The Rescue of the Romanovs - Based on a true story

By Waldon Volpiceli

Based on a true story.

Rússia 1917. The czar Nicolau II renounces. what few people know is that he tried to flee to England but his request was denied despite King George V being in favour of it. When Lenin took power, Nicolau II was transferred to Yekaterinburg, a city far away.  There, he was kept a prisoner together with his family and  some loyal servants, awaiting their fate. They were murdered there in 1918. What few people know is that the Bristish secret service, through a spy called Stephen Alley, planned in great detail a bold attempt to rescue all of them. The rescue attempt never happened but what if it had? How could it have taken place? This fictional book will try to answer this question based on the original rescue plans. Why was Nicolau II's entrance into England denied? How did Germany support Lenin and make the Russian Revolution happen? How was the Romanov family massacred? You will find all the answers in this book. Based on a true story.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Aug 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393733829

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The Rescue of the Romanovs

Based on a true story

Waldon Volpiceli

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Translated by Rachel Thomas 

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The Rescue of the Romanovs - Based on a true story

Written By Waldon Volpiceli

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The rescue of the Romanovs – Based on A TRUE STORY

Waldon Volpiceli

Obs. The photographs in this book are in the public domain and can therefore be reproduced freely.  

This is a work of fiction based on historical events and mixes real events and characters with fictitious ones    and some events have been simplified. Although some encounters, scenes and conversations here are fictional, there is no doubt that the events in this story happened and the descriptions given were duly documented and researched. The responsibility for these lies with the author and he alone. 

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RUSSIA 1917

Resultado de imagem para revoluçao russa

One of the demonstrations on 23rd of February 1917 (8th of March on the Russian calendar)

A snow-covered street. On International Woman’s Day, Thursday, 23rd February, 1917/8, of March, 1917, 90,000 working women in the city of Petrograd walked out of the factory where they worked and marched through the streets. In their midst, a group of people marched along carrying various signs: 

Долой немку!

(Down with the German woman!)

Ниже протопопов!

(Down with Protopopov!)

Долой войну!

(Down with the war!)

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These women were exhausted, hungry and angry after toiling for long hours in miserable conditions to feed their families because their husbands were away fighting at the front. They were not alone in their clamors for change: more than 150,000 men and women took to the streets the following day to protest. On Saturday, February the 25th, the city of Petrograd was practically closed. Nobody was authorized to work or wanted to work. Although there were still some incidents with police and soldiers firing at the crowds, these groups soon rioted and joined the other protesters.

The crowd continued their march until they came to a large warehouse. A young man of approximately 15 years of age among the protestors shouts, Внутри есть еда! Хлеб! (There’s food inside there! Bread!)

The crowd storms the warehouse. They beat against the front door.

A group of soldiers approaches from afar. They load their shotguns and one of the soldiers at the front yells, "Стреляйте! (Fire!)

Bullets fly. The crowd starts to disperse. The young man who shouted earlier sees the chaos, the dead falling beside him. With fear in his eyes, he looks at the soldiers ahead of him and says, "

Ivan, you’d better run.

And he does.

RUSSIA 1914

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The outbreak of war in 1914 initially served to calm down the predominant social and political protests and concentrate hostilities against a common external enemy but this patriotic unity was short-lived. As the war dragged on inconclusively, the exhaustion of war gradually took its toll. Although many Russian commoners had joined in the anti-German demonstrations in the first weeks of the war, the hostility against the Germans and the desire to defend their lands and their lives did not necessarily translate into enthusiasm for the czar or the government. The war against Germany and Austria began right at the beginning of the war. The First World War united Russia, England and France against Germany and Austria. At the time, Austria was building a great Empire which extended from Hungary to the Balkans. Here, there was a huge Slavic community who were culturally very close to the Russians. Germany was also forming a great empire inside Europe and disputing political and economic supremacy with France and England. The conflict between these countries came to a head in 1914. The first attacks by Russia against the Germans rapidly transformed into defeat but the Russians continued to advance. A second Russian incursion occurred against the Austrians further south and was a complete success. The Russians continued to have military successes against the Austrians until the end of 1914, destroying 4 Austrian armies in the process. Thanks to these victories, the Russians invaded Poland, advancing close to Krakow.   

This initial success enjoyed by Russia in 1914 at the Austrian- Russian border was cause for concern for the central powers and led to a considerable number of army forces being transferred east to relieve the pressure on the Austrians. At the end of 1914, the main focus of the conflicts moved to the central part of Poland. There were several battles against the Russians where the Germans advanced very little but were able to hold the Russians at a safe distance from their borders. Austria took advantage of Germany’s help and, at the beginning of 1915, attacked the Russian armies who firmly held their positions. The Russians attacked the Austrian troops further to the west. They were successful in making some progress in February and March 1915 but help from