Literature
If the House Could Talk
If the house could talk, what would it say?
"I knew not how they'd use me that day.
In the early morning, the 17th of July,
Occurred an execution based on a lie.
When I was built, I didn't know I'd be
The site of a murder of royalty."
"11 innocent people died that night,
In my cellar, red blood spilled on white.
Killed by the soldiers, unaware of their fate,
They didn't know it until it was too late.
How could the Bolsheviks go so far
As to murder the family and the ex-czar?"
"I thought they'd be banished to England or France,
I would have warned them, had I the chance.
I'd ask for answers if I could,
But I can't speak. I'm just brick and w