Category: Aristocracy

THE SERFS BOWS AGAINST THE BARONS

MICHAEL WALSH. In England, the parasitical aristocracy is called the extended Royal Family but otherwise, there isn’t a great deal of difference. The idle rich speculate whilst royalty accumulates. It was this week revealed (in the Russian media) that the royals pocket the possessions of those Britons who […]

MARTYRDOM OF A EUROPEAN DYNASTY

In July, 2021, the world will mourn the 103 years of remembrance of the massacre of Imperial Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and his family. In 1918, Europe’s most admired royal family, second in timescale only to the Hapsburg Empire, were herded by their Bolshevik captors into a basement in Yekaterinburg under the pretext that their photograph was to be taken.

The Exiled Duke Who Turned Desert to Paradise

Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850 – 1918) was the first-born son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich who was the younger brother of the Russian emperor Alexander II, and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia. He was also the grandson of Tsar Nicholas I and cousin of Tsar Alexander III.