There are worship threads all over the site, but when someone wants hard facts, we try to provide them.
This is a site for the story of the historic and while some of us may also be romantic, we try not to confuse the two.
This whole forum is also duplicated and stored in the Library of Congress and that is a good thing for future researchers. It also means that the "romantic" and Romanovphiles must be tempered with the "warty" truth.
While it is a well known fact that Nicholas & Alexandra were in love and "romantically" died together with their family, that is also a horrible way to go. We can not overlook one for the other.
It's always good to temper opinions and wishes with the "warty" truth, if we have evidence t show it really IS the truth and not a wish to end with people's dreams. Sometimes, peoples dreams are nonsense, but other times, truth could be behind what we wish to believe. I think it's hard to understand what I was trying to say...I mean that I've found some data confirming what could have been a romantic idea about a character or an historical event. Sometimes, however, the "warty" truth shows we were mistaken and that things went otherwise. History is like life: it holds all its sides: romanticism, cruelty, funny things, idealism, cynicism...all mixed together.
I know this site is stored AL the Library of Congress, but it can't avoid that people states their owns ideas. They could be mistaken or being even crazy...but in a public forum, even if he is serious and "scholar", you must know you could find almost everything, from very academic post, to really lunatics ones. You must not see everything that is written down as the truth. Even books have serious and big historical mistakes stored between covers, and people goes to Libraries and keeps reading them with all they errors and madness. Don't worry
Of course I'm not saying that Nicholas and Alexandra 's death was ideal. I wish not to die the same way than them, but if I was Alix or one of her daughters, be sure I should not like to be left alive to wonder for a recognition and suffer all my life among strangers and seeing, right before my eyes, all my family dying in a so violent way. It's, by far more "romantic" to die suddenly among your beloved ones that being spared and suffering all my life. In this case, "warty" truth was more romantic than sme fantasy stories .
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