The End of the Romanov Dynasty

Nov 2, 2020 On March the 2nd, 1917, two representatives of the Duma, arrived in Pskov to receive Nicholas’ II abdication. That was the end of the Romanov Dynasty. The video follows the events from the February Revolution 1917 until the murder of the Romanov family and the discovery of their remains, in 1991. One of the main features of this video is the film with V. Shulgin, one of the two Duma members who met Tsar Nicholas II and received from him his abdication statement. Shulgin related the story in 1957, after Stalin’s death, in a film that was shot in the very same train compartment where they met Nicholas II and received his abdication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XKrtZQf8uc

Testimonies of Red Guards: Romanovs Imprisoned | Part 1

Oct 26, 2021 Valentin Speranski, a former professor at the University of Saint Petersburg, who emigrated to Paris after the Revolution, visited Ekaterinburg in 1924 to give a series of lectures. While he was there, he held interviews with people of various political parties and stations, including the Bolsheviks, who had at one time any connection with the terrible events that had taken place there only six years earlier. One of the more important persons who gave information to Speranski was Anatoly Yakimov, who served as a guard at the Ipatiev House.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6TGWxtAOyA

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The Romanov Royal Martyrs

https://www.youtube.com/c/RomanovRoyalMartyrs/videos

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The Romanov Four Sisters | Part 1: Before the Storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9wbDrnGZo

Apr 14, 2021 The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra have often been considered nothing more than the pretty backdrop to the larger and more dramatic story of their parents and tragic hemophiliac brother Alexey. Despite what portraits depict and behind the dutiful image existed four very vibrant and fascinating and most of all, distinct, personalities. A two-part series focusing on Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters - Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia - combining interviews with leading historians, stunning archive footage, and dramatic reconstruction to reveal the real girls behind the fairy-tale images. This is a remake of a video produced and published by BBC in 2014, entitled "Russia's Lost Princesses". This new version features colorized pictures by Olga Shirnina (Klimbim), newsreel footage, and a selection of photographs from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF).

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00:00 Intro

02:12 Empress Alexandra: The Victorian upbringing

04:37 Nicholas & Alexandra

07:53 Alexandra's difficulties at the Russian Court

10:30 Tsarskoe Selo: The upbringing of the four sisters

14:45 OTMA: The characters of the Romanov sisters

16:21 Tsarevich Alexei: The drama of hemophilia

21:45 Rasputin and the Imperial family

25:21 The Romanovs visit the Isle of Wight - 1909 Cowes Sailing Regatta (Britain)

29:51 Alexandra's illnesses

30:56 The relationship between Rasputin and the four sisters

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The Romanov Four Sisters | Part 2: The Tragic End

Apr 28, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2w_zR6YV18

Testimony of a guard: "It is a shame to admit it, but all of us were guilty as to those unfortunates. We made fun of the defenseless girls. We would keep on continually offending those young girls, and watched their every move." The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra have often been considered nothing more than the pretty backdrop to the larger and more dramatic story of their parents and tragic hemophiliac brother Alexey. Despite what portraits depict and behind the dutiful image existed four very vibrant and fascinating and most of all, distinct, personalities. A two-part series focusing on Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters - Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia - combining interviews with leading historians, stunning archive footage, and dramatic reconstruction to reveal the real girls behind the fairy-tale images.

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0:00 Intro

0:21 Olga & Tatiana at marriage age

2:14 Crown Prince Carol of Romania: A royal match for Olga

3:35 World War 1

4:20 Grand Duchesses' war-work as Red Cross nurses

7:17 Slanders against Alexandra and Rasputin

8:30 The girls and their favorite officers

10:20 Olga falls in love with a Georgian officer

12:32 Alexandra accused of treason

14:20 The murder of Rasputin

18:24 The Romanov children sick with measles

20:14 Under house arrest at the Alexander Palace

22:52 Exile to Siberia Tobolsk

31:55 Nicholas, Alexandra, and Maria to Ekaterinburg

38:09 The horrifying last days in Ekaterinburg

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The Romanovs. The Real History of the Russian Dynasty. Episodes 5-8. StarMediaEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLnYFdAhFLk

Oct 13, 2018

All episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUA_...

In 1613 The Zemsky Sobor (the National Assembly) adopted a decision to invite Michael Fyodorovich Romanov to become tsar of Russia. This decision was announced in Red Square in front of numerous crowds of people: “Michael Fyodorovich shall be tsar and lord of Muscovy and all the Russian state.” In order to prevent disturbances, Michael Romanov had to take a terrible sin upon his soul – to execute a 3 year-old boy… The most vivid pages of Russian history and the establishment and consolidation of Russian state power are associated with the eighteen Russian Tsars of the House of Romanov which include such historic names as Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas I and Alexanders I, II and III. The dynasty ended with the brutal assassination of the last Tsar, Nicholas II and his family by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg in 1917.

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The Romanovs. The History of the Russian Dynasty - Episode 8. Documentary Film. Babich-Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlVgtwAcRA

Dec 19, 2014 All episodes: It was 20 years before the beginning of the XX century. The country was in fever. Never before tsar’s power had been as unstable as at that time. It was Alexander III Aleksandrovich who had to take on responsibility for the future of the empire. He was able to extricate the country from economic crisis and turn it into one of the world’s mightiest powers. It was in this condition – at the peak of its power – that the country was inherited by Nicholas Aleksandrovich Romanov.

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Queen Victoria

Oct 15, 2019 

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Queen Victoria's Daughters, Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tysr2GAGeBQ

Queen Victoria's Daughters, Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYnZK...

Queen Victoria's Sons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dv3...
 

Queen Victoria gave birth to 9 children in 17 years. But she wasn’t exactly the world’s greatest mother. Victoria’s older daughters were married to important future monarchs and scales the peaks of European politics. But when Albert died at 42 Victoria fell into an intense depression and used her younger daughters as an emotional crutch, selfishly stunting their lives and freedom. None the less they all lived compelling lives; one a sculptress and suffragette and two captivated by nursing.

Here are the stories of

Queen Victoria’s five fascinating daughters:

Victoria, Empress of Germany (1840-1901)

Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878)

Helena, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein (1846-1923)

Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1931)

Beatrice, Princess of Battenberg (1857-1944)

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Princess Olga Romanoff speaks about her suggested marriage to prince Charles | SVT/NRK/Skavlan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C0rbpnpyJQ

Dec 4, 2017 Princess Olga Romanoff's grandmother was the sister of the last Tsar of Russia. Today, 100 years after the Russian Revolution, Princess Olga comes to tell her story, how parts of the family managed to flee – while others were executed. She also talks about how her mother once was eager for her to marry Britain's prince Charles (7:54).

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Elizabeth Feodorovna: In Happiness & Tragedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWXzDYYmWJY

Jul 28, 2021 She was a sister of the last Empress, a wife of Governor-General of Moscow, an Abbess, a White Angel, a saint. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna is the most enigmatic figure of the House of Romanov. Her political power was surrounded by legends. Answers to many questions could have been found in her diaries and letters, but they mysteriously disappeared. A century after the Grand Duchess's death, archives reveal documents that have never been seen before.

Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov of Russia

Jan 12, 2021 Alexandra Feodorovna, Granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsarina of Russia whose guilt over passing hemophilia on to her son made her dependent on crude mystic Rasputin and contributed to the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the murder of her family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHlajTb4OE

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Mysterious Woman Who was Believed to be Russia's Royal Princess

May 7, 2020 One of the fascinating historical mysteries in the past century involved the youngest daughter of the Russia's royal family, Anastasia Romanov. In 1920, a mysterious woman who strike a strong resemblance believed to be the lost princess. It took almost a century to finally solve this case when DNA analysis became available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUAtG495WL0

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The Fake Princess Who Fooled the World for 63 Years | Anna Anderson / Anastasia

Jan 31, 2021 Anna Anderson claimed to be the lost Princess Anastasia for 63 years. You may have seen the movie Anastasia, but did you know it is loosely based on a True story? It is based on the story that Anna Anderson (real name: Franziska Schanzkowska) told in 1922, and continued to tell until her death 63 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P5Yknzn1ho

Romanovs: The Real Story

Oct 6, 2020 Unknown and unrevealed facts, which evince that many truths in regard to the life and death of the Romanovs remain silenced or distorted to this day. Nicholas II was surrounded by the forceful presence of his mother, the Dowager Empress, and his uncles. This generation of Romanovs could have, under normal circumstances, expected another two decades of service to and influence over their nation, and it was with both regret and misgivings that they kissed the hands of their new young sovereign and his Hessian bride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EG9XjUt8E

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Last of the Czars - 02 - The Shadow of Rasputin (1996)

Jan 4, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx2zMUCsdM0

ANNE BOLEYN’S EXECUTION. Hollywood versus history. Most famous execution in history. History Calling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBczwBsGCqM

Jul 2, 2021 There have been many depictions of ANNE BOLEYN'S EXECUTION on screen, but how accurate are some of the best known portrayals of the Queen’s final minutes? In this week’s History Calling video, I’m going to pit Hollywood versus history by looking at three of the best known movies and TV shows about Anne’s life from recent years and comparing them to each other and the historical record to see who did it best. The video will ask how accurate was Wolf Hall, starring Claire Foy, The Other Boleyn Girl starring Natalie Portman and The Tudors, starring Natalie Dormer, when it came time to show how the death of Anne Boleyn played out. It will look at Anne Boleyn’s final speech on the scaffold on 19 May 1536, what she wore, her demeanour and how those around her acted. This is a six wives documentary with a difference, as we look at how arguably the most famous execution in history, of perhaps the most famous Queen of England has been portrayed through a medium which didn’t come into existence until nearly 300 years after the event. At the end, I’ll ask who you think makes the best Anne Boleyn on screen.

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Royal Runaway? Ultimate Fate of Duchess Anastasia REVEALED | History's Greatest Mysteries: Solved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRMHKC9xMA

Dec 11, 2020 Following the execution of the Russian Tsar and his family in 1918, persistent rumors circulated of his youngest daughter Anastasia's possible escape. Over 100 years later, cutting edge technology finally provides a definitive answer to Anastasia's fate, in this episode of History's Greatest Mysteries: Solved. #HistorysGreatestMysteriesSolved

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The Curse of GRACE KELLY's Children - British Royal Documentary

Premiered Jul 12, 2021

The Curse of GRACE KELLY's Children - British Royal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_EfUmfJBTc

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PRINCESS DIANA’S SAPPHIRE AND PEARL CHOKER NECKLACE

12.18.2020 by THE COURT JEWELLER

https://www.thecourtjeweller.com/2020/12/princess-dianas-sapphire-and-pearl.html

One of the pieces of royal jewelry that I’m asked about most frequently is the iconic sapphire, diamond, and pearl choker necklace worn by the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

The large sapphire and diamond cluster, one of Diana’s most sparkling wedding presents, was a gift from her new grandmother-in-law.

In The Royal Jewels, fashion historian Suzy Menkes described the piece: “The Queen Mother’s wedding present to Diana was a duck egg of a sapphire, surrounded by a double row of diamonds and mounted as a brooch.”

One of Diana’s first public appearances in the jewels came in February 1982, when she wore the brooch pinned to the lace trim of her Belleville Sassoon dress for a dinner at 11 Downing Street in honor of the British Film Institute.

Diana wore the new necklace setting of the piece for a famous visit to the White House in Washington, D.C., in November 1985.

The dinner, hosted by President and Mrs. Reagan, was a star-studded ’80s event. Above, you can see Diana wearing the necklace as she meets Tom Selleck.

But, of course, we’ll all remember this necklace, dress, and event mostly because of Diana’s famous dance with John Travolta.

Diana’s final appearance in the necklace came in December 1996, when she wore it at the Met Gala in New York, which she attended with a friend, Harper’s Bazaar editor Liz Tilberis. The sapphire cluster was one of Diana’s personally-owned pieces of jewelry, so it was almost certainly inherited by her sons after her death in 1997. We haven’t seen it in public in 24 years.