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The Real Last Tsar
Author: Rhonda Abner
Russian Life: May/June 2011
Department: Tsarism
Page: 28 ( 6) pages
Summary: History tends to record Nicholas II as the last Tsar of all the Russias. Not to put too fine a point on it, but History is wrong. There was one more, and this is his fascinating story.
This article appeared in the May/June 2011 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
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Weblinks related to this story:
- Did Mikhail Survive? This article on a Ukrainian website looks at the theory that Mikhail escaped an hid out the rest of his life in Turkestan, under the name Berda Kuzhuk
- The Russian Revolution in Color A historical documentary and reenactment of the revolutions of 1917. While the history is at times a bit off, it is worth bearing it for the superb bits of footage from 1917 that have been colorized.