Nicholas II refused to approve of the army uniform until he tried it on himself.

Uniforms are a key aspect of any professional military. They not only serve to distinguish the troops of one army from those of another, but consist of the clothing and equipment in which the soldiers will live and work.

In 1909, the Russian Minister of War, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov, was developing the new standard infantry clothing and equipment, when Nicholas was presented with the equipment and uniform, he was not convinced.

As leader of the army, Tsar Nicholas II was not content to hand out new equipment to his soldiers on the word of a minister. Rather, he wanted to make sure his men were properly equipped by trying it out for himself.

The Tsar only told Alexander Alexandrovich Mossolov, Minister of the Court and Commander of the Palace, of his plan. Mossolov had the equipment of a random soldier camping near Livadia, whose regiment was testing the new equipment, brought to the palace. As a result, the uniform was not made to order and the equipment was not hand-selected for the Tsar. He would test the equipment exactly as it would be issued to a new soldier.

After donning his uniform, rifle, bag, and cartridges, Tsar Nicholas also took out a day's supply of bread and water and set off.

Marching alone, he traveled 20 kilometers (12.42 miles) on a random route and returned to the palace. The round trip of 40 kilometers was the total length of a forced march.

The Tsar's march took between eight and nine hours, including breaks to rest.

Upon his return in the evening, he was thoroughly examined and found to have no blisters or abrasions on his body, he also found that the new military boots were quite comfortable and he had no pain in his feet.

The new uniform and equipment had been approved by Nicholas II, who was not only a Tsar, but also a soldier and spiritual father of Holy Russia.

The next day he signed the approval of it.

Queen Victoria

Alexandrina Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 and died on January 22, 1901.

She was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from June 20, 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign lasted 63 years and seven months.

Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III) and Princess Victoria of Sa

xe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840 and their children married into royal families from across the continent, for which Victoria was given the nickname "Grandmother of Europe" and spread hemophilia among European royalty. After Albert's death in 1861, she Victoria fell into deep mourning, utter sadness, and avoided public appearances.

She was the last British monarch from the House of Hanover.

Her 23rd favorite granddaughter was Princess Alix of Hesse and of the Rhine, Alexandra Feodorovna, was the last empress of Russia.

The beautiful Alix was the daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV of Hesse-Darmstadt.

The children born to the royal couple Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra were the great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

Natalya met Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich.

In the fall of 1908, in Krasnoe Selo, Natalya met Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich.

"He doesn't care about your pain or our pain," Nicholas II wrote to his mother, Empress Dowager Maria Feodorovna, of course against her brother's relationship with Natalya.

In 1904, Nicholas appointed Mikhail "ruler of the State", Regent, under the command of the minor Alexey Nikolaevich. Michael should have married some German princess.

Natalya became pregnant with the Grand Duke, and Mikhail convinced Emperor Nikolay II to allow the divorce of her, who was married, so that the child would not become the legitimate son of the lieutenant. She was exiled to give birth abroad, and Misha, was sent to Oryol, to command a regiment of hussars.

On August 6, 1910, she gave birth to a son, George. He was registered as Brasov, after the name of Mikhail's estate in present-day Bryansk region.

In October 1912, after fleeing their pursuers by car to Vienna, the couple married in a Serbian Orthodox church. Mikhail was an idealist and wanted to make Natalia an honest woman and form her family with her little son. The wedding was witnessed by the temple watchman and his wife.

The couple were barred from entering Russia. Mikhail was stripped of the title of "ruler of the state", all his properties in his homeland were transferred to custody.

The great war changed the situation, Mikhail, who volunteered to fight and little George received from Nicholas II the title of Count Brasov and Natalia, only the right to bear this surname.

No one remembers that the new emperor has a morganatic wife with a son from his first marriage. After all, Peter the Great made Martha Samuilovna Skavronskaya, in his first marriage to Kruse, crowned by the Russian empress, and everyone only benefited from this. It occurs in terrible moments in history.

No one remembers that the new emperor has a morganatic wife with a son from his first marriage. After all, Peter the Great made Martha Samuilovna Skavronskaya, in his first marriage to Kruse, crowned by the Russian empress, and everyone only benefited from this. It occurs in terrible moments in history.

March 3, 1917. Mikhail reports on the "rejection of the supreme power": he does not renounce his rights to the throne, but the question of the form of government in Russia should be decided by the national Constituent Assembly, sometime in six months . An idealist, as has been said.

March 3, 1917. Mikhail reports on the "rejection of the supreme power": he does not renounce his rights to the throne, but the question of the form of government in Russia should be decided by the national Constituent Assembly, sometime in six months . An idealist, as has been said.March 1918. The Bolsheviks expel Mikhail to Perm. The former prince takes a secretary and a Rolls-Royce with him, but almost forcibly leaves Natalya and the children in Gatchina. Natalya transports George to Denmark in the guise of her governess's son.

On June 12, Mikhail was secretly taken from the city into the forest. Officially, he is a fugitive. The intrepid Natalya breaks into the office of Cheka President Solomon Uritsky in Petrograd and demands an explanation.

May 1919 Natalya has been in prison for almost a year. She pretends to be in the hospital, from where she flees with the help of her daughter. *** In the form of Red Cross sisters and with false documents, they arrive in Odessa and leave Russia. ****

From this moment the little Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov becomes Tsesarevich in exile until his sudden death in France at age 21 in a tragic accident.

In 1928, his grandmother, Empress Maria, died in exile and he inherited his estate along with his aunts, Grand Duchesses Olga and Xenia. With part of his inheritance he bought a sports Chrysler and in the summer of 1931, after finishing his exams at the Sorbonne, he planned a vacation in the South of France with his friend, the Dutchman Edgar Moneanaar, promising his mother to return for his 21st birthday. On July 20, on the way from Paris to Cannes, near Sens, the car ran off the road and crashed into a tree. Moneanaar, who was driving the car, died, and Jorge, with broken thighs and serious internal injuries, was taken to a hospital. His mother was able to get to the hospital but at 11:30 a.m. the following day Jorge died without having regained consciousness.

He was buried in the Passy cemetery in Paris. His mother died poor of cancer in 1952 and was buried next to him.

The inscription on the tomb says Fils et Epouse de SAI Grand Duc Michel de Russie.

His right of succession to the imperial throne, denied, could be questioned since Tsar Nikolay II pardoned his father in 1917 when he asked her to assume the throne of the Russian Empire and restore his succession position. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich was the last male descendant of Tsar Alexander III.

Tsesarevich Alexey Nikolaevich Romanov , in memories

 “Thanks to his extraordinary simplicity and cordiality in his speech, Alexei Nikolayevich attracted all hearts both with his external and spiritual beauty, with his clear open look, his determination in everything, his pleasant and sonorous voice, which he evoked in everyone who saw him, a feeling of deep sympathy. The Lord endowed the child with wonderful natural qualities: a strong and quick mind, wit, a kind and compassionate heart, charming simplicity among kings,”

Wrote Protopresbyter of the Russian army and navy Georgy Shchavelsky. .

Prayer for a miracle

 The royal couple Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra attended the glorification of Seraphim of Sarov on July 18, 1903 in Sarov; where the Emperor and Empress prayed for the granting of an heir.

The boy was born on August 12, 1904.

At birth, he was named Alexei, after Saint Alexis of Moscow. Baptized in the church of the Great Peterhof Palace on August 11, 1904 by the confessor of the imperial family, Proto-Presbyter John Yanyshev.

Holy Russia had the grace of God with the birth of the future Tsar of All Russias.

LOVELY BOY HEART

Even in these days of inflicting gross insults, the Tsesarevich did not change his compassion and love for these cruel people.

Once Tyegleva asked Alexei Nikolaevich: "If you are the Tsar, what will you do?"

The Tsarevich said: "No, I will not be Tsar." -

"And if you had to go against your will," Tyegleva repeated, how would you act?

He said, "I say I will not be a tsar. If I have to be, against my will, I will first of all fix up a big house where I will gather all the homeless children, and I will put you in charge of this house: I myself will come to you often."

So he thought the loving childish heart of him, that he did not remember the wickedness of his enemies, but thought of his pitiful orphans.

From the book of Abbot Seraphim (Kuznetsov) "Orthodox Tsar Martyr"

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First visit to Moscow of Tsesarevich Alexey Nikolaevich Romanov

 At the end of May 1912, together with his parents, he visited Moscow for the first time, in connection with the unveiling of a monument to his grandfather, Emperor Alexander III (destroyed in 1918).

On May 30, 1912, in the Kremlin, on the porch of the Majesty of him, presenting a specially painted Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God to the Heir, the Moscow provincial marshal of the nobility A.D. Samarin addressed the Tsesarevich Alexey with a speech:

“The Blessed Sovereign Heir. The nobility of Moscow rejoices from the heart to see you within the walls of the old Kremlin. You are visiting our capital for the first time.”

Livadia Palace , Crimea

 With Tsar Alexander II, the summer residence of the monarchs moved to Crimea, Livadia.

Maria Alexandrovna, the emperor's wife, became the first owner of Livadia, which was given to her in 1860 by her crowned husband: "As a gift to my beloved wife Empress Maria Alexandrovna".

Crimean historian and writer V. Kh. Kondaraki wrote of the new empress:

“Her Majesty constantly gives her an example of modesty and simplicity. In her outfits, in the full sense of the word, the holy mother never noticed anything clearly distinctive, nor expensive trinkets that visitors of the highest circle loved to show off at that time."

The memory of mother's "pink" passions in Darmstadt, mother-in-law Alexandra Feodorovna's love of roses, the entire floral entourage of the ballroom and official performances, as well as the most frequent public flower exhibitions in St. Petersburg , undoubtedly served to arouse the empress's interest in gardening and floriculture. In addition, the Imperial Russian Horticultural Society, founded in Saint Petersburg in 1858, run by professional gardeners and botanists under the patronage of the highest Russian aristocracy, contributed to the widespread passion for flowers in Russia. Empress Maria Alexandrovna and Empress Dowager Alexandra Feodorovna (a year before her death) became honorary members of the Society in 1859.

Creating a beautiful palace and park ensemble in Livadia, Maria Alexandrovna took the most direct part, giving advice to gardeners and sending plants. Her recommendations and wishes formed the basis of the landscape design of the royal residence.

In 1863, the first metal pergola appeared in the park, ordered in France for 12,000 francs with delivery, 400 varieties of roses also arrived for planting pergolas and flower beds. This pergola is still alive today. Neither perestroika, nor the war, nor the revolution destroyed it. It is over 150 years old and is a rare architectural structure and historical monument.

Rose cultivation in Livadia experienced ups and downs. Many roses died in frost between 1874 and 1875. Around 4,000 roses were grafted onto wild roses for restoration in greenhouses, but the death of Maria Alexandrovna in 1880 and then the death of Alexander II again stopped all work.

The next in time, Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III, who became Livadia's mistress, ordered the flower nurseries on the estate to be expanded so that she could supply cut flowers to royal residences in the capital all over. the country. year .

One of the greenhouses was completely dedicated to the distillation of roses. It was under her that Livadia became a rose industry. But Maria Feodorovna, who was widowed early, devoted herself to charitable and trustee activities, and the revolutionary events and the tragic fate of her family forced the Dowager Empress to leave Russia.

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Emperor Nicholas II and the last empress of Russia, is known for her love of flowers. In England, where she lived with her grandmother, Queen Victoria, flowers surrounded her everywhere, she created such a world in Russia. In flowers, Alexandra Fedorovna especially appreciated aromas. Bouquets of lilacs, violets, roses, irises, rhododendrons were replaced in her living rooms (purple, green, maple, polysander) depending on the time of year.

Tradition

Emperor Nicholas II absorbed the Russian character of his father from childhood. and he continued the tradition of "historical" dances, it was a demonstration of ideological continuity.

The great masquerade ball held in the Winter Palace in 1903 was the last great ball of the Empire, remembered by contemporaries. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich wrote in the Memoirs of him:

“On January 22, 1903, 'all' Petersburg danced in the Winter Palace. I remember exactly this date, as it was the last great court ball in the history of the empire.”

Let's clarify that there were great balls in the Winter Palace afterwards, but it was this ball that went down in history as "the last ball of the Empire".

Law of succession Imperial House of Romanov

 

The imperial succession law of the House of Romanov was established by Tsar Paul I in 1797 and is based on the Salic Law. It was ratified, respectively, in 1886 by Tsar Alexander III and in 1906 and 1911 by Tsar Nicholas II.

According to this law, the succession to the head of the Imperial House is by male primogeniture, passing to the female line only after the extinction of the male line.

The last Tsar was Nicholas II and the last Tsarevich of Russia was Alexey Nikolaevich as the future Tsar of the Empire.

With the disappearance of the family of Nicholas II, the legitimacy to become Sovereign of any applicant disappeared, however history and politics still have a debt, when and where did the imperial family of Nicholas II die if they were not executed in 1918.

GRAND DUCHESS MARIA NIKOLAEVNA ROMANOVA

 GRAND DUCHESS MARIA NIKOLAEVNA ROMANOVA

June 26, 1899

In March 1899, Empress Alexandra's pregnancy was extremely uncomfortable. The baby was in an awkward position that aggravated her sciatica; she once again spent most of the pregnancy in a bath chair.

On May 9, the family left Tsarskoye Selo and went to Peterhof to await the arrival of the new member of the family, who arrived mercifully quickly.

At 12:10 p.m. m. On June 26, 1899, another Grand Duchess Maria was born, weighing 4.5 kg.

Maria, so called in honor of her grandmother. Alejandra soon nursed her happily. Nicholas showed no obvious sign of despondency, his religious fatalism undoubtedly influencing her impassive reaction. "The Lord sent us a third daughter"; he was resigned. "I am so grateful that dear Alicky has recovered so well," wrote Queen Victoria, who could not ignore the serious dynastic problem that this entailed. "I know that an heir would be more welcome than a daughter."

THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

Don't get angry, don't cry, value the other's word when it is of good will and there is no evil.

If you love from the heart to reach the historical and spiritual truth, you open a new chapter in history.

We must not close the story with the canonization in order to know the fate of the family of Nicholas II when he disappeared in the cold night of July 16-17, 1918.

With the canonization, a grave is put to the truth, the possibility that the historical truth can be investigated and new versions, hypotheses and documentation to disqualify various European States is closed,

If there is new data, stories provided by historians and researchers; if files are declassified let us think that this cannot be called a conspiracy.

The real conspiracy was the more than 100 years of silence and concealment of valuable information to know the whereabouts of the last Romanov Imperial Family.

 A piece of chocolate from 118 years ago appeared on the dress of the sister of Tsar Nicholas II

The piece of chocolate that was found on the sleeve of a dress that belonged to the Grand Duchess Ksenia Aleksandrovna, sister of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia.

These belongings are in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and chocolate was found in one of the ball gowns of Ksenia Aleksandrovna, the sister of the last Tsar.

The chocolate was found on the sleeve of a dress that the Tsar's sister wore to a ball that took place in February 1903 at the Winter Palace and whose visitors wore bejeweled costumes in the style of the 17th century, according to the museum's video.

The 1903 ball at the Winter Palace was a luxury ball during the reign of Emperor Nicholas II. It was held in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, in two stages, on February 11 and 13. All the guests wore bejeweled costumes in the style of the 17th century, made from designs by the artist Sergey Solomko, in collaboration with experts. in history.

The last spectacular dance in the history of the empire of Holy Russia.

The entire imperial family posed in rich 17th-century costumes – Tsar Nicholas as Alexis, Tsarina Alexandra as Maria Miloslavskaya – at the Hermitage Theatre, many wearing priceless original items specially brought from the Kremlin.

The piece of chocolate that was found on the sleeve of the dress worn at that spectacular party.

The chocolate was sent for analysis and it was determined that no pathogenic bacteria, not even mold, had formed in more than a century.

A very striking find, where a small part of the history of the dynasty is kept.

THREE INVESTIGATORS AFFIRMED THAT THERE WAS NO EXECUTION, THE VERSION OF THE EXECUTION WAS CREATED OVER TIME

Researchers Tom Mangold and Anthony Summers published the book The Romanov Case, or the Execution That Wasn't in 1979.

They started with the fact that in 1978 the 60-year secrecy seal of the Brest peace treaty signed in 1918 expires, and it would be interesting to investigate the declassified files.

The first thing they unearthed were telegrams from the British ambassador announcing that the Bolsheviks had evacuated the royal family from Yekaterinburg to Perm.

According to British intelligence agents in the army of Alexander Kolchak, upon entering Yekaterinburg on July 25, 1918, the admiral immediately appointed an investigator in the case of the execution of the royal family. Three months later, Captain Nametkin put a report on his desk, where he said that instead of being shot, it was staged. Not believing, Kolchak appointed a second investigator, Sergeev, and soon got the same results.

In parallel with them, the commission of Captain Malinovsky worked, who in June 1919 gave the following instructions to the third investigator Nikolai Sokolov:

"As a result of my work on the case, I was convinced that the august family is alive ... all the facts that I observed during the investigation are simulated murders."

Tsesarevich Alexey Nikolaevich Romanov

Tsarevich Alexei's main hobby was everything related to battles and maneuvers. In Tsarskoye Selo, he even had his own "company", consisting of 25 local high school students, and the sailors who looked after the heir on the yacht Shtandart helped him gain new knowledge in the field of naval affairs.

The heir was the head of the lifeguards of Ataman, Finland, the 51st Lithuanian Infantry Regiment and the 12th East Siberian Rifle Regiment, the Tashkent Cadet Corps and the ataman of all Cossack troops. He was allowed to visit his regimental barracks and dine with the officers in the mess hall. During these visits, he communicated with great pleasure and asked the interlocutors about his families, just as the emperor did. Alexey's favorite food was cabbage soup, porridge and wholemeal bread. These simple but tasty dishes were brought to him from the kitchen of the soldiers of the Consolidated Regiment.

I want to eat what my soldiers eat,” he said.

At the height of World War I, on October 1, 1915, Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexei set out for the Supreme Commander's Headquarters, where the emperor took command of the army. The heir rode in the military uniform of one of his patronage units. A few days later, the Tsarevich received the IV degree of the Cross of Saint George for being with his father in the war zone in Galicia: “In memory of the visit to the wounded in the area of ​​the Klevan station in the area of enemy war." artillery fire on the night of October 12, 1915.” The heir spent all of 1916 at Headquarters or traveling with the Emperor. In May Alexei Nikolaevich was promoted to corporal. During his stay at the Headquarters, the Tsarevich awarded illustrious fighters and performed military exercises with a toy gun, demonstrating excellent skills for his age. He categorically did not want to return to Tsarskoye Selo, however, the illness made its own adjustments to the heir's plans. When Alexei got so sick that he couldn't move independently, they had to take him away. While at home, he constantly wrote letters to Nicholas II, lamenting that he was not allowed to return to the See.

 THERE ARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CORPSE OF RASPUTIN, OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY NO. why?

On December 30, 1916, Grigory Rasputin was brutally murdered in Petrograd by relatives of Nicholas II: his cousin, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, husband of Nicholas II's niece, Prince Felix Yusupov, and the deputy of the State Duma Vladimir Purishkevich.

Rasputin died a long and painful death.

First, they tried to poison him in the basement of the Yusupov Palace, then they tried to shoot him. When this failed, he was tied up, taken to the Neva and thrown from the bridge.

There are photographs that constitute probative material indicating that it is the body of Rasputin, photographs taken when the body was found and later in the morgue.

A year and a half after Rasputin's assassination there are no traces of the alleged execution of Nicholas II's family, much less photographs before or after the alleged execution.

THREE INVESTIGATORS CLAIMED THAT THERE WAS NO EXECUTION, THE VERSION OF THE EXECUTION WAS CREATED OVER TIME

Researchers Tom Mangold and Anthony Summers published the book The Romanov Case, or the Execution That Wasn't in 1979.

They started with the fact that in 1978 the 60-year seal of secrecy on the Brest peace treaty signed in 1918 expires, and it would be interesting to investigate the declassified files.

The first thing they discovered were telegrams from the British ambassador announcing that the Bolsheviks had evacuated the royal family from Yekaterinburg to Perm.

According to British intelligence agents in Alexander Kolchak's army, entering Yekaterinburg on July 25, 1918, the admiral immediately appointed an investigator in the case of the execution of the royal family. Three months later, Captain Nametkin put a report on his desk about him, where he said that instead of being shot, it was a scene. Not believing it, Kolchak appointed a second investigator, Sergeev, and soon got the same results.

In parallel with them, the commission of Captain Malinovsky worked, who in June 1919 gave the following instructions to the third researcher Nikolai Sokolov:

"As a result of my work on the case, I was convinced that August's family is alive... All the facts that I observed during the investigation are staged murders."

According to the official history, on the night of July 16-17, 1918, Nikolai Romanov, together with his wife and children, was shot.

After the burial was opened and the remains identified in 1998, they were reburied in the tomb of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. However, then the Russian Orthodox Church did not confirm its authenticity.

The commission's conclusion, written before the 1998 burial, reads:

"The sovereign's skull bones are so shattered that the characteristic callus cannot be found." The same report noted "severe dental damage" to Nikolai's alleged remains from periodontal disease, as this person had never been to a dentist.

This confirms that it was not the tsar who was shot, since the records of the Tobolsk dentist, with whom Nikolai contacted, remained.

**All of these investigators concluded that the royal family had not been assassinated. **

Before investigator Sokolov, the only investigator who published a book on the execution of the royal family, there were investigators Malinovsky, Nametkin (his archive was burned along with his house), Sergeev (taken from the case and killed), Lieutenant Nant General Dieterichs , Kirsta.

All of these investigators concluded that the royal family had not been assassinated.

Investigator Sokolov handled two cases: one on the fact of murder and the other on the fact of disappearance. At the same time, the military intelligence of Kirst's person was conducting an investigation. When the whites left Russia, Sokolov, fearing for the collected materials, sent them to Harbin; Along the way, some of his materials were lost. Nikolai Sokolov was assassinated.

Sokolov's book was published after his death, and many people "worked" on it, removing a lot of facts, data and evidence, so it cannot be considered completely truthful.

The surviving members of the royal family were watched by people from the KGB, where a special department was created for this, which was dissolved during perestroika.

A FAMILY LOST IN TIME

 

They were housed in the house at 49 Voznesensky Street on April 30, 1918. They had traveled by train, with curtains covering the windows, perhaps so as not to be recognized; he had stopped at the Omsk station before reaching his destination. The house had been built in the late 1880s, a two-story stone mansion with a small basement, located on the steepest western slope of Ascension Hill, Yekaterinburg City, Urals. The first days the inhabitants of the place approached, prowled and tried to satisfy their curiosity, they wondered what was happening in the Ipatiev House and why its previous owner no longer lived. Then the mystery was solved and they did not stop visiting the place. The Ipatiev mansion was called because the civil-military engineer Nikolai Ipatiev had bought it in 1908. Days later, some soldiers had built a wooden fence in the outline of the house which prevented the locals from greeting and bringing gifts to the new residents, Nicholas II and his family. Nicholas Alexandrovich the last Emperor of Holy Russia. His parents were Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, born Princess of Denmark. When Nicholas met his future wife, Princess Alix of Hesse and By Rhine, they were too young, but the infatuation was mutual and very great, they did not accept impositions, refusals or advice from anyone. The future Empress Alexandra, as she was called when she adopted the Orthodox faith, was the maternal granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, who was called the grandmother of Europe because her daughters were married to European kings.

Nicholas and Alexandra were a wonderful Orthodox family, they loved God and never forgot their daily prayers. They had four daughters who were named Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, the Grand Duchesses of Russia; And then the long-awaited miracle arrived, on August 12, 1904, the heir to the throne from birth, Tsesarevich Alexey, a beautiful and sweet little boy with blue eyes who became the joy of the family, the pride of his father for being a man. and inherit the Throne of the Empire. The Grand Duchesses or Royal Highnesses were called by their name together with the patronymic, for example Olga Nikolaevna, which meant that she was the daughter of her father Nikolay; and so also with the Tsesarevich Alexey Nikolaevich. Nicholas II belonged to the Romanov Dynasty, the reigning imperial house in Russia and made up the largest fortune in the world along with the most important Empire of the time. The disappearance of the family on the night of the 16th to July 17, 1918 caused alarm, there were many stories, stories, versions and a single official of the Bolshevik State that after ten years began to spread the execution of all the members of the family in the small basement. In the early hours of That night they knocked on the door of Nicholas II's room under the pretext that they had to leave urgently, they made them all go down to the basement, they walked down some steep wooden stairs and waited for further instructions, this was the official version. In that small basement it was impossible to shoot members of the royal family with the firing squad, taking into account Yurovsky's account that he was the Commander of the Ipatiev House. The room where they were supposed to shoot was 20 square meters and a height of 1.75 meters and with 11 people, 7 of the family and the other trusted people of the Emperor, the question was how to shoot?

Then the investigation showed that only one spot resembling blood was found in the basement, but 11 people had been shot. The first investigators were men of the Tsardom and claimed not to find any trace of what happened and with respect to the family, they were found neither alive nor dead. Three investigators concluded that the crime scene had been set up, the execution had not occurred. They had shot 11 people in the form of an execution, but for the investigators who arrived at the scene, the absence of blood was striking. They fired several times to achieve the objective, but on the walls they found only three marks of projectiles that were expelled from bullets. When checking the rooms and the whole house, the beard and mustache were found shaved in the rooms of Nicholas II, while in the girls' room they found cut braids. Everything indicated that before leaving for a new destination they changed their physiognomies so as not to be recognized, the Civil War had begun and the White Army loyal to Nicholas was near the city. There were no documents on the alleged execution of the Romanov royal family. They were missing. No photographs of the execution or of the corpses were ever shown. On that July night they disappeared in the mist and penetrating cold of the Urals.

Some assumed that Nicholas and his family were sent to West Germany. As was known, they had gold and money in an English bank and there were also millions of gold from the Romanov family in Berlin for that reason everyone could have lived with other identities. The change of identity would have been to preserve life. Another version indicated that it was the Vatican itself who, with the help of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, managed to protect the lives of the Empress and her five children, giving her the possibility of escaping from Russia. A family Lost in history, in time... a family that in the darkness of a cold night disappeared without a trace... Or perhaps the traces and the evidence remain reserved for a story not yet told?