[size=9]Sarushka,
Your points are very valid and glad someone at last stated this. I waited for someone to state this, but all I saw was statements of HIH lack of intelligence. I beg to differ, for all the books written by various people about her person, who really knew her personally, on a daily time table where she could be properly understood? How many then or of the posters now, [lol] ruled any country, let alone knew the vast issues laid before them to make serious on hands decisions? It's all well and fine some 80 years later to say this about that, or how much someone read, and they have decided based on the limited writings of those who wrote the book, that she was not so sharp. [Even today, today's educator's state intelligence is addressed in many ways, etc.] She certainly may have not had the hands on experience or infinite knowledge of governing, but she was far from not understanding her country's issues. She was indeed intelligent.
As on other threads, we have gone through the infinite statements placed by their writers, and found many inconsistencies. Who is to say of what was written about HIH, or HIH was not fully of truth substance?
[Good Lord, our own President has his advisors, yet he has lost the full confidence of the people, and has trouble understanding the people's needs, yet his own father was a President, and head of the CIA. Now, that's really someone who is lost without real understanding of government, and or the people's heart. 57% loss of trust is quite telling].
As Sarushka has kindly put before us, the question and I quote : "Laying aside the issues of Alexandra's intelligence, and given her isolation from the front, and the capital itself during the war, was it really possible for her to have an accurate understanding?
Indeed, what sort of valid reports were coming through, and again, who could they trust ? I think also Sarushka, there were only selected news reports that HIH was offered. She was not the Tsar, so they quite possibly limited her intake of information. She also was thought as weak, because she was a woman. [Still today, what woman is given absolute reign to every corner of the world as men are freely? Still today, doors are closed, and that's a relevant fact.] Even if she wanted to do something, she would have been stopped in her tracks.
Again Sarushka thank you for thinking this through. I believe in responding to issues as such, is to look at all presenting facts, and not just go for the jugular. You always seem to think things through and it always shows in your postings. Thank you. As I said, you bring up very valid points ! Thank you.
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Do you think Alexandra was presented with enough accurate information to formulate a realistic view of the situation in Russia at the time of the abdication? Remember, at one time, the Okhrana was deliberately deluding her by sending fake fan letters, so to speak, from peasants, so it's not as if she came by this rose-colored vision all by herself. Laying aside the issue of Alexandra's intelligence, and given her isolation from the front, and the capital itself during the war, was it really possible for her to have an accurate understanding?
Also, who was informing her? Nicholas, of course, who didn't have such a great command of the situation himself. But what other reports would she have relied on? Were the reports written especially just for her? And if so, I wonder if they were selective in what news they presented. Yes, she was the empress and as such had a certain amount of power and was entitled to a certain amount of information. But she was also a woman, in a time when women were often thought of as faint of heart and weak of brain.
Now, I don't mean to come swooping to Alix's defense. I don't think she did much of a job processing the information she had been given. But I do wonder what she had to work with. She may have stuck her head in the sand, but I don't think she did it all by herself...
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