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The Alexander Palace / Re: New video Tsarskoie Selo, Alexander Palace etc

« on: October 13, 2018, 05:26:40 PM »

That was wonderful, amazing. Thanks for doing that. Walking in the footsteps, so moving, so lonesome. And the oak trees. Best not to say but I hope you scored an acorn. Or four. You can feel the solemness still though all that time and space. No wonder they named them saints. See what you mean by that menacing fence; the Ipatiev mindset persists, but hey, they're working there, so that's great. Again thanks.

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The Final Chapter / Re: One Hundred Years On

« on: September 18, 2018, 03:03:15 PM »

The last couple of years there's been an outbreak of measles in Europe. Another Romanov coincidence. The  100th anniversary from when OTMAA caught it and lost their chance to escape and live. Once again its wreaking havoc.

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The Myth and Legends of Survivors / Re: Larissa Tudor

« on: August 26, 2018, 05:50:41 PM »

Going with GDSophie's teacher's theory for a sec, that the government stole away Larissa's body back to Russia to place in the grave, why would the Bolsheviks allow AA to traipse all over the world with her claims and yet Michelle Anchess, with her Tatiana clams, winds up murdered, allegedly by them? The obvious answer would be they knew Tatiana survived, Anastasia didn't.

You get the sense the government  wants to play both sides here, they want the closure of having the family being buried honorbly, respectfully at last, but the underlying source of their power is that people be afraid of them, and what  better example being what they were capable of with their murder of those girls. Like Stalin said one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.  They wouldn't be seen as so Ozymandias all powerful if a girl had escaped their power, and maybe turning the political execution being more seen as a revenge murder for that escape. So maybe kill Michelle, just in case, maybe repatriate Larissa's body, just in case, if not murdering her on that date.

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The Myth and Legends of Survivors / Re: Larissa Tudor

« on: August 22, 2018, 05:05:52 AM »

That's an appealing theory. You could wish that's what happened.  Poor Tatiana, the sister so conscientious about doing her duty to serve her beloved Russia, and the one taking care of her mom and brother at the end there, she clung, I guess as a means of coping, to the hope they might be exiled, and she might get to live the life of a regular English girl. Poignant that Larissa got to do it, at least for a bit. And that image of Owen and Larissa, heard by their neighbours as laughing and enjoying each others company in their backyard, you could see Tatiana in a similar situation. I forget which acquaintance said she dreamed of having great friendships, and there's that amazing Romanian film of her sitting in the middle of the picture shoot, chattering and laughing away with all and sundry, with Olga and Maria shyly quiet at either end. And that amazing kid who came to sit on Tatiana's lap for the last photo, then runs up to the camera, as if, with her modern dress and hairdo, she had ran from Tatiana's time right into ours.

Larissa in Constantinople is mysterious. How long and how she got there. And why. White slave trade of Russian girls who wind up in Turkey goes on now and I guess was rife back then with so many refugees. Maybe there was a rescue but it was Tudor helping Larissa escape.D

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The Myth and Legends of Survivors / Re: Larissa Tudor

« on: August 19, 2018, 04:30:56 PM »

I'm just reading Occleshaw's book. A spooky tale of mysteries and coincidences. A few things not mentioned above, a witness heard her yelling at a small boy in Russian, and another witness, who picked Tatiana's pictures as her, asked, "she was a Russian princess, wasn't she?", as if it was a common rumour and no big deal, I guess with all the Russian aristocracy around. Another witness recalled Larissa saying her happiest time in England was the three years she had spent in Yorkshire, which squeezes the timeline of her being an exotic dancer in Constantinople, but would explain how she got back into England to marry Tudor. Occleshaw explains she wouldn't be allowed in England unless she had special help or unless she was previously a resident.

Also he only confines his speculations that Larissa was Tatiana. Never wonders if Larissa just lied to Tudor about being Tatiana, everybody else seemed to be doing it. Or maybe Tudor was as bad a Romanov fan as us and just flipped when he saw Larissa's Tatiana looks and married her. I could relate to that.  All that flowers on the grave on Tatiana's birthday and his hermetic behavior after her death is spooky. As is seeing the picture of his second wife with Tatiana's hairdo. And her grave being disturbed right on the Romanov burial. Spooky stuff.

Occleshaw doesn't  mention if Larissa died suddenly or not. Tudor collapsing at her burial suggests it was unexpected, I would think. The certificate says heart exhaustion. Is that a heart attack? A broken heart right after the murder date? A murder was never suggested, but it was the same year as the murder of Michelle Anchess. Just saying. What a tale!