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The Royal Martyrs in Their Own Words

Here is another link illustrating the profound reverence and regard with which the Russians hold their Royal Martyrs.

• Profound Examples of Holiness: The Royal Martyrs in Their Own Words and Through The Words of Those Who Knew Them

https://narod.pravoslavie.ru/87477.html

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Russian Faith

Russia Insider often re-posts articles from its daughter site “Russian Faith”

https://russia-insider.com/en/russian-faith-1

where we also see articles like

• Why the Martyred Tsar Nicholas II Is One of the Most Important Figures Ever

• Two Russian Airports Renamed in Honor of Saints (Tsar Nicholas II and St. Olga)

… and so on

[The latter event was carried out by Presidential decree just last year and you will notice the title “Saint” in front of Olga’s name – see more below.]

Dave Curry explains the “Russian Faith” site

• Intro to Russian Faith – Dave Curry (a promo)

https://russian-faith.com/

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

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Russia Insider

Russia Insider has featured quite a number of articles honouring the Romanovs. I would just recommend searching on keywords such as “Romanovs” and see what you get.

Here I have just searched on “Nicholas” and you can filter what is of interest.

https://russia-insider.com/en/search?word=Nicholas&main-submit=Search

Here are a few article titles that caught my attention

• World's Largest, 40,000! Capacity, Orthodox Cathedral Planned Where Russia's Last Emperor was Murdered (Vladimir Rozanskij)

• Tribute to Robert K. Massie, Whose Books About Russian History Sold 6 Million Copies (1929 - 2019) (Paul Gilbert)

• The Jewish Murder of the Russian Imperial Family (Mike Walsh)

Russia Insider also features a series of re-posted articles in a series titled “Truth About the Last Tsar“

https://russia-insider.com/en/truth-about-last-tsar

You will find many more intriguing headline topics there.

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Paul Gilbert

Paul is another eminent authority and prolific author on the Romanovs and contributor to the above work.

https://www.romanovs.eu/paul-gilbert#:~:text=He%20is%20also%20the%20publisher%20and%20editor%20of%20two%20bi,two%20forthcoming%20titles%3A%20My%20Russia.

His blog site is “Nicholas II – Emperor * Tsar * Saint”

https://tsarnicholas.org/

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Helen Azar

Helen Azar has written several books including

• In the Steps of the Romanovs: The Final Two Years of the Russian Imperial Family 1916-1918

• The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution

• Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar - Diaries and Letters 1908-1918

• Russia's Last Romanovs: In Their Own Words

• Maria and Anastasia: The Youngest Romanov Grand Duchesses in Their Own Words

Her website is “The Romanov Family - Their history… in their own words”.

https://www.theromanovfamily.com

Helen is also a major contributor to the commemorative work “The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal”.

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Anne Lloyd (artist) – blessOTMA channel

The youtube channel “blessOTMA” [OTMA stands for Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia] is a favourite source of informative and moving videos such as …

• The Romanovs. Their names

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2_ygUxaQuA

The channel is operated by Anne Lloyd, an artist who has painted a series of portraits of the Romanov family in order to, as she says in one video “give them back their faces”. Her videos are typically montages of historical still photographs and her own artwork. Another example (select the link to her channel for more)

• The Romanovs. July 17th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNIe6q16gM

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For context and historical background, a leisurely history of the Romanov dynasty from 1613 is always a good place to start.

This eight-hour series on Star Media is well produced and informative.

• The Romanovs. The Real History of the Russian Dynasty

• Episodes 1-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DEVQ8UacA

• Episodes 5-8

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

Or you can watch each episode individually via this playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUA_1WVM8I&list=PLwGzY25TNHPBfaoOR3pXw3VyBvmXljeio

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Incidental fun fact …

• [Natalya] Poklonskaya punished for carrying icon of Tsar Martyr Nicholas II

https://tsarnicholas.org/2021/11/19/poklonskaya-punished-for-carrying-icon-of-tsar-martyr-nicholas-ii/

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• Journey with the Romanovs | Parts 1 and 2 (with Nick Nicholson)

• [The Romanov Royal Martyrs channel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WJBsF5r_HQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UWDG5dsGZA

I recognised Nick Nicholson as the Director of Development of the Russia History Museum (RHM). The RHM presents a monthly (usually second Saturday) lecture on various topics of interest to do with the museum, relating to Russian history and culture.

Here is Nick giving the first of such lectures on the Russia History Museum channel

• Black Gold: Russian Lacquer from the 18th -20th Centuries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4X1jbPU3l0

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Thanks to R Zella for this response on Russian Faith article …

https://russian-faith.com/family-values-saints-history/st-maria-grand-duchess-model-russian-woman-n6870#comment-6170301857

R Zella

“Thanks Skool. First of all I have to say the Romanoffs are the epitome of classic white striking beauty and handsomeness. No make-up needed or required. Talk about clear dress distinctions between girls and boys, women and men, the way it should be. Being taught with high morals and classic white western education, the way it should be. They in a way represent the martyrdom of classic white Western Civilization, the eastern half. The other half has been steadily increasingly mingled with other skin colors, cultures, politics, and faiths, thanks to the hateful revengeful plotting of the Globalist Marxists at Frankfurt school.

The negative painting of the Romanoffs would logically have been very negative from the supremacist Marxist Globalist history revisionists, who hate whites especially Christian and ethnic Russians, and want them vilified and dead. That double-agent priest leading gullible Russians to their deaths was likely from the Globalist Tribe, as were all the leading Bolshevists carrying out the genocide, as are all the ones carrying out today's destruction of the West by mass non-white immigration, intermarriage, leadership, and LGBT madness & perversion of whites. The four 'privileged' Romanoff sisters actually doing hard work and really caring for wounded and sick, not entitled and isolated in ivory towers; and not like pampered arrogant elites of today. Christian teaching, lost to us today, shaped them. Fascinating about Russia's true history released after the 90's, not official skewed narrative.”

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I have recently completed reading Matthew Raphael Johnson’s “A Circle of Betrayal, Cowardice and Deceit – On the 100th Anniversary of the Ritual Murder of the Russian Royal Family” which I found on Lulu.

Among many other things, MRJ introduced me to this site with many fine articles …

• Russian Monarchist

https://www.ruskmir.ru/

including this biography of Grigory Rasputin

• Grigory Rasputin. Biography.

https://www.ruskmir.ru/grigorij-rasputin-zhizneopisanie/

Related …

• THE REAL GREGORY RASPUTIN

https://orthochristian.com/96664.html

It would appear that Josef Mengele became the new Rasputin.

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This post was prompted by my conversation with R Zella here

• St. Maria the Grand Duchess - A Model Russian Woman

https://russian-faith.com/family-values-saints-history/st-maria-grand-duchess-model-russian-woman-n6870#comment-6170301857

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