TSARS IN THEIR EYESWHY RUSSIANS CAN'T LET GO OF ROYALTY A rebirth of interest in the ill-fated Romanov dynasty says more for post- communist Russia's nostalgia than it does for the scant achievements of a decadent royal brood

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: July 3, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

ALMOST a century has passed since the family of Tsar Nicholas II was gunned down in the Ipatiev House in the nondescript Siberian town of Ekaterinburg, one July night in 1918, but still they cast a long shadow over Russian history. For all that the land of the Romanovs was transformed utterly by the Bolshevik revolution and brutalised by tyrants like Stalin, the ancestral memory of Russia's royal family, hidden deep within the country's soul, refuses to die.

Even during the long years of Soviet rule the flame continued to burn, kept alive not just by fading aristocrats and the orthodox church ...

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