"Miracles in a sieve" and only ...
Ile "bugs" in the head wound up? ..
Looking for the truth, like a needle in hay,

And she goes up.
Don't know where is the end, where is the beginning,
Confused, perhaps, the creator? ..
Like a fairy tale about a stake and a washcloth,
Only in a fairy tale - a sad end.

End of confusion! The king has been chosen! The countdown of the reign of the Romanov dynasty began. Mikhail Romanov, a young man of 17 years old, who only yesterday chased pigeons over the roofs ... Neither the experience of life, nor the greatness of merit ... Naturally, he did not have time to stain his soul with crimes ...
But, they have begun! Ataman Zarutsky was caught with Marina Mnishek and her three-year-old son Ivan. The beautiful Polish woman, the daughter of the Polish magnate Mnishek, managed to change three husbands in a short time: the False Dmitry tsars the First and Second and the Cossack ataman Zarutsky. Naturally, her will was not considered. She was a bargaining chip in political struggle for the Russian throne. Three-year-old Ivan was the son of False Dmitry II, and therefore had the right to be called a prince.
The Romanovs dealt harshly with all those caught. Zarutsky, after being tortured, was put on a stake. A three-year-old child is hanged on a gallows outside the Serpukhov Gates. Marina Mnishek is imprisoned in a monastery. Upon learning of the execution of her son, she cursed the entire family of Romanov-tsars, declaring that not one of them would die a natural death, that crimes would not stop in their families until the whole dynasty died out.
And they began to talk about the "curse of the Romanov dynasty." And during the life of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, they actively continued to talk about this curse. There were reasons for this: many members of the Romanov dynasty either killed, or participated in the killings, or died tragically ... What is the death of the last Russian emperor and his family worth!
Exploring the past is difficult. The process is reminiscent of searching for a sunken ship under a multi-meter layer of settled silt. You constantly stumble upon artifacts of another event.
And the thought involuntarily arises, or maybe the curse did not come from Mnishek, but from Avvakum? The power of the word of a fighter for the faith, not existing from the flame of the fire on which he was burned, will be stronger than the word of a mother cursing the rulers of Russia. However, both of them possessed great power, for they came from the depths of the soul.
Concerning the crimes committed, you feel that only information about them burns the soul, but what happens to the souls of those who give birth to crimes?! You look at the TV screen and see with what ostentatious piety today's criminals cross themselves, hoping for God's mercy, and you think, have those who committed crimes in the past received the Lord's forgiveness? And did not conscience squeeze their hearts?
Specifically, did Catherine II think about her soul when her next plan to eliminate contenders for the Russian throne was being implemented? Probably not!
Behind the revelry of the empress, who overshadowed the sexual glory of Cleopatra and Messalina, there was no time to think about the soul.
Catherine was lucky in that she had excellent performers who knew how to hide the ends in the water of committed criminal deeds. Her predecessor, Elizaveta Petrovna, did not have such. Just look at how long and clumsily she dealt with the issue of eliminating only a possible danger posed by the family of the Dukes of Brunswick ...

They don’t carry their charter to a foreign monastery,
It has its own rituals and customs.
The innocent before the authorities became a criminal,
In power - a criminal, but right.
Indeed, according to the plan of Peter's daughter, the decision was so simple: to remove the one-year-old John Antonovich, who had been declared emperor by that time, and at the same time get rid of the hated Braun-Schweig family. The script is great, but the directing is lousy. The Empress began to rush about with persons dangerous to her, like a miser with a written sack. It is hard to believe that in such a huge state as Russia, it turned out to be difficult to find a secluded place. You can hide a huge army, along with convoys, even in the European part of Russia, not to mention the Trans-Urals. So no, according to her secret personal decrees, the “unfortunate” are transported from St. Petersburg to Riga; from Riga to Ranenburg; and from Ranenburg to the lower reaches of the Northern Dvina. It is difficult to imagine something more stupid in secrecy than a place of execution open to all eyes - the estate of the Kholmogory bishop neglected by attention. They surrounded that estate with a tall wooden fence so that the "recluses" could not escape, they set up guards acting in all weather conditions ... Just think, a physically weak stutterer, his melancholic wife and small children were guarded by a whole company of armed infantry, according to essence, too, turned into service in prisoners. And if the deposed ruler Anna Leopoldovna with her husband Prince Anton Ulrich and children were kept in the albeit modest chambers of the bishop's house in Kholmogory, then the one-year-old emperor was isolated from his parents in a little room, almost without light .. And this ma -lo…. As soon as the Tobolsk merchant, having imagined his importance, declared himself the liberator of the imprisoned emperor, John was immediately doomed to the gloomy casemates of Shlisselburg ... “nameless convict”, but also about the plan of her deposed husband Peter III, who was also later imprisoned in Shlisselburg. According to this plan, Peter intended to marry Ivan Antonovich to his relative in order to subsequently transfer the throne to him.
Having become a sovereign empress, Catherine issued a secret decree ordering the death of Ivan Antonovich at the slightest attempt at release. Once a decree of such content has appeared, then there will be conditions for its implementation. The imprisoned emperor was not saved even by his "madness", determined by the eye of his persecutors. Catherine II was personally convinced of this by visiting the casemate of Shlisselburg, in which he was kept. His insanity did not prevent him from considering the physical destruction of the miserable prisoner. And the performers of the plan were found. The finale of the tragedy sounded in the instruction of the Empress to Count Nikita Panin: "Order the nameless convict to be buried in a Christian position in Shlisselburg, without publicity"
It would be possible to put an end to this segment of the history of our fatherland, if not for doubts ...
Why did it take the grandson of Catherine, Emperor Alexander the First, to come twice to the Shlisselburg fortress, causing a commotion among its garrison? Twice the commandant of the fortress, Major General Kobelyakin, on the orders of the emperor, forced the soldiers to turn into archaeologists looking for a burial place. Piles of earth were shoveled, and the result was zero - the burial was never found ... Or maybe it was not there. After all, it was not from scratch that the Russian emperor himself had doubts, who decided to reduce the burden of the sins of his beloved grandmother by moving the ashes of John the Sixth to the Cathedral of Peter and Paul, where the royal persons rested. Yes, and on the soul of the emperor himself lay a mortal sin - the murder of his father - Emperor Paul. During the reign of Alexander I, a lot of evidence of a dubious nature has been preserved regarding the death of Emperor John.
Doubts are raised by the testimony of foreign envoys who allegedly saw the emperor in a coffin. Anton Friedrich Büsching, a well-known scientist who lived in Russia, says that the body of the prince, exhibited in the fortress church, was dressed in a sheepskin coat. Casteira says that the body was lying in a sailor's dress. Another foreigner Herman narrates that the corpse was dressed in a Russian blue peasant shirt and that the small red beard and unusually white skin of the deceased attracted the attention of the audience. "The Dutch resident wrote in official reports:" I do not resolve the issue whether the corpse shown by the officers to Mirovich was really the corpse of the former sovereign, or the corpse of some other state prisoner.
The Dutchman's doubts are well founded. The government of Catherine the Second needed the death of John - real or imaginary - all the same! She closed the question of the existence of a pretender to the Russian throne with rights much more significant than Catherine's "rights". Mirovich's reckless attempt created a simulation of death, and that was already enough! ..
Many sources reported that the body of John Antonovich, first laid in the Shlisselburg fortress church, attracted crowds of compassionate visitors, and therefore was locked up, and subsequently taken to the large Tikhvin Bogoroditsky Monastery, where, according to the old residents, he was buried in the porch of the Assumption Cathedral at the very entrance.
These reports give rise, naturally, to the question: why was it necessary to hide a dead body in Tikhvin, if for this it was necessary to overcome two hundred miles of the road. I don't see the point in this...
Another thing is to hide the living. Monasteries in Russia have performed the function of prisons for a long time, hiding their important and very dangerous criminals in their cells.
In 1799, workers digging a ditch to build a stone wall around the Tikhvin Bolshoi Monastery stumbled upon a burial site. The skeleton was in a kneeling position, in front of the icons, facing east. True, the bones crumbled at the first touch. The monks of the Tikhvin Monastery reburied the remains behind the altar of the Assumption Cathedral, and a slab was erected over the burial, which reads: "On June 18, 1799, under this stone, the bones of a man found here, during the construction of the southeastern corner tower, in the cave of a man, a Christian and an ascetic, were laid, as found with him, holy icons and other things are shown. His name is unknown, as well as his condition "Strange, however, on the tombstone is depicted Adam's head on the bones, folded crosswise; the inscription "John" is engraved on the skull. There was a rumor among the people that the sand taken from the grave of the "hermit" had a miraculous healing power. The things of the hermit - the cross, the gospel, icons and particles of his clothes were hidden in the monastery sacristy.
Another oddity: the reburial was carried out without a solemn ceremony. This indicated that the hermitage was violent. Violence was committed against people objectionable. Without the knowledge of the monastic authorities, no one could settle or settle. If there was a mere mortal in the burial, his remains would not be transferred
It becomes clear that this was not a simple prisoner, but an extremely important and dangerous one, since only such people were immured at the place of their death without a funeral ceremony ... Popular rumor said that Tsar John was an ascetic.
The picture of the final part of the attempt to free John Mirovich may be like this: Vlasiev and Chekin inflict wounds on the emperor. He is taken by the intruding soldiers, led by Mirovich, for dead. Later, having discovered that the prisoner was not killed, but only wounded, they report to the authorities.
To kill a second time - the rumor may go ... Instead of John, the corpse of another prisoner is placed on display, and the wounded John was transported to Tikhvin, probably in a ship by water (this was in July). Here he was hidden in an underground prison under the tower. Since, in his dementia, he was distinguished by an ascetic disposition, he was given objects of asceticism - a church book, clothes, folds, rosaries and chains ... The prisoner prayed in his gate, receiving food through a hatch or through a window. He lived for 10 years and died perhaps in the early or first half of the 70s of the 18th century, and after his death he was walled up in the same pit where he lived, since it was impossible to bury him. There was no permission to violate ...
As time went. In 1858, Emperor Alexander II visited the Tikhvin Monastery. He did not notice a strange burial, and the Tikhvin archimandrite did not have the courage to indicate to the emperor the burial place of Ivan Antonovich, although he believed that the burial place should have been marked with some kind of memorial sign. This is evidenced by a copy of the letter of the archimandrite to Baron M.A. Corfu, in which he writes about it:
“The skeleton of the late emperor does not lie. By the will of the living, if the bones themselves do not move, then stunning information about them appears.
In August 2008, scientists discovered an unusual burial in Kholmogory. It was located one and a half meters from the wall of the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God, among very ancient burial places. A large hexagonal coffin made of very thick wood testified that this was a transport burial, that is, someone was brought from afar. Soon the coffin was opened. "I immediately realized that this is not Ulrich of Brunswick, sixty years old, but a young man," the expert said. Note that it was originally assumed that this was the burial place of a German prince. The researchers turned to Professor Zvyagintsev at the Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination. A preliminary examination showed that the likelihood that the remains found belong to John VI is very high. In particular, this is evidenced by the trace of a blow from a hexagonal guards officer's blade that killed Ivan Antonovich, a trace from a blow to the head at the age of six months, as a result of which the child almost died, as well as the coincidence of age, height, external data, burial in Kholmogory on place of honor and, of course, the age of burial itself.
Where?.. Who?.. When and how?
Yes, lots of questions...
Driving north is not a trifle ...
Shouldn't you put your head in? ..
To carry there - the path is not close,
And what is the meaning of that?
And the whole point of the idea is -
Yes, a couple of things
If you believe the scientists, then you should imagine something that in itself contradicts simple logic. They killed Ivan Antonovich in Shlisselburg, and the corpse was taken to Kholmogory. Why, you ask?..
But in the Tikhvin Assumption Monastery, we still tend to adhere to the official version, according to which the body of John Antonovich was secretly buried near the porch of the main temple of the monastery - the Assumption Cathedral. It remains to resolve the last question, why was Tikhvin chosen to hide the prisoner? It is possible only because the chief jailers and the commandant of the Shlisselburg fortress, Berednikov and Vyndomsky (who was a warden in Kholmogory) were from Tikhvin. They were on friendly terms with the archimandrite and the elder brethren of the Tikhvin Bolshoi Monastery and could exercise control over the prisoner.
Time passes, but the memory of the juvenile prisoner, who grew up and died in the terrible dungeons of the "brilliant" era of Elisabeth and Catherine only for his failed reign, continues to live.

Secrets of aristocratic families. Curse of Alexander Romanov

Foreword

A group of people, about fifty people, hiding in indecision, who was behind a tree, who was behind a bush or a bench, looked around and exchanged glances with each other. What was the purpose of the visit of all those gathered, no one knew. On the eve of the evening, all of them were sent short notes from Count Pyotr Alekseevich Palen, a general from the cavalry of the Emperor of All Russia Pavel Petrovich Romanov, in which it was stated that it was necessary to arrive in the garden an hour before midnight. And that's it! A short little note.

The dim light of the moon illuminated the eager eyes of many lurking people.

The uncertainty was a little frightening, since everyone understood that this meeting was not without reason and was a harbinger of something terrible and significant in the life of each of those gathered .. Everyone was in anticipation and anticipation.

From the darkness with a lantern in his hands came a handsome, muscular young man with a high forehead and beautiful eyes dark as night itself. Passing through the crowd, cutting it like a knife through butter, he went to one of the benches, deftly jumped on it and turned to the crowd, looked at everyone from top to bottom. Everyone recognized this young man as His Serene Highness Prince Platon Alexandrovich Zubov, a favorite of Empress Catherine.

Greetings, gentlemen! Today is a very important night! - gazing around at everyone with a drunken look. - The deposition of the Emperor should take place this night, - the crowd began to whisper, - His son Alexander gave the sanction for this! - the prince slightly raised his voice to stop the noise that had begun to rise. the legitimate ruler of Russia, since Catherine II from the very beginning wanted to transfer power to her grandson.

What should be done with the deposed emperor? - a voice was heard from the crowd.

He will be arrested and escorted to Shlisselburg, - answered the favorite of the Empress. - Please, divide into two groups. The first will go under the leadership of Count Palen, the second will go with me!

Half an hour before midnight, the conspirators went to the Mikhailovsky Castle in two groups. Making their way through the darkness, like thieves, one of the groups crept to the main entrance to the palace. This group had to stop any unwanted accidents.

The second group, led by Prince Zubov, went to the Nativity Gates of the castle. Having penetrated inside the palace, the conspirators went up to the second floor, where the chambers of the autocrat were located. Near the doors of the emperor, serving, stood two officers. A group of conspirators, seeing them, calms down in the dark corridors of the castle. A slender figure in a black cloak stands out from the crowd and rushes towards the guard as a shadow. The officers, seeing a strange man, rushed to him, but were stunned by the hilt of a saber on the back of the head, Zubov, who had sneaked up to them unnoticed.

The creak of door hinges and a group of excited men in black capes and sabers on their heads tumble into the emperor's chambers. The cries of the emperor's frightened chamber servants slightly sober up the bursting men and lead to a state of panic. But quickly pulling themselves together, the crowd deafens the running and screaming lackeys.

The conspirators burst into the emperor's bedroom, looking around in confusion in search of the monarch.

Did the bird fly away? - Zubov looks at the accomplices in confusion. - Have we been discovered? It is a trap?

The nest is warm - the bird is not far away - one of the conspirators went up to the bed and felt it, began to look around.

As it turned out, Bennigsen was right, a dark figure was visible not far behind the curtain at the window. Zubov, approaching, pulled her up, the emperor appeared before everyone in one nightgown with eyes rounded with horror.

Sovereign, you have ceased to reign. Now the emperor is Alexander. By order of the emperor, you will be arrested!

What have I done to you?” the emperor objected.

Your despotism has become so difficult for the nation that we have come to demand your abdication from the throne! - Zubov answered hotly.

I disagree! Not! I refuse to obey!” the emperor shouted, gesticulating with his hands.

Why are you shouting like that?” one of the huge conspirators suddenly barked. Being completely drunk, he swung and hit the king on the arm.

The offended emperor indignantly pushed Zubov so that he flew off to the table. The embittered prince, looking around, saw a massive golden snuffbox, grabbing it from the table and lowering it onto the emperor's head. The sovereign, from a blow to the temple, fell to the floor with a groan. At this moment, an officer of the Izmailovsky regiment presses him down with his knee, unwinding a scarf from his neck.

The intoxicated and irritated officers with force tightened the scarf around the autocrat's neck.

That same night. Apartments of the young Tsarevich Alexander Pavlovich Romanov.

In a room covered with darkness, a handsome young man sat in an armchair. A small candle burned beside him, illuminating only his pale face and slender figure, dressed in trousers, a waistcoat, and a blue ribbon tied over the waistcoat. The young man thoughtfully looked at the candle swaying from his breath. Light beads of sweat stood out on the temples. Suddenly the door leading to the chambers opened, dropping bright light from the corridor, and an officer burst into the room.

Your Imperial Highness! - having saluted, the warrior said and stretched out quietly, calmed down in anticipation.

What are you, what are you Poltoratsky!” the young man suddenly shouted, abruptly jumping up from his chair.

The door opened again, letting in light, and the favorite of the Empress of Teeth and Count Palen entered it.

The emperor is dead, the count said quietly, long live the emperor!

How dare you! - suddenly shouted the pale Tsarevich with rounded eyes, - I didn’t order you to do this! - Falling to his knees and squeezing his face with his hands.

Your highness, now is not the time... Forty-two million people depend on your firmness.

But Alexander succumbed to despair, he sobbed like a baby. The count roughly grabbed the young emperor by the shoulders, lifting him to his feet, growled in his face:

Will be childish! Go to reign, show yourself to the guards!

At that moment, a fair-haired beautiful woman bursts into the room, no longer young, but beautiful. Her beautiful face filled with tears, and eyes burning with hatred!

How dare you?!” she screamed. “I will never recognize you as emperor, do you hear? Now I am an empress. I am your mother and I refuse to accept you as emperor!

Maria Fedorovna, please, go into the chambers! - Zubov said coyly, - Remove this hysterical woman and close her in her chambers, - seeing that the widow did not want to calm down, the prince turned to one of the officers who appeared with him.

Damn you! Damn you all for this! - the beating woman yelled in the hands of a huge officer who carried her like a bag of vegetables on his shoulder, - you will answer for everything, forever and ever!.

Chapter 1. An uninvited guest is worse than a Tatar.

Nowadays.

Hello, hello Mom! Hello. Believe it or not, my new article was a hit! I am so glad. Have you read it? And How? Went? Mamul, our century of sexual freedoms, equality in the choice of partners. It's you, an old-fashioned lady, - lying on her stomach in the park on evenly trimmed green grass, she chirped cheerfully into the phone. Nearby was an open laptop in which all my notes were stored, - Ma, yes, that's enough for you, people love such articles, especially young people! - bending her legs shod in white sandals with heels, she began to wave them in the air. . I will soon finish the book and then I will definitely leave these vulgar articles to be printed. Bye Bye.

Putting the phone next to her, smiling, she quickly began to type on the laptop:

"Overtaking the wind, they rushed for distillation across a huge field strewn with many bright blue flowers, cornflowers - which seemed like a sea."

A strange feeling, as if someone was watching, made me tear myself away from the laptop and turn my head towards the road leading through the park, in which I so loved to compose my creations. Here in the morning it was quiet and calm, only athletes disturbed the peace, and dog lovers. On the alley, in front of me, were three strange people: two security guards - tall gorillas dressed in black suits and black glasses, in front of them stood a strange girl - so she was staring at me. Surprised, she began to look at her in response: regular features, white clean skin, big blue eyes, very plump lips, dark long eyelashes and neat eyebrows. Only now the figure of nature clearly offended the girl. Angular wide shoulders and a straight line of the waist and hips, long slender legs. "Gymnast" - I thought. The girl's shoulder-length blond hair was neatly cut in a cascade with side-swept bangs. In the right ear hung a large earring in the form of a cross. She was dressed in military-style clothes: khaki cargo trousers, berets, a sleeveless jacket with a stand-up collar and massive men's bracelets on her wrists. "Butch!" - flashed a guess. "The girl is not a traditional orientation!"

Different peoples, large and small social groups, have different attitudes towards power. In the Russian people since ancient times, the attitude to power has been painted in religious and moral tones. There was a raid of the Polovtsians - the Lord allowed for sins, Khan Batu came to Russia - they angered God with their deeds and thoughts, princely civil strife or confusion - God's providence for sins, etc.

From this followed a simple conclusion for both the peasants and the tsar: live according to the commandments of Christ, follow the customs and traditions of the church, lead a worthy lifestyle, do not let sins and temptations overcome you - and your days will be long, and your memory is good. And vice versa, if you constantly violate the commandments of the Lord, do not follow the rites and traditions of the Church, behave immorally and immorally, give yourself the opportunity to seduce and seduce yourself - your earthly days will be shortened, and your name will be forgotten, and if your sins are great, the people will curse you and your kind.

Moral education in Holy Russia was based on biblical traditions and principles, so curses were feared. If someone curses someone, then wait for trouble: the loss of livestock, crops perish, children die as babies, or the Lord does not give them at all, you yourself begin to get sick. Examples from life only strengthened people's Faith in the curse as in "God's judgment and punishing finger." This judgment is quick and inevitable, harsh and just, neither the peasant nor the king can hide from it; Ivan the Terrible sinned and was punished, Boris Godunov sinned and was punished, people sinned and were punished by the Bloody Troubles - with such ideas about morality and power, the Russian Orthodox people entered the terrible 17th century.

The election by the Zemsky Sobor in 1613 as Tsar Mikhail Romanov was greeted in the country with rejoicing and celebrations. People thanked the Almighty for enlightenment and guidance on the true path. In the popular imagination, the elected tsar was the embodiment of spiritual purity, a pillar of the Church of Christ and a worthy successor to the royal throne of the Rurikids.

The reign of Mikhail Romanov was the time of the revival of the Russian national state and the strengthening of the ancient Orthodox church traditions, the period of healing wounds and increasing wealth. However, the hope that his son and heir, Alexei, would continue his father's undertakings did not materialize.

It makes no sense to retell the retellings of the Great Raskol, which shook the very foundations of the state and the Church of Christ. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, seduced by the eastern hierarchs of the church and other "soul-catchers" by the chimera of creating a huge empire with its capital in Constantinople, fell into heresy and forced his satraps to reform the Russian Old Orthodox Church by fire and sword according to a far-fetched and absolutely useless model. It was the king who ordered to change His name, form and content of prayers dedicated to Him, ordered to forget the Creed and His essence, for which he was cursed with posterity up to the thirteenth generation. Those who remained faithful to Ancient Orthodoxy cursed the Romanov family, relying on heavenly punishment, everywhere and everywhere - orally and in writing, on porches and squares, in cities and villages, under torture and at the stake, in Holy Russia and beyond.

Tsar Alexei himself died shortly after the capture of the Solovetsky Monastery, one of the last strongholds of piety and holiness in Russia. His death was painful and fell on January 29, 1676. Exactly twenty years later, on January 29, 1696, his son Ivan will die, and on January 28, 1725, Peter the Great will not become, on January 28, 1919 within Peter and Paul Fortress the Bolsheviks will shoot a whole group of princes of the Romanov dynasty. Is this a coincidence or God's Providence?

Or here's another. It is known that on July 17, 1667, the teachers of Old Orthodoxy, Avvakum, Lazarus, Epiphanius, Theodore and Nikifor, were sentenced by the Nikonian Council, which condemned them and anathematized them. On July 17, 1918, the last Emperor Nicholas II with his family and household were shot by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg. The next day, but already in Alapaevsk, another group of Romanovs was shot. The Bolsheviks and foreigners were a punishment to the royal house for all their obvious and secret sins.

The bearers of the name "Aleksey" in the Romanov family were also plagued by all sorts of misfortunes. The son of Alexei Mikhailovich himself, who showed great promise, died at the age of 16. The son of Peter the Great was killed by his own father. Alexei Antonovich, brother of Ivan VI, died a childless idiot in complete obscurity. Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, who glorified his family by exorbitant embezzlement of public funds and the complete failure of the Russian-Japanese campaign, left no legitimate offspring, adopted from A.V. Zhukovskaya, daughter of the great Russian poet, son Alexei Alekseevich, Count Belevsky-Zhukovsky, in 1932 shot by Georgian Bolsheviks in Tbilisi. Prince Alexei Mikhailovich died at the age of 20 from tuberculosis, and Tsarevich Alexei Nikolayevich shared the fate royal family In Ekaterinburg.

Now living in California, Alexei Andreevich - 10th generation from the damned Tsar Alexei - celebrated his 50th anniversary this year, he has his own construction business, is married, but childless. Alex Mikhailovich R.-Ilyinsky - 11 knees - living with his mother in Florida, went 10 years old. His father is married to someone else. Woe to the one who bears the cursed name in the Romanov family.

It is known for certain that Emperors Peter III and Ivan VI, Paul I and Alexander II, Nicholas II and the failed Emperor Michael died violently, the death of many crowned persons still causes controversy and rumors. With the fall of the monarchy and the royal house, it seemed that misfortunes had to recede from this kind. If there were any, voluntary or involuntary, sins of the Romanovs before the Russian people and state, then, probably, they atoned for their guilt with shed blood during the years of the revolution.

The middle of the 20th century passed relatively calmly for a family scattered all over the world, the situation has already changed in our days, when the question of the prospects for the restoration of the monarchy in Russia and the restoration of the Romanov dynasty on the still speculative throne resurfaced. The presence of a real contender, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, gave the situation a particularly piquant character. However, fate was pleased to intervene in this issue and mix up all the calculations and maps of Russian and foreign political technologists - the Grand Duke, who survived the difficult flight from France to the United States, suddenly died in front of the assembled public. It was in 1993, six months before the execution of the Russian Supreme Soviet.

After the sudden death of Vladimir Kirillovich, the “Association of the descendants of the Romanov family”, headed by Prince Nikolai Romanovich, loomed in the monarchical horizon. A historian by education, he actively began to organize and conduct various charitable and cultural events abroad and in Russia. A lot of interviews in the media, information on the Internet, a loving wife, children, grandchildren. Shortly before arriving at the reburial ceremony for the remains of the royal family in 1998, his eldest grandson Enzo Conzolo commits suicide.

The ceremony is attended by about 50 descendants of the once royal family, among them the young Makena Komisar, granddaughter of US Marine Colonel Paul R.-Ilyinsky and cousin of the aforementioned Alex. Four years later, she will die in a terrible car accident.

Mikhail Fedorovich from France is not at the mentioned event. According to the official version, he did not believe in the authenticity of the remains of the royal family. In fact, he is busy with his young wife Maria, whom he recaptured from his son, also Mikhail. The son, meanwhile, is defeated and forced to retire; three years later, the elderly dad will receive news from Bombay that the unlucky Michel has suddenly died.

Mikhail Andreevich, despite his 78 years, flew to the reburial from Australia. His wife Julia is with him. It's nice to visit the homeland of your ancestors, to look at numerous relatives and their young growth - there are no children of your own. Communication with her own childless sister Xenia, who recently buried her husband and therefore became a little crazy, leads to sad reflections. However, who cares, and Mikhail Andreevich, the oldest bearer of the surname, still needs to put on the mantle of the Protector of the Order of Malta and take a photo for memory - the Romanovs' game of noble knights-ioannites, begun by Paul I, continues. And how can it not continue if, according to information received from the official website of the Order of Malta, Patriarch Alexy himself blesses this deed, and Metropolitan Kirill of Kaliningrad and Smolensk personally conducted divine services with the brothers Johnites on their own island.

In the autumn of next year, the reburial of the remains of Empress Maria Feodorovna, the Romanovs will again gather in St. Petersburg to bathe in the flickering rays of the faded glory of their kind, in order to feel some significance and purpose. Meetings, conversations, projects. Did they understand the reasons for their family misfortunes, did they repent?
Will show time.

"Death of Paul I", Fig. S. Chudanov.

The Romanovs often entered into marriages with German princesses, but it was the princesses of the Hessian family that turned out to be fatal. Members of the Romanov family who were married to Hessian princesses died a violent death: Paul I, Alexander II, Nicholas II and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. They all married Hessian princesses for love.

Perhaps this is just a series of fatal coincidences, but coincidences are not accidental either. Even "A brick will never fall on anyone's head for no reason at all."

Princess Wilhelmina and Paul

Princess Wilhelmina or Grand Duchess Natalya Alekseevna.
Wife of the future Emperor Paul I

Grand Duchess Natalya Alekseevna, born Princess Augusta-Wilhelmina-Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, who became the first wife of the future Emperor Paul I.

Catherine the Great meticulously chose brides for her son, who was 19 years old. The Empress wanted to find a rare combination of intelligence, beauty and good character.

A suitable candidate was the Hessian princess Wilhelmina, who was 17 years old.
Romantic Paul fell in love with Wilhelmina, preferring her to other European princesses. Strict Catherine the Great approved the choice and allowed her son to marry for love.

“My son fell in love with Princess Wilhelmina from the very first minute, I gave him three days to see if he hesitated, and since this princess is superior to her sisters in every respect ... the eldest is very meek; the younger one seems to be very smart; in the middle, all the qualities we desire: her face is charming, her features are regular, she is affectionate, intelligent; I am very pleased with her, and my son is in love ... "

Young future Emperor Paul

In 1773, the marriage of the princess took place, which, upon the adoption of Orthodoxy, received the name Natalya Alekseevna.

Soon the German princess began to show her character. She turned out to be too progressive for the conservative Catherine the Great. The princess grew up in a house where famous philosophers and poets of the era often visited, who talked about equality and freedom. She openly expressed her democratic views, including the persistent call for the abolition of slavery - serfdom.

It was said that the husband disgusted the princess. They were called "Beauty and the Beast".
“Those who knew, that is, saw from afar the blessed and eternally unforgettable memory of Emperor Paul, for that it will be very clear and probable that the Darmstadt princess could not look without disgust at the reproachful face of his imperial highness, her most dear husband! It is impossible to describe or depict Paul's ugliness! What was the position of the Grand Duchess at the moment when, using the right of a spouse, he died in the delight of the bliss of voluptuousness!

How they chatted in the world that the princess found solace in the society of the handsome secular Count Razumovsky.

Count Andrey Razumovsky, alleged favorite of the princess

"Natalya Alekseevna was a cunning, subtle, penetrating mind, quick-tempered, persistent disposition woman. The Grand Duchess knew how to deceive her husband and courtiers, who would not yield to a demon in cunning and intrigues; but Catherine soon penetrated her cunning and was not mistaken in her guesses!" - that's what the gossips said.

The marriage of Pavel Petrovich and Natalya Alekseevna lasted three years. In 1776 she died in childbirth at the age of 20.

Evil tongues whispered that it was the Empress who ordered the midwife to kill the rebel.
It was said that Natalya Alekseevna and Count Razumovsky not only entered into a vicious relationship, but also prepared a coup d'état. Catherine the Great, who received the crown thanks to the overthrow of her husband with the help of a favorite, saw her reflection in the smart German princess. Next to such a wife, the weak-willed Pavel could repeat the fate of his father.

Portrait of Natalya Alekseevna in the year of death

I believe that Catherine's involvement in the death of the princess is just a rumor. The main reason is the low level of medicine of that time. This was the case when only a caesarean section could save the mother and child. The rigid corset that the princess wore since childhood led to a curvature of the bones, which prevented childbirth.

Pavel and Ekaterina spent five days next to the dying woman, trying to alleviate her suffering. Empress Catherine was very worried about the death of her daughter-in-law.

“You can imagine that she had to suffer, and we with her. My heart was tormented; I did not have a minute of rest during these five days and did not leave the Grand Duchess day or night until my death. She told me: "We are a great nurse." Imagine my situation: one must be consoled, the other encouraged. I was exhausted both in body and soul ... "

It was said that the death of his beloved wife was such a strong blow for Paul that he lost his mind.

Princess Sofia Dorothea is Paul's second wife.

Tough Catherine did not allow her son to revel in suffering for a long time. Soon his second wedding took place with another German princess Sophia Dorothea of ​​Württemberg, who in Orthodoxy received the name Maria Feodorovna. They lived happily ever after for 25 years until the tragic death of Paul separated them.

Emperor Paul I was killed by conspirators in 1801. It was said that the first wife, dying, cursed the Romanov family. Now every Romanov who marries a Hessian princess will die.

Princess Maria and Alexander II

Princess Mary in her youth

The next curse overtook Emperor Alexander II, whose wife was the Hessian princess Maximilian Wilhelmina Augusta Sophia Maria. In Orthodoxy, she received the name Maria Alexandrovna.

This marriage also took place for love. The future Emperor Alexander II fell in love with a German princess while traveling through Europe. The young princess was 14 years old, and the heir to the Russian crown was 20 years old.

The heir to the throne told his father Nicholas I and mother Alexandra Feodorovna that he wanted to marry Princess Mary. Perhaps the rumors of the Hessian curse worried the Empress, who was drawn to mysticism.
There were also rumors that Princess Mary was illegitimate.

Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna

"Doubts about the legitimacy of her origin are more valid than you think. It is known that because of this she is hardly tolerated at Court and in the family, but she is officially recognized as the daughter of her crowned father and bears his surname, therefore no one can say anything against her in this sense" - from the correspondence of Emperor Nicholas I.

“Dear Mama, what do I care about the secrets of Princess Mary! I love her, and I'd rather give up the throne than her. I will marry only her, this is my decision!” - firmly declared the heir Alexander.

The family, after discussions, approved the choice of an heir. The wedding took place in 1841, when the bride was 17 years old.

Grand Duchess Olga, Alexander's sister, wrote of their marital love:
“Marie won the hearts of all those Russians who could get to know her. It combined innate dignity with extraordinary naturalness. To each she knew how to say her own, without a single superfluous word, with that natural tact, which distinguishes beautiful souls. Sasha became more and more attached to her every day, feeling that his choice fell on God-given. Their mutual trust grew as they got to know each other."

Ceremonial portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna (1857)

In marriage, the crowned couple had six sons and two daughters.

Maria Alexandrovna did not take part in political affairs, devoting herself to solving social issues in Russia - health care, education, helping the poor. Under her patronage, the Russian branch of the Red Cross, an international health organization, was opened.

The Empress took special care of women's education; in the 1870s, thanks to her efforts, Russian women received the right to attend courses at universities.

The Empress blesses the sisters of mercy who are going to war (1877)

In the 1860s, the severe illnesses of the empress worsened. She suffered incurable diseases heart and lungs, hard tolerating the climate of St. Petersburg. The doctors feared that during the next pregnancy, Maria Alexandrovna might die, and insistently stated that “marital relations should be terminated.” There were no other contraceptives safe for life at that time.

The strong empress survived a very hard blow of fate - the death of her eldest son Nikolai in 1865. These experiences caused irreparable harm to health.

Under the supervision of doctors, the fragile empress lived for about 20 years. The famous S.P. became her physician. Botkin, who personally accompanied the Empress during her health trips to Italy.

In 1878, the chronic illness worsened. A mechanical chair was ordered for the empress, in which she was taken around the palace: “they dressed and seated in a chair, on which they rolled into another room ... Several times a day she inhaled oxygen through air pillows, and every evening they rubbed her ointment to ease her breathing” - recalls the court lady Yakovleva.

Empress Maria Alexandrovna last years life.

Emperor Alexander II was very upset by the illness of his wife:
“The Empress turned into a skeleton; does not even have the strength to move his fingers; can’t do anything” – and added that “the first meeting with her should have made a heavy impression on the sovereign, who from that day also feels unwell, complains of a feverish state and weakness. Today I found him noticeably changed (he is pale, drooping and weak), his face is pale, sunken, his eyes faded, ”Milyutin recalled.

Empress Maria Feodorovna died in May 1880.

“Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Empress was weak and drowsy during yesterday. expectoration, in recent times gradually decreased, almost completely stopped. Having quietly fallen asleep at the usual hour last night, Her Majesty did not wake up again. At three o'clock in the morning she coughed a little, and at seven o'clock in the morning her breathing stopped, and Her Majesty in Bose fell asleep without agony. Honorary Life Physician Alyshevsky. Life physician Botkin. May 22 at 10 a.m.

Emperor Alexander II died from a terrorist bomb in 1881, a few months after the death of his wife.

Princess Ella and Sergei Alexandrovich

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Princess Ella

Soon the curse happened to the descendants of Alexander II.
The Hessian princesses-sisters were married to Nicholas II and his uncle, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt and Sergei Alexandrovich were married in 1884. The bride was 20 years old, the groom was 27 years old. Princess Ella, as she was called in the family, thought for a long time about the marriage proposal.

“I gave my consent without hesitation. I have known Sergei since childhood; I see his sweet, pleasant manners and I am sure that he will make my daughter happy,” said the father of the bride.

Upon the adoption of Orthodoxy, she received the name Elizaveta Feodorovna. Princess Ella did not immediately accept the Orthodox faith, she was not the bride of the heir to the throne, so she could remain with her religion.

Elizaveta Feodorovna and Sergei Alexandrovich

“Her purity was absolute, it was impossible to take your eyes off her, having spent the evening with her, everyone was waiting for the hour when they could see her the next day,” her niece Maria admired Ella so much.

Elizaveta Fedorovna had a strong, determined character. She advised Nicholas II to be tough on traitors and terrorists. The princess warned that turning these murderers into heroes in the eyes of the people would lead to disaster.

“Is it really impossible to judge these animals by a field court? ...
Everything must be done to prevent them from becoming heroes ... to kill in them the desire to risk their lives and commit such crimes (I think that he would rather pay with his life and thus disappear!). But who is he and what is he - let no one know ... and there is nothing to pity those who themselves do not pity anyone.

Ella disapproved of the Romanov family's benevolence towards Grigory Rasputin, openly saying that his death would be the best way out of the situation.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth became famous for her charitable activities and received people's love. While her husband, the Governor-General of Moscow, was hated by the people. Explicit hostility to the prince appeared after the tragic events on the Khodynka field in 1896, when, during the celebration of the coronation of Nicholas II, there was a stampede in which more than a thousand people died. Those close to him advised Sergei Alexandrovich to resign after the tragedy, but he refused.

Contemporaries note that Sergei Alexandrovich was a worthless politician who became the object of general hostility. Unfortunately, the prince's charitable activities were rarely remembered. He was a trustee of about 90 charitable societies. "He was a real angel of kindness," said the wife.

It was said that the prince was attracted not to women, but to men. He himself spends time with young men and advises his wife to "look for love on the side." Therefore, his wife, suffering from loneliness, is busy with violent social activities.

“Moscow has stood so far on seven hills, and now it must stand on one hillock” (bougr "e - this is how homosexuals were called in French). They say this, alluding to Grand Duke Sergei," wrote Russian diplomat V. N. Lamzdorf in 1891.

Most likely, the stories that the prince was gay are just another gossip. According to close families, Sergei Alexandrovich loved his wife.

Sergei Alexandrovich with his nephews - Maria Pavlovna and Dmitry Pavlovich, whom he raised as his own children.

“He told me about his wife, admired her, praised her. He thanks God every hour for his happiness,” Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich wrote about the love of his relative.

As the niece of the Grand Duke Maria recalled, the age difference had a strong influence on the relationship of the spouses. Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife behaved like a teacher.

“My uncle was often harsh with her, as with everyone else, but worshiped her beauty. He often treated her like school teacher. I saw the delicious flush of shame that filled her face as he scolded her. “But, Serge ...” she exclaimed then, and her expression was like the face of a student caught in some kind of mistake.

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was very sorry that they had no offspring. “How I wish I had children! For me, there would be no greater paradise on earth if I had my own children, ”said Sergey Alexandrovich.

On the eve of his death, the Grand Duke wrote in his diary “Lord, I would be honored with such a death!”, He spoke of a heroic death at the hands of a murderer-conspirator. The words turned out to be prophetic.

In February 1905, Sergei Alexandrovich was killed by the terrorist Ivan Kalyaev, who threw a bomb into the carriage of the Grand Duke. Elizaveta Fedorovna personally collected the remains of her husband. The heart of the murdered Governor-General of Moscow was found only on the third day on the roof of a neighboring house.

Prince's carriage after the explosion.

Ella personally came to meet with the arrested terrorist.

“... When he saw her, he asked: “Who are you?”
“I am his widow,” she replied, “why did you kill him?”
"I did not want to kill you," he said, "I saw him several times at the time when I had the bomb at the ready, but you were with him, and I did not dare to touch him."
“And you didn’t realize that you killed me along with him?” - she replied ... "

“It seemed that from that time on she was peering intently at the image of another world ... she devoted herself to the search for perfection,” Countess Olsufieva recalled.

Elizaveta Feodorovna, after the death of her husband, devoted herself entirely to charity. The women's nursing movement gained momentum during World War I thanks to her efforts.

The Grand Duchess founded the famous Martha and Mary Convent, where sisters of mercy provided medical assistance to wounded soldiers.

Grand Duchess dressed as a sister of mercy

During the years of the revolution, the Grand Duchess was arrested and sent to Alapaevsk ( Sverdlovsk region).
In July 1918, she was shot along with other relatives of the royal family. The executioners threw the bodies of the executed into the mine. In October 1918, the White Army entered Alapaevsk, the bodies of the royal relatives were raised from the mine. It turned out that the wounded Elizaveta Fedorovna remained alive for several days.

The remains of the Grand Duchess were transported east to Shanghai, and then transported to Jerusalem for burial. So her testament was fulfilled - to be buried in the Holy Land.

In 1981, Elizaveta Feodorovna was canonized as a saint of Russia Orthodox Church Abroad.

The story of her younger sister Empress Alexandra Feodorovna is told in a note

Marina Mnishek [The Incredible Story of an Adventurer and Warlock] Polonska Jadwiga

Chapter 16

Marianne was happy. Nearby was Ivan Zarutsky, whom Dmitry disliked so much. And she often thought that the first husband, looking from heaven at her and Zarutsky, regretted that he was going to execute the Cossack chieftain.

What are you thinking, Marina? Zarutsky hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.

– About the fact that we have one last attempt left, otherwise we will have to flee to distant countries.

- In what? - Ataman was surprised.

“Maybe to England. Or maybe Spanish India.

- Where did you get it from?

- Pozharsky is recruiting a militia, Ivan. And if he takes Moscow, then there will be no place for us in Russia.

- And if he doesn’t take it, then again there will be no place for us in Russia.

Marina looked seriously at the ataman.

It's time to lift up the people.

- Recognize Vanya as Dmitry's legal heir.

Zarutsky thought.

- So something like that ... But who, besides me, recognizes him?

- Troubetzkoy.

- Trubetskoy, as he admits, he will refuse, Marina.

- Let him admit it first, and then we'll see.

“Very well,” said the ataman. “We really shouldn’t run to India… Although it’s possible to go to Persia – it’s even closer. Zarutsky laughed.

But Marianne was not laughing. Son Ivan grew up. He was already three years old, and among the people they did not call him anything other than a “funnel”.

People are tired of turmoil, of Poles, Cossacks, militias and robbers. The people more and more wanted to choose a single Russian tsar. And fate again gave her a chance to ascend the throne.

If the nobility recognizes the son as a legitimate heir, then she, as a crowned queen, will be able to calmly return to Moscow. And then not only Russian heads will roll, but also many Polish ones. She was sure that it would not be difficult for Trubetskoy to give and refuse his own word.

And so it happened. Less than a month later, Trubetskoy, together with Zarutsky, announced on the main square of Kaluga that they recognized the baby Ivan Dmitrievich as the legitimate heir to the Russian kingdom. After that, all big cities messengers were sent out with the news. And, of course, secret troublemakers who talked about Marianne's son as a miracle child and a true anointed of God.

But this act cost Marianne dearly. Before that, Prince Pozharsky did not see her as a rival. And he was even going to give her one of the regions after the establishment of order in Russia, but the claim to the throne greatly frightened him.

Two weeks later, Marianna fled from Kaluga to Ryazan. Pozharsky's troops utterly defeated the Cossack army.

- To Astrakhan.

- And from there?

- To hell with the horns.

Zarutsky got up from the table and went out into the street. The weather was clear and the boy was playing in the yard with the yard children.

For a long time, the ataman watched with pity the blond child, who was probably waiting for a quick death.

“Marina,” he said, hearing her footsteps behind him.

Let's go to this India of yours.

- We need to take the money from Kolomna.

- Then get ready, dear, tomorrow we are going to Astrakhan. And then we'll see how the Lord will dispose.

They sailed down the Yaik to Bear Island.

Are there really a lot of bears there? the boy asked.

– Oh-ho-ho! How much more,” Zarutsky replied. - Whole bear squads!

- With halberds? Marianne laughed.

Behind was Astrakhan. Ahead, if you manage to break away from the archers - the Urals. There, free people could shelter them for a while. And then, when everything calms down, it would be possible under false names to return to Kolomna, find chests and sail across the Baltic somewhere away from Russia and the Commonwealth.

- Ataman! - shouted the Cossack at the steering oar.

Zarutsky turned around and saw behind him four large boats, with fifty rowers.

He looked at Marianne, and she understood everything.

Taking her son in her arms, Marianne, ready for anything, began to read a prayer in Latin.

- Well, give the baby some water! she shouted.

It was a terrible heat - July. They were near Moscow itself.

Some woman came up to the cage in which she was taken to the city, and gave Ivan an apple and a jug of milk.

- Thanks! Marianne thanked her.

From hunger, heat and a long road under the scorching sun, she was already beginning to lose her mind.

With trembling hands, she tilted the jug, and the boy took a few sips.

- Are you torturing the child?

The crowd began to revolt.

“Ask the Romanovs,” answered the guard.

“The Romanovs…” the people grumbled. - First, the sovereign's children are executed, and then they blame the Romanovs.

Marianna looked ahead, where Zarutsky was sitting in the cage.

He lost a lot of weight and grew a beard. In almost every parking lot, he was beaten in front of Marianna and her son.

“They have finally arrived. I will not see his torment again, ”she thought, and burst into tears.

She and her son were placed in a large cell. At first, every day they took me for interrogation. But a month later, realizing that Marianne would not ask for mercy for the child from the Romanovs, they left her alone.

Marianne sat and watched how large snowflakes slowly fell behind the bars. The executioners had just taken little Vanya to be executed.

She stood on the table, put a stool on top, took a silk cord in her hand, and climbed to the very window. Having opened it, she tied the string to the lattice with a tight knot and began to tie the loop. Suddenly, a black shadow flew over the grate!

Marianne recoiled and fell to the stone floor. The shadow flew away, skipping sunlight. But a second later she closed almost the entire tiny window of the cell again.

There was a rustle, and Marianna saw a raven squeezing through the bars.

“Corvus,” she rejoiced. - At that moment it seemed to her that the friend of her youth and beloved teacher was alive, and he came to her to console her.

But after a moment, she realized that this was self-deception. The only thing that remained unclear was how the raven managed to find her. She watched in fear as the large bird struggled to squeeze through the square gap in the grate. Finally, the raven jumped down to the floor and approached Marianne. Tilting his head slightly to the side, he opened his mouth and, as in childhood, when he wanted to repeat someone's words, he said: "Gov-vor-ri."

- Yes. – Marianne smiled, once again caught in the joyful memories of childhood. But out of the corner of her eye she noticed her son's tiny boot.

“Tell them,” she whispered. Tell them all and loud!

Raven listened attentively to her.

- I curse! I curse the entire Romanov family! All your kings will be killed like my son! I curse! None of you will die a natural death! I curse!

The raven spread its huge wings and flew up to the windowsill.

A few seconds later he disappeared outside the window.

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