Hell for Putin as Russians Finally Dare to Confront Him

[Jilly_in_VA]

10. I don't think you know your Russian history very well

or the history of the times either. WWI was still raging across Europe and there was really no country which was willing to take him and his family in. Even France, whic was later home to many an exile Russian aristocrat, would probably not have been hospitable to Nichols during the war. Bresides which, the Revolution was not a seamless thing. Perhaps they thought Kerensky would win the day. And the Revolution itself wasn't over until at least 1922. Pockets of "White" resistance fought on even after that in Siberia and other places. But most importantly, the family simply had noplace to go. Even the mostly neutral Scandinavian countries, whose monarchs were related to either Nicholas or Alexandra or both or them, demurred...but they were dangerous anyway, being so close to Russia.