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The Romanov Netflix Forgot

8/28/2019

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The recent Netflix epic, The Last Czars, presents a reasonably accurate, entertainingly presented story of that star-crossed Russian royal family, the Romanovs, and their plodding rush to bloody assassination. The main thrust of the story is the unscrupulous hold that ill-kempt, drunken, sex-driven “holy man” Grigori  Rasputin had upon Empress Alexandra and, consequently, the history of Russia. Rasputin’s entre to the lives of the royal family was the hypnotic, calming effect he had upon the Czar’s only son, Alexei, who was heir to Czardom but who also was a suffering hemophiliac who bruised easily, bringing on intense pain and furious bleeding, causing subsequent wretchedness for Alexandra. She was convinced Rasputin was the only one who could bring comfort and tranquility to Alexei and to Alexandra herself who had desperately sought relief for the troubled prince and some level of stability for herself and her family.

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Romanov Royal Family
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Grigori Rasputin
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Curiously though, in spite of the many details Netflix presented about Alexei and the lengths to which Alexandra and the family went to avoid and alleviate Alexei’s pain, there is no mention at all in the six episodes regarding Russian Navy sailor Klementy Grigoreivich Nagorny who was assigned to the Tsarevitch to shield the fragile heir against any activities or accidents which might bring on the painful, life threatening blood lettings that brought the whole family, particularly Alexandra, to paroxysms of anguish. 


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Nagorny with Alexei
According to many of the  countless books dealing with the lives of the Romanovs, Nagorny became “one of the family” through his devoted attention to the job of loyal guardian and companion of Alexei. During the revolution, when Romanov family members became increasingly in danger of their lives, the family was moved from Tsarskoe Selo, the Summer Palace, to far away Tobolsk, then to Ekaterinburg in Siberia. Nagorny voluntarily chose to accompany the Czar and his family while fearful other family retainers fled. In a prediction that would unfortunately come true just a few days before the entire Romanov family would met their fates, Nagorny was shot and killed for his efforts to protect them from the insults and disrespect of their guards. 

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Why writers for this series never even mentioned this key member of the Romanov household is puzzling in view of the prominence of Nagorny in protecting the Czarevitch from harm.

The series ended with the grisly shooting and bayonetting of the family and retainers but the chaotic disposal of the bodies of these unfortunates afterwards is worth another whole TV series because of the obfuscation generated by the myriad of self-serving tales promulgated by the Reds, Whites, other European Royal families, Religious groups, remaining Romanov relatives, and others who had their own parochial, exculpatory motives for obscuring the actual events which transpired after the assassination in Ekatrinberg. 


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Romanov memorial, Ekatrinberg
It wasn’t until 1989 that, in a now-it-can-be-told article in The Moscow News, the real truth about the disposal of the bodies was revealed to Russian Mystery writer Geli Ryabov by none other than Russian Navy Vice Admiral Alexander Yurovsky, the son of one of the Romanov executioners, Yakov Mikhailovich Yourovsky, so prominently mentioned in the Netflix series. 

Further details of how the long-secret Yurovsky file led to the exhumation of the Romanov and retainer bodies are detailed in my book, A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death, Why and How Richard Halliburton Conquered the World, along with how the Soviets in 1934 duped Halliburton into writing and reporting to the world yet another “true” version of the assassination and disposal of the bodies by staging a deathbed “confession” by Peter Ermakov, one of the assassins. Ermakov lived for years afterward, boasting of the charade to various patriotic groups.  William R. Taylor.  



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7/3/2020 07:18:24 pm

Netflix has a lot of great shows right now. I personally believe that people need to go and work on how to make this better. If they just make every single thing that they have, then they are going to have a hard time. I truly do believe that there are shows that deserve a lot more credit than they are being given. There are people who need to go and think about how they want to project their shows.

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7/10/2020 09:19:19 am

I agree. Netflix Has many fine shows.This one is an excellent example. Leaving out mention of Klementy Nagorny was not a major flaw but I thought his devotion to the family and the fact that he sacrificed his life for it was worthy of inclusion in the story.

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