"the Ides of March": and Tsar Nicholas II always a fatalist, referred to Julius Caesar's warning re the Ides of March. Feeling betrayed, corner, he signed the papers and gave up his empire. He at first abdicated to Alexei, then fearing for the boy, to his brother Michael who quickly abdicated and the provisional government took control with Kerensky at its head. The Romanov Dynasty was at an end- at home, the sick children and Alexandra faced the invading revolutionaries....
March 15, 2015