New data indicate that no one shot the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family. These people lived for many more years, and Tsarevich Alexei even became one of the leaders of the USSR.
The Bolsheviks needed the royal family
What are the reasons prompted the Bolsheviks to save the life of the imperial family? In 1979. a book by American journalists Tom Mangold and Anthony Summers "The Romanovs Case - a Shooting That Didn't Exist" was published. The authors began with the fact that in 1978, when the documents of the Brest Peace Treaty (signed in 1918) were declassified, they found in the archives telegrams from the British ambassador, which said: the Bolsheviks evacuated the royal family from Yekaterinburg to Perm.
British intelligence agents operating in Kolchak's army reported that the admiral, on July 25, 1918. entered Yekaterinburg, immediately appointed an investigator to handle the case of the execution of the imperial family. After three months, Captain Nametkin brought a report to Kolchak, where it was reported that a staged execution had taken place. The admiral did not believe it and appointed another investigator, Sergeev, but soon received the same result.
Kolchak, who by that time had proclaimed himself the Supreme Ruler of Russia, did not need a living tsar. Therefore, the third investigator, Sokolov, received very specific instructions: to provide evidence of the death of Nicholas II. Not thinking of anything better, he reported that the corpses of the dead were thrown into the mine and all this was filled with acid.
Mangold and Summers decided that the clue should be sought in the text of the Brest Treaty itself. However, it was not available in full in either the London or the Berlin declassified archives. The journalists decided that the full text contains points regarding the royal family - therefore it was destroyed.
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They suggested that at the request of Emperor Wilhelm II, a close relative of Alexandra Feodorovna, the queen and her daughters were handed over to Germany. The girls could not claim the Russian throne, which means that the Bolsheviks were not threatened. Nicholas and his son were left hostage, so that German troops would not go to Petrograd and Moscow.
This version looks quite logical, especially considering that the emperor was overthrown not by the Bolsheviks, but by the liberal-minded Russian aristocrats, the bourgeoisie and the army elite. The Reds did not harbor much hatred of Nicholas II, who did not threaten them in any way. Moreover, for the Bolsheviks it was an excellent trump card in the sleeve and a good bargaining chip in negotiations.
Lenin probably understood that the former Russian emperor was the chicken that (if stroked or shaken) could lay many golden eggs, so necessary for the young Soviet state. After all, Nikolay knew the secrets of many state and family deposits in Western banks. Later, this wealth was used for the industrialization of the Land of the Soviets.
The royal family and Soviet power
The further life of the last Russian emperor took place in Sukhumi. It is known that Stalin later built a dacha near the dacha of the Romanovs and went there to meet with Nikolai Alexandrovich. He, dressed in an officer's uniform, also sometimes visited the Kremlin, as evidenced by General Vatov, who served in the Stalinist guard.
The fate of Tsarevich Alexei was even more surprising. Like many, he eventually came to terms with the revolution that took place in the country and decided that he needed to serve his Fatherland, regardless of political convictions.
Historian S. I. Zhelenkov provides convincing evidence of the transformation of the former heir to the throne into the Red Army soldier Alexei Kosygin. In the whirlwind of civil war, especially with the help of the Cheka, this was not at all difficult to do. Much more interesting was the further career of the former heir to the throne. Stalin saw great inclinations in the young man and moved him along the line of the national economy.
In 1942. Alexey Kosygin, being authorized by the State Defense Committee in Leningrad, supervised the evacuation of the population, property, and industrial enterprises from Tsarskoye Selo. He, many times sailed on the yacht "Standart" in Ladoga, knew the vicinity of Lake Ladoga very well and managed to organize the Road of Life, connecting the besieged city with the mainland.
Kosygin, completely removed from party affairs, remained in his positions even after his high patron died. Both Khrushchev and Brezhnev needed a good, proven business executive, and therefore Kosygin worked as head of government for 16 years (the longest in the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation).
Where are the remains of the royal family
The present monarchists can honor the memory of the last Russian emperor by arriving in Nizhny Novgorod, since it was here at the cemetery called "Red Etna" that was on December 26, 1958. Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov was buried. The famous local elder Gregory performed the funeral service and gave it over to the land.
As for the wife and daughters of Nicholas II, their trace cannot be called lost either. In the nineties, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published a note on the death of Pascaline Lenart, a nun who occupied from 1939-1958. important post under Pope Pius XII. Shortly before her death, Pascalina's sister called a notary, who was informed that Princess Olga Romanova, who was not shot, contrary to the official version, by the Bolsheviks, had lived for a long time under the patronage of the Vatican, and after her death she was buried in the churchyard of the village of Marcotte (northern Italy). The journalists who arrived there found a tombstone, the inscription on which, made in German, confirmed that the eldest daughter of the Russian Emperor Nikolai Romanov is actually buried here. Olga Nikolaevna died in 1976.
A reasonable question arises: who in 1998? solemnly buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral? According to President Boris Yeltsin, the remains of members of the royal family found eternal rest there. However, the Russian Orthodox Church refused to admit this fact.
Let us also recall that the spiritual father of the Romanovs, Vladyka Theophan (who fled from revolutionary Russia and later lived in Sofia), claimed: he did not serve a requiem for the murdered august family, and his spiritual children are alive!..