After Nicholas II, the archives contain many papers-reports, reports, and memos on which his resolutions are inscribed. They best characterize Nicholas's way of thinking. Shall we make a small rating of the resolutions of the holy martyr Nicholas II the Bloody?
10th place. The governor of Kherson reports in his annual report that cases of "delinquency" in the working districts are increasing. In the margins, the tsar's resolution: "WHIPS!"
9 place. Flogging is good, but hanging is better. The Far-Eastern Command reports to St. Petersburg, as if "anarchist agitators" had arrived in the army from the center of the country with the aim of destroying it. Not interested in either the investigation or the trial ("wtf?") or even simple confirmation of the fact, the Nicholas orders:
"THE DETAINEES SHALL BE HANGED."
8 place. Hanging is good, but it is also possible to shoot. Witte reports on the "overzealousness" of Richter, commander of the punitive expedition to the Baltic provinces. His gendarmes shoot the peasants without trial, burn out the villages. Followed by the highest resolution of the martyr on this note:
"WELL DONE!"
7 place. In the State Duma (second) the case of prisoners shot in Riga prison is discussed heatedly. At the request of the martyr, the Interior Ministry submits a report to him - what happened. Where the details of when and who shot the prisoners are laid out, the Emperor notes:
"WELL DONE CONVOYS! THEY DID NOT GET CONFUSED!"
6 place. The Emperor reads the report of the Moscow authorities on the outcome of the battles on Presnya. Remarks in his diary:
"IN MOSCOW, THANK GOD, THE REBELLION HAS BEEN SUPPRESSED BY FORCE OF ARMS."
5th place. Yaroslavl governor reports that during the suppression of unrest the officers of the Fanagoria Regiment ordered the soldiers to shoot at the crowd of strikers. There are dead and wounded. Nicholas writes on the report:
"THE TSAR'S THANKS TO THE FANAGORIANS!"
4 place. On the report of the Ufa governor on the shooting of the workers' demonstration and the deaths under bullets of 47 people the martyr inscribes:
"IT'S A PITY NOT MANY".
3rd place. General Kazbek at a private reception reported to the king that the soldiers of the Vladikavkaz garrison went into the street with a red banner, but he, the commandant of Vladikavkaz, was able to disrupt the demonstration and the soldiers were led to the barracks without bloodshed. As the general later recalled, Nicholas was dissatisfied with his report and, expelling him from his office, admonishingly said:
"SHOULD HAVE, SHOULD HAVE SHOT..."
2 place. You can shoot, but it is not bad to drown. During Witte's report on the situation in the country, the Emperor went to the window and, looking at the Neva (very poetically) said:
"I wish we could take all these revolutionaries and drown them in the gulf" (it smells of bloody terror).
1st place. It would be nice to drown them, but it would also be nice to burn them. In the building of the city theater in Tomsk there is a rally of the democratic public.
Notified by the guards, Governor Azanchevsky-Azanchev orders the police and the Black Hundred to cordon off the theater and set it on fire. A thousand people are killed.
The Governor admires the fire from the balcony of his house, and Archbishop and future Metropolitan of Moscow Makary announces his blessing to the arsonists from the cathedral porch. He and the other received from St. Petersburg thanks and "the Czar's kiss.
Advice to the Emperor gave his wife, later also the "innocent victim" of the bloody terror of those very revolutionaries:
"MY LITTLE SUNSHINE, BEND THEM INTO A RAM'S HORN... MY LITTLE BIRDIE, GIVE NO MERCY TO ANY OF THEM."
Well, Pichushka did a good job, to be blunt. I hope the wife was satisfied.
The family moral is expressed by the Passionist in a letter to his mother:
"My dear mother! ... Orlov, Richter and Baron Ferzen are acting magnificently in the Baltic provinces - reconciliation is near. (Well, we already know about how the mentioned Richter acted)
Siberia is also better, but the purge of all the trash is not over yet...
Witte after the events in Moscow has changed dramatically: now he wants to hang and shoot everyone.
I love you very much, Nicky.
Touching. Truly beautiful souls.
This is a monograph by M.K. Kasvinov. Twenty-three Steps Down. M., 1979 A list of sources is given in it.
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