In a recent podcast I listen to called the history chicks they did a two-part series on this family all the children had a camera and they would even have movie nights on Saturday.
Большая ошибка русского царя была в том что он жил сам по себе а государство российское жило само по себе он был оторва от своего народа в связи с болезнью сына Алексея мне очень жаль его супругу алис что она пережила как любящая мать своих детей поэтому он и проиграл русско японскую войну ему надо было отрывать яйца от трона и ехать на дальний восток и разбираться почему российская армия и флот небоеспособен и казнить тех генералов которые допустили этот беспредел ❤ барбаросса Украина
Despite Rasputin's infamous relationships with Tsar Nicholas II and his family despised by the Russians on both sides, the Royalists and the Revolutionaries, his predictions about their fate with death within two years was deadly accurate!
Spoky - isn't it? One of the most enigmatic and intriguing figures at one of the most tumultuous times of history. The world continued to convulse twenty years later, as a result of that time, and it is still on the edge to this day.
@WETDREAM Yeah, it makes you realize these people are not just history. They were actual people with lives, just in a different time. For example their fashion, especially the women's dresses are now considered period clothes. But for them it was just their daily clothes. Just like the clothes I wore in the 80s , I saw at a costume store for Halloween. Lol They were being sold as 80s period costumes. Hell, I remember when I had a closet full of those "costumes" and they were just my everyday clothes!
@@bubblybubbles4023 - I hear ya. These docu-dramas have become the new style the last 10-15 years. What really aggravates me is they add in all this stuff that never happened. If they’d just stick to the real history, or history as we know it anyway, it would be just as good if not better. They are turning a documentary into a movie essentially.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia had been a faithful and loyal ally of the Western powers through more than three years of world war, beginning in 1914. To take pressure off the French and British in the West, the Tsar ordered an offensive against Germany in the east, which forced the Germans to pull troops out of the Western front and send them east. France was thus saved at the "Miracle of the Marne", when Germany's offensive was stopped. Russia paid for giving this help soon after, with the disaster at Tannenberg, when Russia suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties. In spite of his faithfulness as an ally, Nicholas was tossed aside by the Allies like an old shoe when he needed their help in 1917. Even though Britain was at first initially inclined to give the Imperial family sanctuary following Nicholas's abdication, Britain's King George V (Nicholas's own cousin) soon had second thoughts, and Britain's offer of asylum was withdrawn. The French also refused to help, and so did other Western nations. In fact, the greatest interest in helping Nicholas and his family came from Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (another of Nicholas's cousins). Later on, the Allies would let another ally down, this time Greece, whom the Allies abandoned to its fate in Greece's war with Turkey, after the Allies had promised Greece help and support (and Constantinople into the bargain). As for the incompetence of Nicholas as Tsar, his immediate successor, the Provisional Government, was even more incompetent, lasting barely 7 months. The Provisional Government was then overthrown in a coup by one of the most monstrous tyrannies in the history of man- the Bolshevik regime soon known as the Soviet Union, which, found it important and necessary to murder millions of human beings in order to "govern". In hindsight, Nicholas should never had abdicated; he was replaced by people far more incompetent and inhumane than he ever was, and his abdication caused Russia to descend into anarchy, civil war, and then Communist tyranny.
How right you are.And now there are tyrants in Russia. It is unbearable to endure . The abdication of Nicholas II cannot be valid.His signature on the document was put with an ordinary pencil and there was no royal seal on this document. The revolutionaries wrote the story as they wanted and humiliated the royal family in every possible way before the people. All the nasty things that are told about the family of Nicholas II are not true. It is very painful and sad for me to listen when people speak ill of this family. I wish the Russian people to be freed from the yoke of thieves and tyrants.
Considering that Nicholas' blundering and ego was the biggest factor World War in the first place, a firing squad was a mere consequence of karmic arrogance. Inherited a gift and destroyed it with ignorance.
As sad as this is..I think this documentary is the best I've seen.I have to appreciate the older Russian Man that actually sang " God save the Czar"!! ( if i remember correctly, the man was approx. 94 yrs old...God love him! )..in fact alot of the people interviewed were in their 90's !! My Grandma & Grandpa from my Mothers side were from Europe and I loved hearing their stories about " The old country" with their beautiful accents.💕 Thanks for a great documentary!!
I love seeing all of the candid and personal photographs the family took of each other. The one thing you can't deny is that they were a very tight, close knit, and loving family ❤️
@@pneron2032 Если бы Николай был жестоким правителем, то он и его семья остались бы живыми, а его враги стали бы мёртвыми, и вы сейчас не смотрели бы этот фильм.
@@vladspb1861 He wasn't only cruel, he was also incompetent. Now, that does not mean that his children deserved to die. But nor did the numerous political prisoners who languished and died in his prisons.
@@pneron2032 Николай был слишком милостив к врагам России и своим личным врагам, за это и поплатился. Если бы было иначе, то Ленин Сталин Троцкий Свердлов и другие большевики были бы убиты, а они не просто остались живыми, но и могли вести свою антигосударственную деятельность и перемещаться между странами. Их надо было просто расстрелять, и тогда Россия избежала бы того кошмара который принесли ей большевики. P.S. Сравните с тем , что сейчас делает Путин со своими политическими врагами , например с Навальным, а до Навального были Политковская Литвиненко Щекочихин Скрипаль Березовский и много других
@@vladspb1861 You are concentrating on simply punishing Nichola's enemies, rather that concentrating on *why* his enemies appealed to the Russian people. The Russian people were not happy with Nichola. You can't just crush enemies and ignore *why* they are unhappy. That is how you end up with a North Korea.
Brilliantly done. The numerous eyewitness accounts of those who doubtless have since passed were very moving. One of the most bizarre incidents in world history... we are still feeling the effects.
Turns out rasputin was telling the truth. Bahaha they killed him first. All this shite written about then and now is bullshit. Who on earth has the ways and means to write so much slander. Hmmmmmm
So i guess its possible to write lies and slander....cause a revolution, kill the family who leads the country, take over the country, then take over neighboring countries and then the world. Wow all this with a pen. Fuck me, if i knew someone who controlled all the money in the world i could write lies and slander and be king of the castle
I'm sure many will disagree, but my heart goes out to the Czarina. She must have felt totally devastated that she was the cause of her son's disease. She had four beautiful, absolutely beautiful and healthy daughters. So sad that the fifth child, a son, and the heir, had to have the hereditary hemophilia. As a mom, I understand the desperation that led her to seek help even from someone as questionable as Rasputin. And boys want to play. They want to jump around, fall down, and knock each other around. That poor boy had a sad life, that ended too abruptly.
He didn't have a sad life at all. Alexei was a very mischievous outgoing child, and his good looks and innocence won him many admirers. In the periods of what could be called, his good health, he was described as a perfectly normal and happy boy. He was born into a large family that cuddled and adored him and was raised with all the love and care that any child could be raised with. Even the guards who were assigned to watch over the family during their captivity in Tobolsk fell easy prey to the charms of the young Tsarevich. And orchestrated all kinds of games and amusements for him.
She relied too heavily on seers and occultists. Most of those people are frauds and if they are legit you do not know where they are getting their knowledge from.
jdstep97 One of the tragedies of the royal family is that they wanted to be a family but had the responsibilities of rulers. Many times the two don't go together. If there had been no war, if Nicholas II were simply given a chance, he would have made an admirable constitutional monarch. But it was series of unfortunate events which made Lenin's seizure of power possible. As for Rasputin, we was indeed questionable and self-serving, but he did warn the Tsar not to make war and foretold that it would be the end of Russia as he knew it.
These Russians in their mid to late 90s and even into their 100s look and sound absolutely amazing. There was something magical about the old world order that has been lost and stamped out by design.
Not many people notice what you have. The real masters behind revolution (not lenin or mao) intended to end great knowldege of the old world order and they have.
@@unitedwestand5100 What a kindhearted and necessary reply. This is to say nothing of the sheer accuracy of the statement. Bravo. Keep up the amazing work!
@@illuminotmereloaded6896I believe it quite the opposite my man, a large amount of these royals were from long lineages of inbreeds, riddling them all kinds of diseases and conditions which lead to early death or painful life. Of course this is not always the fact but to say that royals had some kind of magical ability to stomp out sickness is just not true. To answer your question, on the flip side, those who didn’t suffer from these inbreed related illnesses have ability to pay for top tier medical services, a life without hard labor, good diets. All of which could assist in living gracefully into there elder years.
The quality and scope of selected film footage, photographs, correspondence, interviews and narration made this a very compelling watch and probably the finest Romanov documentary, one that I'll return to many times.
Greetings from Ireland, thank you for uploading this. I was asleep, it's 4.45 am now. I hope this helps me to go back to sleep again. God bless, 6th of May 2022. 🇮🇪❤️💐
This is the absolute best documentary about the Czars I've seen. It was factual, well told. simplified and easy to understand. I've learned so much, Well done!
Not all Americans are bad at history and geography, some cultures have legit reasons to hate us but Europeans just strike me as bitter which sucks because I respect them in all but the pettiness that they aren't a superpower.
It was factual... mostly yes but they left out SO much information regarding the tyranny of the Czar and his undemocratic agenda. This documentary is being told from the perspective of the Royals and is (mostly) ignoring the harsh conditions that ordinary Russians were living under.
One of the best documentaries with very rare photos. Thank you for creating and posting this video. I have read every book on the Last Czar and his family including court documents of the investigation of their murder. To those of you posting the negative comments, you are nothing but nasty with limited brain capacity and falling in the pot as the murders. The murder of this beautiful family is and will always remain a disgrace in the History of Russia .. just like President Yeltsin Boris stated! Lenin and Stalin were a curse on Russian Citizens and the country!
I love these Russian documentaries. My mother's parents were both Russian, so I have a personal interest. I haven't been able to work out who is now the legitimate heir to the Russian throne.
The most excellent documentary I have seen on the fascinating Romanovs. The movies, still photos were truly magnificent. Thank you so much for putting it here.
@ Matt Smith ... he was a son of Satan having sold his sole to Satan in exchange for certain powers. There are many even today who pretend to be preaches in GOD'S name, but are nothing more than hypocrites!
Susan Marshall what did you get that from the cartoon movie Anastasia?!? Lol there's no proof of that he was right about the war, helped the little boy and warned the tzar. He just had a lot of sex there's no proof he had any kind of powers let alone evil ones
Incredible documentary. Fantastic interviews of people who lived during the days of the last Romanov dynasty. Excellent film footage of the Czar and the Royal Family.
I feel so sorry for Alexis. It must have been very hard for them seeing there son suffering like that. Nicholas might have been a weak king. But you can't deny that him and Alix were good and loving parents to their children.
@@noelsolat1495 lol It's also easy to pretend they were great, because they did everything in their power for their own children, while how many Russian children suffered under their inept ruling.
The great paradox here is that in the beginning you see all Czars's followers, handlers, military men, his European relations on the throne of England and Germany, all these thousands of supposedly close associates aligned with him, and the fact that none of them were there at the end to help..it was part betrayal and circumstance,( the kids having the measles, and Nicholas's staunch 'stay with the ship attitude).Those onion shaped spheres are really nice too and they have to be hundreds of years old..
Yes, the saddest of theses abandonments in my mind, was the sailor Deverenko, Alexei's constant nurse/companion/protector, who left at the first sign of trouble and switched allegences. What a coward. Gibbes and Galliard, as well as the teenage companion to Alexei, stayed until the final moments when they were forced away from the doomed family unit. Dr. Botkin, Demidova and a maid all stayed and died with the family in the cellar.
The first mentioned point of concern amongst the English cabinet when discussing Russia was, as far as I’ve been able to read their remarks…. Fear. The communist ideology had spread in essentially all the European nations with fervor. Carried out by a minority that was ostracized and occasionally persecuted in every one of those nations. (Jews) Worse, in places like England they had acquired relatofely far reaching control of media, positions of influence in government, and essentially controlled the state banks with their family controlling the banks in other nations; meaning they could block or make loans to whichever country they wanted to Win. Those agitating for it were not Mincing words. They were not sugar coating their plans or disguising the ideology as True democracy. They were forming the “dictatorship of the proletariat” and it could only Be accomplished through violent revolution. The family and the neighboring nations were, in essence, frozen with fear that at any minute their own power wielding minority might join their coreligionists in revolution and play the traitor to their host nation as they’d done so many times before throughout history.
Why? Admittedly Gregory has the Reptilian Stare but no one ever accused him of murdering anyone. The Criminals who savagely murdered him thought they were better human beings than he was
As I'm watching, I'm stunned by the opulence of the palaces and the lifestyle of the royals. (A friend who visited St. Petersburg told me the Russian palaces and jewels make Versailles look like a bungalow!)
Watching the 4 girls go around and around in a circle with their brother makes me nervous! Then when they fall to the ground-yikes! I can imagine the stress his mother went through each day.No wonder her health was bad.
No imagining can understand a mother's obsessive love for her children -- or the passion with which she will choose to destroy them emotionally in order to bind them to her. I am a victim of such maternal, love-inspired, emotional abuse and see the Czarina as a wicked, unemotional manipulator of her husband -- she took total advantage of his obvious weakness, and instead of building his weak ego to strengthen him, used her female vitriol to work against him (never mind the influence of Rasputin; she used him also to her ends) -- and in a totally mindless, self-centred pogram in support of her son -- a hopeless, terminal case from 6 months of age -- in her own feminine-obvious way destroyed Russia without the need of a war, which only aided her maternal, demonic love.
I wouldn't have either one. We've gone past that, thank God. Jeez, people were suffering under all of these monarchies and nobilities, always having to fight for their rights including getting out of slavery. Yeah that's right. Serfdom = slavery. It's always amazing to me that so many want to consign other people to dictatorship and absolute monarchy but will scream and celebrate their freedom from the tyranny of the British crown.
Don't forget Lenin was a monster too; He lost the democratic elections so he had everyone arrested and took over by force, he set up his own secret police to terrorize the populace into obedience, and he convinced his people that slavery was freedom. "It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed." - Lenin.
He is very family man ❤️, what sad and ironic from this tzars story is he was a really Good man as a husband and father also has great morale for his soldiers , they are actually good people ,and that makes sad comparing the French revolutions
Marie Antoinette was also known for being a doting mother, very religious and preferred to wear peasant dress when not in procession. She was much different than portrayed. Her husband was an immature idiot.
It is widely known that Rasputin would not let Nicholas or Alexandra follow the doctors' advice and give Alexei aspirin. This would play a huge part in stopping the bleeding of the poor Alexei. I am no doctor, but even I know that aspirin is THE WORST thing you could give a hemophiliac for God's sake. I don't know why, but I'm obsessed with the Romanovs!!
I'm not denying that Rasputin was a strange and kind of creepy guy yet after watching this and seeing and hearing the letters Etc it seems to me it would have been advantageous for them to have listened to him - he was quite prophetic
One of the best historical documentaries I have ever viewed on RU-vid. Enjoyed it thoroughly albeit a bit sorrowfully because the ultimate fate of the Tsar and his family is one of the most heart-wrenching episodes in history.
Thee are many fine biographies on this period of Czarist history, of which I found Robert Massie' s "Nicholas and Alexandria" the most compelling and detailed.
Say what you want about this mad monk, his power was beyond the realm of human comprehension. For 10 years he saved the boy's life time and time again, even when he was physically absent. He'd pre dicted his own death and demise of the Tsar to a shocking level of accuracy.
He was a Gnostic - he got his knowledge through spiritual revelation. This is absolutely real. But unfortunately beyond the comprehension of modern people.
John Riser Foods in other countries are not laden with preservatives, colors, gums, and other additives, GMOs, toxins. Clean food contributes to living longer plus genetics also. Russians work hard, no junk food, no drugs then, eat healthy (and some not so healthy) fruits and vegetables without pesticides, meat without drugs. Something to think about.
This is a superb documentary in every sense. The footage of the family is amazing. Can't believe such footage was preserved. Also, the Grand Duke is a giant next to the last Czar.
He looks like he would like to kill people, dismember them, mummifie their remains, and mount their skin above his fire place, and carry their other remains in his wallet or something.
It really was. I think it's really hard for a lot of the people who are making comments (who are used to modern medicine) to understand Nicholas and Alexandra's agony regarding Alexis's hemophilia.
I love that video of the five little Romanov kids dancing in a circle. The girls doted on their baby brother and were always protecting him, and he loved his big sisters. I read someplace that he was closest to Anastasia, being as they were the two youngest, and of similar personalities: Alexei was impish in nature like she was. Had he not been ill, I am sure the two of them would have teamed up to engage in all kinds of mischief.
Rasputin is like that creepy dude in college who talks all about being spiritual and connected to the earth and into the moon and stars etc just to get laid.
You don't normally see royals who are in love with each other the way they were. Marriages were usually formed for strategic purposes. This family seemed to truly love one another. Absolutely a case of the tzar's being the lesser of two evils. Communism looks so great on paper. Not once has it been executed without great personal cost to the people.
As an aging (75 now) hippie, Mari, I can fully attest to the commune style of living as an incandescent lure. However, commune-style living or government does work on paper. It fails when you add people into the mix. As in the perfection of the Garden of Eden, it works until you add humans with our emotions and self-determination. If, as the Christian Bible says, their god created Man in his own image, where did man's emotions and failings come from ? Are we to suppose they too are a facet of this biblical divinity ? Interesting point for discussion. Mari, I fully believe in the commune as a lifestyle but sadly recognise its enemies: Humans.
You do realize that the people who have the best, most fairer economies, have a great deal of "socialism" and are some of the best places to live and be happy. Everbody has health care, education vacation time etcetera. They are mixed economies and if they have any royalty and nobility that still exists, they have no power. Give me those countries over Imperial Russia and any current monarchies that rule and govern, any time. And over Soviet and the current Russian Federation too.
There are many movies and films of Tsar Nicholas, including the 1971 movie Nicholas and Alexandra. The one thing they all have in common is that you never see him talking to ordinary people asking them how they are and how he could help them when millions of them were poor and starving. The fact is he never approached his people, instead living in a Disneyland style palace. This unlike King Edward VII and George V of Britain, Franz Joseh of Austria and even Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. As for World War I he really had no choice. He knew very well that Russia was in position to go to war with Germany. Yet had he not agreed to help Serbia, he would be ousted. He was in an impossible situation.
me too I would even give my life for that. We are suffering so much because of it and nowadays there would be 250 million of russians, but we are degrading and there only 140 millions of us.
If you went back in time then that time period would no longer be your past. It would be your present. It wouldn’t matter your knowing what was going to happen: something would prevent you from changing history.
I love these documentaries, they are flawless. Except for the part where the commentator says the Kaiser had once been in love with Alexandra; it was in fact her sister whose name I forget that the Kaiser wanted to marry in his youth. Thanks for posting
Wilford Fraser Alexandra's sister was Ella. She was thrown down a mine shaft alive on the same night her sister's family were also brutally murdered. Ella was once one of the most beautiful princesses in Russia. She married Grand Duke Sergei.
The murder of this family haunts me tremendously. Too, so many myths surround Rasputin. From what I’ve read, I feel that he was unfairly vilified. Is there any known video footage of him? Informative, beautiful documentary. May they all RIP.
this is such a tragic story, really. it reminds me of Marie Antionette. royals that were too cut off from the reality of the world around them by their own glittering lives. i don't want to blame anyone, so i won't. i just feel terrible for OTMA and Alexei. i wish they had been spared...
Alas they were liabilities. The Tzar and Tzarina, especially the Tzarina, had it it conning they were selfish and misguided. Nicholas had a brother. If Alexi died there we could have been another male heir. Who is to say Alexi would not make it to adulthood; Queen Victoria's son Leopold had hemophilia, he lived to be 30 and fathered two children. Rasputin blinded the Royal family.
I agree, the imperial family did not like Alexandra because she was German, even though from great family. She was often resented for being so shy. Did you know that Alexandra breast fed all her children?
Especially the czarina. She encouraged Nicolas not to give the people more rights because she listened to Rasputin. She gave him to much power and protected him. Nicolas was a fool and weak.
Very amazing video with these actual photos and interviews of the people who lived in this era truly filled with such fact and knowledge like I’ve never seen before , Thank you 🙏✌️
If their was a movie about Rasputin, he would be played by Jared Letto. Letto's creepy behavior didn't work for the Joker, but it would work for Rasputin. Rasputin's kind of a psychotic stalkerish kind of guy and I think that he could portray him well.He also looks kind of like Rasputin.
You're stuck in that garbage commercial Hollywood mindset, absolute garbage, purely controlled product for mass consumption and agenda pushing. Want a hard and truer film of Rasputin?... Check out "Agony" made by Belorusian director Elem Klimov.
Fab documentary, the tzar and his family’s demise is one of the most tragic events of the 20th century. I got chills watching the last part of this series when you see there remains. I hope they are all at peace
@@marcinbelka1868 so...what does that say about you? You sound like a shitty human who thinks they're better than anyone else. Why are you judge and jury? You're no one. Take several seats.
