• purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    I’m not saying it’s the most likely answer, but it’s also possible that he just died in the crossfire. If you have a job that is so personally connected to the Tsar himself, you’re likely to be in places where fighting is happening even if you’re a civilian.

    I honestly think it’s more likely that the Bolsheviks killed him deliberately than in the crossfire, but yeah the most likely guess is that the guy who was employed directly by the Tsar would fight to preserve the Tsardom, so he was killed trying to fight revolutionaries.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      There wasn’t much crossfire to be caught in around the tsar court, since it was mostly disbanded even before October Revolution.

      Oh and carriage driver for tsar would be very likely okhrana agent, this was one of the favourite methods of being undercover in okhrana modus operandi, both for observers and bodyguards (the last one ever since Alexander II died in assassination in his carriage).