First off the movie I watched was The Romanovs An Imperial Family on youtube very good film accurate in portraying the history as well as showing what kind of people they were. I don't think it was biased in any way they showed the good and bad in old Nic. Really good film I recommend it.
Ah, OK. Sorry I guess I was thinking you were referring to "Nicholas & Alexandra" from 1971 based off the Massie book. Honestly I've never seen "An Imperial Family" the whole way through but bits and pieces amounting to about half of the film. I know that it really focuses on the final year to year and half of their lives and that's it. I'd say it's decent...critical opinions seem mixed. One thing that stuck out to me was the length of OTMA's hair at the end. In the film, if I remember correctly, it shows them walking to the cellar with very short hair still. In reality I believe by July of 1918 it would have grown back to about shoulder length and looked far more traditionally feminine.
She was such a cutie God love her I wanted to give her a big kiss and hug-not to mention take her out for dinner! Wonder if the king would have let me? I'm just working class guy probably not but hell she is a adult can make up her own mind! Come on Nick get with the times!
lol, alright then. I'm sure if you had been able to time warp and save them your odds of getting a date would have improved dramatically. I wouldn't expect more than that though. You're not of royal lineage (although technically they weren't either by this time) and, furthermore, you're American born and raised in a democratic republic...of all things!
By the way it's not Nicholas you should be worrying about as much as Lady Macbeth standing next to him with her arms folded...
Next wanted to ask why do you think old Kersney didn't try to help get them out of the country? He was concerned about them that's why he sent them to the Governors mansion. Should have gotten them out of the country not long after that. He could have done it had some soldiers who still liked them go to the train station and have guards watch until they were out of the country. Not all the soldiers hated the Romanovs. In fact some got to know them by working and talking with them over the months and had a change of heart. When Lenin took over Kers should have gotten them right out that day instead he just took care of his own ass! He should have went to Tobolsk and got them out of there. Any thoughts or answers would be appreciated.
Kerensky's concern with the Romanovs had more to do with him not wanting their blood on his hands than it had to do with any type of allegiance toward the family. He was after all a revolutionary greatly opposed to the Tsarist regime. He was not radical like the Bolsheviks however. He also probably wasn't expecting to lose control over the government which is ultimately what sealed the Romanov's fate. Had PM Lloyd Geroge and King George V excepted them into Britain as exiles the decision for Kerensky would have been made much easier.
Next why didn't more people try and up rise to take over Lenin.
The revolution was taking place with or without Lenin. The rest of your questions requires a pretty lengthy and detailed response. In the interest of time and space I encourage you to visit the many topic threads where this has been discussed.
Wouldn't have been nice if they caught the guards just ready to execute the Romanovs and stopped them in a nick of time.
Perhaps it wasn't meant to be. The family had a destiny.
God bless the whites they could have pinned Yurovsky and his piece of crap guards up on the wall and had the royal family torture them for a few hours!
The White's committed their fare share of brutalities as well you know? Yes I wish they had won their struggle, but ultimately it was a case of rooting for the lesser of evils.
Everyone would get a turn even little Alexis before the whites exterminate them! I would pay to see that laugh in their faces before they died scumbag garbage excuse for human beings "duh my boss tells me to kill a nice family young women and a sick child because the father didn't rule the country the greatest! Okay no problem" Lenin tells you to jump you ask how high! What Yur did to the bodies after they were murdered he should have been tortured for months by as many people as possible before being burned while still alive and then be thrown down a mine shaft just like what he did to the family. Scum of the earth waste human excrement trash have more respect for a rabid sick wild dog.
Easy now! Many of us have those same basic feelings but you're going to have clean yourself up and articulate things a bit better if you want to be taken seriously on this forum. Just some friendly advice. I also recommend giving yourself over to the IF spiritually, since you're obviously very passionate about them to begin with. It might allow for some closure. Remember Dave, it was they who faced down the bullets and the bayonets and the riffle butts, not you and I. And it was they who did not hate but accepted their fate. You should as well.
By inflicting unnecessary wishes of pain and torture on those you despise you not only act in an inhumane fashion (as the killers did), but you legitimize them and their actions. I find it easier to look at Yurovsky and those guards as dubious & unwitting accomplices acting out a role that they had no real control over. In my view God had plans and it didn't matter who the thugs were to take care of the actual dirty work.
Why would you kill a family over one persons bad job of running the country the wife, girls and boy had nothing to do with that.
As has been said they did not want a "live banner to rally around". I for one believe the argument for political expediency to be utter nonsense. It was a combination of bad people with bad intentions making live or death decision and their normal human emotions and desire for revenge getting the best of them.
Maybe the Duma should have abdicated him way before the revolution and take over do more for the poor and get the country on the right track.
That's not how it works. Nicholas needed to learn from his mistakes and open his eyes to the rapidly changing world around him. It may or may not have been too late by 1905.
With that I'm going to stop posting on here since we are getting off topic. If you have some specific questions to ask me feel free to send me a PM...
