Reading notes on May 31, 2021

Read for 1 hour today, 1613 hours in total, Day 1556

Read "The Romanov Dynasty" Act 3 Decline Scene 6 Emperor Mikhail II? Chapter 7 Later years

In 1909, when Prince Felix Yusupov was twenty-two and had just returned from Oxford University, he went to Rasputin to consult him about his ambiguous sexual orientation. . Rasputin took a liking to this effeminate nobleman and tried to seduce him. Yusupov was extremely disgusted. He felt that the saint possessed "a once-in-a-century power" and concluded that only death could stop Rasputin.

Another leader of the conspiracy was the gentle Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, who "made no secret of the fact that the idea of ??killing Rasputin had been circulating in his mind for several times. moon". They call themselves "true monarchists who kill to save the monarchy." Dmitry's involvement was valuable because he was a Grand Duke, above the law, and only the Tsar could punish him. "If it hadn't been for me," Dmitri later told Yusupov, "you might have all been hanged.

Rasputin fell in the snow, and was already beaten by the amateur Yusupov. Pov and Pulisikovich each took one shot, but they were still alive. Someone, maybe Pulisikovich, maybe Dmitry, or someone more professional and calm, Perhaps a British agent, like Rainer, shot Rasputin in the middle of the forehead, a fatal blow that burned Rasputin's skin instantly. The corpse was kicked in the head, but the sound of gunshots attracted the attention of some soldiers in the street. "I killed Grishka Rasputin," he shouted, "enemies of Russia and the Tsar!" ”

Rasputin’s death gave Nicholas II political cover, giving him the opportunity to prevent Alexandra from entering politics and choose a prime minister who could unite all parties. Everything in the past The blame could be placed on Rasputin.

For the next fifteen hours on March 1, the Tsar was cut off from the outside world and Petrograd was revolutionized. Devoured. After the shootout, the royalist forces of the Admiralty surrendered to the revolutionaries, and a new world emerged in Tavli Palace, where two factions fought for power over Russia: the 1,000 slovenly Soviets of Workers and Soldiers. The only link between these two factions was the socialist and lawyer Alexander Kerensky, who at that time was the socialist and lawyer Alexander Kerensky. Thirty-five years old, a member of the Revolutionary Party and a member of the Duma.

In the apartment on Million Street, the ministers tried to intimidate Mikhail into abdicating his throne. He asked them if they could guarantee his resignation. Safe.

Princess Putyatina invited them all to dinner. After a day of negotiations, Mikhail signed the abdication decree: "I have made it. Resolutely determined that I will not accept supreme power unless our great people, by popular suffrage, elect representatives to the Constitutional Convention to demand my succession. The next day, he sent a text message to his wife Natasha: "Very busy and exhausted." Will tell you many interesting things. "One of the interesting things is that he became the emperor of Russia for a day. After 304 years of ups and downs, the Romanov dynasty fell.

March 3, 1917, in Mogilev At the train station, General Alexeyev told Nicholas II that the dynasty was over. The former Tsar expressed shock that Misha's manifesto contained "words about elections. God knows who suggested that he sign something so hideous". He asked his mother to come to him, but she came with Sandro, whom Nicholas II found "unbearable".

< p> Niki corresponded with his mother and sister in Crimea. “I chopped a lot of firewood,” he told his mother. “The food here was excellent and plentiful, so we settled well in Tobolsk. , I gained 8 to 10 pounds. "Alexandra and Anna began to exchange packages. Anna sent clothes, Alexandra food, because there was a semi-famine in Petrograd, and rations were plentiful in Siberia.

Ni Key corresponded with his mother and sister in Crimea.

"I chopped a lot of firewood," he told his mother. "The food here is excellent and plentiful, so we settled well in Tobolsk and I gained 8 to 10 pounds." Alexandra and Anna started exchanging packages. Anna sent clothes, Alexandra food, since there was a semi-famine in Petrograd and rations were plentiful in Siberia.

In the Kremlin, Lenin worried that killing the Romanov children might have extremely bad international consequences: the French Revolution, the model of the Bolshevik Party, had executed kings and queens but spared their lives. child. Upon Goloshekin's arrival, Sverdlov ordered the appointment of a commander to destroy the Tsar's family if necessary.

In 2007, two bodies were unearthed at the site of the arson mentioned in Yurovsky's memoirs, both damaged by fire and acid. Most experts believe these are the remains of Alexei and Maria, but the Orthodox Church, bent on reasserting its power in modern Russia, remains unconvinced. For eight years, the skeletons sat in boxes at the National Archives. In 2015, the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reopened the investigation, allowing the church to finally confirm the identity of the Tsarist family owners, using Nicholas II and Alexandra (whose remains were briefly exhumed). , Ella (rested in Jerusalem), Alexander II (with his blood-stained clothes stored in the Hermitage Museum) and Alexander III's DNA. The Romanov family can finally be reunited.