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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 601 (Part 2) The Savior of the Tsar's Family

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    "Lieutenant Colonel Qian, it's not time for the war yet. Don't be so nervous 24 hours a day. Just have a staff officer on duty in the war room at night. As the chief staff officer of the war room, don't let me collapse.  Chief of Staff Jiang is almost exhausted from working on the logistics. If you fall too, who will advise me when the war starts?" Wang Geng obviously didn't expect Qian Tianfu to be on duty so late as he continued to sign.  There was a stack of documents and orders on the desk, and he said without raising his head.  [.]

    "Hey, Commander-in-Chief, don't talk about me. You only sleep a few hours a day. I see that besides working, you have no time to eat or sleep. If you don't rest, how can we sleep, let alone my staff and I?"  Similarly, here in Samara, I am a stranger in a foreign country. I usually stay in the headquarters barracks for food and accommodation. I have nothing to do! Can you take a look at this telegram from Moscow?" Qian Tianfu replied with a smile.

    Wang Geng stopped writing and took the telegram from Moscow from Qian Tianfu. Although the telegram was addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Volga Federation government, in fact it was just a formality. Pepelyaev, the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation, was even more  Like the second in charge of logistics and administration, the Federation's diplomacy and military are all under the single-handed control of the Coalition Command.

    Of course, the federal government building in Samara is the coalition headquarters building. Pepe's daily office and reception are on the first floor, the offices of the prime minister and ministers of the federal government are on the second floor, and the security is even tighter starting from the third floor.  The Allied Allied Forces Headquarters, the fourth floor is the headquarters' telecommunications confidential center and intelligence headquarters, no outsiders are allowed to enter.

    The large conference room and war room of the headquarters are located a little to the left in the middle of the third floor of the headquarters building. Wang Geng's official residence is at the end of the west corridor on the third floor. You can directly enter your office and small conference room along the inner corridor.  There are a large living room, a small living room and a large and small dining room. From the large living room, there is a corridor connecting the large conference room and the war room.

    The staff headquarters and operations room of the coalition headquarters are to the east of the large conference room, while the logistics headquarters is on the second floor, on the same floor as Pepe's federal government office.

    "Oh, the Soviet-Russian Zhongyang Committee in Moscow really doesn't accept life. The last telegram sent back to five people and six people was a protest and a threat. This telegram has made a 180-degree turn and asked to buy this with the Volga Federation.  , oh, the list is quite a lot, 300 60mm mortars, 150 81mm mortars, 50,000 rounds of various types of artillery shells, 300 Browning squad machine guns, 500,000 rounds of 7.62mm caliber bullets, tsk tsk, Moscow is  How dare you speak to us!"

    Wang Geng looked at the telegram in his hand and couldn't help but joked.  

    July 25, 1918 20:15 Samara Allied Forces Headquarters

    "Invite Chief of Staff Chiang Kai-shek to come to my office. By the way, also invite Prime Minister Pepe. Just say that we have something to discuss!" Wang Geng put down the phone to the duty room and waved Qian Tianfu to go and do his own business first while he  He was contemplating whether to accept the hot potato that was the Tsar.

    For Wang Geng, it is not possible to say that he had any fondness or dislike for the last Tsar Nicholas II. This guy was just the last monarch of the Romanov dynasty with great ambitions and little talent.

    Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 18, 1868. He was the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III and Queen Maria (Princess Dagmar of Denmark).

    During the period of the Crown Prince, he was the chairman of the Siberian Railway Construction Committee.  In 1891, when he went to Vladivostok to preside over the opening ceremony of the Siberian Railway, he visited Japan on the way and was attacked in Otsu, which is known as the "Otsu Incident" in history.

    Since the end of the 19th century, the Russian industrial system centered on heavy industry has been improved.  An insurmountable contradiction has arisen between the rapidly growing capitalist economy and the backward primary industry.  In 1895, Japan intervened with Kaiser Wilhelm II to return the Liaodong Peninsula to China.  In 1900, after the Boxer Rebellion was suppressed, troops were sent to join the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, invade Beijing, and occupy Northeast China.

    Competing with Japan for Korea and Manchuria, the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904.  In 1905, after Port Arthur was captured by the Japanese, the "Bloody Sunday" incident occurred in St. Petersburg, and the 1905 Revolution broke out.  The crisis was temporarily overcome due to Stolypin's reforms, but it fell into more complicated Balkan problems.

    Because Crown Prince Alexei suffered from hemophilia, Nicholas II spent most of his time living in seclusion in Tsarskoye Selo and the Black Sea in St. Petersburg, staying with his family.  Because the empress favored the "evil monk" Rasputin, which aroused dissatisfaction among the young nobles and officer corps, Nicholas II lost the support of the military, bureaucrats and capitalists.

    In 1914, Nicholas II led Russia to join the First World War. Due to unfavorable war conditions, food difficulties and other reasons, it aroused people's dissatisfaction.  In 1917, Kaiser Wilhelm II privately assisted Ulyanov in traveling from Switzerland through German territory and back via Finland, allowing him to launch a revolution in order to withdraw Russia from the war.

    In March 1917, citizens of St. Petersburg launched an anti-hunger march, triggering the February Revolution.  191On March 15, 7 AD (March 2 in the Julian calendar), the Tsar abdicated and passed the throne to his younger brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich. However, his younger brother refused to inherit the throne, and the Romanov dynasty perished.

    After Nicholas II abdicated, British King George V refused to allow his family to take refuge in the UK, so Nicholas II's family was resettled in Tobolsk, Siberia by Alexander Kerensky's temporary government.  On November 7, 1917, the October Revolution broke out in Russia. The Nicholas II family was arrested by the Bolshevik army and imprisoned in the Ipachev Villa in Yekaterinburg.

    Afterwards, when the Czech Legion rioted, the All-Russian Provisional Government in Siberia was established, and Kolchak's White Guards marched towards Yekaterinburg, the Tsar's family was transferred to the Second Vladimir Oblast by Dzerzhinsky's Cheka in advance.  He was housed and monitored in a villa on the outskirts of the big city of Kovrov, and his life was saved.

    Nicholas II's younger brother Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov was unlucky. He was sent to Perm before and was killed by local authorities on the night of June 12-13, 1918.  .

    In Wang Geng's eyes, the last Tsar Nicholas II was a bit like Emperor Sui Yang. He was ambitious and had a large empire, but his ambition exceeded his ability and the conditions of Tsarist Russia. Of course, joining the Allied Powers to fight made Nicholas II and  Kaiser Wilhelm II turned against him, and only then did Wilhelm II cut his teeth and help Ulyanov return to Russia via Germany, setting off the vigorous February Revolution and ruining the Romanov dynasty.
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