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00:03:58Good evening, fellow citizens.
00:04:00As usual this season, I continue to talk about
00:04:03the Russian revolution, in this issue
00:04:07it will be about Rasputin, about Tsarevich's illness and much more
00:04:10that is interesting and, as we know,
00:04:12tragic.
00:04:16In the midst of the Russo-Japanese War, a tragic war,
00:04:20a fateful war, a war that would for the first time
00:04:23shake the people's faith in the divine chosenness of their
00:04:26Tsar, in the midst of this war, the Tsar.
00:04:31Finally, after 10 years of marriage, an heir was born to him,
00:04:35after four daughters and a false pregnancy, the already very
00:04:38sick, completely exhausted Empress Alexandra
00:04:41Feodorovna, did not expect to have more children, and this was
00:04:45a real tragedy, because the main purpose of a Russian
00:04:48Tsarina is to give birth to a Tsarevich, here is a new
00:04:52pregnancy, about who will be born, even the
00:04:55Western press guessed, within a few days it will be
00:04:58decided, will the Empress be the most popular woman in Russia
00:05:02or will she, in the eyes of the vast majority
00:05:05of the people, become an outcast, upon whom
00:05:08a special wrath of God is directed? They say that she
00:05:11prays day and night that the child turns out to be
00:05:15a son, only then will she be able to win the hearts
00:05:18of her people and her husband, by giving the Russian Empire
00:05:22an heir. And now, awaiting the mysterious
00:05:26decision of God and nature, the Empress
00:05:29is one of the unhappiest people in Europe, especially
00:05:33since her position does not allow her to hide from
00:05:36sympathetic or curious eyes
00:05:40of society.
00:05:42Can you imagine
00:05:52what a responsibility, you have to give birth to a son,
00:05:55only a son, such a responsibility when nothing
00:05:58depends on you. So, over tea with relatives, she suddenly
00:06:02felt a sharp contraction, the Empress
00:06:05later told me that of all her children, these were the easiest
00:06:08births, Her Majesty barely managed to climb
00:06:12out of the small study up the old stairs to her
00:06:15bedroom, when the child was born. Petersburg
00:06:18rejoiced, finally not 101 gun salutes
00:06:22were fired, as was done for the birth of daughters, but
00:06:25301. An heir was born. Even Paul
00:06:29I, son of Catherine II, Catherine the Great, passed
00:06:33a law that only a man could be the heir to the Russian
00:06:36throne. Paul hated his mother, Catherine
00:06:39the Great, and did not want Russia to be ruled by women
00:06:43anymore, which was a great mistake, by the way, Catherine was one of
00:06:45the best, if not the best, of our rulers.
00:06:49Nicholas II's long-awaited heir, Catherine's
00:06:52great-great-grandson,
00:06:55born in the 20th century, was named
00:06:58Alexei, in honor of Tsar Alexei
00:07:01Mikhailovich. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ruled in the 17th
00:07:05century, and he was Nicholas II's favorite Tsar. He
00:07:08was called "The Quietest."
00:07:16Nicholas named his son. No one knew
00:07:20then that this long-awaited heir Alexei
00:07:23would be the last Russian
00:07:26heir. "An unforgettable great
00:07:29day for us, in which God's grace so clearly
00:07:33visited us. I feel happier
00:07:36at the news of the birth of my son
00:07:39and heir than at the news of..."
00:08:12Russian Cossacks in joy, the Tsar announced many
00:08:16political concessions, abolished corporal punishment, forgave
00:08:19fines, and somewhere far, far away from
00:08:23the palace, the tragic Russo-Japanese
00:08:26War was going on, I talked about it in the last issue, which can be
00:08:29watched on the ChTD channel, on Telegram, RuTube and VK,
00:08:32look here, in the drawing rooms there was joy with
00:08:36a hint of strictness, so as not to overshadow these days
00:08:40of general merriment, bad news from the front
00:08:43was ordered to be hidden on the back pages
00:08:46of newspapers. The Novik was sunk by the Japanese off
00:08:49Sakhalin. This is our best cruiser. They don't
00:08:53announce it on the occasion of the joy of baptism. During the Tsar's
00:08:56days, misfortune and defeats are not acknowledged. They
00:09:00are well in palaces and estates. What are
00:09:04Russian misfortunes to them?
00:09:06Today the furniture maker Mikhailov told me. I'm going from
00:09:10the dacha by train, a conversation about.
00:10:12Alexandra took Maria's hand, "If only you knew how
00:10:15fervently I prayed to God to protect my
00:10:19son from our hereditary curse," she said to
00:10:22Maria, already fully aware that the nightmare
00:10:26of hemophilia had not bypassed them. Nicholas's cousin
00:10:30Maria Pavlovna had no doubt
00:10:33that she and Alexandra Feodorovna knew almost immediately that
00:10:37Alexei carried within him the seed of an incurable disease.
00:10:41They concealed their feelings even from their closest
00:10:44relatives, but from that moment, as she
00:10:47recalled, the Empress's character greatly
00:10:50changed, and her health, both physical and
00:10:54mental, also changed. Alexandra Feodorovna's
00:10:57elder sister had already given birth to two sons with hemophilia.
00:11:00One of them had already died, not having lived to be 5 years old. Everyone knew that such
00:11:04boys do not live to be thirteen. Everyone knew that
00:11:07this gene is the curse of the English royal
00:11:10family. Everyone knew that it is transmitted only from
00:11:12the mother. In the palace, they whispered, "How could they
00:11:15have overlooked it? How could they have allowed Nicholas to marry someone who
00:11:19carried within her the irreparable, unfortunate gene?" But they
00:11:23married for love. The future Emperor Nicholas
00:11:27II met and fell in love with Alice of Hesse
00:11:30and Darmstadt at Windsor Castle.
00:11:33Queen Victoria was very sympathetic to the budding feelings
00:11:36of her beloved granddaughter and the young heir
00:11:40to the throne. Tsar Alexander, knowing that
00:11:43hemophilia had affected members of the House of Hesse
00:11:46from generation to generation,
00:11:49strongly opposed the plans for a marriage alliance, but in
00:11:53the end, he had to give in.
00:11:57At first, fate, it seemed, favored
00:12:00her, by refusing to grant her a son. She
00:12:03gave birth to four daughters, which damaged her
00:12:06health, but she could not give life to the heir
00:12:10to the throne.
00:18:39The Frenchman first saw the heir when he was a year and a half
00:18:45with Alexei. And Gilliard was almost
00:18:49shot together with the child. But
00:18:52no, foreigners were no longer shot for fear
00:18:55of trouble. He left very fascinating memoirs.
00:18:59Unlike most other memoirs, he does not blame the Empress, but tries
00:19:03to understand her.
00:19:06He sympathizes. In his eyes, a frightened
00:19:09expression appeared, and it was not immediately easy for me to persuade
00:19:12him to extend his tiny hand to me. At
00:19:16that moment I saw the Empress convulsively press the
00:19:20child to her, like a mother who, like all
00:19:23mothers, fears for the life of her child,
00:19:27but in her case this movement betrayed a secret bad
00:19:30premonition, it was so obvious that it could not
00:19:34escape my attention, very...
00:19:37soon I understood its cause. Gilliard
00:19:40states that the Empress's famous arrogance was only
00:19:43a mask covering natural shyness, that her coldness
00:19:47was simply the seriousness of a mother of many children, that she
00:19:51suffered endlessly, knowing that she was
00:19:54the cause of the incredible suffering of her only son.
00:19:57Tsarevich, lying in his crib, moaned
00:20:00piteously, pressing his head against his mother's hand, and his
00:20:04delicate, bloodless face was unrecognizable.
00:20:08Occasionally he interrupted his groans to
00:20:11whisper only one word: "Mama,"
00:20:15in which he expressed all his suffering, all
00:20:18his despair, and the mother kissed his hair,
00:20:22forehead, eyes, as if with this caress she
00:20:26could alleviate his suffering, how to
00:20:29convey the torture of this mother, helplessly
00:20:32present at the torments of her
00:20:35child, who knew
00:20:38that she was the cause of these sufferings, that she
00:20:41had passed on to him a terrible disease, against
00:20:44which science was powerless.
00:20:48I often met.
00:21:50One day, the Empress took him with her for a ride. I was also
00:21:54with them. During the walk, Alexei Nikolaevich kept
00:21:57complaining of internal pain. Every
00:22:00jolt tormented him, his face stretched and
00:22:03paled. The Empress, frightened, ordered them to turn
00:22:07back home. When we arrived at the palace, he was carried out, almost
00:22:11unconscious. For the next 3 weeks, he
00:22:14hovered between life and death, day and night
00:22:17screaming in pain. It was difficult for those
00:22:20around him to hear his constant groans, so much so that
00:22:23sometimes, passing his room, we would cover
00:22:26our ears. Barely beginning to speak, the child already knew that he was not
00:22:30like everyone else, that he was sick, his face
00:22:32sharpened, became waxy, like a
00:22:35dead man's, his huge blue eyes were always
00:22:38almost filled with pain. One day, entering his
00:22:42son's room and hearing his desperate groans, the sovereign
00:22:45ran out of the room and, locking himself in his
00:22:48study, burst into tears.
00:22:50Alexei Nikolaevich then told his parents, "When I
00:22:54die, put a small stone monument for me in
00:22:58the park." Even the doctors, who had settled in the palace,
00:23:01could not bear this. They were, after all,
00:23:03powerless. "I am not able to convey to you what I am
00:23:07going through. I am unable to do anything
00:23:11but walk around him. I am unable to
00:23:15think of anything but him, his
00:23:18parents." "Pray, my children,
00:23:21pray daily, fervently for our
00:23:24precious heir." The heir's
00:23:27condition was initially kept secret, but it was impossible. Sometimes, at
00:23:31official ceremonies, he was carried in the arms of a loyal sailor named
00:23:35Derevenka. Everyone saw this. As usual, the Western
00:23:38press spread the wildest rumors. But what was
00:23:41really wrong with the Tsarevich? Everyone
00:23:45asked. Bone tuberculosis, tumor,
00:23:48abscess, kidney disease, spinal fall, all these
00:23:52causes were mentioned by the press. In American
00:23:55newspapers, there was even an absurd version, according
00:23:59to which, once, when the guard was not watching the
00:24:02Tsarevich, a nihilist attacked Alexei,
00:24:06striking him with a knife. In one of
00:24:09the attacks, the heir's death seemed already
00:24:12inevitable. A message for the evening newspapers had already been
00:24:15prepared. The spiritual mentor of the royal children had already begun
00:24:19preparations.
00:24:50He went to the post office and sent a telegram to Alexandra:
00:24:54"The baby will not die, let the doctors not
00:24:57torment him." Historians still wonder how this could
00:25:00have happened, but a miracle occurred. After
00:25:03Rasputin's intervention, the dying heir
00:25:05recovered. According to his doctors, this was absolutely
00:25:09inexplicable from a medical point of view. But the Tsarevich's
00:25:12survival came at a high price, at the cost of his mother's
00:25:16complete emotional submission to Grigori
00:25:19Rasputin, as the only person in
00:25:22God's whole world who could save her
00:25:25son's life. When Grigori returned to St. Petersburg that
00:25:29winter, he assured the Empress that her
00:25:32son would always be out of danger as long as
00:25:35he, Grigori, lived. With each new bruise, with each new
00:25:39healing, the Empress became more and more attached to
00:25:42Rasputin. This is understandable, he was her
00:25:45savior, sent by God. The Empress was already
00:25:48disliked at court, and this quite understandable attachment was
00:25:52disliked even more. She breastfed herself, bathed
00:25:55the baby herself, then they said: "The Empress is not a queen,
00:25:59only a mother." She was sick, suffered, and... they said that she was
00:26:03arrogant and unfriendly, she could not attend the funeral
00:26:06of one of the many Grand Dukes, because
00:26:09she physically could not stand a four-hour service, and
00:26:12they said, she refused to come, even in that
00:26:16first year, I remember it well, if Alex
00:26:19smiled, they called it mockery,
00:26:23if she had a serious look, they said that she was
00:26:26angry, so her reaction to all this
00:26:29was to retreat into her domestic world.
00:26:33I was horrified that her unpopularity
00:26:36reached hatred as early as
00:26:401910, and then it got worse.
00:26:42Rasputin handed over the Empress's letters and those of the royal daughters to a disgraced
00:26:46monk, who distributed them throughout
00:26:49St. Petersburg. Of course, there was nothing compromising in these
00:26:52letters, nor could there have been, but everyone was outraged,
00:26:55even Alexandra Feodorovna's mother-in-law, the Dowager
00:26:59Empress, mother of Nicholas II. "My poor
00:27:02daughter-in-law does not understand that she is ruining the dynasty
00:27:05and herself. She sincerely believes in the holiness
00:27:08of an adventurer, and we are powerless to avert the misfortune
00:27:11that will surely come." From all this,
00:27:14the Empress suffered immensely and became increasingly
00:27:18ill. She was not known for robust health to begin with, and now she
00:27:21was completely exhausted. Sometimes the Empress was bedridden for
00:27:25many weeks. Nicholas - his
00:27:28mother wrote, that is, the Empress's mother-in-law. "It is very sad
00:27:31and painful to see that. Alex is always ill and unable
00:27:35to take part in anything. You have
00:27:37enough worries in life without such a trial,
00:27:41to see the person you love most in the world
00:27:45suffer. I hope that today you will not be too
00:27:49tired, and that you will be able to get up for dinner. I always
00:27:52feel so terribly sorry when you are tired and cannot
00:27:55get up. Perhaps I am wrong in many ways,
00:27:59but please forgive me, your loving daughter Tatyana."
00:28:03"I will pray for you in church." In fact, this
00:28:06was a very loving, very sincere and truly
00:28:09pious family. And the marriage
00:28:11of Nicholas and Alexandra can serve as the rarest example of many years
00:28:15of love and fidelity. Before the revolution, before her arrest,
00:28:19the Empress burned most of their letters and diaries, but some things
00:28:22survived. "I never believed that such complete
00:28:25happiness could exist in the world. Such a
00:28:28feeling of communion between two
00:28:30mortals. There will be no separation,
00:28:34finally united, we are bound for life,
00:28:37when this life ends, we
00:28:40will meet again in another world and remain
00:28:44together forever. Oh, my dear, what is this
00:28:48force that has forever made me your
00:28:51captive. I can think of nothing but
00:28:55you, my dearest, and I give my
00:28:58life into your hands. More than that I
00:29:01cannot give. Over my love,
00:29:04every drop of it, you have complete
00:29:08power." They raised their children in modesty,
00:29:12the girls slept in rooms below, on narrow
00:29:14metal folding army beds, in the mornings they took
00:29:18cold baths, dressed themselves, although girls much lower than them in
00:29:22status, in those times all over the world, had maids, but the Tsar's
00:29:25daughters made their own beds and tidied their rooms
00:29:29themselves. Their mother seemed to feel that they needed to be prepared.
00:30:32for the Empress, for the little Grand Duchesses,
00:30:35so that people in the last stages of tuberculosis would kiss
00:30:39their hands. Alexandra's answer was
00:30:41unequivocal. "I don't think it will harm
00:30:45the children, but I'm sure it will offend the feelings
00:30:48of the sick if they think that my daughters
00:30:51are afraid of infection." Very touching memoirs were
00:30:54left by the Tsarevich's tutor and the Tsarevnas' nanny. Both
00:30:58were foreigners, both were amazed by the incredible modesty of the royal family. She urged
00:31:15Olga, she really asked Margareta to tell them
00:31:19not to do that. One day, soon
00:31:22after Christmas, she saw, riding in a carriage, that a
00:31:25girl was standing by the road crying.
00:31:28"Look," exclaimed Olga in great agitation,
00:31:32"Santa Claus probably didn't know where she lived." And then she
00:31:36threw her the doll she was holding,
00:31:39shouting: "Don't cry, girl, here's a
00:31:43doll for you."
00:32:16"Of course not, but Derevenka said that everything
00:32:19had to be exactly that way. This is nonsense,"
00:32:22I replied, "even the sovereign does not like it when people
00:32:26kneel before him. Why don't you
00:32:28make Derevenka stop insisting on
00:32:31this?" "I don't know, I don't
00:32:34dare." Yes, this was a wonderful
00:32:38family, and wonderful children, innocent,
00:32:41sensitive, kind, sacrificial, royal.
00:32:44children. shot in the basement by personal order of
00:32:48Lenin, but more on that in the following
00:32:51chapters.
00:32:54And in the end, as usual, I ask a question, one of those questions
00:32:58that I ask in my channel Margarita Mayana Literature and
00:33:01History, it is on Telegram, it is on Max, and
00:33:04to those who first give the correct answer, I
00:33:08will send this new book of mine, not the first love about
00:33:12me and Tigran, it is, by the way, a bestseller at the moment I am recording this episode, it
00:33:15is in first place in sales, I am
00:33:19incredibly pleased, I could not imagine that I would be able to bypass
00:33:23the new Marinina and the new
00:33:25Pelevin, thank you all, so the question
00:33:29is, what was Tsarevich Alexei's most
00:33:32favorite musical instrument.