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

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type="note">[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 it has turned out to be absolutely impossible. Even the fact of transferring the Tsar to these places across the Russia of workers and peasants. It was also unthinkable to transfer them to the south. Some of the grand princes were already living there, as well as Maria Feodorovna, and there were already enough of disagreement there regarding it. Finally, I chose Tobolsk."[14]

      Thus, the Head of the Provisional Government Kerensky decides to take the Romanov family to Tobolsk. Let us draw our attention to one very important detail: when Prince Lvov was the head of the state, no one thought of transferring Nicholas and his family anywhere. As soon as Kerensky became the head of the Provisional Government, an immediate decision about relocating the Tsar's family to some middle of nowhere was taken. But why Tobolsk? Is it really that much safer there? Sokolov has also pointed out the odd logic of the father of Russian democracy, "I do not understand why transferring the Tsar from Tsarskoye Selo anywhere except Tobolsk meant to transfer him all the way through the Russia of workers and peasants, and why transferring him to Tobolsk did not mean this."[15]

      I don't know, what grade Sasha Kerensky had in his geography, it's better to ask his schoolmate Vova Ulyanov about it. Why didn't Kerensky realize that the way to Tobolsk lay across not some different, special Russia, but exactly across "the Russia of workers and peasants"?! It just turned out that way, the historians will say later, it just happened.

      Let us consider the statesmen to be capable adults. If their actions seem odd to us, it must be because we fail to understand their true goal. Naivety and unawareness of Alexander Kerensky has to do with one thing, the mass grave of the crown-bearing family. Kerensky didn't shoot the children of the Romanovs himself, but he did everything in order for them not to stay alive. Thus, his actions become quite conscious and reasonable for us. The British intelligence purposefully destroys its competitor, the Russian Empire. The monarchical system is one of its characteristics, and it means that the ruling dynasty must be exterminated. The masters make their recommendations, and the marionette Kerensky should put it into effect. This being said, he wants to somehow justify his actions for the casual observers. As long as there is no rational explanation to his actions, Alexander Kerensky has to make it up. Sometimes it turns out well, sometimes the result is pure nonsense. Kerensky can't write the truth and confirm Sokolov's guess, probably, the most terrible one in his whole book, "There was only one reason for transferring the Tsar's family to Tobolsk. It was exactly the only one that remained of all the others indicated by Prince Lvov and Kerensky: a faraway cold Siberia, the land where other people were once exiled to"[16], can he?

      We wish to add for ourselves: Siberia is a land of no return!

      The facts push us as well as Kerensky to draw an evident conclusion: it's dangerous to keep the Tsar's family near the capital – Finland is near, and Sweden is not so far, either. In the Crimea there is sea, seaports, and the foreign lands are also close by. One never knows when the Romanovs might flee, break free. That's why it was "unthinkable" to transfer the Tsar, who had abdicated, there. "The life at the time was full of "confusions" everywhere, but all the Imperial personages, who lived in the south, managed to escape, as they all were near the borders of the country,"[17] writes investigator Sokolov.

      Odd, isn't it? But everything happens the other way around.

      The Tsar and his family will be murdered in the "safest," according to Kerensky, place, while the other Romanovs will manage to escape from the most "unsafe" one.

      The transfer of the Tsar to his new place of residence is a closely guarded secret. It's such a big secret that even Nicholas himself doesn't know where he is going. Another scorching day in July, the insects hovering in the air… One wants to bathe and not to think about anything bad.

      "July 28. Friday. The day was beautiful: we took a wonderful walk. After breakfast, Mr. Benckendorff told us that we would be sent not to the Crimea but to one of the remote principal provincial towns, a journey to which takes three or even four days! But no one knows, where exactly, even the commandant doesn't. And we were so looking forward to staying in Livadia for a longer period of time!"[18] the former Monarch would write in his diary.

      "July 31. Monday. The last day of our stay in Tsarskoye Selo… Our departure has been kept such a secret that even the motorcars and the train were booked after the scheduled hour of departure. We were so exhausted! Alexei was sleepy: he went to sleep and then woke up again several times. A false alarm went off several times: we had to put our coats on, go out to the balcony, and then return inside. Then the dawn broke. We had our morning tea, and then finally at 5:00 Ker[ensky] came and said that everyone was ready to go."[19]

      Why can't the itinerary be disclosed to Nicholas Romanov himself? Because he is being deceived, and the deception should be exposed already upon their arrival or on the way, when nothing can be done anymore. There was deception everywhere: Siberia instead of the Crimea, a 12 (!) days' journey to Tobolsk instead of a "three to four" days' one to the east. Tobolsk is a backcountry. Taiga. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to escape. In his diary Nicholas Romanov described the day of the departure in great detail. And this despite the fact that the former Tsar had never been a person of many words.

      Now, let us recall why it has become absolutely necessary to transfer the Tsar's family from Tsarskoye Selo. The excuse found by Kerensky was quite reasonable: the protection of the crown-bearing family. At the beginning of July, there was a failed Bolshevik riot in Petrograd, that's why the Tsar's family had to be protected and transferred to a safe place far from this "boiling pot." Allegedly, the Petrograd Soviet was continuously attempting to put Nicholas Romanov into prison and to execute him…

      For

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