ASTOUNDING ROMANOV MOVIE HISTORY
August 28, 2015
This scene shows the actress Nance O’Neill who starred as the Tsarina Alexandra disguised as a peasant, staying in a hut. While the scenes look “over the top”, the movie company was actually very distinguished- The screenwriter won a Pulitzer Prize in history, the director Herbert Brenon made many famous silent films, including the original […]
ROMANOV MOVIE MADE IN 1917-IN NEW JERSEY!
August 23, 2015
How amazing, in my research I came across this listing of a film made only 7 months after the abdication- The Romanovs were in captivity/house arrest – under Provisional Government – but the movie was made in Ft.Lee New Jersey. The film had a true Russian connection in a monk named Iliodor who played himself;he […]
MISTAKEN IDENTITY OF TSAR’S VOICE?
August 22, 2015
On the web, at several locations there is a video with audio identified as Tsar Nicholas’s actual voice. The video is terrific and worth seeing BUT I doubt that is Nicholas’s voice. Not only is it more strident and harsher than I believe his voice would be- the voice cries out his name– the Tsar […]
SURVIVING ROMANOVS ESCAPE THE BOLSHEVIKS
August 19, 2015
After the blood bath of Ekaterinburg, many members of the Imperial family still remained in Russia- They had fled or remained at their estates in Crimea. It would take awhile for the Revolution to catch up with them and undoubtedly kill them. The dowager Empress Marie Feodorvna, the former Tsar Nicholas II’s mother, and his […]
THE BOY WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN TSAR
August 14, 2015
Imperial and royal blood ran through Alexei’s life as a fatal stream…It was noted soon after his joyous birth, that he continued to bleed from the navel. The umbilical cord to Alexandra, his mother, was also the conduit to the then-fatal gene for hemophilia, carried from mother to son in many royal families. Alexandra, grand […]
THE LAST DAYS AND NIGHTS OF ALEXI ROMANOV
August 9, 2015
He would die before his 14th birthday on August 12, 1918. He had not walked since April- after he severely injured himself sledding down the stairs in the Governor’s Mansion in Tobolsk. In a way, that sled ride changed the trajectory of the Romanov family’s lives…Had he been able to walk, they would have traveled […]
THE LAST NIGHT OF THEIR LIVES….
July 16, 2015
Tonight, July 17th 1918. The terrible preparations have been made…the sulphuric acid purchased, the mass grave site selected, the fire squad assembled. The truck is already waiting outside the house to cart away their bodies. But inside The House of Special Purpose, the Romanovs have their last whispered conversations and entries into their diaries… So […]
THREE DAYS TO LIVE IN THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE
July 13, 2015
Did the Romanovs suspect their murders were already being planned? The Bolshevik leaders who plotted the killings were staying at The American Hotel across the street from Kharitonov House where the rest of the retinue of tutors, ladies in waiting, friends were staying. Things had changed in the past several days: New guards (the killers) […]
LAST TWO WEEKS – THE DEATHWATCH IN ‘THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE’
July 8, 2015
Startling images- can I be seeing what I think I see? Compare to the earlier picture of the girls lined up to greet a train…and you may see grainy,shadowy figures of the girls in line to enter the back garden’s bath house? It looks that way and a few of my readers see them too. […]
MARIE’S LAST BIRTHDAY
June 26, 2015
On June 26, in the airless atmosphere of the House of Special Purpose, with less than 1 month to live, Marie Romanov celebrated her 19th birthday. It was a tense day as the family had hoped to escape that day and secret letters had been smuggled in, purportedly from the “Whites”, the “Friends” who were […]