The idea that the adversarial removal of royal legitimacy calls for the execution of all the children of the royals sets me reeling. I think the idea was offensive at the time as well, since the clumsy and brutal killings of all but the tsar were covered up.
Some of the people in the article survived the era. One notably died in Manhattan 1993 after settling down in the US and marrying a woman from Buffalo.
Right. The idea of killing the children also sends me reeling, but I can see the thinking: if any heirs are allowed to live, there could be a movement to re-establish the royalty. Killing them nips that in the bud and makes whatever revolution feel a little more "permanent". Still... awful and tragic.
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Some of the people in the article survived the era. One notably died in Manhattan 1993 after settling down in the US and marrying a woman from Buffalo.
See: The Princes in the Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower
She was the granddaughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Trepov - last prime minister under the czar - just before Kerensky.
She died of the Spanish Flu in 1918.
The princess's daughter (my grandmother) married Norman Armour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Armour