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Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Alexandra - Slandered and Hated
« on: August 25, 2011, 07:24:21 PM »
Yes, I also see things the way Petr does, and blessOTMA I apologize if you think I was criticizing you.
Nicholas was torn between the commitment he made to war and his domestic duties. I don't think Stavka was an obvious escape for the simple reason that he knew some estimate of the death toll, even if the numbers were low. He was an honorable man, we know, and may have felt that his decision to send a young man into possible death in the trenches meant that he had to be near these decisions.
Alexandra was wrong to counsel him to take over the Command. We all probably agree on that!
Nicholas was torn between the commitment he made to war and his domestic duties. I don't think Stavka was an obvious escape for the simple reason that he knew some estimate of the death toll, even if the numbers were low. He was an honorable man, we know, and may have felt that his decision to send a young man into possible death in the trenches meant that he had to be near these decisions.
Alexandra was wrong to counsel him to take over the Command. We all probably agree on that!