In the video I linked at above (#256), Helen Rappaport explains, the Danes even paid ransom for some Romanov Grand Dukes, which the Bolsheviks took... - just to murder the Grand Dukes afterward. Same would have happened with the Romanov nuclear family...
Edit: That is wrong! I did read it here in the royal forums yesterday...
The risk of the Imperial family being rescued/extracted was exactly why they were executed when and where they were.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 ?
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 ?
In the video I linked at above (#256), Helen Rappaport explains, the Danes even paid ransom for some Romanov Grand Dukes, which the Bolsheviks took... - just to murder the Grand Dukes afterward.
The Bolsjeviks demanded the money,but at that time the Grand Dukes were already killed,misleading is an art,and the darn bolsjeviks knew how to play that card.
And as far as saving the Family,any of the Family.If it wasn't for the consistent pleading by Queen Alexandra,George V would not have moved his butt,at all,to save at least the Dowager Empress and her retinue and a handfull of family members.Nobody did anything worthwhile to rescue them...Except maybe Alfonso of Spain,he did a lot but to no avail which frustrated and saddened him immensly.
Any attempt to debunk the blame put on George V failed so far,contrary,it only just convinced me more of the exact opposite!One can blame Stanfordham for being such an Machiavelli playing Georgy's mind by showing him the worse snippits of daily "press",but he could have looked further then his Royal behind himself yet lacked the grey cells to even come up with that very idea.No,G V..nothing was debunked...Oh yes,lots of name-dropping,yes,well ...sorry,but that doesn't work for me.
Oh was he sorry later???Oh yes,very,until his dying day he was.His dying day,poor George,he was "assisted"to "go over" so the news would reach the Times in time....Poor man was a victim of his time and age,and wife.And Karma.
For ANY Rescue attempt to have even a chance of success it would -
a] have needed to be launched within [at latest] a Month of the abdication.
b] have needed the Family to split up into smaller [less recognisable] units of 1/2 or 3.
c] Have involved numbers of highly trained, fluent Russian speakers, completely familiar with the layout of Tsarskoye Selo/Alexander Palace/Petrograd [its Railway systems and Port facilities].
d] have needed contacts within the Provisional Government, the Petrograd Soviet and Imperial Household structures.
e] have needed co-operation by the [ex] Tsar and Tsarina and willingness to appreciate the gravity of their situation, and accept ORDERS from others [likely] unknown to them personally.
Quite how ANY foreign power could have satisfied ALL these crucial conditions at the time of the most critical juncture of the worst War the World had ever seen I don't know.
In short, the entire idea was/is a hopelessly romantic and UTTERLY unrealistic 'pipe-dream'.
Casting blame on ANY foreign person or persons unable to prevent the murders is simply wrong.
The ONLY people responsible are the Russians themselves..
Helen Rappaport have written "The race to save the Romanovs" and Corryne Hall have written "To free the Romanovs" both published this year.Does anyone have info on a good book about this for I would like to learn more. I have a book called *King, Kaiser and Tsar* by a woman named Clay I believe which is very good in the details that lead up to WW1 and how the relationship with the 3 cousins was at the time.....this is very horrific time in Europe, one of the worst I think.........the attempted rescue I know almost nothing about so am interested in learning, Thank you