WI: The Romanovs Royal Family Survived?

This is a general question...

What if the Romanov Royal Family Survived Stalin and Got out of Russia...

1. And their direct line Grandchildren saw the end of the Soviet Union in 1991...

1A: Any chance for a restoration? or a British Style Constitutional Monarcy?

2. How do you think they could get out with their lives and a fortune...
 
I would wonder if the existence of a Tsar in Exile would not have worked its way to have accelerated the downfall of Soviet Russia. The whole presidency of Boris Yeltsin may be seen thru a different light or not at all.
 
This is a general question...

What if the Romanov Royal Family Survived Stalin and Got out of Russia...

1. And their direct line Grandchildren saw the end of the Soviet Union in 1991...

1A: Any chance for a restoration? or a British Style Constitutional Monarcy?

2. How do you think they could get out with their lives and a fortune...

1.) beyond some high profile soundbites from interviews, this wouldn't effect much

1A.) not bloody likely, even during the darkest days of Stalin's purges and WWII the Politburo wasn't in much danger of being overthrown. I doubt that there would ever be enough monarchist supporters to even get close to such a move to restore the Czar.

2.)If Nicholas has the foresight to realize that he may need an escape plan and prepares accordingly, it might work. However if it got out that the Czar and his family were preparing to flee the country, it might have sped up the collapse of the autocracy there as people lose even more confidence in the aristocracy.
 
Stalin would have probably went through extraordinary efforts to have them killed. He went all the way to Mexico to get Trotsky.
 

Anaxagoras

Banned
It would have a major effect, in that it would give the White Russia exile movement a potent figure around which they could rally, and perhaps avoid the inter-squabbling that effectively prevented it from being a serious threat to the Soviet government.
 

Germaniac

Donor
Depends when he gets out, if its before he abdicates then yes MAJOR butterflies. However, after the abdication its all up to Michael and it Nicholas surviving wont have much more impact then the Romanovs making a nice home in England
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Stalin would have probably went through extraordinary efforts to have them killed. He went all the way to Mexico to get Trotsky.

Trotsky was a political threat to Stalin and no one whom mattered gave shit about him being murdered, murdering the Romanovs while guest of another state, and related to half of Europes head of states, wouldn't be healthy. Beside that there could be a good chance of the Romanov settle in Denmark Nickolas mother was Danish, and many exiled nobles settle there*.

*Mostly in Gentofte north of Copenhagen, you can still find a large number of Russian and German (Baltic Germans) names in the area.
 
Trotsky was a political threat to Stalin and no one whom mattered gave shit about him being murdered, murdering the Romanovs while guest of another state, and related to half of Europes head of states, wouldn't be healthy. Beside that there could be a good chance of the Romanov settle in Denmark Nickolas mother was Danish, and many exiled nobles settle there*.

*Mostly in Gentofte north of Copenhagen, you can still find a large number of Russian and German (Baltic Germans) names in the area.

I don't think interwar Europe is going to do much about the assassination of a couple people, even if they are royalty.
 
This is a general question...

What if the Romanov Royal Family survived Stalin and got out of Russia...

1. And their direct line Grandchildren saw the end of the Soviet Union in 1991...

1A: Any chance for a restoration? Or a British Style Constitutional Monarchy?
Highly unlikely, I don't think there was any great support among the public in our timeline for it and a surviving royal family wouldn't change it all that much in my opinion. You'll certainly not get a restoration with direct rule and if there's no large swell of support I can't see the Russian politicians that are President or angling to become President giving up their power by having the country become a constitutional monarchy.


2. How do you think they could get out with their lives and a fortune...
Well when you say fortune how much cash did they have abroad anyway, both in family money and government money? If it's before the abdication then Nicholas can probably get away with requisitioning any Russian overseas financial holdings and diverting them to a personal account in Switzerland, if it's afterwards then they'll have to survive on whatever they can carry out with them or personal property and monies that are abroad.


I can see Nicolas being approached by the Germans to head up some figurehead Russian Government.
Would he really go for it though? Accepting a job offer from a country that from your point of view started the war and set up the conditions for the revolution and the loss of your throne seems a bit unlikely. Plus would his pride allow him to become what even he couldn't miss seeing would be a German client state.
 
There is a direct descendant and a good head of the House of Romanov already, and a small, (very small) movement for a restoration of a constitutional monarchy in Russia.

However, by the time of 1917, Nicholai II was so discredited that any continued rule by him seem very unlikely.

You have a much better chance if you get Grand Duke Nicholai in somehow, as he was competent, a good general, charismatic enough to be well-liked in most camps.

Of course, he had no children, so he would have to pass the crown onwards afterwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Nicholas_Nikolaevich_of_Russia_(1856–1929)
 
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