Putin’s elites hanker after a lost Russian Imperial Empire https://t.co/oOfie2rbIS pic.twitter.com/6se92v7yiR— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 5, 2017
I have intended to discuss Russia's potential revival of the Romanov dynasty for awhile, not least because the 100th anniversary of the royal family's murders, on 16-17 July 2018, is coming up.
In 2014 and 2015, Vladimir Petrov, the Leningrad member in Russia's legislative assembly and a member of Putin's party, proposed that the Romanov pretenders could be restored and installed in their old summer house, the Livadia Palace in newly-occupied Crimea, to bolster the planned tourist industry there. You can see the Russian government pushing this idea in the travel video below. Check out the number of dislikes the video got on its original Youtube page!
The video at the bottom shows an alternate version of the same ad, cut with clips about the experiences of actual visitors. One way you can see English subtitles is by clicking cc and 'translate page.'
Russian tourist ad for Channel One - Visit the Crimea (2015). Video Source: Youtube.
Alternative advertising "In short in the Crimea" 2015 (29 July 2015). Video Source: Youtube.
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