After Nickolous II abdicated why did they have to be exacuted?

Question

Why did the Romanovs have to die?

Answer 1

Good question. My only response it was that many bolsheviks really hated the Russian royal family and were willing to take revenge on them. Don't mark me wrong because I think murdering them in cold blood was unnecessary even if we can see the tsar and his wife may have commited several crimes against the Russian people. For me the tsar and his wife should have been put on trial and be charged of any crimes they may have committed. And if found guilty, then give them the proper punishment. Murdering their daughters and their heir son is what I condemn.They didn't deserve to die because of their parents' mistakes, if any. And neither their servants. It is quite an irony that the the man who ordered the killing, under Lenin's approval, died some time later from the 1919 flu plague. I don't remember his name. And Lenin himself suffered two or three strokes, and died early in 1924, And the ones who did the killings were executed years later by Stalin himself. And one died during the Nazi invasion of 1941, probably hanged by the SS. Only another one survived and admitted some remorse during the Khrushev's era when dying. But remember, the Russian royal family were not the only ones murdered. Rosa Luxemberg was murdered by German military rightwing officers during the same time, plus her assistant Karl Liebneckt and others. It was a violent period in European history immediately after World War I. And it set the stage for the future Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin who will end up murdering millions more.

Answer 2

The Romanov royal family may have abdicated (indeed the tsar himself was never very power hungry or a ruler interested in state affairs, he preferred taking family photographs and was obsessed with his hobby), but they remained a threat to the Bolshevik revolution in the ensuing civil war that followed. Not only were the Whites (the several mostly uncooperating forces fighting the Bolshevik "Reds") in control of vast expanses of the country, but their forces and a foreign legion of Czechs (sent to Russia during the Great War by the Austro-Hungarian Empire and stranded in Russia but tasked to fight against the Reds after its collapse as civil war erupted) were making headway in the Ural Region (still some distance from Yekaterinaburg, where the imperial family was held) and along the trans-Siberian Railroad line, the vital link between the Far East and Russian West. The Bolshevik forces feared that should the royal family come under White Forces hands, they would be a unifying factor in uniting several of the seperate fighting forces under a cause - rallying behind the tsar.

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated to his brother Michael, who himself abdicated immediately, not wanting the troubled title. Michael swore off the any hope of future crowning and ruled out any possibility of crowning his or his brother's ill-fated children. At the time the order was given to execute the tsar, tsarina and their children, White Forces were still some 200 miles from Yekaterinaburg and advancing very slowly. The Bolsheviks faced more serious strikes and revolts in Western cities and most likely feared being themselves overthrown. Murdering the imperial family not only gave them insurance that if they failed, at least their would not be a conversion to Romanov rule, it also was probably a propoganda tactic meant to crush the will of the White Forces, notice how quickly Russians in exile abroad and even within the new Soviet Union held out hope that little Anastasia and Nicholas III had survived the brutal execution.

Answer 3

Steve is right. The French Revolution, not the American Revolution, was the model for the Russian Revolution. The Romanovs had lost a lot of credibility, but given foreign backing and volunteers, they could have launched an anti-Bolshevik crusade from, say, Germany. The humane thing to do would have been to put them on trial, or to exile them to some unknown Arctic island, but the Bolsheviks were too extreme to be humane.

Answer 4

They were executed because the Bolsheviks did not want ANYONE from the Romanov family to try to revive the old Tsarist regime. That included killing innocent people, including the Tsar's 5 children, their servants, doctors, and other individuals.

Answer 5

So that none of them could serve or be used as the center of a movement to reverse the revolution and restore the tsars.As it was, the Bolsheviks had to fight a civil war 1920-21 against various "White" armies that sought to overthrow them.

Answer 6

Check out the timeline on that period and you MIGHT find several eyewitness account from that period... Go to the Leap Over Web Clutter section of New Free Books.

Answer 7

To keep any future attempt of resurrecting the the royal family.