The Liquidation of Russia. Who Helped the Reds to Win the Civil War?. Николай Стариков

to the northern Russian seaports in order to leave for Britain before the end of the war;

      • to let them return to Russia after the war ends in order to permanently settle down in Livadia (the Crimea).[6]

      The shortest way from Murmansk to London is by sea. This is exactly the way that the British convoys used to get here during the Great Patriotic War. That's how Nicholas wants to leave for the "allied" Great Britain. The special committee created by the Provisional Government for the "investigation of the atrocities of the tsarist regime" will not find any crimes. Nicholas Romanov is waiting patiently, while the committee is finding out that he has not done anything bad to Russia. After that he hopes to go abroad with all his family. The Februarists have promised this to the former Tsar. But instead of Livadia in the Crimea Kerensky sent the Tsar's family to Siberia, where no one of the crown-bearing family of the Romanovs returned alive from.

      However, publicly he said something quite different, "At the earliest possible time Nicholas II under my personal supervision will be driven to the harbour, where he will depart to Britain on a steamer."[7] He will say this, but this will not be done. Why did the government do this to the Monarch, who had humbly surrendered his power? The answer is simple.

      The first paragraph in the unwritten plan of the liquidation of Russia was the destruction of the legitimate power.

      Soon it would get so hot in Russia that the time of the tsar reign would look like paradise. It would be then that the tired Russian people would consider calling the very young Grand Prince Alexei to the throne. He has a right to the throne – by the laws of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II did not have the right to abdicate from the throne on behalf of his son. In other words, from a legal perspective, the country has a legal ruler – Alexei II. It was clear for the orchestrators of the Russian catastrophe that they could not allow Alexei to leave the country alive. As it was difficult to eliminate the boy alone, the only right decision was not to let any of the Romanovs out of the country. For these purposes, they had to be arrested under any pretext and later destroyed. All of them. Then the issue of the monarchy reinstatement will be over with the last spade of soil thrown onto their grave…

      Of course, the noble men – the heads of Milyukov's KD Party and of Guchkov's Octobrist Party are not good for this. The Latvian Riflemen and drunk sailors would be more suitable for such task. But their time hasn't come yet, so let the Romanovs stay under house arrest or in prison. It's safer like this.

      The Provisional Government, indeed, makes an inquiry if the family of Nicholas II could depart to Britain. And if the British government accedes to such a request, there will be no problems any more. The British king is the cousin of Nicholas II. Moreover, they resemble each other so closely. If the revolution had happened in Great Britain, the noble and naive Nicholas would not have given a second thought to whether he could or could not play host to his brother's family. He is a true companion-in-arms of Great Britain, he has been carrying on a war for three years, sometimes to the disadvantage of his own country, and the "allies" have nothing to blame him for. Nicholas does not understand that he interests his "allies" only in the form of a corpse. The same fate awaits his family.

      At first, "Georgie," George, the King of Great Britain, granted the Tsar's family a permission to come to Great Britain. But the investigation led by Kerensky was underway at the same time, and the family could not leave yet. The British didn't risk anything: they were, allegedly, ready to host the Tsar but he just wouldn't come. Tough luck! However, the investigation came to its end, and the verdict of the Provisional Government's commission was that the Monarch was not guilty. There were no more obstacles for Nicholas to leave. And then, the "allies" helped Kerensky to ease his conscience. Surely, he promised to send the Romanovs abroad but didn't do this. Now he can easily say he hasn't kept his promise because it was not possible any more.

      The British have declined Kerensky's request to host the Tsar's family. This negative answer is a dark secret of our "allies." Even today, they do not want to take responsibility for the blood of the innocent children of Nicholas II! But it was not difficult at all to save the Romanovs. "Twice the Russians addressed the British with the plea to help them set free the Emperor and his Imperial family, languishing in captivity. For the first time, in April 1917, they asked Buchanan for help. The only thing that was required of Buchanan was to contact his government in order for the latter to send a British ship to meet the Russian cruiser and take the Tsar and his crown-bearing family aboard. But Sir George Buchanan adamantly refused to do it having said, "There's no time to think about that now! Now everyone is occupied by much more important things. Furthermore, I don't want to burden my King and my government with extra concerns…"[8]

      Kerensky did not want to assume the responsibility for the death of the Romanovs, either, that's why in his memoirs he told the truth. And this truth caused a storm of indignation. The former British Prime Minister Lloyd George and the former British Ambassador Buchanan objected to him.[9] Kerensky had eased his conscience, and the British got thrown into panic insisting that they had never revoked their consent to give asylum to the Tsar. The things have come to a serious pass. In 1927, as an answer to a parliamentary inquiry, the foreign secretary of Great Britain accused Kerensky of lying, having presented the old telegrams as "a self-explanatory accusation." But it was a lie. In July 1917, which is to say well after, the British Military Attache General Knox gave not an equally specific answer to the request to host the Romanov family, "Britain is not in the slightest interested in the fate of the Russian Imperial family…"[10]

      Trying to conceal their role in the death of the Tsar's family, the "allies" hid the traces of their treason, having hidden away the telegrams with their refusal. When the former secretary of the British Embassy in Petrograd said that he remembered receiving a telegram from London with a refusal, the British diplomats answered that his memory must have failed him. But in 1932, Buchanan's daughter told about the strain which was put on her father.[11] Under the threat of losing his retirement pension, he had to forge the story in his memoirs and hide the truth from the public. And yet, the truth has got out. Some of these documents have even been published.

      The telegram of Lord Stamfordham, the King's personal secretary, to Lord Balfour, the foreign secretary of Great Britain (24 March, 1917) reads, "…I beg you to tell the Prime Minister that everything the King hears and reads in the press shows that the public will not like the presence of the Emperor and the Empress in this country, and this will jeopardize the position of the King and the Queen… Buchanan must tell Milyukov that in Britain the discontent with regard to the arrival of the Emperor and the Empress is so strong that we have to withdraw our former consent to the proposal of the Russian government…"[12]

      The telegram of Lord Buchanan, the British ambassador to Russia, to Lord Balfour, the foreign secretary of Great Britain (24 March, 1917) reads, "…I completely agree with you… It will be much better if the former Emperor doesn't come to Britain."[13]

      The Tsar's family can't go to Britain. But this does not imply that they will die. In order for the Romanovs to perish, Kerensky still had to try really hard. Because there is one more opportunity, Nicholas Romanov asked to be sent together with his family to Livadia in the Crimea. But it's exactly there, where the Romanov family will not go to. Why? Because this peninsula will be controlled by the Whites during all the period of the Civil War. Of course, Kerensky does not know this upfront, but, strangely enough, he does not want to send the former Tsar's family there. The Investigator Sokolov in his book "The Assassination of the Tsar's Family" brings forward the explanation of Kerensky himself. The head of the Provisional Government explains his odd behaviour in the following way, "It was decided (during a secret meeting) to find some other place for relocating the Tsar's family, and it was me who was appointed to find a solution to this issue. I started to explore the possibilities to do this. I planned to take them somewhere to Central Russia and was contemplating to use the estates of Michael Alexandrovich and Nicholas Mikhailovich for this purpose. But

6

Kerensky A. Russia at Historic Turn. M., Terra Publishing, 1996 (http://stepanov01.narod.ru/library/kerensk/chapt14.htm#razd02)

7

Kerensky A. Russia at Historic Turn. M., Terra Publishing, 1996 (http://stepanov01.narod.ru/library/kerensk/chapt14.htm#razd02)

8

The evidence of Harald Graf merits a very serious attention. He served in the Baltic Navy in the described period and later, in exile, became the head of the office and the personal secretary of Grand Prince Kirill Vladimirovich, who would later become the main pretender to the Russian throne. The Baltic sailor moved in the upper sets of politics and Russian emigration, and nobody ever reproached him for forging the facts and lying. For the first time, his book was published in 1922 in Munich. When several copies of this book reached the USSR, they ended up in the Soviet special repositories. And not without a reason! The book written without any delay right after the end of the Civil War describes many remarkable and little known facts. (Graf H. On Board of Novik. The Baltic Navy During the War and the Revolution. Saint Petersburg, Gangut, 1997. P. 385–386.)

9

Kerensky told that the British Prime Minister Lloyd George denied asylum for the Tsar, and it was Buchanan who brought this information to him (Romanov A. M. Memoirs. M., AST Publishing, 2008. P. 327).

10

Graf H. On Board of Novik. The Baltic Navy During the War and the Revolution". Saint Petersburg, Gangut, 1997. P. 386.

11

http://his.lseptember.ru/view_article.php?ID=200801402

12

Solzhenitsyn A. I. April 1917. (http://koleso.by.ru/4/4.htm)

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