5/12/2010

St. Petersburg: At Where The Ghosts of The Imperial Czars Now Dwell. By Uncle Monty Inside Russia.

St. Petersburg:
At Where The Ghosts of The
Imperial Czars Now Dwell.
By Uncle Monty Inside Russia.
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Brutually slaughtered by the Bolsheviks, the
Imperial Royal Family were no more at the rise
of Russian Communist Revolution that spread
like wildfire all across the vast land of the Soviet
Union in 1917. It was also the same year of the
Catholic birth of John F. Kennedy in America.
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Having now stood in both the Russian and American
capitals, I am now so thrilled to be standing here
today with dear Contessa Maria, for our first time,
inside the once Imperial Capital of Mother Russia.
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After my Moscow and Washington encounters, I
feel a strange affinity to the lives of The Romanovs,
whose savage fate was to bring a complete end to the
Russian dynasty of 400 years of Imperial Royal rule.
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Such occurred here at St. Petersburg more than 90
years ago. Yet the horror of their savage fate still
resonates historically throughout the palatial palaces
and elaborate Orthodox Churches even today at
the once Imperial Capital of what is now called The
Russian Federation after the contemporary demise
of the vile USSR. Or more ignobly The Iron Curtain
of Lenin and Stalin. They murdered, tortured,
enslaved, and imprisoned millions of their own
Russian people all in the name of Red Nationalism
and choking communism and anti-Royalty.
The gulags of Russia are recorded for us all by
the eminent and extraordinary Russian writer
the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008).
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We, the contessa and I, are so pleased to be here
visiting St. Petersburg like we are, has I said before,
for the first time. We are looking forward to exploring
alot more about The Romanovs and their imperialistic
lives right inside this royal city at where they once
reigned with absolute authority and privilege until
the dark and bloody rise of the Soviet Bolsheviks at
the second decade of the 20th century. Thus the
ghosts of the Czars still permeate this grand
and old royal abode of St. Petersburg for all
to somehow feel it in the bones and souls
of our own present Internet Age.
From Russia's St. Petersburg, Uncle Monty.
+Vigil of Rogation, 2010.
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Russia's Imperial Tsar Nicholas, II.

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1 comment:

"Lemon". said...

Saint Petersburg will fit you nicely, Monty. You love tradition.
You love nobility. You love class.
And, you love elegance. The tsars symbolize something of that for someone like you. I shall read your every word when your story about Saint Petersburg and the tsars after your visit. I just hope you and the contessa aren't disappointed like I was when I also visited the "northern capital" of Russia a few years ago in search of the tsars ... Have a good visit, whatever. Your friend, "Lemon".