Tag: russian-revolution
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In October, 1917; the last sitting Empress of Russia, Alexandra Federovna; had gifted Countess Anastasia Hendrikova a painting of St. John of Tobolsk, a Town located in the Tyumen Oblast of Russia.
Like her confidantes, the Romanovs; Countess Anastasia Hendrikova would find herself suffering the same fate as the Romanovs, when Countess Hendrikova was shot by the Bolsheviks around the night of September 3, and the early morning of September 4, 1918 in Perm, Russia.
After the House of Romanov was obliterated, and Countess Anastasia Hendrikova, herself was also assassinated; and the Soviets came into power, this painting had found it’s way into the hands of her brother, Count Pyotr Hendrikov.
For much of his life following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Count Pyotr Hendrikov had kept the painting as a Family Shrine; and took it with him when he relocated from Russia to France. In Count Pyotr Hendrikov’s old age, he had donated the icon to the Orphanage Church of the Russian Military Invalids located near Paris.
In 2001, the Orphanage Church of the Russian Military Invalids had caught on fire; and in spite of this painting having fortunately remained intact during and after the fire; this painting could have been discarded and destroyed along with the rest of the Church, when the remains of this Church were leveled.
Luckily, thanks to the efforts of a Priest by the name of Mikhail Gudkov, a Russian expatriate who was living in France at this time; had found the precious relic among the burned out ruins of the Church.
Father Mikhail Gudkov had held dear to the historical value of the icon, preserved it and kept it safe while he had it in his possession, and before Father Mikhail Gudkov’s death; he had passed it on to his son.
On September 30, 2021; this painting had passed through an Auction at Moscow’s famous Litfond Auction House. The starting bid was 1.6 million Rubles ($18,400 United States Dollars), and had ultimately sold for 2.6 million Rubles ($30,000 United States Dollars) to a Russian national residing somewhere within his native country.
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Book that Paul Gilbert had wrote, and had recently published about Tsar Nicholas II; and the evil Vladimir Putin vilifying Emperor Nicholas II.
Regarding an earlier post that I had wrote about Why The Evil Donald Trump, The Evil Ron DeSantis, The Evil Vladimir Putin, And The Equally Evil Jair Bolsonaro, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-Un, Ali Khamenei; And Ebrahim Raisi Are Each Likely To Wind Up In Hell Together; the entire Romanov family, from Roman Zakharyin-Koshkin; the founder of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, to Michael I of Russia; the first Romanov family member to be crowned Tsar, and serve as the Sovereign of Russia; to Nicholas II, who, along with his nuclear family, were murdered during the Revolution of 1917.
Nicholas II and his nuclear family were murdered as a result of his first cousin, the then current King of Great Britain of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/House of Windsor; George V, had refused to allow Nicholas II and his nuclear family to reside in exile in Great Britain; out of fear that as was the case in much of continental Europe where their monarchies were being overthrown, George V was concerned that if he had allowed Nicholas II and his nuclear family to reside in exile in Great Britain; that the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/House of Windsor could also be overthrown as well, and that Great Britain could have become a Republic.
By and large, George V is responsible for the downfall, and abolition of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov in Russia; because he did not allow Nicholas II and his nuclear family to live in exile in Great Britain.
Otherwise, the House of Romanov could have remained in power as the ruling monarchy of Russia; and the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, each of the former Soviet satellite nations becoming independent Republics, and Vladimir Putin coming into power in 1999, and remaining the dictator of the Russian Federation well into the 21st Century with a quest to restore the Soviet Union, and regain control of each of the former Soviet satellite nations; would have never materialized had George V allowed Nicholas II and his nuclear family to live in exile in Great Britain.
Matthew Parij 