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Sarushka:
Seems to me that the Bolsheviks whose pockets were lined with the grand duchesses' fortunes are likely long gone, too....

David_Pritchard:

--- Quote ---Seems to me that the Bolsheviks whose pockets were lined with the grand duchesses' fortunes are likely long gone, too....
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Not just long gone (as in dead) but many of the Bolsheviks having met the same fate as the Imperial Family, that is execution or many of them having the fate of the majority of the Russian nobility, imprisonment and/or exile.

David

grandduchess_42:

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well i think they should be repayed.
i mean it was their money after all.

i'm sure in the future they will pay them back
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Sorry to break the news to you but the grand duchesses are both dead! This must come as a great shock to you but it has been fairly common knowledge for many years.

They, Olga and Tatiana, cannot be repayed for their loses if they are not extant (alive) to make a claim in court or to receive restitution. Just in case I misinterpretted your comments, could you have meant that the grand duchess present legal heirs be compensated for their relatives' financial loses during the revolution?

David

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yes i mean is that they, Bolsheviks or the last remaining of them, should pay their living realitives.

Tsarfan:

--- Quote ---When I say that this money should be repaid, I'm told, no, it was long ago. I don't think this matters. What matters is that the Bolsheviks were criminals and stole things that belonged to other people. Unless these matters are righted, I don't hold much hope for the future of Russia.

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When I lay a map of the original Grand Duchy of Muscovy over a map of the Russian Empire, there seems an awful lot more land on the map of the empire.  Exactly how did the tsars acquire all this territory?

Once the Romanov heirs recover what was "stolen" from the them, shouldn't they then turn the money over to the heirs of the rulers of all the lands the Romanovs and their predecessors conquered or seized by force?

What makes the Bolshevik expropriation of Romanov property fundamentally less legitimate than the earlier seizures that enriched the Romanovs?

I really don't understand the application of personal property law to the actions of governments -- even revolutionary governments.  By such logic, the United States would owe Queen Elizabeth quite a tidy sum.

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