1614 Moscow.
A woman of about forty stood motionless, clutching a small child. Disheveled hair hung lifelessly over her shoulders, framing a thin, exhausted face. She was short, stooped, but of a fragile build, dressed in a shabby dress, vaguely reminiscent of a neat woman's outfit: the corset was in disrepair, the hooks on which the iron loops should be hooked were turned out one after the other, and some were completely missing. The skirt hung in torn, dirty shreds and was dirty blue. Her lips trembled, but her expression remained proud and vengeful. Looking at her, one could still recognize the beautiful Polish woman - the first lady of the Moscow kingdom.
- Marina. Marina Mnishek,” the woman answered calmly, coldly; the child in her arms, clutching the remnants of his mother’s dress in his fists, looked around in horror, snuggling closer and closer to the interrogated woman.
- Not yours! His! - a fat man of the same age with sparse greasy hair and short fingers was losing patience.
It was not she who was the defendant, but a completely stupid little boy, who was clinging to his mother’s rags with a death grip and looking around with big eyes.
The man impatiently tapped his foot, bit his lips and looked at Marina with his swollen eyes with strong disgust and hostility.
- Ivan Dmitrievich, son of Dmitry Ioannovich, legitimate...
- Enough! – the blushing official switched to falsetto, meanwhile the three-year-old child began to quietly whine. - Shut up your thieving brat!
“Why are you asking all these questions, there’s no point in delaying all this,” Marina repeated word for word after the official.
There was a ringing silence. The official stopped biting his cheek, reached the desk in two steps, grabbed all the papers into a pile and, turning to the people in uniform, gave orders.
“In custody,” he said, pointing to an exhausted, but maintaining composure, woman with a child.
Already on the way out of the hall, he turned around and added that the mother and child should be placed in separate rooms and not given food.
At that same second, they tore his son, choking with tears, from Mniszek’s hands and, once again hitting him on the legs and tying him up, threw him into a solitary cell.
Camera. Midnight.
POV Marina Mnishek.
What the thirst for power does to people. But being a sixteen-year-old girl, I had no idea that I would become a hostage to my own ambitions.
It all happened then, ten years ago, in 1603. A young man came to my father, Yuri Mnishek, with a very sensible offer - a round sum of gold for his daughter. And in addition, her happiness, because who doesn’t want to be the royal bride and empress of all Rus'. He introduced himself as Ditrius, Tsarevich Dmitry, who miraculously escaped. If his fate had been as tragic as he said, I would not be here now.
My father is an unbearable adventurer, he squandered all his loans, was mired in debt, and we would have rotted in poverty if it weren’t for Dmitry. He promised him that if the deal was successful, he could forget about his debts. There is no need to talk about the success of the deal based on fate.
Soon, in 1606, we were married.
Blind, poor Russia. Then I hated you with all my heart, I hated you for these dresses, for this stale, rough food, for your habit of eating with your hands, for your customs and practices. I remember how the princes were ready to burn me with their eyes for the fork they saw in my hands, but it would not have been me if I had given in.
It wasn’t long before “the power was in my hands.” He, Dmitry, was executed. Everyone knew, and I knew, that it was none other than Otrepiev, who had fled. Everything fell into place. I sat on the throne for only eight days, but in that short time I realized that there was nothing better.
Fate gave me a second chance in the person of Dmitry number two, God himself wanted to see me at the Russian throne. We got married a year after we met. I recognized him as a “dear and beloved husband” immediately, without thinking, my thirst for power was so strong.
Soon I gave birth to a son, they named me Ivan, Vanya, Vanechka... if my fate is now so unpredictable, he is doomed, he is a bargaining chip in our conspiracy.
As you already understood, my second husband is dead, lying stabbed to death somewhere near Kaluga. But, you see, not every woman is so lucky to be married both times and both times to kings, but I was lucky. And both times I am an “unhappy” widow.
Then Zarutsky patronized me, yes, we fled. Then, leaving Moscow in a hurry, I promised myself that I would return.
And she returned, only not with honors and favors, but in chains and rags. They took us from the river. Yaik, transported to Astrakhan and from there to the capital.
Now the council will decide our fate, Vanya will not be left alive and this thought is killing me. He may be a child from a person I don’t love, but he is my son, he is from my flesh and blood, I carried him under my heart! It is not his fault that he became the main chip in this state feud. God, forgive my sins, accept his soul into your heavenly kingdom...
Serpukhov Gate. Morning of the next day.
The half-naked mother was taken outside; the light momentarily blinded her, forcing her to cover her eyes with her mutilated hands. The first thing Mniszek saw was two pillars with a crossbar and immediately her heart skipped a beat. She fell to her knees, hitting her head on the ground and, raking the dirt with her nails, began to sob. She choked on her own cries, mixed with prayers and tears, her voice cutting through the cold air, forcing everyone around to fall silent. Perhaps this was the first and last moment of repentance in Marina Mnishek’s life. Never before and never later did she blame herself, because now she hated “blind, stupid” Russia, just as she did in those moments.
When they grabbed her by the elbows and dragged her to the wall, she saw with already sore and swollen eyes how one of the uncouth men was carrying in his arms a boy in a white tattered shirt that was already too big for him.
- No! – and again the mother’s desperate cry was heard throughout the entire square.
The boy, having heard a vaguely familiar voice, turned his small head around, looking for his mother. He babbled something incomprehensible, turning to crying. He found her with his eyes at the moment when the rough rope tightened around her thin neck.
Mniszech will not forget these eyes until his death: at that second they shone with joy at seeing their own mother and at that same second they became motionless. The dilapidated crossbar was knocked out from under the children's legs.
Marina, in her powerless attempts to escape, screamed in a hoarse, hoarse voice, where did she get so much strength from in her exhausted body, but her soul was still strong.
- Bastards! Atheists! Dealt with the child! Creatures! – innocent Ivan’s mother desperately screamed.
They grabbed Mnishek, twisted her arms, beat her on her legs, in useless attempts to calm her down, but she continued to hurl threats and insults. In a second, she found a balcony ledge, from where the newly-crowned tsar, Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, watched the execution of the sentence.
- There will be no life for your family, your children and grandchildren! Not one of the Romanov family will ever, you hear, ever die a natural death, and this will continue until all the Romanovs rot in the grave!
Only now did the guard manage to silence the desperate Mnishek with a blow to the temple, but everyone heard her last words, and Romanov heard them too.
1921 Leningrad.
- Name? Answer the question posed, there is no point in delaying all this.
- I'm not even trying. – The red-haired girl with a thick build answered dryly. She had large eyes, prominent cheekbones and a slightly large nose, but soft, full lips.
- Anna. Anna Vladimirovna Romanenko. – A high, deep voice rang out.
- Where are you from?
“I came here to my aunt and stayed with her. I'm from Odessa, Ukraine, I live there with...
– What do you know about the royal family, do you know any details? – the investigator interrupted her.
- Only that in 1918 the entire Romanov family was shot, although I don’t remember, in the house, in the house... whatever their name was...
– Thank you, you have to wait a little, we need to finish with the formalities, it won’t take much time, you’ll be free soon.
- Yes, sure.
The girl, who called herself Anna, sat down on the bench.
“Only that in 1918 the entire Romanov family was shot, although I don’t remember, in the house, in the house...” - the words she had just spoken sounded in her head. She lied, but she lied to save herself. She remembered everything, everything down to the smallest moments. She remembered how, at about one in the morning, she and her father, mother, sisters and brother, people who arrived at such a late time, were escorted into the semi-basement. I remembered how people with weapons entered there. I remembered every word of the sentence being read. “...We have been entrusted with the mission to put an end to the House of Romanov!” I remembered my father's last words. "How? Re-read...” I remembered the moment when indiscriminate shooting began on command.
Her name was not Anna, her name was Anastasia, Nastya Romanova. Romanova, who managed to survive that fateful night...
– Would you like some coffee or tea? We apologize for such a long wait. – A young soldier of a pleasant appearance approached Anastasia.
– Can I have water with lemon? Thank you…
Anastasia carefully hid not only her name and origin, but also her royal upbringing, but her manners, posture, and politeness were always with her.
Ten minutes later, the investigator returned to the waiting room and informed the princess that she could be free.
Anna, having said goodbye, calmly walked out first from the courtroom, then from the building itself. It was cloudy and damp outside - typical Leningrad weather. Evening was falling on the city; now it was getting dark quickly. The girl walked quickly through the narrow streets, choosing the shortest path to the house, in which, of course, no aunt lived.
- Stop! Hey, stop, I say! – suddenly someone’s voice cut through the evening air.
Anastasia flinched, but stopped, turning slowly. There was no point in running. It was the same soldier who offered coffee in the courtroom.
– Our habits always give us away, don’t they... Water with lemon instead of tea... I know about this addiction of Romanov’s youngest daughter. It's a shame, but I must tell you that you have not passed the main test. We apologize for such a long wait, Princess! - And with these words, the soldier with a sharp movement took out a pistol from his bosom and pulled the trigger, firing at point-blank range.
White flakes fell onto the frozen ground. White flakes, turning pale red, were Princess Anastasia's last veil.
The Curse of Marina Mniszech
Meanwhile, the leader of the Volga Cossacks, Ivan Zarutsky, with Marina Mnishek and her son Ivan (from False Dmitry II), who turned two years old at the beginning of 1613, were in Astrakhan. There, the rebellious Cossacks proclaimed little Ivan the new king.
While Zarutsky and Mniszek were free, the threat of new unrest or a Polish invasion was great. Fleeing from persecution, they flee across the Caspian Sea to Yaik.
On July 6, 1614, the Cossacks themselves eventually handed them over. They could end up in Moscow in August at the earliest, but more likely later.
All historical studies on this issue briefly report that Zarutsky was immediately impaled, Ivan was hanged at Execution Ground, and that Marina soon died in prison. Everyone calls the age of Marina’s son on the day of execution - “four years old.” He was born a few days after the murder of his father, False Dmitry II, the “Tushino Thief” - and it was December 10 or 11, 1610. Astrological analysis suggests that the boy was born on December 16–20, most likely December 20, 1610. His birth horoscope is very gloomy; one can definitely say about the boy: “born under an unlucky star.”
Marina was formally the crowned Russian Tsarina, and the law forbade her execution. If we recognize her as an impostor, then she was a Polish citizen and, obviously, not guilty of her marriage. But her unfortunate son, now called by the boyars only as “Ivashka-Vorenok,” was a Russian subject. And the boyars sentence him to death. Marina’s son was taken from prison by deception, assuring her that the tsar would not take revenge on the child. The executioner carried him in his arms to Lobnaya Square, wrapping him in a fur coat - the boy in the cell was wearing only a shirt...
This information suggests that the execution took place in the fall. Probably, the investigation into the Mniszech case has been going on since August. It was not completed even in December, since it is known that the Russian ambassador to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of December 1614 or January 1615 justified himself to the Poles for Marina’s death with the words: “And Marinka died of her own free will from illness and melancholy in Moscow ; but the sovereign and the boyars needed her alive to expose your untruths.” In Muscovite Rus' itself, the news of her death was officially announced as follows: “And Marinka died in Moscow from illness and longing for her whiteness.”
I can assume that her son was hanged on October 4, 1614, not only based on astrological calculations, but also because this day is marked in Russian (and not only Russian) history: on October 4, 1552, Ivan the Terrible entered Kazan, which had been taken days earlier ; On October 4, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar in Catholic countries (since Mniszech was a Catholic, the choice of the day of execution by the boyars could be connected with this, in defiance of the “Latin faith”). And even after the execution of 1614, this day manifested itself: on October 4, 1879, the most prominent historian of the 19th century, Sergei Solovyov, died without having time to complete his “History of Russia since Ancient Times”; On October 4, 1917, the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church adopted a message “to all children” regarding the elections to the Constituent Assembly: “Let our people overcome the spirit of wickedness and hatred that overwhelms them...” - very precise words precisely on the day of the 303rd anniversary of the public execution a four-year-old baby... In times close to us, we can remember the shooting of the White House in Moscow on October 4, 1993...
According to legend, Marina Mnishek, having learned about the execution of her son, cursed the entire Romanov family and declared that not one of them would die a natural death, that crimes in their families would not stop until the dynasty faded away. There were various rumors about Marina’s death in prison: whether she broke her head on the iron plates in her cell, or whether the jailers killed her remained unknown.
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The first crowned Queen
Polish Marina Mniszech was the first woman crowned by the Patriarch of Moscow to the Russian throne. And after Marina, for more than a century it was not customary to crown a royal wife as king, until Peter I ordered this ceremony to be performed on his wife Catherine.
When, after the murder of her husband, the first False Dmitry, she was saved, she was given the opportunity to leave for her homeland. But politics intervened. “Tsar Dmitry” has “resurrected” again! And although it was not him, the interests of Marina’s Fatherland demanded that they play a comedy and recognize him as her legal husband, the Tsar. With disgust, Marina thought about cohabiting with this ugly and unloved person, but she was reassured: she should only show in public that she was married.
And soon Marina acquired a stately lover - the daring leader of the Don Cossacks, a native of Western Ukraine, Ataman Ivan Zarutsky. He was one of the big men under the second impostor, the “Tushino thief.” After he was defeated and killed, Zarutsky chose a new career.
"Raven"
Moscow at that time called the Polish prince Vladislav to the throne and swore allegiance to him. This closed for Marina any hope of returning to the kingdom that was the subject of her ambitious dreams. And her faithful knight Zarutsky did not go to serve the Poles. He called out to the Don Cossacks: liberate Moscow from the Poles and place the crowned Queen on the throne! And by this time, Marina and Zarutsky had a son, Ivan, who, for political purposes, was declared the son of the “legitimate Tsar Dmitry.”
The First Militia approached Moscow in 1611, and one of its leaders was Zarutsky. But the militia soon disintegrated, and one of the reasons was the reluctance of many Russians to recognize the “warlord” as the new Tsar. Zarutsky continued to besiege Moscow alone. In the fall of 1612, he entered into an agreement with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and helped him liberate Moscow from the Poles. But the “Council of the Whole Land,” which led the Second Militia, flatly refused to recognize the rights of the “warrior” and Marina to the throne.
Adriana Bedzinska in the film "Boris Godunov" 1986
The Zemsky Sobor elected Mikhail Romanov as Tsar, and Moscow governors launched a hunt for Zarutsky, Marina and their offspring. In 1614 they were driven to Astrakhan and captured. Zarutsky was impaled. The three-year-old little crow was hanged at the Serpukhov Gate. Marina was imprisoned, where she died. According to the most reliable legend, she was imprisoned in the basement of the Kremlin tower in Kolomna, which has since been called by her name. There she was starved to death.
How the curse was fulfilled
For more than three centuries, it was reported from mouth to mouth that at the moment when the executioner snatched the sleeping child from Marina’s hands, the former Tsarina cursed the Romanov family... Peter I killed his son-heir. His grandson, Peter II, ended the direct male line of the Romanovs. Descendants of the female lines of the dynasty ended their lives tragically or mysteriously. Ivan VI was removed from power from an early age and died in custody. Peter III and his son Paul I were killed. The fate of Alexander I is mysterious. Nicholas I may have committed suicide. Alexander II was killed in an explosion. Alexander III died in his prime. Nicholas II died tragically with his entire family and most of the members of the dynasty...
The photographic material was used from free access Yandex and is an illustration of the author’s thoughts.
Father Oleg Molenko
REFLECTIONS ON THE END OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY
It is not surprising that in this world, the prince of which is the father of lies, the devil, lies dominate everything. Different people, countries, peoples, states, religions, churches, parties, groups and various human communities and associations have their own interests. Hence the presence of a struggle for one’s interests against others who have interests other than these. And where there is a struggle, there is the use of force, there is cunning, lies, deceit, forgery, pretense, perjury, inventions, etc. And this applies not only to people who do not believe in Christ or false believers, but also to Orthodox Christians. Alas, they also succumb to temptation and resort to lies, falsely interpreting the words of the Psalter “a lie is a horse for salvation.” The psalmist pointed out in this line that the horse is unreliable for salvation and whoever trusts in it is mistaken and deceived. Lovers of lies present this phrase in such a way that lies are a horse for salvation, on which one can allegedly ride off and be saved. Those. that lies are acceptable if they are used to save a person or people. So they begin to lie and force others to do so, and slyly cover it all up with good intentions.
If we take the history of the Russian Kingdom, then lies and distortions are present in it in various places. Let's look at the history of the House of Romanov. Why was Mikhail Romanov, who was only 16 years old and who was not at all ready to rule the Russian Kingdom, elected to the Kingdom? There was nobility of the family, which was very important in those days, but nobility alone was not enough. There were many other noble families, and even more so, there were many more experienced people to rule than Mikhail Romanov. But those who decided the fate of the Fatherland settled on Mikhail Romanov. Why? It would seem that for such an important, fateful and responsible task it is necessary to choose a suitable person and the best of all candidates. But they were chosen not on the principle of quality, but on the principle of suitability for all interested parties. They so directly wrote down in the chronicle that Mikhail, they say, is not very smart, but he suits everyone.
Those. for the sake of satisfying personal ambitions, people deliberately place an unintelligent person at the head of that Orthodox Kingdom, on which the fate of the Church of Christ on this earth largely depended! Having installed the narrow-minded Mikhail, these people, hidden from us in the crowd of the Zemsky Sobor, hoped to influence him and through this rule the state for their own benefit. That is why this choice was purely human, and not God’s (as it was, for example, in ancient times with King David). To give this human choice legitimacy and an aura of divinity, the makers of history assembled the Zemsky Sobor and compiled the well-known oath “horror story” in the form of a cathedral code. In this document, these people, in violation of the commandment of the Lord, swore allegiance to the House of Romanov until the end of time, naively believing that this House could withstand until the Second Glorious Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. However, they did this for themselves and for themselves, and not at all for the glory of God. They may have bound themselves with an oath, but they tried to bind all subsequent generations with it, which is no good. Many today are led by this oath, mistakenly believing that the Zemsky Council of the Russian land cannot be mistaken, just like the Ecumenical Council of the Church of Christ.
But people are people, even if many of them gather in one place. Their number does not guarantee an error-free decision, much less one pleasing to God and useful to the state. So, we see that the basis for the further existence of the Russian State was not a godly act or even the future prosperity of the Russian Kingdom, but an agreement that satisfied everyone with the current earthly interests of the then influential persons. God allowed people to choose, yielding to their will. However, the mistake in choice affected the course of all subsequent Russian history and the history of the House of Romanov.
The chosen Tsar Michael was not only young, inexperienced and narrow-minded, but also sick with a serious pathological disease, which was genetically passed on to all subsequent generations of the Romanov family. This disease especially affected males, from whom heirs to the Russian throne were expected. The sons of the Romanov tsars died as infants, and those who managed to survive most often did not live to be 50 years old or lived just over 50.
Mikhail Romanov lived 49 years.
Alexey Mikhailovich – 46 years old.
Peter Alekseevich the First - 53 years old.
Peter II - 15 years old.
Peter II (killed) - 34 years old.
Paul I (killed) - 46 years old.
Nicholas I - 59 years old.
Alexander I the Blessed (how the king died) - 47 years old.
Alexander II the Liberator (killed) – 62 years old.
Alexander III the Peacemaker - 49 years old.
Nicholas II, Abdicator of the Throne - 50 years old.
As we see, only Tsar Alexander II managed to exceed 60 years.
It is clear that the transience of the life of the Russian Tsars could not but have a negative impact on the life of the entire Kingdom.
Who is God's holy saint among these kings? The ROCOR and the ROC MP canonized only Nicholas II as martyrs. However, the holiness of this king is in great doubt, because we don’t even know for sure whether he was really killed on July 17, 1918 in Ipatiev’s house. But even if he was really killed and this murder is considered torture for Christ, then still it was the man Nicholas who was the martyr, and not the tsar. As a holy king, he did not succeed in any case. One can raise the question of canonizing Tsar Paul I among the martyrs, but he was not exactly a holy king either. Alexander I is also not a holy king, although Elder Fyodor Kuzmich may have achieved personal holiness. So, we cannot say that any of the Russian kings was a holy king before God, like, for example, King David.
Let's go back to the beginning of the Romanovs' reign - to Tsar Mikhail. At the very beginning of his reign, this seemingly pious king committed a terrible crime. He executed a 4-year-old child, the son of Marina Mnishek Ivan, only because he was the son of False Dmitry II and could lay claim to the Russian throne. He executed him publicly by hanging! Maria Mnishek cursed Tsar Michael and the entire Romanov family, predicting a bloody end for him in 300 years and death in the male line. So, the basis of the rule of the Romanov family was the grave and mortal sin of killing an innocent baby! At the same time, Tsarevich Dimitri, who was killed in the struggle for the throne, was glorified as a saint, and this boy John was executed as a state criminal and enemy of the Russian Kingdom.
Now let's fast forward to the end of the Romanov reign, to 1917.
We know about the Diveyevo elder Paraskeva (Pasha of Sarov), who prayed to the portrait of Tsar Nicholas II, as if calling him a martyr, and who told him “come down from the throne yourself.” But this prayer was strange: “don’t know the monk, don’t know the martyr.” He was not a reverend, for he was not even a monk. And this type of holiness, when combined with martyrdom, is called venerable martyrdom. Maybe “don’t know” is a hidden indication that the king will not become either a saint or a martyr? Did Tsar Nicholas fulfill her order? No, I didn’t! He wanted and intended to fulfill it, and even made a proposal to the Synod of the Russian Church to step down from the Throne and lead the Russian Church as its Patriarch, but he did not find support from them. We know that Tsar Nicholas was not ready and disposed to rule the Russian Kingdom, and also that he was not power-hungry. He was burdened by his monarchy. However, for some reason, at a convenient moment, he did not voluntarily leave the Throne. Then he was placed by circumstances in a position in which a group of generals and Masonic politicians, with the support of church hierarchs and the majority of the clergy, was forced to abdicate the Throne in favor of his brother Michael. Mikhail Romanov, the Second and Last, abdicated the Throne and the monarchy in general in favor of the Masonic revolution. So the Romanovs themselves surrendered their power without any resistance, thereby exposing the entire people to punishment by revolution, fratricidal war and rampant militant atheists and bandits. Formally, Tsar Nicholas did not betray the monarchy, but he should have foreseen the terrible actions of his cowardly decision. Accusing everyone around him of deception, cowardice and treason, he himself, alas, showed cowardice, succumbed to deception and betrayed his calling and ministry, trampling on his oath taken before God on the day of anointing for the Kingdom.
In fact, legally and before God, he ceased to be an autocratic king and again became only a Grand Duke. It was in this capacity that he was arrested and taken through the stages.
We cannot yet say precisely and definitively what happened to Tsar Nicholas and his family, but we can raise questions and note some facts and motives.
The Bolshevik government that existed at that time hated the monarchy and, in particular, Tsar Nicholas just because he was a tsar. She feared that the people might return to the throne again. Although it should be noted that it was the personality of Tsar Nikolai Alexandrovich that was extremely compromised in the eyes of the majority of the people. From this point of view, he was the most unfavorable figure for restoring the monarchy. But fear, as they say, has big eyes. Ulyanov Lenin personally hates the monarchy and Tsar Nicholas, since his father Tsar Alexander III executed Lenin’s brother Alexander. Nevertheless, Ulyanov wanted not only to kill Tsar Nicholas, much less secretly, but to hold an exemplary show trial over him and execute him as an enemy of the Russian people, a usurper and a villain. The civil war and the struggle for power prevented the implementation of this plan. As they say, Lenin simply didn’t get around to it. We know that Nikolai Alexandrovich and his family and some servants were in Yekaterinburg under strong guard in the Ipatiev house.
The whole matter of the murder of the royal family or its staging is shrouded in darkness. What has reached us from various sources raises more questions and confusion than answers. The first, on June 13, 1918, was executed in Perm, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov, who had previously abdicated the throne. It was, as they say, a test of the pen. The Bolsheviks wanted to see the reaction of the crowd and the world public. Everyone “ate” this murder, which supported further reprisals against the Romanovs. This murder of the Grand Duke and the murder on July 18 of the sister of Tsarina Alexandra Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and with her Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich with his servant, by the name of F. Remez, Princes John, Konstantin and Georgy Konstantinovich, and Prince Vladimir Paley, 20 years frame the “murder » Nikolai Alexandrovich and the royal family, which allegedly took place on July 17. However, these murders had all their bodies, by which all those killed were identified. In the case of the royal family, for some reason everything was completely different. Even if the murder of the king and prince was deliberately ritual in nature, this did not give any reason to destroy the bodies of the murdered. On the contrary, everyone should have seen the result of this atrocity - recognizable corpses!
The absence of a corpse, as we know well in many cases, starting with the Gospel narrative, in itself provides food for the appearance of various impostors, as well as for the creation of legends and fantasies! Why did the Bolsheviks do this? If they wanted to execute the Tsar in court in Moscow, but simply did not have time to do it, then they could have taken him to Moscow under guard. But if they feared the capture of the former Tsar Nicholas by the White Guards, they would have held a mini-trial and executed, leaving the corpses in place for recognition of those executed and evidence of the execution. Lenin would not have believed anyone’s word until he himself saw the murdered former Tsar Nicholas and Tsarevich Alexei. Possibly also the former queen Alexandra, who ruled. That is why the legend was started about two heads allegedly brought to Lenin in Moscow - the head of the Tsar and the Tsarina. Moreover, information about this leaked from the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee! However, recently the remains of murdered members of the royal family were allegedly found. First, they allegedly found the remains of the Tsar, the Tsarina and three daughters, and then in 2007, they finally allegedly found the remains of Tsarevich Alexei and another daughter, who for some reason were in a different place. At the same time, for some reason, the heads of the king and queen (skulls) were found at the burial site. Thus, the version with the heads of the Tsar and Tsarina preserved in alcohol delivered to Lenin with further ritual actions collapsed! It turns out that Lenin and others with him were not certified as to the death of the Tsar and Tsarina. But they had to take the words of the telegram at their word!
It is also not clear why the Bolsheviks executed the Tsar’s daughters and servants? What danger did they pose to Soviet power? After all, it was clear what negative resonance this murder could bring to the Bolshevik power throughout the world. And it’s not at all clear why it was necessary to completely destroy the bodies of the former queen, the daughters of the king, the doctor Botkin and his other servants, as well as a dog that belonged to one of the daughters of the former Tsar Nicholas? But investigator Sokolov presents this “murder” to us exactly like this! But investigator Sokolov (like everyone else involved in this case) did not provide any serious evidence for such a terrible accusation! There is only his unfounded assumption. There may have been a murder, but, alas, there are no bodies, no motive, no real evidence. Why did the Bolsheviks waste time, gasoline and acid on Botkin and the dog? They would bury them - that’s all! They say that they were afraid that worship of the body of the murdered king would begin. The Tsar, but not Doctor Botkin! And who would look for the corpse of Dr. Botkin? But the worship of the murdered Tsar Nicholas began anyway and is taking place! Moreover, the Bolsheviks were not believers to be afraid of such things. It is also unclear why the sentence was carried out directly in Ipatiev’s house. Let's say they decided to execute the royal family. They would be taken to the place of supposed burial and destruction of their bodies, they would be killed, burned and buried there - and that’s all. Why did the executioners leave a lot of evidence and evidence about the execution of the royal family in Iptatiev’s house? And then try to carefully hide the traces of this crime by destroying the corpses? There is a clear inconsistency here. If this crime had been carefully planned, then there would not have been bullets or blood in the house, but not a single scratch! They would have taken him to the right place and there they would have dealt with him and destroyed all traces.
About the motives for such an atrocity. If we recall the so-called Great Masonic French Revolution, then the French king was executed publicly and no one destroyed his body. Why didn't the leaders of the Russian revolution do the same? The absence of a body gives rise to all sorts of myths and suspicions towards one’s own. What if someone was bribed and released the royal people? None of the investigators and prosecutors provided any motive for this crime and the fact of the destruction of the bodies. If the Bolsheviks wanted to hide the very fact of the execution of the Tsar, then why did they publicly announce this execution to the whole world? Moreover, specifically the king, but not his entire family. They announced that other family members had been taken to a safe place. And then, nowhere and never did they announce or admit the murder of the queen, prince and four princesses! Why? After all, we learned about their murder only from the book of investigator Sokolov. It is clear that the news of the execution of the Tsar was beneficial to them in order to extinguish monarchical hopes in some circles of the white movement, but the news of the unjustified execution of other members of the royal family would have given rise to hatred and opposition to the Bolsheviks. It is clear that these Satanists do not care about anything, but it is not clear when they are not consistent in their motivation. In one case, they take into account the opinions of others, and in the other, they completely ignore it! Why? If we accept the version of the non-execution dated July 17, 1918, then we can conclude that everything, starting with the murder of Grand Duke Mikhail, was deliberately done so that the Sokolovs and everyone else would believe in the act of execution of the entire royal family. For this, the Bolsheviks committed the Alapaevsk atrocity. But here they made a mistake in that they were too lazy to repeat the scenario with the burning of corpses and the use of acid. In addition, modern researchers of the supposed remains of the royal family do not say anything about the use of acid. The use of acid was necessary for Sokolov to explain the failure to find the remains of the murdered. But since their remains were nevertheless “found”, and even precisely “determined” that they belonged specifically to members of the family of the last Russian Tsar, it is not clear whether acid was used and to hide what? After all, acid destroys the bones themselves! Here, as they say, either-or. Either it was necessary to leave the bodies, or completely destroy them so that no examination in the world would ever be able to establish the authenticity of the remains, because they simply would not exist! They could be burned completely in the furnace of a steam locomotive, as was the case, for example, with the Bolshevik Sergei Lazo.
The financial component is important and can be a decisive motive for a crime or action. We know that the Romanov family, in addition to rich real estate, had a huge amount of money stored outside the Russian Empire. This amount reached up to 20 billion British pounds of the time. In modern times, this is the same as having 200 billion pounds sterling, or approximately 400 billion US dollars! No matter how much Lenin, Trotsky and other revolutionary outrages hated the tsar, they could not ignore his money!
After all, they were thieves and robbers who gave the cry: “Rob the loot!”
The Bolsheviks had to pay off the individuals and banks that had invested in their revolution. But how can the government of a country that was destroyed to the ground by revolution, civil war and the Red Terror pay back?
If the last robe was torn from the church for the sake of supposed hunger, then where will the funds be found to restore the economy and other things? But they restored and succeeded, and using the most unprofitable and ineffective slave labor! Who paid for the civil war and restoration? Behind the scenes? But it was important for her to overthrow the Tsar and destroy Russia, and not to restore it! It turns out that the motive for possibly receiving the Tsar’s billions was completely justified for the Bolshevik leaders! To implement this project, they needed a living king and his living family! Without a family, the king would not do anything. That is why the version still has the right to exist that the tsar, for the sake of survival and the possible salvation of his family, paid the Bolsheviks with his funds stored in foreign banks. Then the official version with the murder of the Tsar and his real preservation would be most beneficial for the Bolsheviks. According to it, it turns out that there is no tsar, but in fact there is his money to continue the revolution and restore Russia! Then the king could gradually ransom each of his daughters and send them abroad, subject to maintaining secrecy. And the fact that someone, due to weakness, could not preserve it or revealed it to people who used it in such a way that they pretended to be members of the royal family, these are living people.
So, there are many questions about the disappearance of the former Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1917, there are many versions of this event, but there is no exact knowledge of the truth! That is why everyone can choose their own version of this event according to their own taste, but cannot yet have the complete truth. Today we do not know and do not have any solid basis for asserting the fact of the murder of the royal family on July 17, 1918, as well as the fact that they were not killed on that day! How, then, can we talk about their canonization and so on? Here we need a revelation from God! And before this revelation, let’s leave all our assumptions and get busy with our personal repentance and salvation.
They may tell me, what about the prophecies regarding Tsar Nicholas? My answer to this is that all the so-called benign “prophecies” addressed to the last tsar appeared in the 20th century, and after the Soviet horn-lucy! For example, we find about the alleged prophecies of St. Seraphim of Sarov regarding the Tsar and the events of the collapse of the Russian Empire in the notes of the red priest and heresiarch Pavel Florensky. There is a reference to some letters from St. Seraphim, but no one shows the letters themselves, because they are not available. All this is more than strange. In general, the very approach to assessing the king and the events of the collapse is very strange. On the one hand, there are prophecies about a terrible catastrophe and the collapse of the Russian Empire, and on the other - the glorification of the one who led this empire at the time of the collapse!
They say Tsar Nicholas was a kind man, a loving father and a good family man. It was, but so what? We evaluate not his personal human qualities, but the quality of his rule and the result of this rule. Is it possible to imagine that some commander was glorified for losing a war? Or politics for the failure of his policies? And here is the loss of two wars (Russian-Japanese and the First World War), and the collapse of the empire, and the death of tens of millions of citizens - and the head of state not only has nothing to do with it, but a fine fellow, a hero, a saint and a martyr. How to understand and combine this. If some false admirers of Ivan the Terrible are trying to glorify him precisely for his political and military successes, then at the same time these people glorify Nikolai Romanov for his losses and failures in this very area! For example, the prophecies of Father John of Kronstadt that have reached us, written by his hand and published (and not transmitted from someone else’s words) speak only about the collapse of the Empire and the executions of God, about the taking away of the king and the monarchy, and subsequent troubles. At the same time, the saint denounces the government for inaction towards the enemies of the faith and the kingdom, but nowhere does he glorify Tsar Nicholas and does not predict his glory and torment for the Lord! And we receive the “prophecies” of Abel and St. Seraphim through third hands, and of very dubious origin. I myself read a description of the appearance of St. Seraphim to a certain youth published in a pre-revolutionary magazine. In this apparition that happened in 1911, the monk did not praise the tsar, but denounced the people for committing sins and not repenting, and warned about the coming war and disaster if the Russian people did not repent. He then announced a postponement of the war for two years. And this prophecy came true accurately and in a timely manner! How is it possible and for what to praise the head of state if this state is predicted to be the wrath and punishment of God for deviating from the faith and not repenting? That is why we cannot believe unreliable and dubious origin “prophecies” that began to grow like mushrooms after a warm rain. This also applies to all “prophecies” regarding Nikolai Romanov. Neither Blessed Catherine of Vyshgorod, nor Blessed Alipia of Kiev, nor Blessed Lenichka of Sukhumi told me anything about Tsar Nicholas. The life of a king is assessed not by his personal piety, but by his reign and the results of this reign. What is the point that many churches were built under Tsar Nicholas and Russia began to rapidly develop economically, when all this led to the collapse of the Empire and the church, and the built churches were destroyed and desecrated?
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