- The last line of "The Final Resting Place of Joy" reads: "Joy, you are not forgotten.".
- Eventually Lloyd George ordered all British troops to withdraw and return to England, Paul Rodzianko being one of them. He took Joy back to Windsor, where he lived out the rest of his days in peace.
- Joy was a descendant of a cocker spaniel brought from Great Britain and became inseparable with Alexei: the heir took the dog with him on holidays and trips. Nicholas II sometimes took his son to the front to support the morale of the troops and strengthen Alexei's patriotism. Joy didn't miss such trips either.
- It was thought for years that he was shot dead by Bolshevik soldiers.
- Was a brown and white King Charles Spaniel Dog who was owned by Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (b. 1904).
- It's thought that the garden has now made way for a car park.
- However, it turns out that while two other dogs the royal family owned were shot dead, one of the soldiers in the execution squad took pity on Joy and allowed him to live.
- Joy was a constant companion to Tsar Nikolai's son, 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, and it was thought for a long time that he was shot dead by a Bolshevik execution squad that wanted no trace of the Romanov family left, as they were perceived to have been responsible for many of Russia's problems at the time.
- The British were expelled from Russia by the Bolsheviks and Rodzianko had grown so fond of Joy that he took him back to England.
- Joy was given a home somewhere on Clewer Hill Road in Windsor, where he saw out the rest of his days in comfort.
- The grave was the final resting place not of a human, but a spaniel - who belonged to the son of Russia's last monarch, Tsar Nikolai II Romanov. He was executed in Ipatiev House, along with his wife, Empress Alexandra, five children and four servants by revolutionary communist forces on 17 July 1918 in Yekaterinburg.
- The soldiers had to retreat, but on their return to the house eight days later found Joy running around the yard in a malnourished state, according to The Siberian Times.
- How Joy came to be buried in England, in the shadow of Windsor Castle, is a story that's not even very well known among Russian historians.
- The faithful canine companion to Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich was the only member of the Imperial Family who survived the massacre which took place in the Ipatiev House on the night of 16/17 July 1918.
- Joy died at Windsor, however not at the royal court, but at Colonel Rodzianko's small estate of Sefton Lawn, whose park adjoined the royal park.
- Sadly, both the garden and Joy's modest grave is now believed to have been concreted over as a car park.
- "The Czechs [Czechoslovak Corps in the Russian Army], seizing Ekaterinburg, found a poor little animal, half-starved, running around the yard of the Ipatiev House. The dog seemed to be looking for his master all the time and his absence made him so sad and depressed that he barely touched his food, even when he was affectionately cared for," wrote Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden in her memoirs.
- Alexei's beloved King Charles spaniel Joy was taken by General Mikhail Dieterikhs, head of the White Army investigation into the death of the Tsar and his family. Joy was eventually homed with Colonel Pavel (Paul) Rodzianko, who was serving with the British Expeditionary Force in Siberia.
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