In this case, it absolutely doesn't matter at all whether Michael Romanov is involved in the anti-Bolshevik plots or not. He is arrested not because of something, he is arrested in order to have something done. He is arrested to be killed.
It was not only Michael who was in trouble late in March 1918, it was the whole family. And this family of the Romanovs is big – the executioners will have a lot of work. The genealogic tree of the Romanovs has grown exuberantly on the blessed Russian soil. Emperor Nicholas I had four sons and three daughters. Emperor Alexander II had six sons and two daughters. Emperor Alexander III fell behind his father a little: he had four sons and two daughters. Nicholas II himself had four daughters and one son. These are the children of the Romanovs, who have ruled in Russia. The productivity of the sisters and brothers of the Russian monarchs was also high. It was the tradition of the ruling house to have many children. In other words, the number of the Romanovs was just a bit smaller than the number of the Ivanovs[22] in Russia.
March 1918 is the beginning of the Romanovs' road to the Calvary. On March 17, 1918, Michael Romanov is exiled to Perm. The farther away from Petrograd the better, to a place where there is solitude and stillness. Have a look at the map, and you will get the idea. The private secretary of Michael Romanov, Johnson, who was British, was arrested and exiled by Bolsheviks at the same time. Accompanied by the secretary, escorted by two servants, the last Russian emperor comes to Perm. Other exiled Romanovs are gathered not far from Perm, in a little county town of Alapayevsk in the Perm province, which is known only for its monastery. They were accommodated in the local school building: the sister of the Russian Empress, Grand Princess Elizaveta Feodorovna, who had ardently welcomed Rasputin's assassination; Grand Prince Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov, and Grand Princes Ioann, Igor, and Konstantin. The last prisoner to come to Alapayevsk was Vladimir Paley (Alexander II's grandson). He was born in the second marriage of his father Grand Prince Pavel Alexandrovich and was the stepbrother to Grand Prince Dmitry Pavlovich, the murderer of Rasputin. Being Romanov by birth, he had a different family name – Paley. The scenario with the prisoners in Alapayevsk is the same: they live freely after both revolutions, and then they get arrested without any reason. Their arrest took place in March 1918.
The family of Nicholas II also experiences troubles in March. They lived a calm life in Tobolsk, when Commissar Ducmane from Omsk arrived there. He was appointed the commissar of the town, but his main task was to watch the Romanovs. And so he did. He watched the Romanovs, not interfering in their life, studying them. Exactly two days after his arrival, on March 26, the detachment of the Red Guard (the first (!) after the Bolshevik overthrow) arrived in Tobolsk. The safeguarding of the Tsar's family is getting tougher, but this process is undisclosed so far. Until now, the Romanovs have been safeguarded by the same soldiers who used to safeguard them in Tsarskoye Selo. Let's remember this date, March 1918. This is a period of preparations. The danger is not visible, but dark clouds are thickening above the house of the Romanovs.
March 1918. This is a fatal month for the Romanovs.[23] It's exactly from this month that the events that resulted in the death of the Tsar's dynasty representatives speeded up.
It's exactly here at this point that we'll make a stop.
But why exactly March 1918?
March 1918 is the month, when the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed. The death of the Romanovs and the manoeuvres of Lenin and Trotsky between the Germans and the "allies" are directly interconnected. Yet, if today Lenin's eventual connections with Germany are "hyped," his connections with the Entente countries are wrongly forgotten. And these connections are very important in order to understand all the following events, which include the death of the Romanovs, as well…
Right after the October overthrow, Lev Trotsky became the narkom[24] of foreign affairs. His many-volume memoirs are a priceless treasury of information, "On the 18th of November, General Jadson, the head of the American mission, unexpectedly visited me in the Smolny. He told me that he was not able to speak on behalf of the American government yet, but he hoped that everything would be all right'.'[25]Before leaving, the peace-loving general declared, "The time of protests and threats towards the Soviet Power is gone if it ever existed."[26] Kindly pay attention to this: only few weeks have passed since the Bolshevik overthrow, but the official head of the American mission doesn't have any claims towards them. And this is after the new Russian government had addressed Germany with a peace appeal. How could it be different if we remember that the fighter for the people's happiness Lev Trotsky arrived in Russia on the ship from the USA almost simultaneously with Lenin, who had arrived in Russia via Germany…
The unofficial representatives of the western behind-the-scenes forces visited the new Bolshevik leaders. They had "the honour" to continue the huge project on Russia's destruction. Three emissaries from three empires arrived: the representative of the French military mission Jacques Sadoul, the Deputy of the British Ambassador Bruce Lockhart, and the Head of the American Red Cross mission Raymond Robbins represents the USA.[27]
All three of them are not ambassadors and, consequently they are not authorized to conduct the negotiations, and they may not expound the positions of their governments. They are not officially authorized, but they don't need this to carry out their special task. They have aplenty of unofficial authorities, and they are the true Entente representatives.[28] You can easy assure yourself of this if you pay attention to the fact that the official ambassadors of the superpowers left the Soviet capital for… Vologda at the same time. The unofficial representatives stayed. All three official ambassadors: Buchanan (Great Britain), Noulens (France), and Francis (USA) hold a rampant anti-Soviet position.[29] And they go farther away from the main political centre of Russia. The unofficial representatives Sadoul, Lockhart, and Robbins wanted "to make their respective governments recognize the Soviet power,"[30] as the book "The Civil War 1918–1921," which was published before Stalin's purges, informs us.
That's why they stay with the Bolshevik chieftains. Lenin and Trotsky perfectly understand WHO has come to them. And the respect for the unofficial representatives of the "allies," showed by the Bolshevik leaders, corresponded with the significance of this visit. Trotsky met Lockhart almost every day, he gave him a pass to the Smolny he let him use his private train to travel from Petrograd to Moscow and back, and even provided him with a document saying "All the organizations, Soviets, and Commissars are asked to provide all kinds of assistance to the members of the British mission."[31] The French representative Captain Jacques Sadoul also has an "ironclad" document. This character is even more interesting. He was sent on a mission to Russia in September 1917, "striving to get closer to the leaders of the Soviet power; during February and March he managed to considerably neutralize the influence of the French Ambassador Noulens."[32] Later Sadoul "abandoned" the French mission and worked actively as a Communist. You can read about it in the books. He has allegedly turned his heart to the revolutionary ideas, has forgotten about his duties and the sunny valleys of Provence. He has immersed himself in Communism and Marxism.
This is a lie. To understand this, one has to read Vladimir Ilyich's works more attentively. "The French Captain Sadoul, who verbally felt for Bolsheviks, indeed was faithfully and loyally serving the French imperialism,"[33] Lenin writes in the letter to the American workers. The head of the Bolshevik Party can't be deceived by artificial oaths and faked Marxism. His comments regarding Jacques Sadoul tell us directly where this nice young Frenchman has
Translator's note: Ivanov is one of the most common family names in Russia.
This is really true. The February Revolution can be called the March Revolution in accordance with the New Style. In March 1917, the Romanovs lost the throne, and in March 1917 they were arrested.
Translator's note: People's Commissar.
Trotsky L. My Life (http//www.1917com./Marxism/Trotsky/My_Life/My_Life-00–02–06.html)
Ib.
The USA didn't have any real intelligence services at that time. But in December 1913, the Federal Reserve System was established – a private little shop which got monopoly on printing the US dollars. Read more about the connections between the bankers, who owned the Federal Reserve System, and our revolutionaries, and about the history of this organization's establishment: Starikov N. Crisis. How It Is Done. St. Pb.: Piter, 2009.
Warth R. The Entente and the Russian Revolution. M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. P. 203.
Kakurin N. Vatsetis I. The Civil War 1918–1921. St. Pb.: Poligon, 2002. P. 17.
Ib.
Bruce Lockhart came to Russia with a recommendation letter… from Maxim Litvinov, who in his turn became an unofficial representative of Bolsheviks to Great Britain. In his letter, Litvinov called the professional British spy, who was working under a diplomatic cover, "an extremely honest person, who understands our situation and feels for us". His presence in Russia will be very "useful from the point of view of our interests". (Warth R. The Entente and the Russian Revolution. M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. P. 207.) Litvinov himself bought the weapons on behalf of Bolsheviks in 1905 and had connections with the British intelligence services. His fate is very telling. Being married to a British woman, he was the narkom of the foreign affairs during Stalin's reign and was displaced in 1939. For those who like to talk about the bloody dictator Stalin: his minister of foreign affairs is married to a foreign woman, but he survives through Stalin's reprisals. Why? Because he had connections in Great Britain and was a sort of a communication channel. Directly upon Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Stalin sent Litvinov to the USA in order to receive support from there. And Litvinov managed to receive it.
Think about it: the captain "neutralized" the ambassador of his country. It means that all questions were resolved exactly by Sadoul, who "was feeling a sympathy" for Bolsheviks by order of his government, and the official representative of this government, Ambassador Noulens, was quietly sitting in Vologda not to disturb the captain in performing his task. (Kakurin N. Vatsetis I. The Civil War 1918–1921. St. Pb.: Poligon, 2002. P. 17.)
Lenin V. Works. M.: GIZ, 1950. P. 49.
