Return of the Russian Czar

Matt Drozd

Description

A novel like the movie “Rocky”, our hero is thrust into becoming the modern-day Czar of Russia. A fictional novel but much of its insights are factual. The authors tour of duty at the Pentagon during 9-11 qualifies him to write a highly entertaining and credible novel predicting some possible outcomes if Russia's President continues his hidden desire to rebuild the empire of the Soviet Union.
A fairy tale like story filled with romance and intrigue. Readers will travel through time starting with Czar Nicholas’s 1917 abdication of the Russian throne to the present day of 2023 where Russia’s president contrives a sinister plot to deceive the Russian people by thrusting an obscure and unsuspecting descendant of Nicholas’s into becoming the Russian Czar. The suspense thickens and twists when it is discovered that the heir to the throne is American born who becomes loved by the Russian people. The author’s extensive experience in international and military affairs provides the reader with insight as to what may befall Russia’s president if he continues to wage the war in Ukraine.

Sujets

• Mijaíl Gorbachov
• Vladímir Putin
• Moscú
• Lenin
• Inglaterra
• Vladimir Lenin
• Launch
• Tsar Nicholas
• Military
• Crimea
• Vladimir Putin
• Soviet Union
• House of Romanov
• Russia
• Osama bin Laden
• Nuclear weapon
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Moscow
• Korea
• Bolshevik
• Japan
• Murder
• Moscow (homonymie)
• Missile
• Germany
• Queen Elizabeth
• War
• Romance
• Palace
• China
• England
• Prince
• Fiction
• Lénine
• Mikhaïl Gorbatchev
• Tsar
• Oussama ben Laden
• Vladimir Poutine
• Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques
• Russie
• Corée

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 12 février 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665736978
• Langue: English

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Return of the Russian Czar
 

 
MATT DROZD
 
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2023 Matt Drozd.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6657-3696-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3697-8 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023900615
 
 
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 01/10/2023
CONTENTS
Prelude
Chapter 1 The Revolution
Chapter 2 The czar abdicates
Chapter 3 The Execution
Chapter 4 Coming to America
Chapter 5 Growing up
Chapter 6 Duty Calls
Chapter 7 Russia in Turmoil
Chapter 8 Search for the czar
Chapter 9 The czar is found
Chapter 10 Hero meets villain
Chapter 11 Russian indoctrination
Chapter 12 St. Petersburg
Chapter 13 Coronation preparation
Chapter 14 Thoughts on Ukraine
Chapter 15 Coronation customs
Chapter 16 Czars compensation
Chapter 17 Day before the coronation
Chapter 18 Czar Training
Chapter 19 The reception
Chapter 20 The Coronation
Chapter 21 The royal ball
Chapter 22 Meet the Russian people
Chapter 23 Romance knocks
Chapter 24 The romance blooms
Chapter 25 Impeachment
Chapter 26 Last Soviet President
Chapter 27 First Date
Chapter 28 Enter the Oligarchs
Chapter 29 Moonlight dance
Chapter 30 The confrontation
Chapter 31 Debating Orthodox leader
Chapter 32 House hunting
Chapter 33 Former crime boss
Chapter 34 Queen’s Funeral
Chapter 35 English cousin
Chapter 36 Fighter jet encounter
Chapter 37 Formulating the plan
Chapter 38 Building the coalition
Chapter 39 Nuclear threats
Chapter 40 Ukraine war buildup
Chapter 41 NORAD steps in
Chapter 42 Damsel in distress
Chapter 43 Plan unfolds
Chapter 44 Alexei meets the family
Chapter 45 Nuclear launch
Chapter 46 Retaliation
Chapter 47 Boomerang effect
Chapter 48 Dooms day averted
Chapter 49 Vladimir arrested
Chapter 50 Vladimir is charged
Chapter 51 Intimacy prevails
Chapter 52 Trial and sentencing
Chapter 53 The proposal
PRELUDE
It was the darkest days during the 300 years the Romanov family ruled Russia. The Romanovs go back to the rule of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great. These great leaders expanded the territory of Russia to become one of the biggest in the world.
Nicholas met his future wife Princess Alix at the wedding of his uncle to her sister Elizabeth. Nicholas was 16 and Alix was 12 at the time. Alix was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England. They met numerous times since and eventually Nicholas ended his relationship with a Russian ballerina to ask Alix to marry him. Being a devout Lutheran, Alix at first was not receptive to becoming the wife of a Russian Czar because it meant that she must convert to the Russian Orthodox religion. After much discussion with family, however, she agreed to accept Nicholas’s offer of marriage. The marriage of Nicholas and Alix was not arranged, they were truly in love with one another and stayed that way until their tragic murders.
Sadly, events changed dramatically for Nicholas and Alexi. Within weeks after the engagement, Nicholas’s father died at the young age of 49. His demise left Nicholas with no alternative but to assume the powers of the throne at the young age of 26, making him one of the youngest Czars.
As the new Czar, Nicholas struggled to fill the shoes of his father, which included planning his father’s funeral. Unfortunately, his father did little to prepare Nicholas for his role as Czar and because of his teaching Nicholas to rule with an iron fist, he set the tempo for the eventual overthrow of his son. His father kept him at a distance, giving him no instruction on how to be a great leader. He also left his son a legacy where he forbade his subjects to speak non-Russian languages, restricted freedom of the Press, and did not allow his people to participate in political institutions other than those related to the crown.
Nicholas’s new wife, Alexandra, contributed to his downfall by supporting an autocratic style of leadership and allowing a mad monk, Rasputin, to influence their family. The people even perceived and resented that Rasputin indirectly ruled the Russian empire.
Nicholas and Alexandra could not host a reception after their marriage because it was deemed disrespectful to the memory of his father. Furthermore, they had to wait a year and a half after the demise of his father before the coronation of Nicholas and the lavish ceremony gave the wrong impression to his people, who were struggling and starved. A catastrophic event following the coronation further hurt the image of Nicholas and Alexandra. A banquet was held for the Russian people at the Khodynka Field which had a ravine and many gullies. Gifts of food and a decorative gold cup commemorating the coronation of Nicholas were to be given out
Token symbols of his coronation were scattered in the Khodynka field near the palace. Thought to be gold or money, it caused a stampede which resulted in more than 1,400 deaths. Because Nicholas did not cancel the ensuing coronation Balls following the coronation or go to the field to console the dying and injured, his subjects felt Nicholas and Alexandra were heartless and had no compassion. Although the government distributed aid to the families of the dead, the people felt Nicholas and his organizers were negligent and tone-deaf to those that lost their lives. The radiant smile on the face of Grand Duke Sergei prompted the people to say that the Romanovs lacked judgement and common compassion. The grand duke became known a the Prince of Khodynka and Nicholas was dubbed with the nickname of Nicholas the Bloody.
To compound matters more, Nicholas elected to wage two wars against the Germans and Japanese despite his Uncle advising him not to do so. The size of his army was overwhelming compared to his opponents, but they were ill equipped, such as his soldiers having little food and no ammunition. This handicap coupled with its factories not being able to produce enough arms to equip the Czar’s 1.4 million-man army made Russia very vulnerable to war. At the start of the war, the Russians had 800,000 men in uniform who didn’t even have rifles to train with, and those who did often had to make do with obsolete weapons that were nearly 40 years old, according to Jamie H. Cockfield’s 1999 book, With Snow on Their Boots . Some soldiers had to go into battle unarmed, until they could pick up a rifle from another soldier who had been killed or wounded. Russia’s output of bullets initially was just 13,000 rounds a day, so they had to make every shot count. Nicholas also took over the lead of the Russian armies on the front line, a position that he didn’t have the training or experience to do.
“He fancied himself a military strategist, but he was not,” says Mayhill Fowler , a Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies professor at Stetson University. As she notes, Nicholas disregarded a prewar memorandum from one of his advisors, warning that in the event of a defeat by Germany, “social revolution in its most extreme form is inevitable.”
The war quickly turned into a disaster, with Russia suffering a brutal defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg just a few weeks into the war. Some 30,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded, and nearly 100,000 were taken prisoner by the Germans.
“Things didn’t Improve as the months dragged on.” By the end of the year, Russia’s ammunitions were all but exhausted and the country’s infrastructure was not equipped to efficiently resupply troops.
Peasant soldiers that were thrust into the lower ranks suffered the most casualties. For regime stability, the most serious losses were among the officer corps. Their loss weakened the army so much, that when push came to shove in 1917, the army was not a reliable defender of the monarchy.” (M inor)
As a result, Nicholas’s reckless decisions caused over one million military casualties and a million and a half of civilian casualties. Nicholas further exasperated the conditions by leaving his people to personally take over the command of his armies after dismissing his uncle. While Nicholas focused on loosing causes, Alexandra oversaw the empire with advice from the mad monk. Her autocratic and miss-directed leadership caused the starvation and devastation of the Russian people ( HISTORY .COM ).
All was now lost and sets the stage for the overthrow of the Romanovs, led by the Marxist Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
A frustrated Nicholas writes how the events were unfolding that could lead to his downfall. What he wrote seemed to downplay what could be the inevitable and that was his abdication of his throne. “Disorders started several days ago in Petrograd; unfortunately even the troops have begu