After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars

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and in a 1913 jubilee, Russia officially celebrated the "300th Anniversary of the Romanovs' rule". [6] Serge, Victor (1932). Year One of the Russian Revolution. Chicago: Haymarket (published 2015). p.315. ISBN 978-1608462674. The mystery of the Romanovs' untimely demise, Russia Beyond the Headlines, p.4, archived from the original on 16 January 2017 , retrieved 15 January 2017 On 1 October 2008, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ruled that Nicholas II and his family were victims of political repression and rehabilitated them. [177] [178] The rehabilitation was denounced by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, vowing the decision will "sooner or later be corrected". [179] In November 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin took over the government. Nicholas tried to convince the British and then the French to give him asylum—after all, his wife was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. But both countries refused, and the Romanovs found themselves in the hands of the newly formed revolutionary government.

Figes, Orlando (1997). A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924. Penguin Books. p. 638. ISBN 0-19-822862-7. Soon, large protests by Russian workers against the monarchy led to the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1905. Hundreds of unarmed protesters were killed or wounded by the czar’s troops. Alexander II, son of Nicholas I, became the next Russian emperor in 1855, in the midst of the Crimean War. While Alexander considered it his charge to maintain peace in Europe and Russia, he believed only a strong Russian military could keep the peace. By developing the Imperial Russian Army, giving increased autonomy to Finland, and freeing the serfs in 1861 he gained much popular support for his reign. During the reign of Romanov leader Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, the Russian Empire grew larger and stronger. The period of Catherine’s rule—1762 to 1796—is often called the Golden Age of the Russian Empire.

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The Romanovs were high-ranking aristocrats in Russia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1613, Mikhail Romanov became the first Romanov czar of Russia, following a fifteen-year period of political upheaval after the fall of Russia’s medieval Rurik dynasty. He took the name Michael I. Mystery Solved: The Identification of The Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis, PLoS One.

Sokolov, Nikolai A. (1925). Ubiistvo Tsarskoi Sem'i (Убийство царской семьи). Berlin: Slowo-Verlag. p. 191. Massie, Robert K. (2012). The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. Random House. pp.3–24. ISBN 978-0307873866. The Congresses ended with the decision to set up governing bodies which could implement the affairs of the Communist International in their own countries. It was finally carried out in 1991, after the Soviet Union’s collapse. The state’s investigative team found thousands of bones and other relics from the imperial family, and DNA analysis soon confirmed they were in fact the Romanovs. The remains were buried in St. Petersburg cathedral in 1998, and the buried Romanovs were declared saints in the Russian Orthodox church.

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During the Russian Revolution in November 1917, radical socialist Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power in Russia from a provisional government, establishing the world’s first communist state. The Romanovs' new life was dramatically different from the regal, opulent life they had lived in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Both Nicholas and Empress Alexandra were in denial and refused to give up hope that they’d be saved. Instead, they were shuffled from house to house. Finally, they were imprisoned in a home that the Bolsheviks called “the house of special purpose.” The cellar of Ipatiev house in Yekaterinburg, after the Execution of the Imperial Family in the night in July 1918. The burial of the Romanov family is as gruesome as their execution Three days after the murders, Yurovsky personally reported to Lenin on the events of that night and was rewarded with an appointment to the Moscow City Cheka. He held a succession of key economic and party posts, dying in the Kremlin Hospital in 1938 aged 60. Prior to his death, he donated the guns he used in the murders to the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow, [66] and left behind three important, though contradictory, accounts of the event.

VII 1918 при приближении к Екатеринбургу чехословацких контрреволюционных войск Николай II со всей семьей был расстрелян». – Большая советская энциклопедия / гл. ред. О. Ю. Шмидт. – Москва: Советская энциклопедия, 1926–. Т. 42: Нидерланды – Оклагома. – 1939. / статья: «Николай II» / кол. 137Then, in 1914, Russia was drawn into World War I but was unprepared for the scale and magnitude of the fighting. Nicholas’ subjects were horrified by the number of casualties the country sustained. Russia had the largest number of deaths in the war—over 1.8 million military deaths, and about 1.5 million civilian deaths. The famine largely affected the Volga and Ural River regions and conditions got so bad, that some peasants restored to cannibalism.

In mid-2007, a Russian archaeologist announced a discovery by one of his workers. The excavation uncovered the following items in the two pits which formed a "T": Rappaport, Helen. Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses. Pan Macmillan, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4472-5935-0. After the revolution, civil war between the Bolshevik “Red” army and the anti-Bolshevik “White” Russian forces broke out in June. By July, the White army was advancing on Yekaterinburg. Rasputin’s powerful influence on the ruling family infuriated nobles, church leaders and peasants alike. Many saw him as a religious charlatan. Russian nobles, eager to end the cleric’s influence, had Rasputin murdered on December 16, 1916. a b Martin Vennard (27 June 2012), Tsar Nicholas – exhibits from an execution, BBC News , retrieved 3 April 2017

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Massie (2012). The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. Random House Publishing. pp.3–24. ISBN 978-0307873866. a b Coble, Michael D.; etal. (2009). "Mystery solved: the identification of the two missing Romanov children using DNA analysis". PLOS ONE. 4 (3): e4838. Bibcode: 2009PLoSO...4.4838C. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004838. PMC 2652717. PMID 19277206. Between 1890 and 1910, for example, the population of major Russian cities such as St. Petersburg and Moscow nearly doubled, resulting in overcrowding and destitute living conditions for a new class of Russian industrial workers.