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Condemned to a life sentence

“Isn’t it good to be alive!”

WITH THOSE WORDS, in the wonderful 1971 film, Nicholas and Alexandra, Tsar Nicholas II opens the scene that will

While being used to convey just the right pathos, as the viewer braces for the terrible actions of Revolutionary Socialism that we know are about to be unleashed, the of which the Tsar speaks is not meant in its purely biological sense. He says this as he and his family open their post for the first time in a long time and read and share stories about their

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