Tsar rewarded his heroism and bravery by making him a permanent aide
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The Tsar commissioned Colonel Orlov to gather a company of the most trusted men he could muster -- officers, soldiers, Cossacks -- and collect a prepared list of the Royal Family's possessions
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"In summary, the plan was this: Colonel Orlov would transport the Romanov treasure by train to the Pacific port of Vladivostok, load it onto a commissioned or commandeered ship and sail for San Francisco where the valuable cargo would be placed in vaults at various banks to await the arrival of the Tsar and his family
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” The chamberlain, the one with the scrambled egg, explained that the old dear was related to the former Tsar Nikolas II and Empress Alexandra of Russia
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"When the Bolsheviks ousted the Tsar, a man they detested, they had no idea they were paving the route for a Communist tsar named Joseph Stalin
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Ilya Orlov had been part of that incredibly rich lifestyle, but a special commission by Tsar Nikolas had sent the Imperial Guards Colonel and a band of trusted and brave soldiers with an enormous gold consignment of l05 tonnes on an arduous trek and voyage that had ended in disaster
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As the Tsar abdicated a Provisional Government assumed nominal control of the country
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Gaspar had over one-hundred tonnes of gold bullion in her hold, plus a lot of valuables belonging to Tsar Nikolas and the Empress Alexandra," he said
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"My grandfather was committed to twenty-five years military service with the Tsar
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Tsar Nikolas had first briefed the trusted Imperial Guards Officer, Colonel Ilya Orlov on the vital mission at a Polish railway junction called Baranovivchi
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It was the headquarters of the Tsar and the Imperial Russian Armies, and they called it -- Stavka!
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"Tsar Nikolas managed to live in extraordinary luxury with untold millions stacked away in his banks, but thousands of Russians died every year from starvation
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The walls were decorated with several ikons and at the far side of the chamber, above a large dais and several flags of Imperial Russia; were portraits of Tsar Nikolas and Empress Alexandra
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When he first scaled the great door, searched the caverns and found some of the personal treasures of the Tsar, he was sure the great Romanov gold was hidden in the great caves
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It is the property of His Imperial Majesty, the Tsar
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"Perhaps, when as a member of the Corps of Pages at Krasnoe Selo, I had the honour of serving the Tsar and the Imperial Family
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He spoke of riots, demonstrations, the shocking assassinations of close relatives and government ministers, but had adamantly refused to allow anyone to consider for one moment that he believed or suspected his future as tsar and ruler of all the Russias was in danger
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embroiled in a terrible civil war, the Tsar and his family had been arrested and imprisoned in Tobolsk in Siberia, and Bolshevik agents were everywhere
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"Our lives have been at stake for sixty years, we will continue our guardianship until His Majesty the Tsar arrives
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You don't know what to do with all that gold bullion, plus all those personal treasures of the Tsar
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"Therefore, we had no alternative but to wait here at Stavka for the Tsar or the Tsarevich
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It commenced over sixty years ago with the special commission assigned to me by Tsar Nikolas
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The one chance the survivors of Stavka had to preserve their lives, the remains of their village and maintain their dedication to His Imperial Majesty, the Tsar was gone
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"You must appreciate it is the property of the Tsar
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"The gold of Tsar Nikolas," Orlov said sadly
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"The coronation robe of Tsar Alexis," Orlov said automatically
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"They're only papers collected by the Tsar
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Is the State still concerned by what the Tsar might write? Is it that the great Bolsheviks still have sleepless nights
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This was the all-important Nikolas Consignment, the box of vital information, the source from which Tsar Nikolas had planned to write his memoirs, the story of an Imperial Empire toppled by revolutionaries whose very own loyalties were very much in question
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They suggested that if Germany assisted in the overthrow of the Tsar and affectively terminated the Romanov dynasty, the Bolsheviks in establishing the new government of the Russian Empire would grant military occupation rights to Germany, and furthermore, Kaiser Wilhelm would be granted the title: Emperor of all the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Kazan and so on
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The Tsar said the papers were never to be let out of my sight
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restructuring caused living standards to fall well below those of pre-war levels under the Tsar
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The gigantic Tsar Bomba had the power of fifty million tons of TNT and shook the earth with a force measuring over 5 on the Richter scale used to determine the magnitude of earthquakes
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the tsar of Russia, was, to say the least, reprehensible, and then to
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The damage was done, and the tsar
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"You do not know the Tsar
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But it also means that the ungrateful Tsar won't get this shell for his collection and he can't complain about how it got destroyed
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If that asshole the Tsar had not declared war on Austria… Germany would never have been suckered into going to war by Franz Joseph begging for help against the threat of the huge Russian bear who had the largest army in the world at that time
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If the Russian Tsar Nicholas had survived that war: his fucking name would be plastered over every fucking history book as the emperor who was personally responsible for starting WW1
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So don’t feel sorry for that motherfucking Tsar Nicholas
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Nicholas the Tsar of Russia had started something the other more civilized Imperial trash could not stop
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And what did the Russian Tsar do? He fired his generals who told him that Russia had lost the war and personally lost the war himself and in doing so destroyed the entire morale of the Russian army who deserted and went back to their farms and that is how and why the Russian revolution began… because the Russian peasants finally woke up and realized they were being ruled and destroyed by an incompetent idiot, an incompetent, pompous strutting little henpecked twit
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And what of the Austrian senile old doddering ass of a fool emperor Franz Joseph who was still clinging to his medieval empire which would have fallen apart at the seams naturally without much fuss if that fucking Tsar Nicholas of a jackass hadn’t intervened? He was actually the first instigator of WW1 by sending Serbia a humiliating ultimatum: blaming that nation for the action of one anarchistic individual who happened to be a Serbian anarchist
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The Royal govt of the Tsar was so incompetent, so weak, so ineffectual, it was a benign entity, similar to the weak foppish French Royalty just before the French Revolution
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The only thing that kept this hodge-podge of different ethnic people together was their supposed love and loyalty to their Royal Tsar and his Royal family
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Tsar Nicholas was the worst possible ruler for that time
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Even though he had abdicated all of his Royal responsibilities as Tsar: he had not abdicated taking care of his own children
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The schism between socialism and capitalism created by WW1 and the abdication of the Tsar of Russia: the Bolshevik revolution, the red armies of Lenin and Trotsky who ended up defeating the white armies of the Tsarist regime, this was all orchestrated by undead entities in order to pit man against man and create a world of evil hate and fear and terrorism
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They made sure that fucking pompous asshole, the Russian tsar would begin a massive arming and mobilization of his entire fucking army that alerted all of Europe to the impending invasion of millions of massed hordes of dehumanized Russian serfs, illiterate medieval, slave-peasants… who would be invading all of Europe and burning their towns and cities to the ground and raping their women and slaughtering their children
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Germany had already told the Tsar that if he mobilized his army, Germany would consider that to be an act of war and mobilize also…
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The fucking fact was that the Tsar Nicholas knew beyond any doubt that if he mobilized his army to invade any part of Austria or Hungary: Germany would consider this to be an act of war
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This was the hidden political reason why the official propaganda which the Russian govt used in its official international policy was that it supporter and defender of slavic nations was the friend of all slavs which was total bullshit… The Tsar and the Russian empire, instead of being the protector of Slavic people was their worst oppressor
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It was by this bit of invented propaganda that was being used as a politically correct pretext in the diplomatic circles of Imperial politics that the Tsar could use as an excuse to invade the Balkans and take over Serbia and the rest of the area and add it to his huge Imperial Empire
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King Edward and Tsar Nicholas looked so alike that they often fooled their own families by dressing up in each other’s uniforms: they had been the best of friends ever since childhood: and when The Tsar’ was forced to abdicate: he naturally assumed that the King of England would provide him refuge
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Suddenly for no explainable reason: This cousin who loved his friend the Tsar and was his best friend and had been the best of friends all their lives… suddenly this fucking corrupt weak fear-filled ruler starts hemming and hawing: and begins invention flimsy excuses as to why the govt of England should not allow the Tsar to escape sure death at the hands of the revolutionaries and be given a small villa to live in
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His excuse? Was so filthy: so evil, so weak: so obvious a falsehood it is unbelievable: he complained he had no extra palaces which he could house the Tsar and his family
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He complained that the only place he had was Balmoral castle and that was too cold a place for the Tsar
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This! For a Russian Tsar who endured Siberian winter 6 months every year of his Life! This was how truly EVIL and FILTHY this replacement for Prince Edward was
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The Tsar had lost the Russo-Japanese war to a race of what Europeans considered to be eastern monkeys
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But the stupid weak Tsar allowed himself to be pushed into it as a matter of ‘principle’
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Just as Germany’s deserved downfall was invading the neutral nation of Belgium in order to attack France, so too was the Tsar doomed to lose because in order to go to the ‘aid’ of Serbia, he had to invade the neutral countries that surrounded Austria
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Austria had already taken over the Slavic state of Bosnia in the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire without Russia coming to its rescue… but this time the tsar decided to use Serbia as a political ploy to gain prestige by invading Europe and winning a war
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If Russia had actually been able to reach Serbia and defeat the Austrian invaders, the tsar would have had that fucking butcher of Serbia shot dead and Serbia would have been added to his fucking empire, and the Slavs of Serbia would have discovered how much more brutal the tsarist regime of Imperial Russia was than the dictatorship they were already under
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What is so puking disgusting and stinking is how all of the conventional fucking accounts of that war not blaming the Russian tsar for starting a European war of total annihilation
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Why has history never put the lion’s share of the blame for beginning WW1 at the feet of the Russian Tsar as it should? After the war, it was not expedient for the major western leaders of America, France and England to put the blame where it actually deserves to be put
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The abdication of the Tsar and the ensuing civil war took Russia out of the war
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Serbia would have been swallowed up into the Russian Empire and that would have become a vassal state and the Serbian Slavs would have discovered to their horror that becoming true Slaves under the Tsarist regime of the Russian Tsar was a thousand times worse than when they had not been independent and given ‘aid’ by the most backward, inept, decayed empire in the world
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Since the Austrian Empire in order to invade Serbia had only ordered a limited mobilization; as a purely political form of posturing that imbecile Tsar Nicholas also wanted to order a ‘limited’ mobilization to show that he was on the side of Serbia only as a token show of force… not to be taken seriously
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without any thought as to the consequences except that of ‘keeping up his personal appearance of autocratic Tsar of Russia’… or in other words: saving his own face
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By his enormously stupid attempt to ‘keep up personal appearances’ Nicholas II lost all appearance of being an omnipotent powerful Tsar
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Nicholas Tsar of Russia and his whole family were killed for going back to Nature
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Then: this little popinjay of Kaiser writes commiserating to his royal cousin the Tsar of all the Russia’s who is at the very moment mobilizing 2 ½ million mean to attack Europe and Austria AND Germany: as they both tearfully confess to each other in private, in a private letter that does not go through the diplomatic channels of their respective govts, that neither one of them really want war but ‘alas, woe betide us’ it is out of our hands… “Though I have tried my best, I can do nothing to stop it
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While the Kaiser is secretly rubbing his hands in glee at outfoxing the idiot Nicholas II the Tsar in making the first move, and in doing so, sealing his own fate as the instigator of the entire affair
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He not only acted as if he was a figurehead monarch: he lived like one; he lived like Wilhelm had lived when he was the figurehead of the German state… He lived like the Russian Tsar had once lived, disdaining the everyday running of his govt as beneath him
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And that general will lose his post, you'll see! We shall perform under his windows every day, and if the Tsar drives by, I'll fall on my knees, put the children before me, show them to him, and say 'Defend us father
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The Tsar and the whole court and crowds of people were all gazing at them—at him, and Mahotin a length ahead of him, as they drew near the ‘devil,’ as the solid barrier was called
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Towards the end of the race everyone was in a state of agitation, which was intensified by the fact that the Tsar was displeased
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She laid down the opera glass, and would have moved away, but at that moment an officer galloped up and made some announcement to the Tsar
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Their uncle, Karenin, a government official of high standing, at one time a favorite of the late Tsar, had brought them up
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Analyzing her feeling, and comparing it with former passions, she distinctly perceived that she would not have been in love with Komissarov if he had not saved the life of the Tsar,
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Even to petition the Tsar for legitimization, a divorce is essential
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Metrov repeated a saying that had reached him through a most trustworthy source, reported as having been uttered on this subject by the Tsar and one of the ministers
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also on excellent authority that the Tsar had said something quite different
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Search her! Since she's not left the room, the money would have to be on her! Search her, search her! But if you don't find it, then excuse me, my dear fellow, you'll answer for it! I'll go to our Sovereign, to our Sovereign, to our gracious Tsar himself, and throw myself at his feet, to‐day, this minute! I am alone in the world! They would let me in! Do you think they wouldn't? You're wrong, I will get in! I will get in! You reckoned on her meekness! You relied upon that! But I am not so submissive, let me tell you! You've gone too far yourself
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When the Russians overthrew their tsar in February 1917, the new government was supposed to set up a democratically elected parliament, but instead the Bolsheviks (communists), led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, overthrew the Russian government and took power themselves
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Garfield was shot in 1881 by a man with a grudge, the same year that Russian revolutionaries blew up Tsar Alexander II
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The tsar abdicated and a new provisional government took over
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The Duma: In October 1905, Tsar Nicholas finally agreed to summon a Russian parliament or duma
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When the tsar abdicated in 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was the leading figure in the Russian Social Democratic Party (that’s the Marxists – see the earlier section, ‘Workers of the World, Unite!’)
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She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around him
