6th Post

I read chapters 2 and 3 of the book The Kitchen Boy. Leonka receives a message in a milk bottle from a nun, which he passes on to the Tsar. Nikolai and Aleksandra decide to make Leonka the runner for their secret messages for the plot to liberate the royal family. The royal family is treated terribly by their bolshevik captives. I feel terrible that these people were treated like slaves, especially because they were just a family who focused more on their family than their country. While that is a problem, it doesn't mean that they deserve to die for it. Another thing I found interesting was the fact that the narrator, old Leonka, said that it was partially his fault that the Romanovs were killed. I don't know what this means, but I hope Leonka will reveal his supposedly fatal error, because this is intriguing. I personally would feel terrible if there were any way that I had endangered an entire family. It is nice to know that even when they were in distress, the Romanovs were still respectful and not overly arrogant. Leonka said that they were always courteous and occasionally treated him as a member of the family, even though he was just a fourteen year-old kitchen boy. Kind of off topic, but I thought it was interesting that the youngest Romanov, Anastasia, had the same kind of dog as me. She has been described as always paying attention to her dog in the book thus far. I hope that at least some of the Romanov family survives.