Friday, February 17, 2012

Nicholas II and family want to go to England

February 17, 1918

A number of grand dukes and grand duchesses "of the former regime" have asked the Bolshevik government to alleviate the conditions "under which the former imperial family is being kept at Tobolsk, Siberia, reports the Chicago Daily Tribune.

They have asked the government to allow former emperor Nicholas II and his family to be allowed to go to England or France.  According to the dispatch, their pleas also states that they "have announced that the imperial family is ready to renounce all rights and pretensions to the throne."

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