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The evidence of Harald Graf merits a very serious attention. He served in the Baltic Navy in the described period and later, in exile, became the head of the office and the personal secretary of Grand Prince Kirill Vladimirovich, who would later become the main pretender to the Russian throne. The Baltic sailor moved in the upper sets of politics and Russian emigration, and nobody ever reproached him for forging the facts and lying. For the first time, his book was published in 1922 in Munich. When several copies of this book reached the USSR, they ended up in the Soviet special repositories. And not without a reason! The book written without any delay right after the end of the Civil War describes many remarkable and little known facts. (Graf H. On Board of Novik. The Baltic Navy During the War and the Revolution. Saint Petersburg, Gangut, 1997. P. 385–386.)
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Kerensky told that the British Prime Minister Lloyd George denied asylum for the Tsar, and it was Buchanan who brought this information to him (Romanov A. M. Memoirs. M., AST Publishing, 2008. P. 327).
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Graf H. On Board of Novik. The Baltic Navy During the War and the Revolution". Saint Petersburg, Gangut, 1997. P. 386.
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http://his.lseptember.ru/view_article.php?ID=200801402
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Solzhenitsyn A. I. April 1917. (http://koleso.by.ru/4/4.htm)
13
Ib.
14
Sokolov N. A. The Assassination of the Tsar's Family. (http://www.hrono.info/libris/lib_s/ubi04.html)
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Ib.
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Sokolov N. A. The Assassination of the Tsar's Family. (http://www.hrono.mfo/libris/lib_s/ubi04.html)
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Sokolov N. A. The Assassination of the Tsar's Family. (http://www.hrono.info/libris/lib_s/ubi04.html)
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http://militera.lib.ru/db/nikolay-2/1917.html
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Ib.
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It is essential to also note the fact that the abdication from the throne of a ruling monarch has not been stipulated by the applicable legislation of the Russian Empire. That is why the abdication of Nicholas II added more confusion to the already complicated situation, when it was hard to understand how legitimate the country's authorities were. Everything got so tangled up that until now among monarchists there is no consensus on a rather simple issue – who the lawful heir to the throne is.
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Translator's note: The State Duma was established in 1906 and was the first elected Russian parliament.
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Translator's note: Ivanov is one of the most common family names in Russia.
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This is really true. The February Revolution can be called the March Revolution in accordance with the New Style. In March 1917, the Romanovs lost the throne, and in March 1917 they were arrested.
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Translator's note: People's Commissar.
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Trotsky L. My Life (http//www.1917com./Marxism/Trotsky/My_Life/My_Life-00–02–06.html)
26
Ib.
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The USA didn't have any real intelligence services at that time. But in December 1913, the Federal Reserve System was established – a private little shop which got monopoly on printing the US dollars. Read more about the connections between the bankers, who owned the Federal Reserve System, and our revolutionaries, and about the history of this organization's establishment: Starikov N. Crisis. How It Is Done. St. Pb.: Piter, 2009.
28
Warth R. The Entente and the Russian Revolution. M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. P. 203.
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Kakurin N. Vatsetis I. The Civil War 1918–1921. St. Pb.: Poligon, 2002. P. 17.
30
Ib.
31
Bruce Lockhart came to Russia with a recommendation letter… from Maxim Litvinov, who in his turn became an unofficial representative of Bolsheviks to Great Britain. In his letter, Litvinov called the professional British spy, who was working under a diplomatic cover, "an extremely honest person, who understands our situation and feels for us". His presence in Russia will be very "useful from the point of view of our interests". (Warth R. The Entente and the Russian Revolution. M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. P. 207.) Litvinov himself bought the weapons on behalf of Bolsheviks in 1905 and had connections with the British intelligence services. His fate is very telling. Being married to a British woman, he was the narkom of the foreign affairs during Stalin's reign and was displaced in 1939. For those who like to talk about the bloody dictator Stalin: his minister of foreign affairs is married to a foreign woman, but he survives through Stalin's reprisals. Why? Because he had connections in Great Britain and was a sort of a communication channel. Directly upon Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Stalin sent Litvinov to the USA in order to receive support from there. And Litvinov managed to receive it.
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Think about it: the captain "neutralized" the ambassador of his country. It means that all questions were resolved exactly by Sadoul, who "was feeling a sympathy" for Bolsheviks by order of his government, and the official representative of this government, Ambassador Noulens, was quietly sitting in Vologda not to disturb the captain in performing his task. (Kakurin N. Vatsetis I. The Civil War 1918–1921. St. Pb.: Poligon, 2002. P. 17.)
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Lenin V. Works. M.: GIZ, 1950. P. 49.
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Trotsky L. The French Imperialism and Soviet Russia During Brest. (http://www.comintern-online.com/trot1658.htm)
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The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.
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Trotsky L. The French Imperialism and Soviet Russia During Brest. (http://www.comintern-online.com/trot1658.htm)
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Ib.
38
http://business.km.ru/magazme/view.asp?id=C2DDA959582C46D8AA8FD0019D4352DF
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On September 1 (Old Style), Alexander Kerensky at his own decision proclaimed Russia a republic. By doing so he encroached the rights of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, which had to decide what form of government Russia would have. Indeed, Michael Romanov abdicated from the throne temporarily until the Constituent Assembly made the decision. In case the majority of the delegates wished to restore the monarchy, he would accept the throne again. Most likely, the naive Romanov imagined this was going to happen. As you can see, Kerensky actively supported the forces, interested in the legitimate power liquidation. The course of the political events would be as follows: Kerensky unlawfully declared Russia a republic, the Provisional Government would be broken up by Bolsheviks, as well as the Constituent Assembly. Which power is the legitimate one? What form of the government is legitimate? This is exactly the situation when a war of all against all would start, which is beneficial for all geopolitical opponents of Russia.
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Translator's note: Sovnarkom stands for the Soviet of People's Commissars.
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The body of General Dukhonin raised on the bayonets unwittingly gave birth to a horrible proverb from the Civil War, "To send to Dukhonin" would mean to kill, to shoot down. When Krylenko's troop trains with revolutionary sailors arrived to the General Headquarters, Dukhonin gave an order not to make any resistance. All the Russian generals tried to avoid the Civil War in every possible way. And to a large extent, that was exactly why the Civil War broke out.
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Shatsillo V. World War 1. 1914–1918. Facts and Documents. M.: Olma-Press, 2003. P. 356
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Shatsillo V. World War 1. 1914–1918. Facts and Documents. M.: Olma-Press, 2003. P. 356
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Ib.
45
World History. The Results of World War 1. V. 20. M.: AST, 2001. P. 116
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