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CHAPTER 4: A TOTALITARIAN REVOLUTION

PURISHKEVISH ESTABLISHES A NEW KIND OF BUREAUCRACY
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As you know, if only one thing characterized the Kerensky era, it was the refusal of any compromission with an old Russian tradition: bureaucracy, slow in the Imperial times as under the Soviet administration...To resolve the problem that, according to the Prime Minister's speech, "Kerensky's democracy made that the government barely control the area corresponding to Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and their suburbs", Purishkevich announced a new government service, supposed to be more performant and more centralized on the capital, ending with the Kerensky decentralization policies. Rech (democratic right), April 4 1936
(...) It was even said that Purishkevich's henchmen proposed, to resolve the problem of rurality in Russia, to reinstate serfdom! An old silly idea of the SMA. (...) The President-Grand-Duke denied all these allegations, but, farmers of Russia, get good relations with civil servants: we can still have surprises! Itzvestia (official organ of the Menchevik party), April 4 1936

THE GOVERNING FACTION SHATERRED BY AN AFRICAN COUNTRY
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After the congratulations letter sended by the little Romanov to his friend (and, don't forget that, idol of his Prime Minister), Benito Mussolini, for the conquest of one of the last independant countries of Africa, the millenarian Ethiopian Empire, he was insulted by the Clerical faction led by the powerful priest Mikhail Polskii, claiming colonial expeditions by mad avendturers in Abyssinia during the XIXth Century: thus, Ethiopia was under Orthodox and so Russian influence, and the apostate regime in Roma conquered our rightful territory under our eyes. (...) I'm waiting for a war against USA in the name of Alaska. Itzvestia (official organ of the Menchevik party), April 26 1936

TO A RUSSIAN ATOMIC PROGRAM?
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The theories of Enrico Fermi, Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie and Otto Hahn announced that the energy hide within the atoms, these small and microscopic structures in anything, could bring our civilization to unexpected levels of evolution. To avoid that Russia went late in this scientific revolution, the Prime Minister Vladimir Purishkevich opened a new research center in Salekhard: the Russian researchs for atomic energy would be led by the prominent scientific Igor Kurchatov and shared with hypothetical future allies. According to the old tradition of scientific genius in Russia, this could be such a big concurrence against British, French or German programs. Kurchatov sweared to let his beard grow until the program ends. Nash Put (democratic left), April 28 1936

SPANISH CIVIL WAR: WHAT POSITION FOR THE GOVERNMENT?
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The military rebellion in Spain against the leftist republican government annoys the Purishkevich cabinet. If the putschists are pertaining to the monarchist wing of Spanish political life (corresponding to the current government) and are backed by the friendly countries of Germany and Italy, the memories of the Civil War forces the government to not supply a military uprising against a legally elected government. Rech (democratic right), July 22 1936
COMRADE! AGREE TO JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES PROPOSED BY THE INTERNATIONAL! CHAIRMAN BUKHARIN ALREADY JOINED! YOU ARE THE ONLY HOPE OF THE SPANISH REPUBLICAN BROTHERS AGAINST THE FASCIST DRAGON! IT'S A TRAINING TO THE NEXT RUSSIAN REVOLUTION! Novaya Pravda (official organ of the Neo-Bolchevik party, soon before their interdiction), July 23 1936
RUSSIAN PATRIOT! SIGN THE PETITION TO FORCE THE GRAND-DUKE ROMANOV TO ALLOW A VOLUNTARY BRIGADE TO HELP THE SPANISH GENERALS AGAINST THE COMMUNIST THREAT! GAIN YOUR CHANCE TO FIGHT ALONG THE GERMANS AND ITALIANS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! Znayma (official organ of the SMA, party of the Prime Minister Purishkevich), July 24 1936

KAZAKH GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS HIS TRUST TO THE CENTRAL ASIAN PEOPLES
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(CENSURED)After some tergiversations within their so-called Parliament, the Kazakh Republic (CENSURED)confirmed that the government would be led by the representatives of the peoples of Central Asian peoples (CENSURED), principally those currently under the rule of Islamic Turkestan, beginning a détente between these two rival nations (CENSURED). Ataman Petr Krasnov of Union of Don-Kuban (CENSURED) joined Saint-Petersburg in her critics of the lack of Russian (CENSURED) representatives within the Kazakh government (CENSURED) Itzvestia (official organ of the Menchevik party, son before their interdiction), August 15 1936
As the secessionnist Union of Don-Kuban, built by the shamed Cossacks, the Kazakhs will soon fear the Russian power, then their legitime and only Tsar will be back and Russia will rebirth under our dear Vojd, Vladimir Mitrofanovich! Znayma (official organ of the SMA, party of the Vojd (Leader) and Prime Minister Purishkevich), August 15 1936

ORTHODOXY IN NOW THE STATE RELIGION
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The negociations made with Mikhail Polskii, angry towards the government after the Ethiopian affair, came to an agreement: Russian orthodox religion is now registered in the future new Consitution as the only and official religion in the whole territory. Christian communities will be tolerated on Russian soil. It's a victory for the Vojd Purishkevich, who managed to obtain an alliance with the Clericals, who are still opposed to President-Grand-Duke Romanov, considered as an illegitimate Head of State. Rech (democratic right), September 5 1936
Almost the entire Jewish population of Russian managed to escape our territory through Caucasus, Polish border or even Central Asia to emigrate in India or other occidental countries, fearing new exactions from the antisemitic violent groups who are spreading the country since a week...The current heir to the Russian throne, Grand-Duke Kyrill, highly criticized this violence in Russian territory. Nash Put (democratic left, soon before their interdiction), September 12 1936

ARMENIAN CLAIMS ON THE WHOLE CAUCASUS
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The Armenian dictator, Andranig Ozanian, can't find anything bigger to speak of his country: helped by some false archeologists, he claims the whole Caucasus, affirming that the Armenian civlization ruled the entire region during the Antic Times. Turkish, Georgian and Azeri governments responded with laughs, but the Cossack regime announced a new program of education to promote the Cossack culture. Rech (democratic right, soon before their interdiction), December 8 1936

KRASNOV INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM
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Great day for the Holy Russia! A year after the beginning of our Aristocratic Revolution, with the appointment of our beloved President-Grand-Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov and our Great and Respected Vojd, the government announced a new industrial program to make faster the Russian Renewal. It will be give to the inspired architect Nicholas Krasnov, the respected builder of Yalta seaside resort under the reign of Nikolai II. Let's make that his new masterpiece will not fall in the hands of the Ukrainian secessionnists backed by Warsaw porks! Znayma (official organ of the SMA, party of the Vojd Vladimir Purishkevich), February 26 1937

CABINET PURISHKEVICH II
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Our Beloved Vojd announced, with the President-Grand-Duke, the new composition of the government. Everything stays unchanged, but the prince Galitzin, now ambassador in London, is now replaced by another artistocrat, Vladimir Dmitrivitch Nabokov, former member of the Liberal party who understood his error after the fall of the rotten democracy. His son, Vladimir, currently living in America, is a very good writer. (...) As expected, old Krasnov succeeds to old Kokovstov as minister of War, Armement and Industry. Znayma (official organ of the Russian government), March 5 1937
 
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Moika Palace in Saint-Petersburg nowadays, one of the main palaces possessed by the wealthly Yusupov family: it was in this palace that Rasputin was murdered, and it was the headquarters of Okhrana during the Yusupov leadership.

CHAPTER 5: THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY

SAINT PETERSBURG, APRIL 3, 1937

Smoking with such pleasure a perfumed cigarette, prince Yusupov was watching the great green garden through the window of his office. As director of the secret services, Yusupov had a lot of work during the troubled times of Purishkevich's fascist revolution. Purchasing the foreign spies, and after that the bolcheviks, and after that the leftists, and after that the democrats, and after that the moderates...As Purishkevich said by the phone: "Always remember: no one is innocent".

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Prince Yusupov and his wife, Irina Alexandrovna Romanova, niece of last Tsar Nikolai II. A political wedding: they only had a daughter and Felix was obviously homosexual; some said he was lover of Dmitri Romanov...The Yusupov family sued the MGM in 1932 after a movie who was depicting Rasputin's assassination, claiming that the Mad Monk raped the princess Yusupova. The MGM was forced to pay 25000 pounds and it was the origin of the disclaimer "The preceding was a work of fiction, etc..."

Helped by his friends among the Gypsy community (who was subsquently preserved from Purishkevich's fanatic henchmen) and his agents recruited in every social class of Russia, Okhrana quickly said hundreds of opposed leaders in detention camps in Siberia...Now, Dmitri Pavlovich was titulated "President-Grand-Duke" and Purishkevich claimed, like a copycat of Mussolini, the title of "Vojd" ("Leader" in Russian) and his party, who was anecdotic two years before, was now the only authorized party in the Motherland. It was the return to the old autocracy: the nobilians and militars at the summit of the pyramid, the low people as slaves. And part of the first category, Yusupov was not opposed to this policy, but he was fearing the rise of Purishkevich, at the expense of his old friend Dmitri Pavlovich who, despite his popularity as only member of the Romanov family implicated in Russian politics, was only a figurehead for the purishkevist Russia. A rivalry began between the Vojd and the Okhrana director by the name of the Grand-Duke, who was only expecting a peaceful life...

It was difficult to think that they were all in this palace, more than twenty years ago, to kill the worst enemy of Russia at these times...But...

Felix Felixovich barely walked outside, where the cold of the wind increased the pain in his throat, strangled by Him a few moments ago. He was running in the snow, leaving blood on the white ground.
-COME HERE! HE'S ESCAPING!
He saw Vladimir Mitrofanovich, who still had his revolver in his hand, and Dmitri Palvovich, rolling downstairs. The first shouted:
-It's impossible! The cakes were full of cyanide and I shot him myself in the chest!
-If he find a police officer, we are all dead!
-LET ME DO THAT!
Dmitri Pavlovich took his gun and targeted Him, who was already climbing the entrance's bars...And shot.


-Your Highness? Agent 0017 is here.

Still lost in his minds, Yusupov turned round and saw the guard who was escorting the best Okhrana agent ever.

-Yeah...Good...Thank you, Nikita...Please, 0017, sit down.

The two men sat at Yusupov's desk, while the guard was coming out. Once the door closed, the prince give a cigarette to 0017.

-Thank you, Your Highness.
-Please, call me Felix, my dear...
-Iossif, sir. Iossif Vissarionovich.

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-Yeah, exactly...I'm sorry, you are my best elements, but I don't have enough time to read your information cards.
-Nevermind, sir.

Collecting his memories, he was trying to remember the true idendity of his best agent. Iossif Vissarionovich...Dzhugashvili. A Georgian: a bit rude, but efficient, like all Caucasians. Became priest from Tiflis seminary. Condemned to many jail sentences because of his marxist views. Nothing to say during the Civil War: exiled from his natal country soon after Beria's arrival in power, became Okhrana agent within the Clerical political wing. Already 60 years, but excellent skills, despite some paranoiac and megalomaniac minds.

-0017, I will be brief. You are here because of your socialist past.

The Georgian became almost angry and get up of his chair.

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-BUT, SIR! I've done nothing during the Civil War! The Whites were rejecting me because of my jail sentences, the Reds because of my religious studies...
-No, itsn't that.
-You are here to judge of my fidelity to the regime?
-Maybe...

The two men smoked at the same time. Then Yusupov continued:

-The atmosphere in Russia is becoming darker and darker for the former Red Army's militars. Purishkevich will soon try to create a law to send them all in Siberia.
-As Marshal Tukhaychevsky, Sir?
-Yes, Tukhaychevsky in priority. But he forgot two things. Without these opportunists who switched their sides before it was too late for them, we would be under Kolchak's iron fist by now. Second, the Russian army is a complete mess!
-Yes, I listened to some rumors of desertion or conversion into mercernaries from soldiers who were not paid since several months...And drug traffics, prostitution and corruption controlled by some officers.
-I can even add that in the Admiralty, they don't have enough many to pay their trainings, and the sailors are now barking "BOOM! BOOM!" during their exercises...But your colleagues are already on it. No, you are here because you have relations.
-Relations?
-Yes. With the best former red officers within the army. The Old Guard is trying to convince the President-Grand-Duke to officially appoint Wrangel or Denikin as Chief of Russian Army's Staff. But they are both rallied to Purishkevich, and their nomination could bring the end of the "Washed Reds" within the armies; the following purges would destroy the capacity of Russian army at the hour of increasing conflicts in Europe. It's unacceptable.
-And the President-Grand-Duke can't appoint a Washed Red as chief of Staff.
-No. As the President is still the nominal head of armies, it would be felt like a treason by these fanatics, and leading to the impeachment of my friend. Believe it or not, but I think that the President-Grand-Duke is the only bulwark against purishkevism.
-I don't have nothing against Purishkevich's policies...
-Yes, but you are under my orders.

0017 was standing at attention.

-I'm listening for your orders.
-Your mission is the following: find the best general you can find to head the Russian Army. With a revolutionnary strategy, if possible. But he must be neutral. No too compromised with Whites or with Reds. A political virgin for an apolitical army.

Yusupov ended.

-This is not an official order, of course.

Dzhugashvili smiled...

-I think I already know who I can find, Sir...
 

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Great turn of events!

I like how Stalin is now an agent of fascist Russia. So ironic... :)
 
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Unfortunately, one of my Windows files is corrupted and I can't do anything until my return in France, as my computer is closed to any tentative. This AAR is not ended but currently on hold, because according to the Mexican informatician who checked my computer, the harddisk had nothing. Sorry to my readers, see you in a month.
 
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Rubtsovsk nowadays, with the Aley river

CHAPTER 6: RELIEF STAFF

RUBTSOVSK, ALTAI KRAI, MAY, 5 1937

The plane had made several hours of flight since yesterday, but after the last stopover at Barnaul, his travel was almost finished...For the outward journey. Soon after the landing, agent 0017 jumped with his heavy boots on the grass: luckily, even if he had taken his big coat, it was spring on the Siberian borders. After he turned to the plane, ordering to wait for him, Dzhugashvili looked around, looking for any sign of government presence.

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He found a young soldier in uniform who was sleeping under a tree, his rifle near him. The old 0017 woke him with a kick. The soldier, who had a week's beard and was certainly drunk, barked:

-What do you want, old fogey?
-I'm looking for your general officer.
-Hmmmmmmmmm?...Captain Bardachenko? He was shot two months ago in a smirkish against the Kazakhs...Yeah. A good guy.
-No. You are part of a division, right? I'm looking for your lieutenant general.
-There is no lieutenant general...There is no division...There is no army...They all piss me off.
-Don't be so rude, comrade, or I will notice that to him.
-Yeah, sure. You don't even know where he is. And I'm the only one here. They are all in Barnaul, to supply them in vodka and girls...Hey, wait, you aren't the pay, right?
-No, I'm not.
-Yeah. So leave me alone and just stick out.

With his iron fist, the Okhrana agent seized the soldier's arm and get out of his coat a wad of banknotes.

-Does it helps you to be more courteous?
-Piss off. The rouble don't have any value.
-And this?

This time, 0017 showed to the soldier a battle of vodka. This one quickly get it.

-Well, you will find him in Kerensky Hotel. Thank you, Sir, have a nice day.
-You too...

Then he began to return to his plane, Dzhugashvili quickly took his revolver and shot the soldier right on his head, while he was beginning to drink his bottle. He had never supported the men who didn't have any respect to him.

LATER...

-Lieutenant general Andrei Andreievich Vlassov?
-Yes?
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Oh God. He was not at all the kind of hero you can imagine. With his big glasses and his plump mouth...
-Please, follow me to my plane. I'm taking you to Saint-Petersburg to meet the President-Grand-Duke. And don't resist, I have two Okhrana agents with me.

SAINT-PETERSBURG, MAY, 7 1937
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In the Admiralty building, Marshal Denikin was inspecting the three young officers that agent 0017 bring from his quests throught Russia, under the eyes of the President-Grand-Duke of Russia (and unofficially Purishkevich's puppet), Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov. They were three young officers, yet generals due to their zealous skills: lieutenant-general Andrei Andreivich Vlassov, despite some service within the Red Army, 37 years old; counter-admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, also a few services in Soviet Navy, 33 years old; lieutenant-general Pavel Vasilievich Rychagov, 26 years old and yet a few victories as secret military adviser in Spain.

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-So, Marshal?
-They all look perfect, mister President-Grand-Duke. But I can't believe that you are ready to trust these...rookies.
-I'm convinced, Marshal, that the problem of Russian army is the fact that their commanding officers are all heroes of the Civil War -such like you- and that their soldiers were supporters of Red rule, as men of low condition. The price to the relieving of the Russian Army will be neutrality of their supreme commanders...And the price of neutrality is youth.
-But does they have any "revolutionary" strategies? We need some excellent ideas for our staff.
-Director Yusupov told me that you are a man of good ideas, mister Vlassov.
-Yes, mister President-Grand-Duke. I made that theory in China, then I served there as military adviser to Chiang Kai-Shek. I think that the problem of Russian army is the lack of communications: for instance, for the pay, but also for the reinforcements or revictualling. In order to avoid this kind of situations, the ground officers should have enough autonomy, including for the orders, to keep their own initiative...And excuse me if I say that a officer in Moscow can't decide what is the good option for a division in Magadan.
-Pfah!...It's because of this that we almost lose the Civil War! Because of the division within our ranks and the lack of united command!
-But it's perfect for our officers and theirs.
-Theirs what, mister President-Grand-Duke?
-Their egos.

And it was like this that the "Young wolves" entered the Staff of Russian Army respectively as chief of staff, chief of navy and chief of Air Force: formerly communist officers were all happy of the presence of young persons who made a new service within the Red Army; the old White heroes considered them as not enough old to be dangerous, and they were happy with Denikin as head of ground forces.

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On June, 10, Japan declared war on China following a smirkish on Marco Polo bridge. The traitor under Japanese heel, admiral Alexandr Kolchak, followed his master by declaring war by the name of Russia, advocating that the "Western country was controlled by a clique of rotten aristocrats and a Mussolini parody". This declaration was of course censured in purishkevist Russia, but the Vojd ordered that a great military parade would be held in Saint-Petersburg for the 15 years of the fall of Moscow (and end of Civil War) on September, 23 1922 to prove Russian Army's strength. It was also an occasion to see how the "Relief Staff" managed to bring order in Russian army, who has the fame to make the more ridiculous march pasts in the world...

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The parade was a heavy success and an example of order and distinction, led by all the divisions of Russian army, in front of the eyes of ambassadors of United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and United States. The Marshals Wrangel, Tukhaychevsky and Denikin, fifteen years after their achievement, were all proud of their armies. It was a victory for Purishkevich, Dmitri Pavlovich, Yusupv and another person who made his entrance on the political game: General of the Army Andrei Andreivich Vlassov...

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Vlassov...

Interesting....
 
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The last Tsarist coronation before the 1938 one occured 42 years before: it was the one of Nikolai II and his wife Alexandre Feodorovna, in Moscow Cathedral of the Dormition, in 1896.

CHAPTER 7: END OF INTERREGNUM

MOSCOW, JANUARY, 25 1938

The main goal of the Purishkevist monarchism was, of course, the Tsarist restauration. But there was trouble about it.

The self-proclaimed Emperor in Exile, who was already the third in the Russian succession line in March 1917, Kyrill Vladimirovich and his only son, Vladimir, refused to return from their French exile, along with many of their émigré supporters, until the fascist policies of Purishkevich's regime were abandoned and a democratic Constitution voted by a democratically elected Duma. It was too much for the Vojd, who abandoned his project of a rightful Restauration that would unify all the monarchist tendancies: the few legitimists that were in Russia in this time came to grow the already great carceral population in Siberia.

After all, they had a rightful pretender elected as President in Russia: Dmitri Pavlovich himself! Purishkevich always considered him as his puppet: it was the best occasion to use him so...Thus, he asked for a formation of a Zemsky Sobor (Assembly of the land, Parliament in the feudal times), an obsolete institution that has not been held since 1684! As they chose the Romanov dynasty to rule Russia in the XVIIth Century, they would decide who was the best Tsar to rule the country. The 1938 Zemsky Sobor was held in January, 18: the representants of the three traditional categories (nobility, high Orthodox church, Third Estate) were all stern purishkevists or friends of the Vojd. After a few hours of debate, the Patriarch of Moscow and All the Russias, Sergius, also chairman of the Assembly, officially declared that "the claims of Grand-Duke Kyrill Vladimirovich were inadmissible because of their inadequate nature to the modern matters of Russian People (...) And because of his status of elected Head of State by the blessed institutions of Holy Russia, President-Grand-Duke Dmitri Pavlovich has been declared the best candidate to the Imperial throne!"

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Members of 1938 Zemsky Sobor

Of course, the President accepted his nomination, becoming de facto the Tsar Dmitri II Romanov of All the Russias. The Tsar's full style has been used for the official proclamation (It means: We, Dmitri II Romanov, by the grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Tauric Chersonesos, Tsar of Georgia, Lord of Pskov, and Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigalia, Samogitia, Belostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugra, Perm, Vyatka, Bulgaria, and other territories; Lord and Grand Duke of Nizhni Novgorod, Sovereign of Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Beloozero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislavl, and all northern territories; Sovereign of Iveria, Kartalinia, and the Kabardinian lands and Armenian territories - hereditary Lord and Ruler of the Circassians and Mountain Princes and others; Lord of Turkestan, Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, Oldenburg, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth), definitely breaking the relations between the Russian state and his former possessions of Finland, Baltic, Ukraine and Poland, reactivating his claims over these territories. Audrey Emery, officially Audrey Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya, made everything to silent the rumours of divorce and became the first American Tsaritsa of Russian history. The 10 years-old son of Dmitri, Pavel Dmitrivich, became the new Tsesarevich, called to reign a day under the name of Pavel II of Russia...Of course, Purishkevich was officially named Protector of the Russian throne and Saviour of the Monarchy.

Some commentators said that the name of these elected monarchs was funny: Dmitri I was both a Grand-Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal who saw his lands ravaged by the Mongol invasions and an usurper, Grigori Otrepiev, who claimed to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible who had been killed by Boris Godunov, a collaborator with Poland whose corpse has been cannoned in direction of these country by his murderers...And his heir presumptive had the name of a mad tsar who was murdered in his bedroom...

The coronation ceremony was held a week later, in the Moscow Cathedral of the Dormition, which received all the Tsarist coronations since Ivan the Terrible. All the heads of State and government were guests to the coronation. All the remnants of the Romanov legacy were in the cathedral, except of course Kyrill and Vladimir, along the imperial and royal families of Spain, Britain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Yougoslavia, Netherlands, Romania, Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Portugal and Turkey. Hitler, who was despising the Slavic peoples, refused to attend the ceremony: he was represented by Goering, von Neurath who were considering well, along with Mussolini (also at the coronation), an alliance with the resurgent purishkevist Russia. The westerner democracies were officially against the fascist Russia, but they couldn't be in bad terms with the great Russian market: Chamberlain, Daladier, respectively British and French heads of government, and US vice-president Garner came to Moscow. The absence of representants of Poland, Finland, Georgia and others former Russian possessions were noticed, along with those of Japan, still considering Saint-Petersburg as a rebel government.

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Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, who chaired the ceremony as Metropolitan of Russian Orthodox Church.

The ceremony had all the aspects of the ritual one, inspirated of the Byzantine coronation. Recitation of the Nicene Creed, prayer of the Metropolitan, invocation of Holy Ghost and litany, Dmitri II placed his crown on his own head, following the tradition. The Russian jewels had been quickly bought by the Okhrana to the Irish Republic, where Kerensky sold them during the February Revolution...Then, the Patriarch recited:

-"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Most God-fearing, absolute, and mighty Lord, Tsar of all the Russias, this visible and tangible adornment of thy head is an eloquent symbol that thou, as the head of the whole Russian people, art invisibly crowned by the King of kings, Christ, with a most ample blessing, seeing that He bestows upon thee entire authority over His people."

A new era begun for Russia.

And the other men in the assistance, of course Purishkevich, Yusupov, Wrangel, Denikin and Vlassov, understood it. Like the man who had a crown weared before by Iekaterina II the Great on his head.
 
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A question because I'm of paranoiac nature (no, I'm not Stalin's reincarnation), but does anyone reading? I now there is now nothing new comparing to RossN's excellent AAR (who inspired him, let's tell that). It's just to know if I must continue this AAR or put him on hold, concentrating on my fascist French one (expecting for the fall of late Kaiserreich version to make other ones)...
 

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I like reading this :)

Continue :cool: :cool:
 

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Me too. :)

Long live Dmitri II!

Huh, I'd never known the crown jewels spent time over here (in Ireland). :eek:
 

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