Political expediency.
While there was a royal alive there was someone for the counter revolutionaries to rally around.
With the family dead, there were no direct claimants surviving in Russia, to the throne.
While there was a royal alive there was someone for the counter revolutionaries to rally around.
With the family dead, there were no direct claimants surviving in Russia, to the throne.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"