MARCH, 1917
From Romanov Alexey Nikolaevicha's stories.
Lived with 1953года on 1997год under First name, middle initial, last name PRIESTS ВАСИЛИЙ ИВАНОВИЧ ________ I shall tell to you shortly the most important, that you anywhere will not hear and will not read through in press. The Soviet authority has made everything that about Romanovs does not remain to any truthful information … … but all over again about Provisional government:

.... It occured in the spring, in the first of March, 1917. The train of mine отца\ Nikolay-2 \stood somewhere under Могилёвым, and I was with It. To one of days in the rate there has arrived delegation from Provisional government. They have arrived with the purpose that the Father has signed « Renunciation of a throne » in favour of provisional government, but the Father has refused to execute their REQUIREMENTS and has signed renunciation and transfer of a throne to the son Alexey, me, and up to mine взросления (majority-19 years) the right of board the Country, reserved.
the father has appointed in day "crowning" and has started to instruct to preparations to this event. Truce envoys having run about cars, поагетировав people and nothing having achieved, somewhere have disappeared. To their morning could not find any more (only then having returned to Petrograd the father has understood the reason of fast departure of truce envoys).

Crowning passed in a sunny day, at church, there were to many people from neighboring villages and all soldiers and officers from a train. I in that put unimportantly itself felt but the father has told it it is extremely necessary both for us, and for Fatherland … I remember read prays, … said speeches, the father has assigned to me a sword and I swore to serve the Native land and people. … .потом have transferred me булаву and a scepter, … there was something like parade with passage the soldier строем, I hardly достоял this прецессию.. Has come therefrom слёг and was ill … in day or two the Rate, there has arrived a train from Petrograd with commissioners from Provisional government which have declared discharge of the Father from a management of the Country. The father has written the letter - the appeal to soldiers and it was offered to people that there was no chaos and revolt … … to Us will return to Tsarskoe Selo, and only having arrived there to us have declared, that we are arrested. … … when we came back to Petrograd, the father spoke, that someone specially builds barrier on a way … in armies spies from the German party, propagandists are transferred.. After returning about Petrograd the father has learned from Cyril that it saw presented « Renunciation of a throne » signed by a pencil, Nikolay Aleksandrovicha's signature was original, it has learned it therefore participated in transfers of Authority. \Позже Nikolay Aleksandrovich has recollected, that pure sheets with its signature, were at the officer which prepared fodder for конницы. To it it has been legal most to fill receipts on that кол-in hay, fodder which it bought from the population. This paper with the signature, also has got in any image to truce envoys. … .как then it was found out later, in manufacturing a fake participated, itself Радзянко, and it is not simple so, and for money, the devoted people have reported on it on the father. The father, having learned about it was simply in furiousness, and it has damned it. All events of that time - was the planned action both it has proved to be true still and that all betraid I Reign people, have been killed, and killed by not raged crowd or revolutionaries and as now speak - killers. At all killed besides wound in a trunk, the head has been raked. Treachery of Provisional government and arrest of family simply повергли in a shock of the Father. Traitors very much hastened with punishment above family, after arrival to Tsarskoe Selo they tried to arrest and send more likely all of us in the Peter and Paul Fortress for punishment, at all not having coordinated the actions with Provisional government and only fidelity and decency of Russian officers has not allowed it to happen. But as they say, the trouble does not come one. The father kept in contact with betraid still to it and Fatherland, people who did not welcome action of Provisional government, communication in Pavlovsk, occured directly on eyes of protection. Coherent changed clothes in country clothes, approached to a fencing and talked to the Father.
still in Pavlovsk there was a portable radio set through which contacted a yacht «Штандарт». … .однажды in the evening. The father has declared to all of us that for the night did not undress, the yacht at night should approach and take away us abroad. All our family, not undressing, has stayed all the night long pending for clearings. The father often went upward and looked in a telescope, It next day is closer to a dinner has gone down from above, and at it tears flew, it has told, that the yacht has left for horizon. The portable radio set has given up, and communication was not … I remember it слова:-«... Native people … betray even! »

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