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Tsar Watch: Russia’s murdered royals avenged at last, only not really

Shocking news from Russia: a man claiming to be a member of the Romanov dynasty recently tracked down and beat to death an 82 year old ex-KGB officer for his part in the murder of Tsar Nikolai II and his family. The only problem is that as the Tsar was murdered in 1918, the KGB officer in question could not possibly have taken part in the killings as he was still 10 years away from being born. Actually that’s not the only problem. The KGB officer was also the father of the enraged Romanov who killed him. What’s that? How can a KGB officer be related to the royal family? Well- he wasn’t. The killer was actually an outpatient from a mental hospital, a man identified in the Russian press [1]only as ‘Alexander’. He didn’t really track down his father either. He was already in his East Moscow apartment. And when police arrived, summoned after a ‘suspicious noise’ was heard:

Alexander was reciting poetry proclaiming his royal lineage. He had made no attempt to dispose of his father’s dead body.

So really, there’s no vengeance going on here. Well there might be- we don’t know if the KGB officer did other terrible things that we don’t know about. But in the absence of such information we are left instead with a sad tale of mental illness and pointless death. ‘It happens’, as they say in Russia.

Meanwhile in Turkey a sheep recently gave birth to a lamb with a human face. Honestly. Pravda.ru even has a picture. [2]

It’s a wonderful, strange, terrifying world.

H/t: Marc Bennetts [3]

Daniel Kalder is an author and journalist originally from Scotland, who currently resides in Texas after a ten year stint in the former USSR. Visit him online at www.danielkalder.com

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