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| Who were the Romanovs?
The Romanov family consisted of the Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, his son Alexis, and three daughters Tatiana, Olga and Anastasia. Nicholas II was the head of the Romanov dynasty and Alexandra was the Tsaritsa. Alexis, the heir to the throne, was the Tsarevich. Their life should have been a fairy tale. Rich beyond measure Nicholas and Alexandra were, even after 24 married years, passionately in love. He was her "Nicky". She, his "Sunny" or "Alix". Yet their reign was a tragic failure. The couple's attitudes, formed in the 19th century, were ill-suited
for the 20th. Such rigidity towards, and remoteness from a modernizing
Russia destroyed them. Nicholas II ruled the Russian Empire until a 1917
revolution ended his reign. After the revolution the new government exiled
the family to Siberia. They were executed by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg
on July 16, 1918.
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| What
was the real Anastasia like?
Was there really a Rasputin and did he cause the downfall of the Romanovs? Did Rasputin really have a talking albino bat? Why was Anastasia believed to have survived the Russian Revolution? |
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