MONARCHY

		Top row, left to right: Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna (1914), cousin of Nickolay II Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1925), sister of Nickolay II Nickolay II (1888), last tsar of Russia Dmity Medvedev (2007), ex-president, ex-prime-minister, deputy chairman of the security council of Russia Bottom row, left to right: Grigori Rasputin, monk/healer from Siberia at Nickolay II court Vladimir Putin, president of Russia

Never bought the Nickolay II family execution story. The actual popularity of Tsar was pretty low in 1917, his resignation (or whatever happened) was OK with everyone. Russian parlament offered throne of Russia to Nickolay's brother, Mikhail, and he refused. Even if that is not true, there were quite a few Romanov people in line for Russia's throne, so killing Nickolay wouldn't change anything for the monarchists, but there were none: 1917-1921 Civil War was fought between fashists, social-democrats, anarchists and bolshevicks. Aristocrats didn't fight for monarchy.

Absolute Monarchy is legitimized by Church, not the feudals, that is why King Charles III is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and so were the Russian tsars. First Russian Monarch installed by Church was, legend has it, ... Ivan IV the Terrible. By 1900 religion was VERY not popular, no wander monarchies crashed everyhere: China, Turkey, Russia, Austria, Spain, Italy, Greece ...

What makes royal family execution even less plausible is that it happened in secret and their bodies were hidden. As a matter of fact the whole story of arrest and move from Saint-Petersburg to Ekaterinburg (pretty much Siberia) makes no sense. If there was an execution or some kind of tribunal planned, tsar should've been kept as close to the new government as possible, to make a show out of anything planned and to make sure he's guarded well.

"Good old" feudal monarchy, the one were King personally leads armies into battles and relies on loyalty of his knights, can only exist in fairy tales: warlords don't live long eough. Monarchy uses "warlord" myth for propaganda but the actual origins are still observable: Dalai Lama - a random child raised to be a ruler. There is even more basic form of this: Kumari Girl-Queens in Nepal - little girls "rule" for few years and are replaced as soon as they grow up. Kind of like Greta Thunberg, Samantha Smith, Nayirah or any other girl celebrity in politics. Monarchs are "team mascots", trained to properly present themself. In its final form it is a prestigious and profitable position/title within the government but it's not something to kill or die for. Mascots are blamed for everything and as soon as gunpowder got cheap, they became targets, which lead to their demise. This explains why Mikhail Romanov refused the throne (if he did) in 1917.

Democracy is Kumari Adult-Queens. Short terms ensure people don't hate each one too much. The actual Ancient Greek city-state style democracy, if it ever happened, was a corrupt mess. Democracy on any level descends into populism and oligarchy aka "God". Thus there never was any capitalism, nor there ever will be. "Free market" with an "invisible hand" is a modernistic euphemism for "God". Myth of "capitalism" is used to motivate population with greed, just as myth of "democracy" is used to legitimize the government.