Iconic Corpse: The Romanov Family

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**SELECTED SOURCES/ADDITIONAL READING**
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Massie, Robert K. (1995) New York, NY: Ballantine Books
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
Rappaport, Helen (2008) New York, NY: St. Martin's Press
"Resurrecting the Czar"
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"Romanov rumors are put to rest"
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"The identification of the Romanovs: Can we (finally) put the controversies to rest?"
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"Mystery Solved: The Identification of the Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis"
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@BubblewrapOracle 4 года назад

Yurovsky: "rifles would be too loud" *uses grenades on the corpses*

@msstarlight4770 4 года назад

Your comment doesn't quite make sense, but it's still funny. 😄👍👍

@jedithekitten8891 4 года назад

Ms Starlight Why?

@msstarlight4770 4 года назад

@@jedithekitten8891 because the rifles were too loud to be used inside in the small basement room because people could have hearing loss & disorientation, etc, from that. The grenades were used outside & thrown down a pit. I understand the commenter was trying to make a joke, but it doesn't work.

@jedithekitten8891 4 года назад

Rat Lord ok

@Cissy2cute 4 года назад

@@msstarlight4770 The grenades weren't used until they were deep in the forest. So it has no relevance to what happened in the Ipatiev house. It was a firing squad that killed most but bullets began bouncing off the Grand Duchesses Marie and Anastasia. This was due to the jewels they had sewed into their corsets, causing bullets to bounce off. The shooters did not know this and some were very superstitious, wondering if God was saving the young women. They switched to bayonets. How horrible their final minutes must have been!

@laundromat003 4 года назад

“Stalin did do things like that... it’s one of the problems with Stalin” LOLOL

@kstewskis 4 года назад

laundromat understatement of the century!

@katelynlong4190 4 года назад

I literally laughed out loud at that

@davidmarquardt2445 4 года назад

Stalin's political philosophy was that there was no problem that could not be solved through the application of high velocity lead poisoning, aka; a bullet in the head! Also the Ural Mountains run in a north/south line and are considered the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia, so west of the Ural's is Europe/east Asia. Some 42 years later Yekaterinburg (later Sverdlovsk) pops up in history again when the U-2 was shot down on May 1st 1960.

@melmelhodgepodge3800 4 года назад

It's kinda funny, if Stalin didn't kill all the doctors in Russia he probably would have survived his stroke.

@melmelhodgepodge3800 4 года назад

@@laundromat003 the irony around his death was so thick it probably was the clot that caused the stroke.

@doncarlin9081 2 года назад

I'm glad you mentioned the servants and the physician, in almost all accounts even in that poorly rated Netflix series they get glossed over. They were just as much victims as the Czar and his family.

@sourfrog21 2 года назад

I’m writing a paper on the Romanovs and their execution, until now I didn’t really know who else was executed along with the family, just that “some servants” were. I’ll be sure to include them in my paper!

@juliemachnik608 2 года назад

I know one of the Romanov descendants was upset that the servants were not buried with the family...stating their loyalty to the family to the horrific end was unmatched. Many Romanov blood relatives had abandoned them, denounced them while the servants stayed, begging the question "Who IS family, after all?" But, that concept apparently wasn't good enough for the Russian Orthodox Church, either.

@coldwar45 Год назад

More IMO. They were just servants, they had no power in anything at all.

@kylieknight2365 Год назад

It was also the chef

@Ruimas28 Год назад

@@coldwar45 It is a bit more complex than you might think. At least the doctor was formally offered a chance to leave. By Yurovsky´s own reports. If you want to take everything else from Yurovsky as true, and it looks like mostly it is, then the doctor was very much aware they were about to die. In fact, it does seem the family had more of a feeling they were about to die too. There is the report of how they all kneeled and did not sing in their very last religious service. The priest for that service reported this and reported he felt them all like already somewhat away. Back to the servants, there was a kitchen boy who was removed from the house a bit before the execution. Which also points out that maybe they did offer the other staff to leave too. Tough, Yurovsky seems to only have reported about the doctor. Additionally, the family had more staff which did not travel with them to their final stay. Some of that staff remained alive and even wrote memoirs which are part of the current day knowledge we have on the family. In this very video you had Pierre Gilliard mentioned has visiting the wanabe Anastasia years after. This Pierre was none other than the kids former french teacher. He had been with the family up till their imprisonment at Tobolsk. Lucky him, he did not go with them in their last journey to the Ipatiev house. Here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Gilliard

@missyrose2154 2 года назад

For me the fascination comes from so many things … the fairy tale lives of the Romanovs, the love story between Nicholas and Alexandra, The innocence of the children , the creepiness and “super strength” of Rasputin, the family’s grisly murders , fake Anastasia’s and of course the long held mystery of if one of the girls survived before their skeletons were ultimately recovered. If it didn’t really happen you would think it was all made up in a book…

@mousermind 10 месяцев назад

*fake Anastasias You don't add an apostrophe, because that would make it singular possessive or a contraction, not plural.

@klisterklister2367 4 года назад

"We were working on moledular genetic testing at one time, then mr Stalin shot the entire team. As a result, we began lagging behind" i want this quote embroidered

@ciel9112 4 года назад

"(Cheerfully) Stalin did do things like that. It's one of the problems with Stalin." Caitlin is Iconic

@lindseybailes2706 4 года назад

I didn't know I needed it....but I do.

@nazzynaz1905 4 года назад

Lou a

@kritkratt6383 4 года назад

Klister Klister 😂

@JohnP538 4 года назад

Genetics proves that people are different, communism says everyone is the same. Stalin searched for an alternative and settled on the theories Trofim Lysenko. That decision led to 50 years of Russian crop failures and mass starvation. www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/

@graybe.x 4 года назад

"We were working on molecular genetic testing at one time... Then Mr. Stalin shot the entire team. As a result, we began lagging behind" So passive agressive I love it

@BBFirefly420 4 года назад

I couldnt help but laugh at this. 😂

@julianndavis9415 4 года назад

Graybe not that Stalin anything WRONG mind you. Just sayin

@viridianstar 4 года назад

Graybe It’s so wonderfully Russian.

@hoho7029 4 года назад

say it on tinder- bam gang bang

@usagi2934 4 года назад

Probably has happened before

@zanderisamazing5043 2 года назад

I have to admit to being heartbroken when I heard Anastasia had definitely died and had lain in an unmarked grave for so long. It was a hopeful story that she had escaped

@ninab.4540 11 месяцев назад

And all those sightings turned out to be false

@daniel_sc1024 10 месяцев назад

When you read what actually happened, it's impossible to believe anyone could have survived, much less escaped.

@hollydaugherty2620 3 месяца назад

if you knew anything at all about Anastasia and her siblings, you would know she wouldn't have wanted to live after losing her family.

@belphegor_tv 2 месяца назад

No one who actually studied what happened thought that she was alive.

@RatchelRach Год назад

The story of Anastasia seems like a happily ever after fairy tale but when you know the truth it's actually really tragic

@emo-chan8015 7 месяцев назад

It's all tragic.

@SouthernGothicYT 4 года назад

Florida man is chosen over the FBI to identify the Romanov remains. We live in the best timeline

@lildramatic4760 4 года назад

i mean a timeline where kids weren’t shot would be nice. maybe one where Russia got its act together before nicholas even took the throne? but yeah. florida man > FBI? maybe. that’s the scary part.

@SouthernGothicYT 4 года назад

@@lildramatic4760 Being facetious on the "best" part. More like craziest but whatever floats your boat

@lynnharvard2927 4 года назад

Florida man is a well known forensics anthropologist- I have read his book on all the cases he worked on, and he very much knew what he was doing(The book is "Dead men do tell tales", its a very good read ^_^)

@felixhenson9926 4 года назад

Largely because they were trying to build communism and America is not the biggest fan of that and has a teensy tendency to screw with those sorts of plans.

@lynnharvard2927 4 года назад

@@felixhenson9926 yeah XD plus this was when we were getting out of the cold war, I do beleive...so.. theres also that XD

@breannaperkins88 4 года назад

I don't remember his name but there was this famous composer who loved Shakespeare's Hamlet so much that when he died he donated his skull to The Royal Shakespearean Theatre so they could use it for the "Alas, poor Yorick" scene. So, if you know who he is, I would like him to be your next Iconic Corpse please.

@arianedennison2395 4 года назад

Nice suggestion I must say! I hope she does look into it for us. That topic sounds interesting

@Llixgrijb 4 года назад

Great suggestion! It was pianist Andre Tchaikowsky.

@breannaperkins88 4 года назад

@@Llixgrijb Thank you

@adhdswamphag 4 года назад

Cool suggestion!

@fenris610 4 года назад

omg i've never heard of this! that's a dedicated stan if i've ever seen one 😂

@Arthur_url 10 месяцев назад

This video made me way more sad that I thought it would, damn :/ That picture of the basement wall completely destroyed sent chills down my spine. I hope they're resting in a better place now, no one deserves to die like that, specially the children

@femcel_estia8013 8 месяцев назад

I'm sure the anti semite family who planned pogroms did not diserve to be shot

@authorofone Месяц назад

That wall did not look like that immediately post execution. It was torn apart because Lenin wanted to know exactly how many bullets were fired etc.

@emo-chan8015 7 месяцев назад

I had great grandparents who were Ukrainian. My great great grandfather was a cosack. They got out of Russian on 1903 Great timing. I'm glad that you mentioned the four retainers who died with them. They get ommited from history a lot. I have always been fascinated with the deaths of the Romanovs. And even more so about what happened to the bodies of the three servants and the doctor after they were found. I had heard that the relatives of the tzar had said "these people died with the family, they should be buried with them ". Or were the servants buried in separate graves? I've looked on the internet but found nothing. Would you happen to know what their fate was?

@stellarstarrs3219 3 года назад

I was named after the movie Anastasia. Boy, imagine my horror when I found out what actually happened to Anastasia

@pyroshayniac1090 3 года назад

Did your inner goddess stamp her foot in indignation?

@NoNo-pg5rq 3 года назад

For a few years now, I was planning to name my future daughter after Anastasia since I have a bond with the Century Fox movie

@stellarstarrs3219 3 года назад

@@NoNo-pg5rq most people don't know about the Romanovs and just see it as a really pretty name

@NoNo-pg5rq 3 года назад

Stellar Starrs I think I discovered the name Anastasia after the movie. But yeah it’s still a really pretty name

@renataapatataa8853 3 года назад

Grandmama,, its me

@L_R2106 4 года назад

Scientists: we tested the two new bodies for Romanov DNA. The church: yep. Scientists: the two new bodies match the Romanovs. The church: yep. Scientists: therefore, the two new bodies must be the missing Romanov children. The church: that makes sense. Scientists: so put them in the family tomb. The church: but they're not Romanovs.

@RezaChity-G 4 года назад

That is funny

@ciel9112 4 года назад

I see that incognito Spongebob reference, and I salute you

@teogonzalez7957 4 года назад

Theodore Macewko sir... this is a Wendy’s.

@yoongischubbycheeks2544 4 года назад

Tereigh Keating-Hart....sir you’re talking to an empty cup

@KittyFAN13 4 года назад

@Theodore Macewko Say sike, right now.

@maryanneslater9675 2 года назад

I read Dr. William Maples book _Dead Men Do Tell Tales_ back in the '90s. He was a good storyteller too. I remember he wrote that he was sure the Russian anthropologist had mixed up some of Nicholas' bones with those of his valet, but added that the arms and hands of the valet had served Nicholas in life and it was all right if they did so in death. I also remember that he was impressed with Alexandra's dental work -- gold and porcelain crowns. Nicholas was scared of dentists and his teeth were bad.

@rdwright6708 Год назад

According to Dr. Maple's book, Alexandra's dental work was actually PLATINUM! The servants could afford merely gold.

@cybergyaru8144 6 месяцев назад

As a Russian I’m very thankful ❤ you made this legend feels so real and vibrant! You are an amazing person and talented speaker! Love your videos with my whole heart ❤️

@geowynleda4641 4 года назад

That wasn't an execution, that was a massacre.

@munadorgham5287 4 года назад

Yep. While watching I thought "this is one of the most clumsy 'executions' i have ever seen! Wtf!?"

@unhappybacon3292 4 года назад

@@munadorgham5287 So you've seen clumsy executions before? Tell me more!

@munadorgham5287 4 года назад

@@unhappybacon3292 I plead the fifth

@unhappybacon3292 4 года назад

@@munadorgham5287 Hmmmmmm

@Mastermint 4 года назад

is there a difference?

@BHuang92 4 года назад

The funny thing about the legacy of the Romanovs is that for near a century, the Soviet Union wanted to erase the Romanovs from history and yet when their remains are found, the family were canonized as saints. Guess the Romanovs had their last laugh.

@besos4169 4 года назад

The romanov are dead and rotten under ground FUCKING LMAO

@besos4169 4 года назад

The romanovs are dead and rotten underground

@peacheekeen5244 4 года назад

Paloma Rufete yea but their legacy isn’t

@jtdavis598 4 года назад

@@besos4169 So is the Soviet Union.

@crackedstar9992 4 года назад

@@jtdavis598 🔥🔥🔥

@herenyahope8745 Год назад

That little video clip of the sisters running with Alexi between them breaks my heart. A sweet little sick boy doted on by his sisters. Say what you will about the czar but a dictators children don’t deserve the same punishment unless they are adults and actively involved in their parents crimes

@jacoboleary9076 2 года назад

All this horror is even more heartbreaking because, ultimately, things never really got better for the Russian people, and all these years later they're back to absolute rule. At least they've got vodka?

@AldoSchmedack 2 года назад

Communism sucks!

@thedriszen8350 2 года назад

All the more reason for those of us in the west, who have come to value our democratic equality/values, to resist our own growing radicalism and extremes on both sides.

@jacoboleary9076 2 года назад

@@thedriszen8350 take your both sides bulls**t elsewhere

@peacenow42 Год назад

which unfortunately is basically their number one cause of death in men in particular.

@peacenow42 Год назад

@@thedriszen8350 all the more resean for us to practice tolerance

@ladygrace7585 4 года назад

Those children really didn't deserve any of what happened to them, and I hope those last two children are eventually buried with their family

@Dotnotaspeck 4 года назад

They were. They were also canonized and interred in Church of the Resurrection in the Kremlin (I was there in 1993 and saw their coffins) . Anastasia had just been added to that about 2 months before I got there if I remember right. It was very beautiful.

@JohnSmith-ft4gc 4 года назад

@Jason Voorheese How were they criminals? They wrote the laws, just like the capitalists do now.

@JohnSmith-ft4gc 4 года назад

@Otto Sump Do the lives of common russians dead because of the autocracy even rate to you? The children were both products & victims of their birth - they did NOT deserve to die. But neither did striking workers or soldiers conscripted to fight against workers in other countries. The Tsar had the most capacity to look deeper into what was going on & he chose not to. He was THE most powerful man in the country prior to the revolution - yet STILL you absolve him of responsibility. This continuing worship of royalty demonstrates the need to extinguish it. Wars of restoration have to be prevented as far more lives of people with far less responsibility would die. The royal family were a liability to peace.

@JohnSmith-ft4gc 4 года назад

@Jason Voorheese The uploader covered that. The bolsheviks were in charge of the territory they controlled militarily. A Civil War is a state of emergency. The Royals continued existence if freed could be a cause of restoration war. Their lives were insigificant in comparison to the lives their continuing existence would put in peril. They had to die. Deal with it. If the children were too young to understand & remember, they could have been adopted out & spared.

@JohnSmith-ft4gc 4 года назад

@Jason Voorheese "....a group of jews...." Oh - you're one of THOSE people. The person that brought about that dark era of history was Stalin, and he was one of you - he didn't like jews either.

@cheeserocks89 4 года назад

As a kid, the Anastasia movie gave me so much hope she had survived. Imagine my heartbreak when I found out that she died so terribly with her family. Yep, I was a wreck. I loved this episode!!

@seaturtlepoppy7679 4 года назад

Katherine - that sounds incredibly sad. How old were you when you found out?

@cheeserocks89 4 года назад

@@seaturtlepoppy7679 I was about 10, I was doing a report on her and I found a book that had all the gory details.

@seaturtlepoppy7679 4 года назад

Katherine - I can see how that would have left an impact on you.

@theresacherco9543 4 года назад

I also thought that to as a kid

@earthrocker48 4 года назад

Katherine you should see the sadness in the fandom of the History anime of Hetalia. The Russia character is so loved and we all cry when the movie is mentioned.

@milozimben 2 года назад

"So there are these two skeletons found in the same place as all the other Romanovs, they are in the perfect age ranges to be Alexei and Maria, and our examinations put the likelihood of that being the case at 8,000,000,000,000 to 1 for Alexei and 4,000,000,000,000 to 1 for Maria" Russian Orthodox Church: "Yeah, not convinced"

@smartpersonjdt 3 года назад

I loved the movie Anastasia as a kid and it lead me to research into what really happened to her. All these years later I'm still reading books and watching films and documentaries about the Romanovs. Very interesting video and very informative! I'll have to check out your other content!

@emo-chan8015 7 месяцев назад

The truth is vastly different from the movies isn't it?

@WhistleAndSnap 4 месяца назад

Oh hey, me too! Fascinated to this day. It just resonates with me, ya know? It's amazing, actually, how as I learn and grow and the world around me changes, my feelings on the subject have also metamorphosed. I have a lot less sympathy for Nicholas II and Alexandra than I used to. Nicholas was a shitty dude in quite a few respects - it goes beyond mere incompetence. He actively hated Jewish people and was privately pleased with the brutal pogroms that took place against them in Russia. He also held a grudge against Japan, viewing the Japanese people as small, effeminate, and weak. He spread those bigoted views to his kids, who cheerfully parroted his bullshit during the Russo-Japanese War, saying stuff like they hoped all the Japanese people died and that they were strange "little people" who did bad things, sinking the Russian peoples' ships and killing their sailors. I don't blame the kids for that - they were being fed propaganda during a time of war, and they were very young at the the time, and very sheltered. Plus, when their governess Margareta Eager explained to one of the daughters, Olga, that the Japanese people weren't all bad, and specifically the women and children didn't deserve death (which is still not a great viewpoint, but it's a step up from 'i hope all the Japanese die') Olga actually listened, took it to heart, and admitted she didn't realize the Japanese were also people - she thought they were more like monkeys or something. So... yeah. I could go on and on about the bullshit of Nicholas and Alexandra. I still feel bad for them though, and acknowledge that they were human. They had redeeming qualities, but we definitely shouldn't gloss over the bad shit.

@smartpersonjdt 4 месяца назад

@@WhistleAndSnap Yeah that kind of speaks for itself. Nicholas and Alexandra were so incompetent and ignorant about the people that they supposedly served it's insane, but their story is so interesting because so many factors came together to create the perfect storm that ended up destroying their lives. It's been romanticized a lot but the actual raw history of it is still very fascinating.

@josephschultz3301 3 года назад

Guard: "All of my evil thoughts about the Tsar disappeared after I had stayed a certain time. I began to pity them as human beings. I kept saying to myself, 'Let them escape. Do something to let them escape.'" That's just fucking heartbreaking, yo.

@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDo 3 года назад

Welcome to THE REAL WORLD. Life is not a Martha Stewart episode...never has been, never will be.

@skarlettsapphire4065 3 года назад

@@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDo Doesn't mean we've gotta keep it that way tho.

@Mollymauking 3 года назад

@@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDo username checks out.

@reneeshires5501 2 года назад

@@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDop

@MatthewChenault 2 года назад

Now repeat that same scene for decades and for countless millions of people and you can appreciate the true scale of the atrocities the Soviets inflicted upon Russia.

@wwehurricane1 3 года назад

This year on the anniversary of the massacre, the church announced their "additional testing" had confirmed the identities of the remains. Now, hopefully, the family can be laid to rest.

@mirjanbouma 3 года назад

That would be nice.

@stacyrussell460 3 года назад

That would be the honorable thing to do. Then they'll finally be together again & perhaps at peace. After more than 100 years, they deserve that much.

@LammasDeluge 3 года назад

@Right Hand I learned about the fate of the Romanov family when I was 10 years old because I was very determined to try to figure out why the world is so fucked up and decided I had to look at major shifts of power throughout history. I remember I was so incredibly horrified to know what was done to those children out of anger at their parents. The fact that people are so willing to kill people they believe have wronged them is already insane, but to kill innocent children too? To believe a child can be worthy of death because of a "tainted bloodline"? The murder of Marie Antoinette's children was just as insane. Revolutions start with good reasons and good intentions, but always lead to the most cruel acts of violence in the name of progress.

@LammasDeluge 3 года назад

@Right Hand I'm an atheist, but I can definitely relate to the desire for justice against cruel people.

@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult 3 года назад

@@LammasDeluge And they killed the servants too. Weren't they supposed to act in service of the working class?

@doxielvr8336 2 года назад

If I had had a teacher like Caitlin when I was in school, I might have actually liked learning about history. As it was, it was taught in an incredibly uninspiring and boring way, which led me to avoid taking history classes whenever I could. Way to go Caitlin. You've reawakened a hunger I didn't even know I have.

@marielfalk4537 2 года назад

To be fair, the British monarchy was fighting for it's own survival, as were most monarchies at that time. The two cousins were very close and King George did not easily make the decision to refuse refuge in England to the Romanovs.

@moesypittounikos 5 месяцев назад

I doubt the Royal family was bothered abou public opinion back then. They had the power to bring their Russian relatives to the UK but a higher power blocked them.

@frances-if5fp 4 месяца назад

@@moesypittounikosWhat higher power?

@SymphonyBrahms 3 месяца назад

@@frances-if5fp The Prime Minister and Parliament forbade the king to bring the Romanovs to England .And in England, the Prime Minister and Parliament have all of the power. The king or queen are only ceremonial. It's been that way since 1688, when the Parliament deposed KIng James and appointed William and Mary to rule.

@frances-if5fp 3 месяца назад

@@SymphonyBrahms Thank you 👍🏽

@NotMykl 4 года назад

Never kill the kids, just...never kill the kids.

@ReptilianTeaDrinker 4 года назад

Never kill anyone. Killing adults is horrible too. Adults are human as well. Murder in general is disgusting and awful and all killers should be put to justice.

@mcwyman7928 4 года назад

Politically, it made sense for the Communists. If they let any of the children live, they could have garnered enough support from the rest of the world to get them reinstated on the throne. As far as their cause went, horrible as it was, they really had no other options.

@moifikea8288 4 года назад

Always kill the kids. Especially the sons

@ahideeflitcraft5487 4 года назад

If movies and books have taught me anything is if you want to wipe families out you have to kill everyone including the kids. Kids grow up, kids learn revenge.

@beckywiththegoodhair5244 4 года назад

Ok kill the kids, let the dog live :)

@taiyo888 3 года назад

Its also rumored that Yurovsky's men also got really drunk before the execution to better deal with what they were about to do, so their aim was made even... more awful.

@LammasDeluge 3 года назад

That always gets to me when people talk about executing someone. What happens to you, mentally and spiritually, when your job is to kill people?

@jimwilliams4532 3 года назад

I can't blame them. If I had to kill those children or be killed myself knowing they would die anyway I would have had to have been drunk first and probably would have been a drunk for life dealing with it.

@LammasDeluge 3 года назад

@@jimwilliams4532 Honestly, I would have just shot myself at that point. I would rather die than live the rest of my life as an alcoholic, trying to drink away the memories of murdering children.

@Lordovich 3 года назад

@@LammasDeluge One of Stalin's executioners lost it for a little bit during the worst of the purges, and during the Katyn massacre, where they killed thousands in just a few days, they had to drink very hard. I would wager a guess that it takes a severe mental toll on most people.

@LammasDeluge 3 года назад

@@jimwilliams4532 Actually, I've decided that if I was in that situation, I would shoot at my commander. At least try to take out the evil fuck if I'm going to kill myself anyway.

@_Fizel_ 2 года назад

I just realized after watching this several times that the reason that people believed a daughter escaped is because they knew that Alexei would have been killed as well because of his heritage. Even though two bodies were missing, which one was for sure Alexei because it would have been very obvious he wasn't in the initial grave.

@alexisrodriguez2801 2 года назад

I just want to say that this is by far one of the most entertaining videos about historical figures that I have ever seen. EXCELLENT WORK.

@angelinakarp8471 4 года назад

I am sad that all of the Romanovs aren't buried together in St. Petersburg.

@gracehaven5459 4 года назад

Me too, I wish they could just rest in peace and be buried properly even if not in the cathedral :'( it's so sad what happened to the children, it is never the childrens fault for the actions of their parents, they could have grown up and done great things but well never know now, what a horribly way to die it wasn't even quick 😫

@dawndonivan3089 4 года назад

I'm a member of the Russian Orthodox Church in America, formally ROCOR and I think it's awful the family is not buried together. I watched the burial of the family and retainers years ago. How much more proof do they want? !

@JustPeachy998 4 года назад

@@dawndonivan3089 'Needing more proof' is just a cover when in reality it's purely political. Burying the final family members would be a front page news story across the globe. Putin doesn't want the headlines, nostalgia, or the accompanying journalistic analysis of Russian leaders of the past. In his authoritative regime, it's all about keeping control and avoiding stirring up sentiments that could be critical. Unfortunately, the church is toeing the line. It makes me sad.

@gracehaven5459 4 года назад

@Shirley Bailey you are probably right but it's the principal of the matter, ya feel? Like it just seems wrong to keep people's remains in a lab to me, it's so impersonal

@dawndonivan3089 4 года назад

@@JustPeachy998 Yeah. It was Boris Yeltsin that was present at the first funerals. My understanding is Vladimir Putin didn't attend the 100 year anniversary of their death even though it was a big event at Yekaterinburg.

@judithfurmston3731 4 года назад

I'm a simple gal. I see Death Mother, I click play.

@THENAFERATU 4 года назад

SAME

@flipgunderson1946 4 года назад

Such an original comment

@THENAFERATU 4 года назад

@@flipgunderson1946 yours too ;)

@flipgunderson1946 4 года назад

@@THENAFERATU see what I did there? You get it!

@THENAFERATU 4 года назад

@@flipgunderson1946

@starlite04 Год назад

The way the Romanovs were murdered was just horrific.

@tysondennis1016 7 месяцев назад

Imagine that killer’s smug ass face being the last thing you see.

@XatxiFly 2 года назад

22:34 truly made me yell WHAT

@moesypittounikos 5 месяцев назад

What do you mean friend? If you research the Bolshevics, well yes, all Jewish intellectuals from Europe. They changed their names to Russian sounding names when they took power in Russia. Only Stalin and Lenin, the rest Jewish.

@remyn.9198 4 года назад

My god, what happened to this family was extremely cruel. I cannot even imagine how terrified they were especially the children.

@jennifermcgoldrick6323 4 года назад

Remy N. They had the opportunity to leave months earlier but the mother wouldn’t leave because some of the children had been ill (I forget if it was tb or what, plus the boy was a hemophiliac). Ended up being a deadly decision. By the time they were ready to leave, their cousins in England, George VI and family, were afraid to help them.

@remyn.9198 4 года назад

@@jennifermcgoldrick6323 This story just hurts my heart, they should have at least spared the children.

@jennifermcgoldrick6323 4 года назад

Remy N. Yes, but when it comes to royals they never do. Look what’s happening in Saudi Arabia right now. No one should ever want to be a royal, not that the children had any choice in the matter.

@FillaneAmmisto 4 года назад

@@remyn.9198 sadly it wasn't an real option. Keeping the children alive would give them the possibility to claim the right to the throne one day and since the royal family still had support and relatives in other countries, the new government couldn't risk to keep any flame of hope alive. Revolutions in Europe were damn cruel. The French one was even bloodier than the russian

4 года назад

welcome to communism

@xianbc 4 года назад

I'd really like to see you cover the Jonestown dead. Most of the coverage of Jonestown discusses what happened up until the deaths but what happened after is just as intriguing.

@JustPeachy998 4 года назад

That's an excellent idea! While I know about Jonestown, your comment made me realize I don't have a clue as to what happened after! I could tell you about Jim Jones' childhood, his former jobs, how the cult began, rose, and ended....yet I couldn't tell you what happened to the deceased. Caitlin, I hope you'll consider xlanbc's idea because it's an awesome one!

@seaturtlepoppy7679 4 года назад

I know that only maybe six were actually identified with maybe a couple of autopsies. Everyone else was loaded one on top of the other and carried away. There is a memorial in Oakland, CA but I highly doubt any remains are there. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were buried in a mass grave and/or cremated. “Raven” is a really good book (forgot author and too lazy to look up) and “The Road to Jonestown” by Jeff Guin is on my TBR list. And there are numerous documentaries - I think Netflix or Prime has one that uses a lot of re-enactments so it’s more like watching a regular show (or was that the History Channel ...?). This is my very long winded way of saying “Maybe these will have an answer.”

@xianbc 4 года назад

@@seaturtlepoppy7679 thanks I'll check.those out. I've actually read quite a bit about it, I'd just love to see Caitlin's take.

@MossyMozart 4 года назад

@Shirley Bailey - The Johnstown flood was indeed horrid. However, the Jonestown mass murder/suicide was a different event altogether, also horrid.

@caramellopippop7190 4 года назад

She actually covered it in her podcast "Death in the Morning." It was episode "Don't Drink the Koolaid." :)

@RoxxiRockstar 2 года назад

Thanks so much for this. I've been looking for a comprehensive synopsis of this story for years. I know you make it look easy but you did all the work science and history. Love it and love you!

@audrabyrd2814 2 года назад

You have taught me a lot in the past couple of days. I enjoy your sense of humor and morality that you have towards death. It is really amusing to me, and you help shed the awkward tension that topic can bring up. I appreciate your contribution of knowledge and humor to us simple folk who do not know anything about these topics(:

@loisreese2692 2 года назад

@Audra Byrd I stumbled onto Caitlin's channel more than 2 years ago and feel as you do about her and the channel content. Isn't she great? 😁

@micnorton9487 9 месяцев назад

@@loisreese2692 .. I think she's very compassionate and her humor although a little dark,, isn't disrespectful..

@shanetaylor563 4 года назад

Caitlin: If your thing is genetic mutation and DNA testing, we'll link those sources below Me, a molecular biologist: awwww yissss

@diamondsngunns88 4 года назад

🔥🔥🔥

@chriscash7779 4 года назад

LMFAO!!!!! 🤗🕊🦅

@litbopeep5726 4 года назад

Woah youre smart. Im a stripper lol.

@BarbieBando 4 года назад

Lit BoPeep *Strippers can be smart too 🖤💯*

@litbopeep5726 4 года назад

@@BarbieBando yeah i know. This ones not though😞 I legit cant even read a map. I forget my right from my left. I cant read an old fashioned clock with the lines. I count on my fingers alot. I cant whistle. Dont know how to ride a bike. Never pumped gas in my life. And i barely learned the difference between youre and your because someone on youtube made fun of me for it in a really mean way so i figured id better remember. "You're" goes where "you are" would fit and anywhere else you can put "your"☺ But the fact im proud of that just proves my point....now that i think about it. So yeah. Strippers can be smart but alot i know me included arent and even if we were no one would believe it. I try and read the biggest books I can find, i Really do, but all i learn from them is that i know less than i thought and so i actually think theyre making me even more dumb, theyre just making me realize _how_ dumb i am. sorry for the rant. I'm sure u were just trying to be nice lol

@cuteladybug8622 3 года назад

Not only did they pour acid on their bodies to disfigure them, but they also mashed their faces with gun butts to make identification more difficult. Those poor people.🥺

@JamieM470 2 года назад

I remember reading that they did that to kill them. The daughters were both stabbed with bayonets and bludgeoned to death because all that jewelry was stopping the bullets. It took them 20 minutes to finally kill them. They were children. Horrifying.

@squiddiewalsh2324 2 года назад

What the bolsheviks did by silencing other leftist and Anarchist parties was fucked, but no sympathy for a monarch. I wouldn’t have executed them. But as an Anarchist I don’t feel sorry for an oligarch losing their power.

@rachelclark7782 2 года назад

They also chopped the two bodies buried together up with axes.

@peggedyourdad9560 2 года назад

@@squiddiewalsh2324 I feel like they should've just been ran out of the country.

@DJATOMICA95 2 года назад

@@squiddiewalsh2324 as an anarchist, you should be against punitive justice as a whole. They had no power, they were literally in prison. Murdering them had nothing to do with removing them from power.

@MaryAnnNytowl 2 года назад

Thanks for the extra links to investigate! I love reading more in-depth on subjects I watch videos about!

@tessmccue9859 2 года назад

OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION!! Kaitlin..you knocked this on out of the Ballpark!! WOW!

@caramelcoffees 4 года назад

it's always been interesting to me that genealogy is so much easier to scientifically trace through the maternal line yet it's the fathers who pass on their name. many family trees are based on patrilineage too despite maternity being much easier to prove haha. i wonder how many more generations we'd be able to trace ourselves back :)

@BellRumFreak 4 года назад

I love your ice princess pic.

@diana-cy4kj 4 года назад

caramel coffee Good old misogyny...

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

Y haplotypes follow only the male lineage, so it's not hat hard anymore to trace the patrilineal line.

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

That idea is how we get the so called mitochondrial Eve concept. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

@remalm3670 4 года назад

... "You only know who your Mother is and can only guess at who your Father is" ...

@pyroshayniac1090 4 года назад

That's just sad. As a person, to another person. It's a terrible way to die.

@vilwarin5635 4 года назад

Yeah, it would´ve been more human just to tell them to look at the wall and shoot them in the head. That bloodbath seemed more like a revenge than anything else.

@pyroshayniac1090 4 года назад

@@vilwarin5635 Hearing it described just broke my heart for the family.

@chriscash7779 4 года назад

...history....it can be ugly. But, by now, some have learned better n some have not. One of those damn things in the world. You know??? Take care.🤗🤔🧐✌

@TobiBaronski 4 года назад

Fuck communists

@anonymous-vg7kc 4 года назад

@@TobiBaronski fuck you

@marvlb 2 года назад

You do unbelievable historical research and the presentation is top notch, but in reality I’d be spooked to be around you in person!

@heidicrimmings9615 2 года назад

I've just discovered this. WOW. I've always been fascinated with this story...Thank you.

@Ravierave 4 года назад

Absolutely awful. I can’t imagine the panic and fear they must’ve felt

@kaeragriffin4323 4 года назад

Truly. Twenty minutes? Jesus.

@camvin575 4 года назад

I no, the terror they must've felt is disturbing to think about.

@Ravierave 4 года назад

quærēns I mean sure, yea, in order for a revolution to occur it helps to fully dispose of the previous rulers. But uh....it’s not like the starvation and stuff exactly went away after the regime change 😬

@Sirzhukov 4 года назад

@@Ravierave this is a bit condescending, don't you think? It is easy to judge from the position of your modern, sheltered first world man, for sure. Now think about the horrible, oppressive regime that persisted for generations, with total technological and political stagnation. Heck, even with the military stigma of the Paper Tiger. Royal family had to go. It wasn't the first monarchy that was executed with utmost prejudice and bolsheviks weren't the ones who came up with the idea to shoot the Family either. And, yes, USSR was totally an improvement compared to the previous regime. For a western man, who had years of political and social development behind his back, it was still a totalitarian despotism, no question in that. But for Russians it was certainly the move forward.

@KittyFAN13 4 года назад

@@Sirzhukov Still doesn't mean that the Romenov's deserved every single bullet put into them.

@SahajSoldier 3 года назад

I bet the guard who's intuition was telling him to let the family free felt terrible after he learned their fate.

@greywolf7577 3 года назад

I guess, but even if they escaped the house, where would they go? Everyone for a hundred miles around hated them. They wouldn't have been able to make it anywhere safe before being captured or killed.

@lunaticedits637 3 года назад

@@greywolf7577 and who knows, even if anastasia escaped she could have had an even worse death by the hands of people who hated the czars. (raped and then killed)

@spiderlegs50 3 года назад

I couldn't have that hanging over my head like a dark cloud.......

@robinlrice 3 года назад

@@greywolf7577 they were most definitely not hated by "most people" around... their biggest critics were in St Petersburg, due to propaganda by the terrorist organization, aka the Bolsheviks.

@matheusd.rodrigues429 3 года назад

@@robinlrice The Tsar himself said he would go anywhere but Yekaterinburg.

@markjoslin9912 Год назад

Beautiful icon in the background on the shelf.

@WCM1945 2 года назад

So sad, that the cruelty was extended so far beyond their deaths. And disappointed about Anastasia, I so wanted her to be real.

@emo-chan8015 5 месяцев назад

She was real. The legend wasn't.

@laureljade3476 3 года назад

"we were working on molecular genetic testing at one time, then Mr. Stalin shot the entire team...as a result, we've been lagging behind"

@kugelblitzkrieg 3 года назад

Luckily, Stalin got what he deserved. Because of the Doctor’s Plot executions and the fear his underlings had toward him, he died of a stroke with nobody there to help him. He literally got a taste (or more accurately the lack of a taste) of his own medicine.

@ifacro 3 года назад

They were stallin'

@minstrelcat1951 3 года назад

@@ifacro I feel bad for gigglesnorting so loudly at that 🤣🤣

@BiG-JuPO1O1 2 года назад

@@kugelblitzkrieg That what Stalin gets lol. Lenin did say to never let Stalin get anywhere near in power before he died.

@ciaobella65 2 года назад

🤣🤣

@elinakhaneeva458 4 года назад

You’ve actually done a decent job pronouncing my hometown’s name, Caitlin! Yes, you have a fan from Yekaterinburg and I would be honored to have you come visit and take you to some places connected with Romanov’s last days. :)

@TheChelseaCate 4 года назад

Elina Khaneeva HEY! I know you!!! haha ❤️❤️❤️

@saoirserosenstock8144 4 года назад

My best friend Maria Zatsova was adopted from there! X

@elizabethsisco4946 4 года назад

That would be so cool. Russia and England are on my bucket list

@michellebaker6302 4 года назад

@@elizabethsisco4946 Add Ireland! My fave place ever. Going back in not too long! Gorgeous, friendly, full of history.

@fotofemale1 4 года назад

Elina, I actually know someone from there too, but I thought it was pronounced like Yehk-a-terin-burgh. No?

@markrosenberger6602 2 года назад

Wow! Thank you so VERY much for your time and effort! I find this so very fascinating!

@michaelpugh1169 Год назад

Caitlin is the greatest I really enjoy her wacky sense of humor but yet also serious intellect and knowledge.

@kiwikoopa6806 4 года назад

I understand that revolutions are bloody and whatnot but killing kids, including a disabled kid, is just so brutal it made me feel weird. How terrifying and awful their final moments must have been.

@Edmonton-of2ec 4 года назад

lumipaint I seriously doubt they would've tried to put Alexei on the throne if they discovered his haemophilia. He would have been to ill to rule

@emboline7369 4 года назад

@@aluminium4303 inbreeding is a b*!@h

@LucretiaPearl 4 года назад

That was & occasionally still is the way of governments & monarchies & angry mobs. They don't see a kid as an innocent so much as an enemy, a witness or a possible FUTURE enemy. Some people get stuck in mob mentality & make evil decisions under that influence, some people are just plain evil to the core.

@sarasthoughts 4 года назад

War fucking sucks and humans put politics over life itself.

@d.d.d.a.a.a.n.n.n 4 года назад

The White Russians absolutely would have used the Romanovs as figures to rally around, even if the former czar and his family didn't want that. The Bolsheviks thought they didn't have any better option, unfortunately.

@faisalfajar4119 3 года назад

"they trusted Yurovsky" somehow give me goosebumps, it's just very sad.

@taraswertelecki3786 2 года назад

Yet I can see from photos of him that I would not trust him for a moment.

@ashsummermakaio4756 Год назад

To comfort you, and humanize Yurovsky, the Romanov family (except from the kids) weren’t innocents. The horrible things they made the people go through was enough to fill them with rage to the point of celebrating something like this. Think of the French Revolution.

@peacenow42 Год назад

@@ashsummermakaio4756 the children had done no such things. Why you want to make Yurovsky seem more 'human' is beyond me, care to explain?

@ashsummermakaio4756 Год назад

@@peacenow42 I'm not justifying what was done to the kids, read it again. I'm just explaining how someone can be so cold blooded to the point of doing something like this. And I want to humanize him because he was a human.

@peacenow42 Год назад

@@ashsummermakaio4756 I think you had no intention of justifying what happened to the kids by humanizing their murderer. But you did. That's my opinion only. With all due respect. He was a monster. The Czar had resigned. Yurovsky tried to gain their trust. He tricked them. He allowed them no time to even say their goodbyes. This is NOT how humans should behave nor should we ''humanize'' them posthumously without risking another human thinking it is ok to behave like this monster did. Words are powerful and have consequences. I do not mean to offend you but as I look around me right now I see people behaving just as monstrously. If you had said you wanted to humanize him to prevent such tragedies, this I could understand.

@BernardGreenberg Год назад

You are a fascinating, riveting, totally-engaging story-telling master! And this grim story of murders and all kinds of repulsive human behavior is leavened by humor and cuteness and grace at every turn. Haven't found and Romanov bones, but I discovered your _oeuvre_ on RU-vid today, and that's enough for me. You're terrific!

@fetamean 2 года назад

It seems like I find video essay channels like yours every day. Don't mind me as I binge all of your content.

@rachelhall5522 4 года назад

Sad that the last two are not buried with the rest of their family.

@Rachel-fi4sc 3 года назад

It may also be because of the name Anastasia itself, and how fitting it is for her story? The name Anastasia is derived from the ancient Greek name Anastasios (Ἀναστάσιος), which means "resurrection", from the elements "ana" ("up") and "stasis" ("standing"). The name also bears a similarity to the ancient Greek "Athanasius", meaning "immortal", from "a" ("anti" or "not") and "thanatos" ("death"). For her to be horrifically put to death, only to later sit up and scream... Is it any wonder she is so immortalized?

@Eleni1002 3 года назад

Actually, both Anastasia and Anastasios come from the word "Anàstasis" which means ressurection. As for the word "Athanasia" (immortality), it has nothing in common with Anastasia. It might look similar and even sound kinda similar, but grammatically speaking, they don't have anything in common.

@aeronalto1065 2 года назад

@@Eleni1002 That's interesting. It's surprising to me that the Greek words for "resurrection" and "immortality" aren't related, especially since they sound so similar. Do you have any sources on their etymology? (I'm not doubting you, I'm just a linguistics nerd and would like to learn more.)

@elfhchan 2 года назад

@@aeronalto1065 Think of these two like this: Anastasia for example translates to resurrection, meaning someone who has died and was brought back to life. It is a very common name in Greek Orthodox societies because it holds a more religious meaning (Jesus Christ and all that) and is commonly given to girls born around Easter time. Now as for the name Athanasia, it translates to eternally alive, it uses the -a- deprivation (A- deprivation + the word thanasia derived from Thanatos the Greek word for death) to signify the immortality of the person who is given this name. As you can see, even though these words may sound similar, they do not share the same exact meaning and they are not etymologically related. I hope I helped a bit more and sorry for the lengthy comment hehe ^^

@anastasiaromanot6626 2 года назад

As an atheist, this has always cracked me up so much!

@ghedebaronsamedi Год назад

Dawn of the Dead: Romanov Resurrected Anastasia is back. And she hungers for flesh! Coming soon to a theatre near you.

@shaelynnmoon8842 Год назад

Just my 2nd video but really love your channel. Totally love the way you mix history in with your death stuff. I learned a lot I didn't know before.

@briannalitz2802 Год назад

Thank you for sharing I love you and your videos. Your story telling keeps me so intrigued!

@mjnc3672 4 года назад

When Czar Nicholas' cousin King George of England turned down the Romanov's request for asylum in England, the family's fate was sealed.

@765respect 4 года назад

You would think he could have given them safe passage to the Americas!

@wolfchacer0139 4 года назад

Had he known the result I'm sure he would have acted different, saddest part is that realization came too late for him. We always think we have time and time is the one thing we have no guarantee on.

@marymcsherry1965 4 года назад

And then they bought the Russian royal family jewellery for a song from some female survivors in exile...so much for family

@bigjavo36 3 года назад

There was a world war going on. Ironically Kaiser Wilhelm was also their cousin. But yeah there was a world war going on so I don’t fault king George for not wanting to deal with extracting the Russian royal family from Russia in the midst of both revolution and world war. Across a war torn Europe multiple front lines to Britain and the across the ocean where german u boats were lurking to America.

@kasperkjrsgaard1447 3 года назад

The Czar family had connections to the danish royal family but apparently fleeing to Denmark wasn’t an option either. Czar Nicolai 2. was a son of the danish Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, or Marija Fjodorovna, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark. Princess Dagmar survived the revolution and moved back to Denmark in 1919 and died there in 1928 80 years old.

@roecocoa 4 года назад

My power-barfing hazes have never led anywhere this interesting.

@AvgJane19 4 года назад

You and your barf will get there... one day

@DieAlteistwiederda 4 года назад

I got food poisoning twice and one of them I was so delirious that I just kind of came up with that awesome plot for a story I kind of might have hallucinated during that power barfing haze and exhaustion.

@Hunter-co3hg 4 года назад

Mine led me into a deep investigation of Johnny Gosch

@chriscash7779 4 года назад

...zat like power pooping???🤗💩🎃😂🕊👻💩

@maneckineckbeard1749 3 года назад

Have you tried going to India? It's like a power-barfing pilgrimage spot!

@gotohellenwaite6371 2 года назад

The world needs history teachers like you! Thank you

@dhanalalonde3932 Год назад

I love this lady's cocktail rings !

@jovis6995 3 года назад

_"Stalin did stuff like that. That was one of the problems with Stalin"_ I snorted 😂

@kurtnulf3362 2 года назад

Stalin would stay up late at night making lists of people to have killed If Hitler was not around Stalin would be the number 1 mass murder of the 20th century

@dinofelis9343 2 года назад

Pretty sure the "number one" is Mao.

@taraswertelecki3786 2 года назад

@@dinofelis9343 Yes, the Chinese Communists killed more people than anyone else in history, other than Islam, which killed easily 300 million over the past 1,400 years, whereas the CHICOMS killed well over 100 million Chinese.

@justsomeguywithamustache 2 года назад

@@kurtnulf3362 Stalin killed much more than Hitler, it's just how Hitler is better known, that's why they see him as the greatest genocide of the 20th century when that should be Mao Zedong.

@maryanneslater9675 2 года назад

@@dinofelis9343 -- Stalin is partly responsible for those who died of starvation under Mao. Stalin lent Mao his favorite scientist, Trofim Lysenko, who came up with a three-point plan to increase crops in China. Lysenko was a Dunning-Kruger failure of a scientist who was only good at kissing up, so his three-point plan caused massive crop failures and famine.

@lutinlaut 3 года назад

I can only imagine the terror cursing through the fathers veins when he got shot, his last thought probably just panic aimed towards the well-being of his family. I know too little about politcs and what either side of the afflicted patries did to anger the other or such, but I am so very sad that five children had to die so tragically and brutally.

@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 3 года назад

From all the people in this story, the father is the only one who doesn't deserve any of your pitty

@oscarc.3597 3 года назад

@@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 The father was a really incompetent leader, but he was not a bad person.

@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 3 года назад

@@oscarc.3597 tell that to the people who were shot in the street due to him

@oscarc.3597 3 года назад

@@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 He didn't give the order.

@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 3 года назад

@@oscarc.3597 it happened ynder his order, due to his incompetence

@bronwynevans150 2 года назад

Thanks for this video. Didn't they also use Prince Michael of Kent to test DNA? His grandfather was King George V, who was a first cousin of Nicholas. He also went to the burial ceremony of the family members in Russia. He has learned Russian, too, seeing as his grandfather and grand uncle were such really good friends. I'm about to watch a few more of your videos.

@ultron374 10 месяцев назад

And his face is similar to Nocholas II and George V

@SymphonyBrahms 3 месяца назад

They used the DNA of Prince Philip. His mother was a Romanov.

@slothy7640 2 года назад

THE ACCENT SOUNDS AMAZING

@msinformation91 4 года назад

They chose 'Florida man' over the US government.

@WhatAboutTheBee 4 года назад

What could possibly go wrong with "Florida Man" as your go to!

@redseeriekitchen4294 4 года назад

I mean, I might trust "Florida Man" more than the US government at this point.

@anactualotter6216 4 года назад

Red's Eerie Kitchen I mean, the worst that will happen is that you'll be legally required to marry alligators on crack.

@StraightOuttaJarhois 4 года назад

the thing is that when you go with the US government they might end up rigging an election in favor of a drunken, venal incompetent who oversaw the most precipitous drop in life expectancy in peace time ever.

@Jstme60 4 года назад

William Maples is a leading forensic pathologist who has been called to help identify remains of soldiers missing in Vietnam and helped identify the remains of Francisco Pizzaro. So, he's not exactly some random 'Florida man'.

@kellyhoulton2998 4 года назад

Such a haunting story. While I understand that Nicholas was completely out of touch with his people, the murders of him and his family - and doggie too - haunt me. And the ensuing cover-up. It is all so awful. Thank you, Caitlyn, for handling it quickly and covering such an expanse of information so succinctly. Truly horrific times.

@rach3092 3 года назад

Like really they were too spoiled and out of touch, they did NOT need to be murdered in such a horrible way! Sure things were going on, but it's a bit barbaric to murder anyone like that. Fuckin Nazis I swear.

@vampgirl92496 3 года назад

@@rach3092 They where murdered by untrained thugs. Remind any one of what would happen if those thugs who started CHAZ got any control?

@ownpetard8379 3 года назад

Jimmy the dog survived. "Read" (scanned something) recently. Ended up in Scotland? I think.

@GalaxyGal- 3 года назад

He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. If they kept them alive, he'd be a symbol for the whites to gain new life.

@sadar171 3 года назад

Own Petard From what I’ve read Jimmy (Anastasia’s dog) was killed in the basement with her. One of the other dogs was shot outside the home for barking. Alexei (the heir’s) dog survived as she had run away. She was later found on the streets and lived a very interesting life before living out her days at Windsor Castle. Obviously I’m not sure of the truth of this (and who knows if it was the same dog), but it’s a sad story all around.

@christinacastaneda8429 2 месяца назад

🎵‘Have you heard there’s explosive diarrhea in St. Petersburg?’🎶

@EMurph42 2 месяца назад

The accent is just fine, I do love your voices…your singing voice is angelic!

@elsakristina2689 4 года назад

It's appalling that Maria and Alexei haven't been buried yet. Their burial date keeps getting postponed because the Russian Orthodox Church believes that the "real" Romanov remains were destroyed and they keep wanting more DNA "proof" even though the proof has been there for years.

@JenniferFuchek 4 года назад

Kinda like the Russian Orthodox Church doesnt want everyone to have them all buried together to keep them with the fantasy that one survived 🤷‍♀️

@THENAFERATU 4 года назад

I feel gutted. I really do. That the church still has that much power over the country's wishes.

@HunterDriguez 4 года назад

Churches don’t operate on proof, just on wishful thinking and pre-conceived notions.

@elsakristina2689 4 года назад

@@THENAFERATU true that. I'd feel more attracted to Russian Orthodoxy if there wasn't the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and other things. It's a sad and frustrating situation.

@sarahdoe6945 4 года назад

Keep in mind that the Russian branch of the church is controlled by the government. If church authority go against the government authorities, they get the same treatment as the Romanovs. Would *you* get yourself killed just to say “Let’s just bury them!”?

@starcherry6814 4 года назад

Poor Maria Anastasia gets all of the credit when it’s her sister that’s the REAL mystery Typical sibling rivalry!

@AdamantErinyes 4 года назад

Apparently, the Maria/Anastasia question is very complicated due to the fragmentation of the skeletons. It's almost impossible to be 100% sure which body was in which grave.

@Amsayy 4 года назад

Hopefully somewhere in the great beyond they’re pulling each other’s pigtails about it

@M00s3r 4 года назад

Marsha Marsha Marsha!

@elaenadayne5637 4 года назад

More like Masha, Masha, Masha! That was Maria's nickname.

@malenamagallanez3972 4 года назад

It’s pretty much agreed it’s Maria, but the meaning of Anastasia’s name makes it more romantic in stories. Apparently though, Maria was sweet and kind and her sisters DID kind of pick on her in life.

@renata31000 3 года назад

You are such a great story teller!!!

@greagior Месяц назад

I very much appreciate your work. Thank you Ma`m

@lcolsen22 3 года назад

It's really haunting to see the videos of the children playing and just being innocent children.

@felipedeodonoju3953 2 года назад

:’/

@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus 2 года назад

So were the countless children who starved and died under Romanov rule. But nobody cares about them, because they don't have a heartwarming story to their deaths.

@lcolsen22 2 года назад

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus how can a child's death be heartwarming?

@Luca-nu2zg 2 года назад

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus just because those things happened under Romanov rule doesn’t mean it was their fault

@MySerpentine Год назад

Yeah, but all kinds of monsters were children.

@karmillaschreger6546 4 года назад

OK, honestly, this is by far one of the most chilling stories out there. Despite the fact that I already knew the story, hearing it again and letting it sink in just one more time makes it unbearably tragic.

@taylorsaidspeaknow 4 года назад

right! i feel like everytime i research more into the romanovs even when i come up with similar info each time, i still feel like i learn something new or yet another crazy thing that happened. it's so interesting

@kristinhazell3840 4 года назад

Yes, the story of that family is tragic but considering the general state of the country and how many people lived miserable lives and died horribly that the tsar could have helped but didn't, the Romanov family's death is by far not the biggest tragedy. It is just that the names and faces of the millions that died have been forgotten and are therefore not as emotionally charged as the Romanov's.

@marybrewer7310 Год назад

This is the most intense video I've ever seen. Better than what I saw on TV. Thanks 😊

@rainbowpanda7744 2 года назад

Thank you for covering this. I have a test on this tomorrow. Love your books btw😊

@oliveoil5309 4 года назад

I always feel so bad for those innocent children :(

@Supaawesomeification 3 года назад

“But if that’s your thing, we’ll link the resources below”. Me, a geneticist, YEET

@bleed8812 3 года назад

hey, do you mind me asking how one becomes a geneticist? cuz i want to be one and ive been struggling to find out how

@Supaawesomeification 3 года назад

@@bleed8812 short answer, a lot of school. That said, you’ve got a few options. You could end up working for the gov like at the CDC, industry like a company for profit, a university as a prof and/or researcher, or even as a medical doctor who also does research. You’ll need at least a bachelors to get your foot in the door (like working as a lab tech/research associate) and what you’ll be able to do will increase with more schooling. Idk about masters (running joke is you can’t do much with them) but with a PhD you can do just about anything. The path I’m working toward rn is grad school for my PhD -> post doc program (basically you run your own research in someone else’s lab) -> my own lab at a university (I wanna be a prof eventually). Idk where you are in your academic career but I’d research colleges with good science programs (I went to UCLA and majored in MIMG which is basically genetics) and/or grad schools with good genetics programs. You don’t have to have everything figured out right away. Take your time. Talk to people. Maybe find a nice prof who’d be willing to mentor you. Possibilities and pathways to that goal are varied and more or less endless

@bleed8812 3 года назад

@@Supaawesomeification i really didnt expect a long answer like this from some random youtube comment so thanks alot for taking the time out of your day to do this :D i guess i have a better idea of what to look for now i really appreciate it

@Supaawesomeification 3 года назад

@@bleed8812 lol I tend to go overboard with explaining things but I’m glad you appreciate it. Best of luck! And remember, it’s ok to change your mind. I went to school with genetics as my goal and fell in love with virology. There will be ups and downs and maybe you’ll end up somewhere unexpected but I’m confident it’ll all work out in the end. Hope you have a good rest of your day!

@judyfrancis4515 3 года назад

@@Supaawesomeification Very kind of you to help the budding geneticist!👏

@nannys_3045 2 года назад

Caitlin your voice is so calming!

@emmahardesty4330 Год назад

Great one, for sure. Wonderfully presented. Thanks

@eswinipi 4 года назад

This is so heartbreaking, even if scientific testing has reveled that the last two bodies are indeed, Romanov children, still they are not allowed to be buried next to their relatives, and are stored in a cold research lab center.

@julienielsen3746 4 года назад

Oh well. That's death.

@Taledanoneya 4 года назад

wow that's real crazy

@julienielsen3746 4 года назад

@@Taledanoneya It isn't like there's any spirit in those bones. There isn't. They don't even have all of their bones it looks like. I was saying this like they say, " Oh well. That's life." When things don't go right or something.

@Taledanoneya 4 года назад

@@julienielsen3746 I know I understand where you coming from. but I feel like their soul ain't resting.

@julienielsen3746 4 года назад

@@Taledanoneya Our spirits and our souls ( which is our mind, our will, and our emotions ) both go to even Heaven or hell when we die. If their spirits and souls aren't resting they are in hell. So, hopefully they are all in Heaven. I don't know anything about the Russian Church they went to, or what they believe in that church.

@tatiannamiller9683 4 года назад

I'm named after one of the daughter Tatiana my mom always thoughr the name was beautiful it keeps me close my Russian heritage

@8LyJu8 4 года назад

Same. Most people don't realize because I'm from a catholic country where most women are called "Maria", but I was originally going to have just my middle name (the one people uses), but she added Maria because of Romanova.

@margauxlaurent6324 3 года назад

Im french and my sister is called Tatiana too. I wish I was called Anastasia lol.

@tatianap-a8683 3 года назад

I’m not Russian but I was named Tatiana too

@samuel-zb4qn 3 года назад

My step aunt is named olga

@kathrinnikitin 3 года назад

For me it’s the same with Anastasia!

@kimarmes2536 2 года назад

I love binge watching your videos keep up the great work

@madaraaradam7799 2 года назад

This was the best video about Romanovs I have ever seen!

@whatsanenigma 4 года назад

Just FYI, Dr. Maples wrote a book before he passed away, called 'Dead men do tell tales". There is a whole chapter about his work on the Romanov case, and all the chapters are really interesting.

@permaquilter9111 4 года назад

I have that book too. It's fascinating!

@actuallyNo... 4 года назад

He was a brilliant man. I am thoroughly disgusted by the lack of intelligence in the people that follow this channel. I've seen some dumb shit comments here before, but it just keeps getting worse in every new video that is put out. You would think anyone listening & halfway grasping this multi-MULTI-faceted, long story here (OR OTHERWISE BUT ESPECIALLY WATCHING THE WHOLE DAMN VIDEO)would be smart enough to know better. "You Would Think", being the operative key to that narrative.

@218curl 4 года назад

Yes, it's a fascinating book. Dr. Maples has solved many police mysteries based on what he found at the scene of a death. All "deathlings" would enjoy reading his book.

@laurakuhn8743 4 года назад

I really enjoyed that book

@bibundtinafurimmer7659 4 года назад

Wow. That is a heavy one. It’s really sad that they thought they were leaving and then were murdered

@Cat-tastrophee 4 года назад

Not to mention they were happy to go and fully cooperating. It kind of turns my stomach.

@WritingSch 4 года назад

Finally someone also understands how utterly creepy it was. Not only horrific, but incredibly creepy

@maneckineckbeard1749 3 года назад

The sadistic cruelty of it is truly almost incomprehensible.

@tigerlilly5579 3 года назад

My favorite video of yours. Keep them coming!

@SweetLife529 2 года назад

Just found your channel…..bingeing 🥰

@Andresfin 4 года назад

When I was younger I was legitimately obsessed with the Romanov family. I got to see the Musical Anastasia a couple months ago and it reminded me why I loved the idea of her escaping it's really tragic that her entire family was murdered because of her father. I wish the Palace was open so I could go see it but it is under construction.

@PaleMagnolia 4 года назад

Me too! I had a full-blown obsession with the Romanovs. Also, the Titanic disaster, but that's a story for another time.

@bdoglance 4 года назад

well, it goes deeper then just her father, basically when you really get into the history of it all you'll see that the fall of the tzar was basically guaranteed to happen. even before Nicholas II became tzar there had already been attempted assassinations on the royal family, One I believe was even a train bombing. If you ever watch the documentary of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna life (the last grand duchess) I believe they touch on that a bit.

@jenneacoleman-cubero2365 4 года назад

@@bdoglance Didn't Nicholas's father execute Lennin's older brother?

@micky_knuckles 4 года назад

The imposter Anastasia looks... nothing like the real Anastasia...

@Carol-D.1324 4 года назад

Micky Hoffman Agreed! I have always thought the same thing!

@annemchurchwell 4 года назад

Woman change as we grow just like men. There are people that I don't even recognize today and my last day of school and that was 20 years ago. I know the woman was proven fake but your comment has no purpose.

@cannibalisticrequiem 4 года назад

"Grandma, it's me!" *throws off fur coat* "Anastasia!"

@micky_knuckles 4 года назад

@@annemchurchwell I bet you're like...really fun at parties

@youarelikepapa 4 года назад

Sad Trophy Wife it does though. It’s a moot point saying they don’t look exactly the same, especially when people’s proportions and features can and do change over time, hence why people think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced.

@Areekurou 3 года назад

I still find their deaths unfair. Nikolas wasn’t a good ruler but he did what he felt was the right thing and stepped down. It honestly breaks my heart knowing they spent the last months of their lives believing they would be free someday to live their lives normally. I can’t imagine how Nikolas and his family must’ve felt when they realized they were never going to even have that chance. It truly is a tragedy.

@emo-chan8015 7 месяцев назад

Nicolas was a bad ruler but a very good husband, father and man. Even some of the guards noticed it before they were switched out.

@tysondennis1016 7 месяцев назад

Nikolas may have been unfit for the throne, but he was a good man. F to them.

@emo-chan8015 7 месяцев назад

Especially considering that they brutally killed the children and servants along with him. Red cowards.

@emo-chan8015 5 месяцев назад

Their fates were sealed the moment they were taken captive. Lennin had no intentions of letting them go. He just had to decide what to do with them. Even after the royal family was killed, several relatives were hunted and purged from the face of the earth. These unfortunate soles either couldn't or didn't see the need to run. And all the treasures that were sold or destroyed by the reds. Awful. Such is the spoils of war. Too bad Niclas was such an inept ruler. After all, he did rely on sleazy monk and an out of touch wife instead of his generals.