The Russian Revolution to break the Western Front stalemate!!

At the beginning of the war on the Eastern Front, Grand Duke Nicholas was overall commander. He was a grandson of Nicholas I and a first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II. Like Samsanov, he was a German spy.

In August 1915, due to incompetence, Grand Duke Nicholas was relieved as commander of the Russian armies.

The Tsar himself took control of the front and this led to his absence from St. Petersburg.

It was a perfect opportunity to plan a revolution.

What Nicholas needed at this crucial time was competent commanders . . . but they were nowhere to be found....Lacking any military experience, he decided to take command in person. His presence did boost the morale of the troops at the front but did little else to relieve the impasse.

There is an idiomatic expression in English "when the cat's away, the mice will play." It means that when the authority figure is absent, underlings will run riot. That is exactly what happened during the absence of Tsar Nicholas II.

"Mad MI6 Monk" Grigori Rasputin was a member of the Okhrana or Russian branch of the British Secret Service.

In April 1917, Lenin and his "Bolsheviks" arrived in St. Petersburg via a "sealed train" from Switzerland.

He became the leader of the October Revolution in 1917.

Crude cartoons began to appear in St. Petersburg and Moscow depicting the Tsar and Tsaritsa as puppets of Rasputin. As in the case of David Riccio in Scotland, 2 patriotic Russians named Prince Felix Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich decided to get rid of Rasputin in order to save their country.

Rasputin did not have a nice retirement, because he met his end in the icy waters of the Neva River, in December 1916.

In April 1917, Lenin and his "Bolsheviks" arrived in St. Petersburg via a "sealed train" from Switzerland. He became the leader of the October Revolution in 1917.

Lenin was an admirer of all things British–especially the aristocracy....Nothing epitomized the aristocracy more than Rolls-Royce automobiles. Lenin's Rolls was a genuine "gift" from the British . . . and not a leftover from the Tsar's fleet.

Lenin loved to sit in the back of his Rolls-Royce while he planned the "peoples' revolution." If you couldn't afford a chauffeur . . . you didn't belong in a Rolls-Royce.

"Comrade" Lenin the "proletarian" loved to be chauffeur driven in his Rolls-Royce while he planned the Revolution.

Lenin was preceded by a Swiss spy named Pierre Gilliard who was hired to tutor the Romanov children in French. Charles Sydney Gibbes was their English "tutor."

The Revolution was planned in London and Geneva. Swiss Pierre Gilliard was French "tutor" to the Tsar's children.

Charles Sydney Gibbes was their English "tutor."

Both men were MI6 operatives and they could be relied upon to maintain strict secrecy as to the final fate of the Romanovs.

Sir George Buchanan was a British diplomat who was appointed British ambassador to Russia in 1910. He was stationed in St. Petersburg. Sidney Reilly was known as the Ace of Spies.

Sir George Buchanan coordinated the Revolution from the British Embassy in St. Petersburg.

He was assisted by Ace of Spies Sidney Reilly and Bruce Lockhart.

The number of MI6 spies in Russia at that time were legion.

Everything about Reilly was fake (even his name) but he was in deadly earnest in his attempt to overthrow the Tsar and end the stalemate on the Western Front.

Bruce Lockhart coordinated the Revolution from the British Embassy in Moscow. Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970) was another MI6 operative who died in the British Empire state in 1970.