The Curse of the Romanovs a Study of the Lives And Reigns of Two Tsars Paul I a
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Thus the responsibility for their cruelties falls not only upon the Caesars and the Tsars, but also upon their advisers and helpers. Such was the case of Nero, of Ivan Grozny, and of Paul I. , as, in fact, of all the mighty monarchs of whom we read in the blood-stained pages of their history. The brutal and insane commands of the 1 Stedingk, Stockholm Archiv, March 1829. 2 Panin Papers, ed. A. Brueckner, 1888-92, v, p. 160 3 Archives Voronzov, x, p. 56. 4 Ibid. , xxxii, p. 273. 206 THE CURSE OF... THE ROMANOVS Russian Tsar found ready executioners in men who delighted in the performance of savage acts. In this respect circumstances in Russia have not changed in the course of a century. And, just as in the times of Paul, so in those of his great grandson, Nicholas Caesar II, those appointed to carry out the Imperial ukases do their best or their worst to out-herod Herod in cruelty and brutality. Persons like Rostoptshin, Araktsheev, and Koutayssov had much to answer for as regards the crazy acts of violence which took place during this reign.
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