Faithful Oct 31, 2024

When Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, 43 people agreed to follow him into exile and share his prison life with him. Only 43 - out of the entire multimillion-dollar Russia! Among them there was not a single relative of the Tsar and Tsarina, not a single member of the royal family. There were no close friends of Nikolai P's youth, whose friendship he treasured all his life. Even the Romanovs' blood relatives abroad renounced the Royal Family.