March, 2017,100th Anniversary of the February,1917 Russian Revolution:The Czar, Kerensky, Rasputin and the Virgin Mary @Fatima
March, 2017 is the 100th Anniversary
of the February 1917, Russian Revolution.
How can an event in March be the 100th
Anniversary of an event which occurred in February?
Czarist Russia used a Julian Calendar to mark
the passing of the days, so events which occurred in February to Russians,
happened in March for everyone else.
Demonstrations against the Czar began on
February 23, 1917(Russian time), in Petrograd(now St. Petersburg), the capital
of Czarist Russia.
The Czar, Nicholas II, was at the Front, commanding a losing Army, in person. His wife, Czarina Alexandra, was defacto in command in
Petrograd.
She did not think anything was amiss, how could
it be? The Russian people had loved the Romanov Czars for 300 years( keep in mind that the Czarina Catherine
I was Polish, and the Czarina Catherine II, Catherine the Great, was German).
Alexandra was also German, a handicap when one’s adopted nation is fighting a
war of attrition with one’s birth nation.
Initially the troops fired on the protesters,
but around the third day, the Cossacks defected to the mob…..five days later it
was all over, Czar Nicholas II had abdicated.
1300 dead.
The Revolution, all the fighting, had occurred
within Petrograd and its suburbs.
WHAT CAUSED THE REVOLUTION?
1-The incompetence of Czar Nicholas II. A
monarchy is a family business; it was obvious for a long time that Nicholas was
a weak and feeble leader, but the Romanov family allowed him to remain in
power, and for that they lost everything.
“53 Romanovs were living in Russia when Tsar
Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917. 18 were murdered; 35 escaped. 14
Romanovs were killed between July 13, 1918 and July 18, 1918.
July
13, 1918: Grand
Duke Michael Alexandrovich had been arrested with Brian Johnson, his British
secretary and sent to Perm in Siberia. On July 13, 1918, they were taken to the
woods outside Perm and shot. Their bodies have never been found.
- Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, son of Tsar Alexander III, brother of Tsar Nicholas
II, 40 years old
July
17, 1918: The
entire Imperial Family was shot in the basement of the Ipatiev House in
Yekaterinburg, Siberia.
- Tsar
Nicholas II,
50 years old
- Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, 46 years old
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, 23 years old
- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, 21 years old
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, 19 years old
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, 17 years old
- Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, 14 years old
July
18, 1918: Romanovs were taken to an abandoned mine shaft outside of Alapayevsk, Siberia and made
to walk blindfolded across a log placed over the 60 foot mine shaft. Grand Duke
Sergei Michailovich refused and was shot. The others fell into the mine shaft.
- Grand Duke Sergei Michailovich, grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, 59 years old
- Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, widow of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, sister of
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, 54 years old
- Prince Ioann Constantinovich, son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich who was
a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, 32 years old
- Prince Constantine Constantinovich, son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich who was
a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, 28 years old
- Prince Igor Constantinovich, son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich who was
a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, 24 years old
- Prince
Vladimir Paley,
son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, 21 years old
January
28, 1919: The
four grand dukes had been imprisoned at the Fortress of Peter and Paul in St.
Petersburg since July, 1918. On January 28, 1919, they were taken to the
fortress courtyard, ordered to strip to the waist, and executed by a firing
squad.
- Grand Duke Nicholas Michailovich, grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, 60 years old
- Grand Duke George Michailovich, grandson of Tsar Nicholas I and brother of Nicholas
above, 56 years old
- Grand Duke Dmitri Constantinovich, grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, 59 years old
- Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, son of Tsar Alexander II, 59 years old”
The
institution of monarchy cannot survive bad leadership (that pregnant fact will
come into play, if and when Charles, Prince of Wales assumes the British
throne).
RASPUTIN-
Rasputin
was a crazed Russian holy man, a Stranniki, who exerted a powerful influence
over the Czarina because he could psychologically compel her son, Alexei the
heir, to live, even though he had hemophilia.(The Czarina was a grand-daughter
of Queen Victoria of England, and carried the hemophilia gene, an inability to
clot blood, to her son from the old Queen).
Rasputin,
by the end of the Romanov Monarchy, was appointing members of the Czarist
government, and by using his influence over the Czarina, dismissing opponents
in the Czarist government.
What
was his control over the Czarina?
The
Russian people thought it was sexual, Rasputin was known for his huge
member(think Milton Berle in a monk’s robe).
Rasputin
was venal; he tried to seduce every middle class woman in Petrograd, while just
enjoying lower class women and gypsies. For aristocratic Russian women, he used
the tool of Russian rape. He liked raping Russian aristocratic women.
Rasputin
was venal, but also possessed mystical powers, whether he got those powers from
the Devil or Heaven, is debatable.
He
predicted his own death, and the consequences of that Death.
“I write this letter,
the last letter, which will be left after me in Saint Petersburg. I have a
premonition that I will die before 1 January (1917). I speak to the Russian
People, to Papa [he referred to Nikholai II as Papa and Aleksandra as Mama], to
Mama and Children, to all of the Russian Land, what they should know and
understand. If I will be killed by ordinary people, especially by my brothers—the
Russian peasants, then you, the Russian Tsar, should not worry about Your
Children, —they will lead in Russia another hundred years.
But if I am murdered by the boyars and noblemen, if they spill my
blood, and it stays upon their hands, then....They will have to flee from
Russia. Brother will kill brother, everyone will kill each other and hate each
other, and at the end of twenty five years, not one nobleman will be left in Russia.
Tsar of the Russian Land, if You hear the ringing of the funeral bell at the
death of Grigory, then know; if in my death are guilty someone of Your
relatives, then I tell you, that none of Your Family, none of Your children and
Relatives will live more than two years. And if they live, they will pray
to God for death, for they will see the disgrace and shame of the Russian Land,
the arrival of the antichrist, pestilence, poverty, desecrated temples of God,
holy places spit upon, where everyone will become a corpse…Three times twenty
five years will the black bandits, servants of the antichrist, destroy the
people of Russia and the faith of the Orthodox (church). And the Russian Land
will perish. And I perish, I have perished already, and I am no longer among
the living. Pray, pray, be strong, think of Your Blessed Family.
If
the will and testament are authentic, then Rasputin really was on to something:
RASPUTIN”
·
“I will die before 1 January…” He was killed Dec 30, 1916.
·
“if I am murdered by the boyars and noblemen…” He was killed by two relatives of the
royal family.”
May
this Blogger suggest that every Reader take the time to read about Rasputin’s assassination;
it is more TWILIGHT ZONE than any episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE….or THE WALKING
DEAD. “Rasputin
died from drowning after being
unsuccessfully poisoned, shot three times and beaten.”
PYOTR
STOLYPIN-
The
only Russian statesman capable of stemming the Revolutionary tide was Pyotr
Stolypin. As Premier of Czarist Russia, he was making tremendous strides;
however he was anti-Rasputin and the Czarina hated him.
He
was assassinated in 1911 by a leftist. The trial of the leftist was cut short
and the assassin hanged ten days after the assassination. Seemingly the trial
was cut short because the leftist was either: a) commissioned by pro-Rasputin forces(the
Czarina) to kill Stolypin or b) the leftist was part of a plot by the Czar’s Secret Police, the Okhrana, to look
good. They knew about the assassination attempt, and allowed the leftist to get
close to Stolypin. They intended to stop the assassination at the last minute
to look necessary and increase their funding, but they forgot to tell others of
their grand plan, and the mock assassination worked, for real.
ALEXANDER
KERENSKY-
The
key power figure to emerge from the February Revolution was Alexander Kerensky.
He lived until 1970, teaching sometimes at Columbia University, in New York City.
One
of this Blogger’s brothers was a graduate of Columbia University, and through
his good offices, this Blogger got to audit one of Kerensky’s classes, and meet
the man himself.
My brother loathed Kerensky; he blamed Kerensky
for the rise of Bolshevism, for being too moral to be a leader.
Looking back
on his encounter with Kerensky, this Blogger compares him to Jimmy Carter, Walter
Mondale and/or Tim Kaine, good and decent men unfit to be leaders in
Revolutionary times, for they fail to recognize the Devil standing in front of them.
“Kerensky died at his home in New York City in
1970, one of the last surviving major participants in the turbulent events of
1917. The local Russian Orthodox Church in
New York refused to grant Kerensky burial….because it saw him as largely
responsible for Russia falling to the Bolsheviks(Communists).”
THE SECOND SECRET OF FATIMA-
In the Second Secret of FATIMA, the Virgin Mary
discussed Russia.
This Blogger will explore the Second Secret of
Fatima, and the Bolshevik Revolution in more detail in his future Blog on the
100th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Suffice it to say,in the 1917 summer before the
Bolshevik Revolution, the Virgin Mary
wanted Russia consecrated as a Christian nation.
A few short years ago, American Evangelicals,
on their own volition, awarded the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, the title:“the
Lion of Christianity, for his anti-Gay Rights actions and policies. Will Putin
being the Lion of Christianity, as deemed by American Evangelicals, be enough
to meet the Virgin Mary’s standards of
consecration?
Stay tuned.
The finest American scholar of Czarist Russia before and during World War I, in this Blogger’s humble opinion, was the late, great W. Bruce
Lincoln. Every Reader of this Blog interested in Russia, should read his tomes,
IN WAR’S DARK SHADOW and PASSAGE THROUGH ARMAGEDDON.
This Blogger attended a seminar conducted by
Mr. Lincoln; in that seminar an interesting theory of why the Romanovs fell was
floated.
It was discussed that the resilience and
endurance of the Romanov monarchy was dependent on the loyalty and fealty of the Office
Corps, especially the Captains and the Lieutenants, who had direct control over
the fighting troops.
The Romanov Officer Corps was stocked with the
young sons of the aristocracy, brave, daring, reckless, loyal and Royalist.
However, Czar Nicholas’ inept leadership wasted
the entire generation of Russian aristocratic officers, leaving none to command
the surviving troops when the February Revolution came.
Without loyal officers, the Russian troops, including
the Cossacks, joined the Revolution.
In a Revolution, a Captain commanding a platoon
outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd is more important than a General commanding
entire armies 500 miles away.
Rasputin
The crowds gather against the Czar
The Czar's troops fire on the protesters
the Czar's troops defect to the people
Alexander Kerensky, 1917
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