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Having Fun! / Re: Model warships

« on: October 03, 2017, 03:47:56 PM »

Upload your photos to a photo hosting site. Then copy the url of the uploaded photo and insert the url into the IMG tags from the "Insert Image" button on the toolbar.

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Having Fun! / Re: Things that annoy you because you're a Romanov fan

« on: September 26, 2017, 09:45:28 PM »

OTMA were not "German". However, the German government considered them "Princesses of German Blood" in the treaty of Brest Litovsk as the grand daughters of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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News Links / Re: Iron Felix statue

« on: September 19, 2017, 09:04:12 PM »

It had NOTHING to do with a political statement. He was an artist who felt the sculpture had artistic merit and nothing more.

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News Links / Re: Iron Felix statue

« on: September 11, 2017, 05:09:39 PM »

The Lenin statue in Seattle was originally in Poland. Removed after the collapse of the USSR and bought by an American and shipped to Seattle because the American thought it had artistic merit.
https://fremont.com/about/lenin/

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The Final Chapter / Re: People Being 'Horrified' by OTMAA's Murders?

« on: August 25, 2017, 07:08:25 PM »

Marie Feodorovna wrote: "You know that my thoughts and prayers never leave you. I think of you day and night and sometimes feel so sick at heart that I believe I cannot bear it any longer. But God is merciful. He will give us strength for this terrible ordeal." Her daughter Olga Alexandrovna commented further on the matter, "Yet I am sure that deep in her heart my mother had steeled herself to accept the truth some years before her death.

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The Final Chapter / Re: People Being 'Horrified' by OTMAA's Murders?

« on: August 25, 2017, 06:59:34 PM »

Because they said so in letters.

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The Final Chapter / Re: People Being 'Horrified' by OTMAA's Murders?

« on: August 25, 2017, 05:53:26 PM »

Lenin and Co. all deliberately kept what happened to the IF murky and unclear. They didn't want the world to know what had happened and in fact encouraged all the claimants. While their immediate family "knew" what had happened, they had no evidence and many, like Marie Feodorovna kept hope that somebody might have survived.  There were no "official announcements" of the murders.

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The Final Chapter / Re: A Question from a Friend

« on: August 22, 2017, 01:50:42 PM »

I apologize if I came across as harsh. These issues have been discussed over and over several years ago after the second remains were found. It was just frustrating that they came up yet again.

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The Final Chapter / Re: A Question from a Friend

« on: August 22, 2017, 10:04:34 AM »

Believe whatever makes you happy. We do know that Yurovsky's men were looting the bodies finding valuables which Yurovsky made them all turn over before the bodies went out to the trucks. This account is reliable because several sources mention it as well as Yurovsky.  So the bodies were all being handled and clearly if someone was still alive they would have noticed. Every person who has studied these events in full detail has pretty much come to the conclusion that none of the Imperial Family and their retainers left that room alive

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The Final Chapter / Re: A Question from a Friend

« on: August 21, 2017, 09:56:10 AM »

 Because Yurovsky said they stabbed and beat her with the guns to kill her. Go read his statements.

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The Final Chapter / Re: A Question from a Friend

« on: August 20, 2017, 03:36:40 PM »

The discussion is buried in the Anastasia "surviving" discussions. Yes, the diamonds acted like a "bullet proof" vest when they tried to stab them, and some stones started to fall out when they started moving the bodies.

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The Final Chapter / Re: A Question from a Friend

« on: August 20, 2017, 02:50:58 PM »

This has be rehashed over and over and over. Don't forget they discovered the girls had diamond quilted into their undershirts when they tried to stab them to kill them. They stripped their bodies for jewels and so were handling the bodies and would have easily discovered anyone was still alive. NO they all died. Nobody survived even for a short while.

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The Alexander Palace / Re: The Mauve Room (Photos)

« on: August 09, 2017, 06:15:36 PM »

The manufacturer was "Charles Berger" in Paris.  I found my notes. The cost last time it was requested was $1000 per meter, and that was some fifteen years ago now!

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The Alexander Palace / Re: The Mauve Room (Photos)

« on: August 09, 2017, 04:41:54 PM »

The firm name is here somewhere in the thread, you can search for it as I can't recall it off hand. They are still in business. They don't make it currently, it would be a special commission they can reproduce. 20 years ago it was about $600 a meter! We don't know if the original firm is making the fabric for the current restoration or if the Museum has another source.

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Nicholas II / Re: Disposal of bodies and Yurovsky-Ermakov conflict

« on: July 27, 2017, 01:56:00 PM »

Use the search function for the forum and/or scroll through the posts in "The Final Chapter" where all this was discussed at length after the second set of remains were found.