Chapter 122 Tsar

On the morning of New Year's Day in 1917 (December 19, 1916), the Russian Queen Alexandra? Fydolovna, together with the Crown Prince and the four princesses, stood melancholy on the platform of the railway station of the imperial village (the tsar's station about 30 kilometers south of Petrograd - the author's note) to welcome Tsar Nicholas II from the base camp Mogilev back to Luan. The morning before, at the military conference of the base camp, seven or eight hundred kilometers away from the capital, the tsar received a telegram from the imperial village. From the lines of the telegram, he had already felt the deep panic in the queen's heart: "The Rasputing was assassinated - found in the water. Pray for him together to remember him. May God forgive us. Alexandra. "

"If I die after the aristocracy, the Romanov dynasty will collapse within three months after my death..."

In this extremely luxuriously decorated train with a strong Russian royal style on the railway between the forests, when Nicholas II put down the telegram in his hand, the prophecy made by Ras Putin in a letter to him half a month came to his mind.

"How could this happen?"

Nicholas II couldn't figure out why those nobles cruelly killed a monk, or even with their own hands. As a tsar, even in order to maintain his own rule, he rarely killed the revolutionaries who tried to overthrow the Russian Empire, but those nobles did not hesitate to kill extremely cruelly. Rasputin is dead.

At this time, although he was very angry, Nicholas II's mind was constantly thinking about the predictions made by the "Holy Fool" who could foreshadow the opportunity.

Three years ago, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, were assassinated by the Serbian youth Principe in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Subsequently, the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke off diplomatic relations with Serbia and declared a world war broke out. Russia, as the leader of the Slavic nation, naturally supported Serbia, which was also a Slavic nation, and announced a general mobilization throughout Russia, which aroused German protests. Subsequently, Germany declared war on the pretext that Tsarist Russia refused to stop the general mobilization. One side of the war is the Allies such as Britain, France and Russia, and the other side is the Allies such as Germany and Austria-Hungary.

For Russia, war is the way of Russia. Starting from Kievos, expansion wars and anti-slavery and anti-aggression wars run through Russian history. The war created the authority of the Tsar and the spiritual world of the Russian nation's perseverance and division. In the war thinking tradition of Russian monarchs and ministers, war and victory are the logical starting point and end, and they can endure everything, including great failure. Since modern times, this development path of historical logic has added a "revolution" that touched the imperial system after the "defeat": the failure of the Kremlin War in 1856 triggered the great reform in 1861, and the failure of the Russian War in 1904 triggered the revolution in 1905... The flames of the First World War ignited. There was a strong patriotic boom in Russia, and the revolution miraculously ended in cities across the country. The day after receiving the German declaration of war, Nicholas II swore to the statue of Saint Kazan in front of the enthusiastic 5,000 people: "As long as there is an enemy on Russian territory, we will not declare peace."

This sentence is the heroic words of Alexander I against Napoleon's invasion in 1812. In St. Petersburg, people attacked the German embassy, and ultra-conservatives and ultra-liberals shook hands. Nicholas II, the Tsar, also changed the name of the westernized capital to a typical Russian name - Petrograd.

At that time, people were convinced that they would win the war in a short time. The public even raised a large amount of money to reward the first Russian soldier to enter Berlin, and the political axe confidently prepared only three months of war guarantees. When countless young and middle-aged people rushed to the front line with their bags on their backs, Nicholas II said confidently in the face of this situation:

"Now, I have full confidence in the future."

When everyone was crazy about the war, the "Holy Fool" Rasputin, who could foreshadow the chance, actually opposed the participation in the war. At that time, he was recuperating in other places. After learning of the Tsar's decision to declare war on Germany, he immediately sent several urgent telegrams to Nicholas II, saying:

"Your Majesty must not start a war. Russia will be destroyed in the war, and the royal family will die in the flames of war until there is not one left.

After Nicholas II, who was in high spirits, saw the message, tore the telegram to pieces and spat to eliminate the unhung luck. Rasputin knew that the Tsar would not accept his opinion, so he sent someone to submit a handwritten chapter:

"Russia is shrouded in haze, monarch, don't trust war maniacs. The war will destroy everything in Russia.

But in the end, the course of the war made Rasputin unfortunately say that the Russian army only persisted abroad for a short time, and the offensive and defensive sides changed their roles, and the front was transferred to the Russian territory. Due to the backwardness of weapons and equipment and insufficient logistical preparations, the Russian army suffered heavy losses in the first year of the war, with continuous losses on the front line and more than half of the losses.

The defeat of the war made Nicholas II miserable, and Rasputin's prophecy made Nicholas II afraid. He tried to "correct" his mistakes. With the support of Rasputin and the queen, he removed his uncle Nicholas in August last year? Grand Duke Nikolayevich's position as the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian army, he personally served as the supreme commander-in-chief, sat in Mogilev's base camp, and handed over the state affairs to the queen of the left-behind imperial village.

Queen Alexandra took care of her children and encouraged her husband while taking care of her children and social affairs. Nicholas II, who was on the front line, remembered Alexandra and wrote to the queen:

"Think about it, my beloved wife, don't you want to come to your dear husband to help him?"

In his letter the next day, he wrote:

"If you take good care of those ministers, you are helping me."

As the queen, Alexandra will naturally obey his wishes. And beside her, someone "prayed" at night. This man is Rasputin. With his encouragement, the queen is no longer at a loss in front of the ministers as before. The German princess speaks Russian fluently like a Russian waterfall in Russia.

During the Tsar's time at the front-line base camp, the queen asked Rasputin about everything. Rasputin kept conveying his every move, even hiccups, coughing and dreaming as mysterious revelations to the queen, and Alexandra conveyed these "revelations" to the Tsar.

In a year and a half of the Tsar's foreign base camp, the Queen conveyed 150 suggestions, warnings and requests to the Tsar's Rasputin. In a letter, the queen told her husband that Rasputin coughed due to the impact of the Greek problem. "Our friend is very anxious, so I ask you to call the King of Serbia about the situation in the southeast... Attached is a piece of his handwriting. Please refer to the drafting of your own message. The central meaning is to express it in your own words. Describe."

No one expected that Tsar Nicholas II, who had been educated by professors from top universities in Russia and Western Europe for 15 years, would really take the note of the Siberian farmer's graffiti as a guide to Balkan strategy.

During the war, about 20 ministers and several cabinet prime ministers were rotated under the actual leadership of the Rasp court. The queen could not leave the Rasp court, and Nicholas II also said a famous saying:

"I'd rather have a Rasputin than 10 hysterical attacks a day."

But what about now?

Rasputin is dead!

Nicholas II, who was in the train base camp, fell into an unprecedented panic after receiving the telegram from the queen, because of Rasputin's prophecy!

"If I die after the aristocracy, the Romanov dynasty will collapse within three months after my death..."

Recalling Rasputin's extremely accurate prediction, Nicholas II did not have any confidence in the future for the first time. It is necessary to take a special train back to Petrograd. His wife needs comfort, and his children need comfort. Of course, will there be any conspiracy behind this?

Before picking up and leaving the base camp, I saw a telegram from Colonel Globachev, the head of the base camp's chief of staff, at the same time. The telegram said that Rasputing was killed in Yuzupov's mansion on the evening of December 16 (Russian calendar). Participating in the murders were: "Yusupov, Plisković and Grand Duke Pavlovich (the security director did not know that there were two accomplices: Lieutenant Suhogin and military doctor Lazawelt). Someone threw him into the water. A policeman accidentally found the sleeve of Father Rasputin's beaver fur coat frozen in the mouth of the ice hole, so as to drag his body up.

Finally, the train entered the railway station. At the railway station, Queen Alexandra got on the train. Queen Alexandra, with red eyes, rushed into her husband's arms as soon as she saw her husband's return.

"Okay, I'm back! Nothing will happen!"

At this time, on the way back to the imperial village from the station, Queen Alexandra looked at the tsar and said excitedly.

"The reason why the royal family wanted to assassinate Rasputing is actually to launch a palace coup in the future! Overthrow your rule over Russia!" Looking at her husband, the queen said:

"What are they going to do? They are going to kick you out and send me to the monastery.

"Oh..."

Despite his anger, Nikolay did not show any emotion. He just answered softly and then said.

"Now, we should bury Rasputin!"

In the afternoon of the same day, except for the eldest daughter Olga, the Tsar's family attended the funeral of Rasputin. According to the queen's opinion, the Rasputin cemetery was temporarily placed behind the garden not far from the imperial village, and a wooden chapel was built on the tomb. Alexandra put a bouquet of white flowers on the cemetery, and there were two things: one is a statue of Rasputin with the names of herself, her husband and children signed on it; the other is a letter that reads:

"Dear martyr, bless me, so that I may be blessed on this sad and miserable road that I have to take in the future. Don't forget us when you pray in heaven, Alexandra.

When she put the white flowers on the cemetery, Alexandra's face turned pale and she was about to cry, but she tried her best to control herself and listened to Father Vasily's repose.

(to be continued)