Click2Biography - Nicholas and Alexandra: Death of a Family - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA:</p> <p>DEATH OF A FAMILY</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch1.htm"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch2.htm">2. GIVE US BREAD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch3.htm">3. WORLDS APART</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch4.htm">4. NICHOLAS OUT-OF-TOUCH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch5.htm">5. ENTER RASPUTIN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch6.htm">6. RASPUTIN THE HEALER - RASPUTIN THE DECEIVER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch7.htm">7. RASPUTIN'S MURDER</a></b></font> </td> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch8.htm">8. NICHOLAS LOSES THE THRONE</a></b></font> </td> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch9.htm">9. HOUSE ARREST</a></b></font> </td> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch10.htm">10. EXECUTION IN SIBERIA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch11.htm">11. THE DEATH SCENE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch12.htm">12. ANGUISH FOR THE GIRLS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch13.htm">13. WHERE WERE THE BODIES?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch14.htm">14. WHO REALLY DIED?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch15.htm">15. ARE THESE ROMANOV BONES?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch16.htm">16. EIGHTY YEARS LATER</a></b></font> </td> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch17.htm">17. MORE COOL LINKS</a></b></font> </td> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">On July 16 </i>[1918]<i>,<br> a telegram in previously <br> agreed-upon language<br> came from Perm<br> containing the order <br> to exterminate the Romanovs<br><br> </i>Yakov Yurovsky<br> Chief Executioner </font></b></blockquote> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Before an execution, there's supposed to be a trial. Before a trial, there's supposed to be a crime.</p> <p>What was the crime of 13-year-old <a target="_blank" href="http://worldroots.clicktron.com/brigitte/gifs/romanov68.jpg"><b>Alexis</b></a>, heir to the Russian throne? What was the crime of Anastasia and his other <a target="_blank" href="http://worldroots.clicktron.com/brigitte/gifs/romanov46.gif"><b>sisters</b></a>? </p> <p>No crime. No trial. No justice. This is their story.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="nicholas_alexandra_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></a></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>