1/ So where to begin this thread? Oh, I know. The #SussexSquad and all Meghan's acolytes who seem to think #TheCrown is depicting actual history. Let me elaborate. I've been a rather armchair historian, specializing in mostly on the Russian Imperial Family going back to 1613 ...
2/ I've studied the full Romanov family tree and watched pretty much every documentary out there made on the history of #TheRomanovs. I've also watched the various films and television shows made on #TsarNicholasII and the causes of WW I. This is my book collection as proof. 
3/ I have seen the 1972 Franklin J. Schaffner film, #NicholasandAlexandra. The 1974 series #FallofEagles. The 1996 Alan Rickman film #Rasputin. I've seen practically ever single documentary on the family and the events surrounding the #BolshevikRevolution and have many books ...
4/ documenting that time throughout the 1800s and the reigns of #AlexanderII and #AlexanderIII. I have again seen a lot of documentaries covering the Provisional Government's attempts through #AlexanderKerensky to try to get the Tsar and his family out of Russia pending the ...
5/ collapse of Russia and the beginning of Communism. My primary reason was wanting to know the actual reasons for the start of WW I. So it was with some moderate interest I found out about episode 6 of #TheCrown, titled #TheIpatievHouse. I tuned in to see what their take was.
6/ Only to find it riddled with multiple and if I might say, blatant inaccuracies about those events. The first being the year stated on the title card at the start of the episode. It states London, 1917.
7/ Anyone who knows of the true historical record knows Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 on his and his hemophiliac son, #Alexei's behalf. However, the family was soon moved from #TsarskoyeSelo to #Tobolsk later that year to the Governor's House. There they remained ...
8/ until late Spring, 1918, when after the fall of Kerensky's provisional government, they were to be moved from Tobolsk to it was presumed the Crimea to their palace at Livadia, to then presumably be removed to England. However, during the train ride that took them through ...
9/ the region of The Urals that were heavily controlled by Soviet forces, their train was stopped and boarded and fatally rerouted to the capital of The Urals, #Ekaterinburg. From late May and into July of 1918, there was a back-and-forth with Lenin deciding what was to be done.
10/ Finally on 17 July, 1918 NOT 1917 as was depicted in that trashcan named #TheCrown, the Tsar and his family and four members of his loyal retinue, were filed down to the cellar room at Ipatiev to await their fate. Once down there Alixandra asked for chairs for her and ...
11/ the then crippled Tsarevich. Two chairs were brought in which Alix sat in one, and Nicholas II SAT in the other with his son on his lap. In the show, Nicholas is shown standing, however it is well known he was sitting with Alexei. Question: #PeterMorgan should have known this
12/ It's historical record. Read any book on the events and it's there. From #RobertKMassie, to #EdvardRadzinsky, to #GregKing, to any documentary, it's there. Why did Morgan have Nicholas depicted as standing? Either it's because Morgan didn't avail himself of either Massie ...
13/ or Radzinky's books, or he was left woefully uninformed of the events that are historically depicted in almost any book, or documentary, or at the very lest available on a simple internet search. So far his failings are showing greatly. So next we'll get to the aftermath ...
14/ when after the assassinations, the Ural Soviet began the chore of moving the bodies to be buried. First they were taken to the Three Brothers Mine, where their bodies were stripped, and thrown down the mine shafts. A few days later given the Vodka-laced loose tongues ...
15/ of the soldiers who committed the atrocity, there was the need to remove the bodies and move them someplace else. Due to the no doubt "arduous" nature of cleaning up their disgusting acts, the soldiers decided to stop in a place called The Koptyaki Forest where they removed
16/ the bodies and then buried them naked in that forest. In the show they were depicted as taken directly to Koptyaki forest and buried with their clothes on. Again, Mr. Morgan a simple internet search will give you this information. If the nature is to be expedient, then ...
17/ dedicate an entire show to the truth, don't try to truncate the events in the effort to make it more .... soap opera-ish. The events were bad enough, but to gloss over the more disgusting aspects proves you don't want to tell the truth. Rather, the opposite.
18/ Then you insinuate the reason #GeorgeV didn't want to take the family is due to the Tsaritsa's pro-German beliefs. It was well-known after her marriage to Nicholas, Alixandra became 100% Russian in her heart. Her children and heir were Russian. At no point did she ever ...
19/ express any pro-German sentiments before or during the war. She was a staunch Russian. Further, you insinuated that the other reason was because #MaryofTeck was jealous of Alix's beauty. Almost setting up an early version of Camilla and Diana rivalry. Preposterous, and
20/ to even speak it is heresy. The end point reason why the Tsar and his family were not taken out of Russia is simply because Nicky refused to leave. Alix and their children also refused to leave. They were Russian through-and-through. They would remain on Russian soil.
21/ Though the offer was also rescinded due to the political climate at the time, even though Russia was Britain's ally against the armies of Germany and Hungary. But hey, what's history when you got an anti-British, anti-monarchy tripe to sell to a gossip-starved audience?
22/ So the last thing I'm going to say on the matter is this: In the episode #QueenElizabeth and #PrincePhilip were made to look like fools regarding the DNA testing being done in Russia and at Aldermaston. And that's all on you and your shoddy "storytelling" that looks more
23/ like a soap opera than an actual piece of fiction that COULD inform of historical events. Your target audience is that of the uninformed #MeghanMarkle worshipers who believe what you're showing them is the truth. To #PrinceHarry, you should be better than this.
24/ This is your family. This is your history. Your ancestry. If you support #Netflix and still want to be employed by them after this trashfest, then you're even dumber than I believed. In the end you've complied with this. You're an accomplice. Shame on you!
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