If Alexandra had put aside her dislike of Wilhelm II, could she and Nicholas II have been able to go to Germany?They rescued many, including the Dowager Empress and both of her daughters and their children. In the beginning it would have been possible, but George V did not want to make his throne vulnerable and so, his assistance was retracted. Even the Kaiser offered to take them, but Alexandra hated him so much she wouldn't hear of it. That no one saw the horrific outcome is possible, not probable. Lucien is correct.
Helen Rappaport have written "The race to save the Romanovs" and Corryne Hall have written "To free the Romanovs" both published this year.
I was not talking about a ransom, but rather the imperial family being rescued/ extracted by the British and taken to a third country such as Denmark. Would that have been possible ?
needed co-operation by the [ex] Tsar and Tsarina and willingness to appreciate the gravity of their situation
Though I find it all upsetting, I'm looking forward to reading Hall, but in my own library I've always found 'The Fate of the Romanovs' by Greg King and Penny Wilson, very interesting.
As I wrote earlier, the 'principal person's' in the drama seemed absolutely blind to the danger threatening them [and the entire Romanov Family].
Yet they were there..
If they could not, how can others FAR distant from Revolutionary Petrograd be expected to have grasped the nature of the Chaos, and the violent, unpredictable change that blew up in the late Winter of 1917.
Another thing was that managing the Romanovs would be expensive. They were a large family and other countries couldn’t afford them. Plus Nicholas and Alexandra stubbornly refused to leave Russia.
IMO Nicholas and Alexandra were really out of touch, naïve and prideful to realize the writing on the wall. They actually had chances to leave before the worst was yet to come. But they risked the life of their immediate family.Dowager Empress Maria also refused to leave Russia and hung on in the Crimea and only left in 1919 after her sister Queen Alexandra urged her.
17 Romanovs left Yalta in the Crimea onboard the HMS Marlborough along with pets and staff.
The jewels that had on them were probably fairly expensive but nothing excessive. Plus managing a family like that big security would be needed to provide for them and the probably the extended family. I heard of the bank account but what happened to the money?I have read that Nicholas II had quite a large sum of money stashed away in the Bank of England and perhaps a few other countries. And when you take the considerable amount of jewels that the Empress and her daughters had hidden and sewn into their clothing into consideration,the Imperial family wouldn't have been a financial burden to their English relatives.
The Romanovs were only too eager to leave Russia after the fall of the Provisional Government, but by then it was too late.
IMO Nicholas and Alexandra were really out of touch, naïve and prideful to realize the writing on the wall. They actually had chances to leave before the worst was yet to come. But they risked the life of their immediate family.
They were too attached to one another and one of the ladies-in-waiting wanted to take the children but Alexandra refused. If only Alexandra did that instead.They should have at least sent their children to safety!
I have read that Nicholas II had quite a large sum of money stashed away in the Bank of England and perhaps a few other countries. And when you take the considerable amount of jewels that the Empress and her daughters had hidden and sewn into their clothing into consideration,the Imperial family wouldn't have been a financial burden to their English relatives.
The Romanovs were only too eager to leave Russia after the fall of the Provisional Government, but by then it was too late.
IMO Nicholas and Alexandra were really out of touch, naïve and prideful to realize the writing on the wall. They actually had chances to leave before the worst was yet to come. But they risked the life of their immediate family.
The jewels that had on them were probably fairly expensive but nothing excessive. Plus managing a family like that big security would be needed to provide for them and the probably the extended family. I heard of the bank account but what happened to the money?
I’m sure she knew he was killed but she didn’t believe it out of shock or just deluded herself to save face.The Dowager Empress also sadly refused to believe that the Tsar and Family were murdered and stated ‘Nobody saw Nicky killed,’
Two very loyal Cossack soldiers accompanied the Dowager onboard the HMS Marlborough and slept outside her cabin.
Yes, I heard that she requested this, but she never met Nikolai. At that point, I think she realized he wasn’t alive.Nikolai Sokolov prepared a full report for the Dowager Empress on the Murder of the Imperial Family ,the Dowager Empress even gave money towards it but in the end refused to read it and the meeting between Nikolai Sokolov and the Dowager Empress was cancelled by her daughter Grand Duchess Xiena who believed it was far too graphic for an elderly lady.
https://www.rbth.com/arts/2015/04/1..._the_story_of_the_romanov_killings_45299.html