Martin Antonenko
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The Tsar Saves His Family's Life ...!
On October 29, 1888 (all dates according to our era!) Tsar Aleksandr III travels together with his wife Marija Fjodorovna and his children (including the Grand Duke-Thorn-Successor Nikolaj, who later became Nikolai II ) ...
… in his personal train ...
... to his favorite palace, Liwadia Castle at the Crimea ...:
Not far from the village of Tsherwonij Weleten (today: Pershotrawnewoje, near Borki, Charkow Oblast) the train derailed at exactly 2:14 p.m. - whether for technical reasons or an assassination attempt has not yet been fully clarified.
The most likely cause today is a hidden time fuse bomb in the train's dining car.
The wagon in which the imperial family is sitting falls from the embankment and is completely smashed.
Accompanying helpers think the tsar's family is dead - it turns out, however, that Tsar Aleksandr III, who has the strength of a bear (he liked to knot horseshoes to impress interlocutors), supported the ceiling of the wagon with shoulders and arms in order to prevent his family from being crushed.
The tsar's family is saved alive when he knows his family is safe, and the tsar personally directs and supervises the rescue work ...:
No member of the ruling family is injured - they say.
With this huge effort, Aleksandr III. namely an internal ailment (probably a tear in the kidney) that remains undetected and from which he died on November 1st, 1894 in Liwadia before his time ...
... and his completely unprepared son q will come to the throne of the tsar.
A small chapel was built directly at the site of the accident, and it still stands there today ...
... as well as, after the end of the Soviet Union, a Konotaph, which commemorates the rescue of the Tsar:
At a suitable place nearby, a large cathedral is being built, which is also intended to commemorate the "miraculous rescue" of the ruling family ...:
The next picture shows the young Tsar Nikolai II and Tsarina Aleksandra Feodorovna on the 10th anniversary of the accident in front of this cathedral ...
On October 29, 1888 (all dates according to our era!) Tsar Aleksandr III travels together with his wife Marija Fjodorovna and his children (including the Grand Duke-Thorn-Successor Nikolaj, who later became Nikolai II ) ...
… in his personal train ...
... to his favorite palace, Liwadia Castle at the Crimea ...:
Not far from the village of Tsherwonij Weleten (today: Pershotrawnewoje, near Borki, Charkow Oblast) the train derailed at exactly 2:14 p.m. - whether for technical reasons or an assassination attempt has not yet been fully clarified.
The most likely cause today is a hidden time fuse bomb in the train's dining car.
The wagon in which the imperial family is sitting falls from the embankment and is completely smashed.
Accompanying helpers think the tsar's family is dead - it turns out, however, that Tsar Aleksandr III, who has the strength of a bear (he liked to knot horseshoes to impress interlocutors), supported the ceiling of the wagon with shoulders and arms in order to prevent his family from being crushed.
The tsar's family is saved alive when he knows his family is safe, and the tsar personally directs and supervises the rescue work ...:
No member of the ruling family is injured - they say.
With this huge effort, Aleksandr III. namely an internal ailment (probably a tear in the kidney) that remains undetected and from which he died on November 1st, 1894 in Liwadia before his time ...
... and his completely unprepared son q will come to the throne of the tsar.
A small chapel was built directly at the site of the accident, and it still stands there today ...
... as well as, after the end of the Soviet Union, a Konotaph, which commemorates the rescue of the Tsar:
At a suitable place nearby, a large cathedral is being built, which is also intended to commemorate the "miraculous rescue" of the ruling family ...:
The next picture shows the young Tsar Nikolai II and Tsarina Aleksandra Feodorovna on the 10th anniversary of the accident in front of this cathedral ...
