ALEXEI & RASPUTIN - Abdication Manifesto of Nicholas II

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ABDICATION MANIFESTO OF TSAR NICHOLAS II
By the grace of God, we, Nicholas II, Emperor of all the Russias, Tsar of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, etc., etc., to all our faithful subjects make known:
In these days of terrible struggle against the foreign enemy who has been trying for three years to impose his will upon Our Fatherland, God has willed that Russia should be faced with a new and formidable trial. Troubles at home threaten to have a fatal effect on the ultimate course of this hard-fought war. The destinies of Russia, the honour of Our heroic army, the welfare of the nation and the whole future of our dear country require that the war shall be continued, cost what it may, to a victorious end.
Our cruel enemy is making his final effort and the day is at hand when our brave army, with the help of our glorious allies, will overthrow him once and for all.
At this moment, a moment so decisive for existence of Russia. Our conscience bids Us to facilitate the closest union of Our subjects and the organization of all their forces for the speedy attainment of victory. For that reason We think it right-and the Imperial Duma shares Our view - to abdicate the crown of the Russian State and resign the supreme power.
As We do not desire to be separated from Our beloved son, We bequeath Our inheritance to Our brother, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, and give him Our blessing on his access ionto the throne. We ask him to govern in the closest concert with the representatives of the nation who sit in the legislative assemblies and to pledge them his inviolable oath in the name of the beloved country.
We appeal to all the loyal sons of Russia and ask them to do their patriotic and sacred duty by obeying their Tsar at this moment of painful national crisis and to help him and the representatives of the nation to guide the Russian State into the path of prosperity and glory.
NICHOLAS
Witnessed Minister of the Imperial Court, Adjutant
General Count Federicks
Pskov, 2 March 1917, 3.05 p.m."

ALEXEI & RASPUTIN - Russian Proverbs as Chapter Titles

The majority of Chapter Titles in ALEXEI & RASPUTIN: A Novel about a boy who changed history, are ancient Russian proverbs. The book is available thru www.BestofBroadwayProductions.com
Table of Contents

I The Grandfather of All Blizzards
II "Prosperity is not Contagious, only Poverty
III "It is Very High Up to God. It is Very Far to
the Tsar"
IV "He Who Takes the Child by the Hand, Takes
the Mother by the Heart"
V Tsarskoe Selo (The Tsar's Village)
VI "It's not the Rooms that make a House
Beautiful, it's the Pirozhki"
VII "Let The Devil into the Church and He will
Mount the Altar"
VIII Mathilde and Swan Lake
IX The Regimen at Tsarskoe Selo
X The Beast
XI "In Times of War, the Devil Makes more
room in Hell"
XII "Fate's Joke on Kings"
XIII "He That is Too Proud to Ask is too
Good to Receive
XIV "For Faith, God and Country"
XV Stavka - Military hdq
XVI The Battlefield of Heroes
XVII Riddle of the Tsars
XVIII Spala...A Mother's Agony
XIX Death of the Holy Devil
XX A Revolution of Rage and Revenge
XXI The Abdication
XXII Silent Night of Terror
XXIII Your Papa Does Not Want to be
Tsar Anymore
XXIV Epilogue - March 1917 - July 1918
XXV Notes from Sergei Protopopov

Adenda I
Adenda II
Adenda III
Glossary
Bibliography

Alexei & Rasputin - Cast of Characters

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NICHOLAS ll, TSAR OF RUSSIA - 1894 - 1917
Before 1894, the Tsarevich Nicholas

ALEXANDRA FEDOROVNA, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
Born Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt
Granddaughter to Queen Victoria of England

ALEXEI, THE TSAREVICH
Fifth child and only son of Nicholas & Alexandra

OLGA - GRAND DUCHESS
TATIANA - GRAND DUCHESS
MARIE - GRAND DUCHESS
ANASTASIA - GRAND DUCHESS

GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS NICOLAIEVICH
Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army in WWI

COUNT VLADIMIR FREDERICKS
Minister of the Imperial Court

COUNT PAUL BENCKENDORFF
Grand Marshall of the Imperial Court, Fredericks subordinate

DR. EUGENE BOTKIN
Court Physician

PIERRE GILLIARD
Swiss tutor of the children

ANNA VYRUBOVA
The Empress Alexandra's closest friend and confidante

SERGEI PROTOPOPOV
Peasant boy and friend to Alexei

MATHILDE KSCHESSINSKA
Maid to the Imperial Court, Ballerina

GREGORI RASPUTIN
A Siberian peasant, a starets

ALEXANDER KERENSKY
Prime Minister of the Provisional Government - 1917

VLADIMIR ULYANOV (Lenin)
First leader of the Soviet State

PRINCE FELIX YUSSOPOV
Murderer of Rasputin, second richest man in Russia

GRAND DUKE DMITRY
Murderer of Rasputin, member of the Imperial Family

Tsardom of Russia

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It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union.
It was the second largest contiguous empire the world had seen, surpassed only by the Mongol Empire.
At one point in 1866, it stretched from eastern Europe, across Asia, and into North America. At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia was the largest country in the world, extending from the Arctic Ocean to the north to the Black Sea on the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. Across this vast realm were scattered the Emperor's 176.4 million subjects, the third largest population of the world at the time, after Qing China and British Raj.