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  • The Russian Empire was one of the largest empire to have ever existed in history

  • It began with Peter the Great in 1721 and came crashing down with Nicholas II in 1917.

  • Nicholas II advocated the throne and was executed the following year along with his entire family by the Bolsheviks.

  • And ever since there have a literally hundreds of peoples who have claimed to be his rightful heir to the empty and increasingly irrelevant Russian throne.

  • 100 years now after his death and the questions still remains incredibly open to interpretations

  • But, there is one man who just seem to be a bit more serious than just about anybody else.

  • This guy, Anton Bakov, a multimillionaire Russian businessman who found his fortune by starting one of the first privately owned businesses in Russia

  • as the Soviet Union was collapsing.

  • And to say that he's eccentric is, well, a bit of an understatement.

  • As a devoted monarchist, Bakov started the only legal monarchist party in Russia

  • since the 1917 revolution, and has been working ever since to try and restore

  • the Romanov Monarchy back to the country.

  • But, he's had a bit of a problem.

  • Nobody in Russia really wants to, or cares to see a return of the

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