If I could spend one day with ONE of the Romanov family members, it would be with Nicholas, himself. Why?
Well, in some cases to get or SAVE the entire group, one must do something strategic with ONE of the members.
Yes, I would be talking about going back in time, as has been already mentioned. A good year would be about 1911.
If i could go back in time, I would pre-pare in such a way as to know WHEN the Tsar and Family were going to be at home at Tsarkoe-Selo and not away on the Standardt or in the Crimea, etc.
If I could obtain an introductory access to the family in a
formal way, then in order to obtain a more intimate meeting, certain things would have to be done--spectacular but SAFE things. If successful, I would permit myself to be thouroughly search by the palace personnel and then if received by the Tsar, then I would speak to him in English, and show him some modern things so that he would listen to me in a more SERIOUS way.
My intial "bag of technological tricks" to be reviewed by the Tsar would be :
1. a cigarette lighter
2. a new telephone for his consideration, but I would have
two fully-charged battery operated wireless portable phones to demo for him.
3. a battery-operated laptop with floppy disc presentations of the Romanov family and their demise, as well as floppy recorded presentations on medical advances in a plastic anemia and hemophilia.
4. a battery-operated CD player with headphones and a CD of Johann Strauss waltzes and Petr Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto no 1 in B-flat.
5. a book in colour published in the 1990s on the Romanov family with modern fotos of Tsarko-Selo as well as personal fotos from their THEN family that had YET to be distributed into public access.
If the Tsar saw that I was not a magician or into the occult, but had presented HIGH technology from the future, then if he gave me his ear---albeit ASTONISHED ear, then it would be time for me to suggest the following to him :
"Your Imperial Majesty, to avoid your family's demise, please consider this :
a) this week, go the 15 miles to St Petersburg and form a truly representative legislature and make the Monarchy a Constitutional one like your cousin Geo V has in Britain.
b) Avoid, avoid, avoid getting into World War I in 1914 against your cousin Willy in Germany.
c) When you and your family take your summer cruise in July on the Standardt, go over to England for a week "holiday" and set up an escape plan with your cousin, George V IN ADVANCE. Ingratiate him in some sort of honourable way so that--in the future-- if you FAIL to do what I have suggested concerning setting up a Constitutional Monarchy and avoiding World War I, then George would permit you ASYLUM and permit you all to come over to England on the Standardt--or another pre-arranged means so that you can have a "fail-safe" should all else fail.
That is what I would do, if I had one day to spend with one Romanov.
