Explanation: Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of the Russian Empire, was an incompetent and authoritarian ruler who murdered thousands, frittered away the nation’s wealth on jewelry while his people went hungry, and was eventually overthrown and executed by his own people. No more Tsars! Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Unfortunately, the decision was made to execute the Tsar’s teenage children as well simply for the crime of being the Tsar’s children, which is a pretty horrific atrocity.
Ah, Nikolai II. He was such a popular Tsar here in Finland. He was in fact so well liked that people liked to collect around the statue to honor their favourite emperor.
If the lineage had continued any heirs become rallying points for future revolutions and insurgencies
It’s a royal family. There are no shortage of relatives with legal claims to the throne.
Deliberately choosing to murder children who’ve committed no crime is bad. It wasn’t “We’re going to toss a grenade at the Tsar while he’s on an outing with his family”, that I would get. Necessity dictates you don’t always get to choose when an opportunity to strike arises. But this was “We have the Tsar and his family prisoner, so we’re going to deliberately execute all of them.”
So which parts of the royal family lived through this then?
47 of the 65 members of the royal family survived the revolution.
Until Stalin, then Putin
Tsars in all but name
