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servants in a small, confined space from which they could not escape. The basement room chosen for this purpose had a barred window which was nailed shut to muffle the sound of shooting and in case of any screaming. Shooting and stabbing them at night while they slept or killing them in the forest and then dumping them into the Iset pond with lumps of metal weighted to their bodies were ruled out. Yurovsky's plan was to perform an efficient execution of all 11 prisoners simultaneously, although he also took into account that he would have to prevent those involved from raping the women or searching the bodies for jewels. Having previously seized some jewelry, he suspected more was hidden in their clothes; the bodies were to be stripped naked in order to obtain the rest (this, along with the mutilations, was aimed at preventing investigators from identifying them).

603: 1146:. Ermakov shot and stabbed him, and when that failed, Yurovsky shoved him aside and killed the boy with a gunshot to the head. The last to die were Tatiana, Anastasia, and Maria (however, according to Yurovsky's note, Alexei, Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia were the last to die), who were carrying over 1.3 kilograms (2.9 lb) of diamonds sewn into their clothing, which had given them a degree of protection from the firing. However, they were speared with bayonets as well. Olga sustained a gunshot wound to the head. Maria and Anastasia were said to have crouched up against a wall covering their heads with pillows in terror until they were shot in the head. Yurovsky killed Tatiana and Alexei. Tatiana died from a single shot to the back of her head. Alexei received two bullets to the head, right behind the ear. 1108:, to awaken the sleeping family and ask them to put on their clothes, under the pretext that the family would be moved to a safe location due to impending chaos in Yekaterinburg. The Romanovs were then ordered into a 6 m × 5 m (20 ft × 16 ft) semi-basement room. Alexandra requested a chair because she was sick, and Nicholas requested a second for Alexei. Yurovsky's assistant Grigory Nikulin remarked to him that the "heir wanted to die in a chair. Very well then, let him have one." The prisoners were told to wait in the cellar room while the truck that would transport them was being brought to the House. A few minutes later, an execution squad of secret police was brought in and Yurovsky read aloud the order given to him by the Ural Executive Committee: 1730: 1437: 1485: 1337: 952: 1333:. Yurovsky, worried that he might not have enough time to take the bodies to the deeper mine, ordered his men to dig another burial pit then and there, but the ground was too hard. He returned to the Amerikanskaya Hotel to confer with the Cheka. He seized a truck which he had loaded with blocks of concrete for attaching to the bodies before submerging them in the new mineshaft. A second truck carried a detachment of Cheka agents to help move the bodies. Yurovsky returned to the forest at 10 pm on 18 July. The bodies were again loaded onto the Fiat truck, which by then had been extricated from the mud. 1587: 1608: 1683:(Nikulin, Medvedev (Kudrin), Ermakov, Vaganov, Kabanov, Medvedev and Netrebin) with the participation of one Jew (Yurovsky) and possibly, one Latvian (Ya.M. Tselms). The men who were directly complicit in the murder of the imperial family largely survived in the immediate months after the murders. Stepan Vaganov, Ermakov's close associate, was attacked and killed by peasants in late 1918 for his participation in local acts of brutal repression by the Cheka. Pavel Medvedev, head of the Ipatiev House guard and one of the key figures in the murders, was captured by the 1445: 425: 898: 916: 934: 385: 1816: 1722:, who met Yurovsky in 1920 alleged that he was remorseful over his role in the execution of the Romanovs. However, in a final letter that was written to his children shortly before his death in 1938, he only reminisced about his revolutionary career and how "the storm of October" had "turned its brightest side" towards him, making him "the happiest of mortals"; there was no expression of regret or remorse over the murders. Yurovsky and his assistant, Nikulin, who died in 1964, are buried in the 405: 1101:. The family was very upset as Leonid was Alexei's only playmate and he was the fifth member of the imperial entourage to be taken from them, but they were assured by Yurovsky that he would be back soon. Alexandra did not trust Yurovsky, writing in her final diary entry just hours before her death, "whether it's true & we shall see the boy back again!". Leonid was kept in the Popov House that night. Yurovsky saw no reason to kill him and wanted him removed before the execution took place. 43: 763: 5874: 1239:

Yurovsky maintained control of the situation with great difficulty, eventually getting Ermakov's men to shift some of the bodies from the truck onto the carts. A few of Ermakov's men pawed the female bodies for diamonds hidden in their undergarments, two of whom lifted up Alexandra's skirt and fingered her genitals. Yurovsky ordered them at gunpoint to back off, dismissing the two who had groped the tsarina's corpse and any others he had caught looting.

860:. These fabricated letters, along with the Romanov responses to them (written on either blank spaces or the envelopes), provided the Central Executive Committee (CEC) in Moscow with further justification to 'liquidate' the imperial family. Yurovsky later observed that, by responding to the faked letters, Nicholas "had fallen into a hasty plan by us to trap him". On 13 July, across the road from the Ipatiev House, a demonstration of Red Army soldiers, 1082: 970: 1804: 416: 1142:, a technique which proved ineffective and meant that the children had to be dispatched by still more gunshots, this time aimed more precisely at their heads. The Tsarevich was the first of the children to be executed. Yurovsky watched in disbelief as Nikulin spent an entire magazine from his Browning gun on Alexei, who was still seated transfixed in his chair; he also had jewels sewn into his undergarment and 1294:

too friendly with one of the guards back in May. Once the bodies were "completely naked" they were dumped into a mineshaft and doused with sulphuric acid to disfigure them beyond recognition. Only then did Yurovsky discover that the pit was less than 3 metres (9.8 ft) deep and the muddy water below did not fully submerge the corpses as he had expected. He unsuccessfully tried to collapse the mine with

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from the volunteer battalions of the Verkh-Isetsk factory at Yurovsky's request. He wanted dedicated Bolsheviks who could be relied on to do whatever was asked of them. They were hired on the understanding that they would be prepared, if necessary, to kill the tsar, about which they were sworn to secrecy. Nothing at that stage was said about killing the family or servants. To prevent a repetition of the

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Murderer – Shot without Bourgeois Formalities but in Accordance with our new democratic principles", along with the coda that "the wife and son of Nicholas Romanov have been sent to a safe place". An official announcement appeared in the national press, two days later. It reported that the monarch had been executed on the order of Uralispolkom under pressure posed by the approach of the Czechoslovaks.

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responsibility for the fate of the Romanovs back to Lenin was either never made or carefully concealed. Lenin operated with extreme caution, his favored method being to issue instructions in coded telegrams, insisting that the original and even the telegraph ribbon on which it was sent be destroyed. Uncovered documents in Archive No. 2 (Lenin), Archive No. 86 (Sverdlov) as well as the archives of the

1126:, the military commissar for Verkh-Isetsk, shot and killed Alexandra with a bullet wound to the head. He then shot at Tatiana, who ran for the double doors, hitting her in the thigh. The remaining executioners shot chaotically and over each other's shoulders until the room was so filled with smoke and dust that no one could see anything at all in the darkness nor hear any commands amid the noise. 396: 802:, directly above the tsar and tsarina's bedroom. Ten guard posts were located in and around the Ipatiev House, and the exterior was patrolled twice hourly day and night. In early May, the guards moved the piano from the dining room, where the prisoners could play it, to the commandant's office next to the Romanovs' bedrooms. The guards would play the piano, while singing Russian 324:, who disputed the authenticity of the remains. In 2007, a second, smaller grave which contained the remains of two of the Romanov children, missing from the larger grave, was discovered by amateur archaeologists; they were confirmed to be the remains of Alexei and a sister—either Anastasia or Maria—by DNA analysis. In 2008, after considerable and protracted legal wrangling, the 1150:, Alexandra's maid, survived the initial onslaught but was quickly stabbed to death against the back wall while trying to defend herself with a small pillow which she had carried that was filled with precious gems and jewels. While the bodies were being placed on stretchers, Anastasia cried out and covered her face with her arm. Ermakov grabbed Alexander Strekotin's 1243: 1501:

and Anastasia, who were shot and bayoneted to death, and that the bodies were destroyed in a massive bonfire. Publication and worldwide acceptance of the investigation prompted the Soviets to issue a government-approved textbook in 1926 that largely plagiarized Sokolov's work, admitting that the empress and her children had been murdered with the Tsar.

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the prisoners after the guards complained that it regularly ran out. Recreation was allowed only twice daily in the garden, for half an hour morning and afternoon. The prisoners were ordered not to engage in conversation with any of the guards. Rations were mostly tea and black bread for breakfast, and

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were approaching Yekaterinburg. On 17 July 1918, Yakov and other Bolshevik jailers, fearing that the Legion would free Nicholas after conquering the town, murdered him and his family. The next day, Yakov departed for Moscow with a report to Sverdlov. As soon as the Czechoslovaks seized Yekaterinburg,

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queried Lenin to "kindly wire facts" in regards to a rumor that Nicholas II "has been murdered"; he responded, "Rumor not true. Ex-tsar safe. All rumors are only lies of capitalist press." By this time, however, the coded telegram ordering the execution of Nicholas, his family and retinue had already

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His preliminary report was published in a book that same year in French and then Russian. It was published in English in 1925. Until 1989, it was the only accepted historical account of the murders. He wrongly concluded that the prisoners died instantly from the shooting, with the exception of Alexei

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of the local Soviet told Yurovsky of some deeper copper mines west of Yekaterinburg, the area remote and swampy and a grave there less likely to be discovered. He inspected the site on the evening of 17 July and reported back to the Cheka at the Amerikanskaya Hotel. He ordered additional trucks to be

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In the commandant's office, Yurovsky assigned victims to each killer before distributing the handguns. He took a Mauser and Colt while Ermakov armed himself with three Nagants, one Mauser and a bayonet; he was the only one assigned to kill two prisoners (Alexandra and Botkin). Yurovsky instructed his

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for the Romanovs. The following morning, four housemaids were hired to wash the floors of the Popov House and Ipatiev House; they were the last civilians to see the family alive. On both occasions, they were under strict instructions not to engage in conversation with the family. Yurovsky always kept

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on 11 July 2018 revealed that 57% of Russians "believe that the execution of the Royal family is a heinous unjustified crime", while 29% said "the last Russian emperor paid too high a price for his mistakes". Among those aged between 18 and 24, 46% believe that Nicholas II had to be punished for his

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opposed the government's decision in February 1998 to bury the remains in the Peter and Paul Fortress, preferring a "symbolic" grave until their authenticity had been resolved. As a result, when they were interred in July 1998, they were referred to by the priest conducting the service as "Christian

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According to the presumption of innocence, no one can be held criminally liable without guilt being proven. In the criminal case, an unprecedented search for archival sources taking all available materials into account was conducted by authoritative experts, such as Sergey Mironenko, the director of

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On the afternoon of 19 July, Filipp Goloshchyokin announced at the Opera House on Glavny Prospekt that "Nicholas the bloody" had been shot and his family taken to another place. Sverdlov granted permission for the local paper in Yekaterinburg to publish the "Execution of Nicholas, the Bloody Crowned

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of Lenin's political life confirms that first Lenin (between 6 and 7 pm) and then Lenin and Sverdlov together (between 9:30 and 11:50 pm) had direct telegraph contact with the Ural Soviets about Yakovlev's change of route. Despite Yakovlev's request to take the family further away to the more remote

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reveal that a host of party 'errand boys' were regularly designated to relay his instructions, either by confidential notes or anonymous directives made in the collective name of the Council of People's Commissars. In all such decisions Lenin regularly insisted that no written evidence be preserved.

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located the shallow grave on 30–31 May 1979 after years of covert investigation and a study of the primary evidence. Three skulls were removed from the grave, but after failing to find any scientist and laboratory to help examine them, and worried about the consequences of finding the grave, Avdonin

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Yurovsky separated the Tsarevich Alexei and one of his sisters to be buried about 15 metres (50 ft) away, in an attempt to confuse anyone who might discover the mass grave with only nine bodies. Since the female body was badly disfigured, Yurovsky mistook her for Anna Demidova; in his report he

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The reason for the lack of jewels in Maria's underwear was, according to Gillard and other witnesses, "these bras were on exactly those daughters on which they were supposed to be. Maria could not have such a bra, since they were made in Tobolsk when she was no longer there. It would be ridiculous

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Yurovsky and five other men laid out the bodies on the grass and undressed them, the clothes piled up and burned while Yurovsky took inventory of their jewellery. Only Maria's undergarments contained no jewels, which to Yurovsky was proof that the family had ceased to trust her ever since she became

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mile) further on, near crossing no. 185 on the line serving the Verkh-Isetsk works, 25 men working for Ermakov were waiting with horses and light carts. These men were all intoxicated and they were outraged that the prisoners were not brought to them alive. They expected to be part of the lynch mob.

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While Yurovsky was checking the victims for pulses, Ermakov walked through the room, flailing the bodies with his bayonet. The execution lasted about 20 minutes, Yurovsky later admitting to Nikulin's "poor mastery of his weapon and inevitable nerves". Future investigations calculated that a possible

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and bayonets. Within minutes, Yurovsky was forced to stop the shooting because of the caustic smoke of burned gunpowder, dust from the plaster ceiling caused by the reverberation of bullets, and the deafening gunshots. When they stopped, the doors were then opened to scatter the smoke. While waiting

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Alexey Kabanov, who ran onto the street to check the noise levels, heard dogs barking from the Romanovs' quarters and the sound of gunshots loud and clear despite the noise from the Fiat's engine. Kabanov then hurried downstairs and told the men to stop firing and kill the family and their dogs with

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On 14 July, Yurovsky was finalizing the disposal site and how to destroy as much evidence as possible at the same time. He was frequently in consultation with Peter Ermakov, who was in charge of the disposal squad and claimed to know the outlying countryside. Yurovsky wanted to gather the family and

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portrayed Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects, while Lenin's reputation was protected at all costs, thus ensuring that no discredit was brought on him; responsibility for the 'liquidation' of the Romanov family

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at around 6 pm to Lenin in Moscow. There is no documentary record of an answer from Moscow, although Yurovsky insisted that an order from the CEC to go ahead had been passed on to him by Goloshchyokin at around 7 pm. This claim was consistent with that of a former Kremlin guard, Aleksey Akimov, who

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When Yurovsky replaced Aleksandr Avdeev on 4 July, he moved the old internal guard members to the Popov House. The senior aides were retained but were designated to guard the hallway area and no longer had access to the Romanovs' rooms; only Yurovsky's men had it. The local Cheka chose replacements

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On 29 July 2007, another amateur group of local enthusiasts found the small pit containing the remains of Alexei and his sister, located in two small bonfire sites not far from the main grave on the Koptyaki Road. Although criminal investigators and geneticists identified them as Alexei and one of

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Sokolov ultimately failed to find the concealed burial site on the Koptyaki Road; he photographed the spot as evidence of where the Fiat truck had become stuck on the morning of 19 July. The impending return of Bolshevik forces in July 1919 forced him to evacuate, and he brought the box containing

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Aleksandr Lisitsyn of the Cheka, an essential witness on behalf of Moscow, was designated to promptly dispatch to Sverdlov soon after the executions of Nicholas and Alexandra's politically valuable diaries and letters, which would be published in Russia as soon as possible. Beloborodov and Nikulin

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The sixteen men of the internal guard slept in the basement, hallway, and commandant's office during shifts. The external guard, led by Pavel Medvedev, numbered 56 and took over the Popov House opposite. The guards were allowed to bring in women for sex and drinking sessions in the Popov House and

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The guard commandant and his senior aides had complete access at any time to all rooms occupied by the family. The prisoners were required to ring a bell each time they wished to leave their rooms to use the bathroom and lavatory on the landing. Strict rationing of the water supply was enforced on

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in Yekaterinburg, marching from the city center where the Romanovs were murdered to a monastery in Ganina Yama. There is a widespread legend that the remains of the Romanovs were completely destroyed at the Ganina Yama during the ritual murder and a profitable pilgrimage business developed there.

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to obtain barrels of petrol, kerosene and sulphuric acid, and plenty of dry firewood. Yurovsky also seized several horse-drawn carts to be used in the removal of the bodies to the new site. Yurovsky and Goloshchyokin, along with several Cheka agents, returned to the mineshaft at about 4 am on the

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named Andras Verhas and Adolf Lepa, himself in charge of the Lett contingent, refused to shoot the women. Yurovsky sent them to the Popov House for failing "at that important moment in their revolutionary duty". Neither Yurovsky nor any of the killers went into the logistics of how to efficiently

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on 10 April 1989, much to Avdonin's dismay. The remains were disinterred in 1991 by Soviet officials in a hasty 'official exhumation' that wrecked the site, destroying precious evidence. Since there were no clothes on the bodies and the damage inflicted was extensive, controversy persisted as to

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engine, with a cargo area measuring 1.8 by 3.0 metres (6 ft × 10 ft). Heavily laden, the vehicle struggled for 14 kilometres (9 mi) on boggy road to reach the Koptyaki forest. Yurovsky was furious when he discovered that the drunken Ermakov had brought only one shovel for the

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My next visit to Moscow took place after the fall of Yekaterinburg. Talking to Sverdlov I asked in passing, "Oh yes and where is the Tsar?" "It's all over," he answered. "He has been shot." "And where is his family?" "And the family with him." "All of them?" I asked, apparently with a touch of

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be returned to him immediately after the message was sent. At 8 pm, Yurovsky sent his chauffeur to acquire a truck for transporting the bodies, along with rolls of canvas to wrap them in. The intention was to park it close to the basement entrance, with its engine running, to mask the noise of

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in the grand duchesses' bedroom, but peeking out of it was strictly forbidden; in May a sentry fired a shot at Anastasia when she looked out. After the Romanovs made repeated requests, one of the two windows in the tsar and tsarina's corner bedroom was unsealed on 23 June 1918. The guards were

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as "monarchist filth, a 300-year disgrace", and referred to Nicholas II in conversation and in his writings as "the most evil enemy of the Russian people, a bloody executioner, an Asiatic gendarme" and "a crowned robber." A written record outlining the chain of command and tying the ultimate

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that obscured the view of the streets from the house. The initial fence enclosed the garden along Voznesensky Lane. On 5 June a second palisade was erected, higher and longer than the first, which completely enclosed the property. The second palisade was constructed after it was learned that

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Sokolov discovered a large number of the Romanovs' belongings and valuables that were overlooked by Yurovsky and his men in and around the mineshaft where the bodies were initially disposed. Among them were burned bone fragments, congealed fat, Dr Botkin's upper dentures and glasses,

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the largest archive in the country, the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The study involved the main experts on the subject – historians and archivists. And I can confidently say that today there is no reliable document that would prove the initiative of Lenin and Sverdlov.

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began frisking the bodies for valuables. Yurovsky saw this and demanded that they surrender any looted items or be shot. The attempted looting, coupled with Ermakov's incompetence and drunken state, convinced Yurovsky to oversee the disposal of the bodies himself. Only Alexei's

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The White Army investigator Nikolai Sokolov erroneously claimed that the executions of the Imperial Family was carried out by a group of "Latvians led by a Jew". However, in light of Plotnikov's research, the group that carried out the execution consisted almost entirely of

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Simsky Gorny District in Ufa province (where they could hide in the mountains), warning that "the baggage" would be destroyed if given to the Ural Soviets, Lenin and Sverdlov were adamant that they be brought to Yekaterinburg. On 16 July, the editors of Danish newspaper

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The truck was bogged down in an area of marshy ground near the Gorno-Uralsk railway line, during which all the bodies were unloaded onto carts and taken to the disposal site. The sun was up by the time the carts came within sight of the disused mine, which was a large

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and Geli Ryabov, who kept the discovery secret until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In July 1991, the bodies of five family members (the Tsar, Tsarina, and three of their daughters) were exhumed. After forensic examination and DNA identification (partly aided by

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of the Ural Regional Soviet under Beloborodov and Goloshchyokin should organize the practical details for the family's execution and decide the precise day on which it would take place when the military situation dictated it, contacting Moscow for final approval.

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period. The identities of the remains were confirmed by forensic and DNA analysis and investigation in 1994, with the assistance of British experts. In 1998, eighty years after the executions, the remains of the Romanovs were reinterred in a state funeral in the

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on 24 January 1919. Unlike the imperial family, the bodies at Alapayevsk and Perm were recovered by the White Army in October 1918 and May 1919 respectively. However, only the final resting places of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and her faithful companion

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led by Peter Ermakov, which opened fire on the protesters, all within earshot of the tsar and tsarina's bedroom window. The authorities exploited the incident as a monarchist-led rebellion that threatened the security of the captives at the Ipatiev House.

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for the smoke to abate, the killers could hear moans and whimpers inside the room. As it cleared, it became evident that although several of the family's retainers had been killed, all of the Imperial children were alive and only Tatiana was injured.

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survived the civil war unscathed; however, unlike the other killers, he received no awards or advancements, for which he grew bitter. For the rest of his life, he fought relentlessly for primacy by inflating his role in the murders as well as the

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of the Voznesensky Cathedral aimed toward the house; a second in the basement window of the Ipatiev House facing the street; a third monitoring the balcony overlooking the garden at the back of the house; and a fourth in the attic overlooking the

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A 2011 investigation concluded that, despite the opening of state archives in the post-Soviet years, no written document has been found which proves Lenin or Sverdlov ordered the executions. However, they endorsed the murders after they occurred.

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The Ural Regional Soviet agreed in a meeting on 29 June that the entire Romanov family should be executed. Filipp Goloshchyokin arrived in Moscow as a representative of the Soviet on 3 July with a message insisting on the Tsar's execution. Only

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The final resting places of the Romanov family and their servants in St. Catherine's Chapel in the Peter and Paul Cathedral. The names of Maria (third from right) and Alexei (far left) on the wall do not have a burial date inscribed at the

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On 16 July, Yurovsky was informed by the Ural Soviets that Red Army contingents were retreating in all directions and the executions could not be delayed any longer. A coded telegram seeking final approval was sent by Goloshchyokin and

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Court ordered the re-opening of the case, saying that a Supreme Court ruling blaming the state for the killings made the deaths of the actual gunmen irrelevant, according to a lawyer for the Tsar's relatives and local news agencies.

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On Thursday, 26 August 2010, a Russian court ordered prosecutors to reopen an investigation into the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, although the Bolsheviks believed to have shot them in 1918 had died long before. The

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Three days after the murders, Yurovsky personally reported to Lenin on the events of that night and was rewarded with an appointment to the Moscow City Cheka. He held a succession of key economic and party posts, dying in the

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surprise. "All of them," replied Yakov Sverdlov. "What about it?" He was waiting to see my reaction. I made no reply. "And who made the decision?" I asked. "We decided it here. Ilyich believed that we shouldn't leave the

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ordered to increase their surveillance accordingly, and the prisoners were warned not to look out of the window or attempt to signal to anyone outside, on pain of being shot. From this window, they could see only the

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oversaw the ransacking of the Romanov quarters, seizing all the family's personal items, the most valuable piled up in Yurovsky's office whilst things considered inconsequential and of no value were stuffed into the

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mistakes. Only 3% of Russians "were certain that the Royal family's execution was the public's just retribution for the emperor's blunders". On the centenary of the murders, over 100,000 pilgrims took part in a

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Nicholas, facing his family, turned and said "What? What?" Yurovsky quickly repeated the order and the weapons were raised. The Empress and Grand Duchess Olga, according to a guard's reminiscence, had tried to

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The basement where the Romanov family was killed. The wall had been torn apart in search of bullets and other evidence by investigators in 1919. The double doors leading to a storeroom were locked during the

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themselves, but failed amid the shooting. Yurovsky reportedly raised his Colt gun at Nicholas's torso and fired; Nicholas fell dead, pierced with at least three bullets in his upper chest. The intoxicated

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on the Koptyaki Road in 1919. Investigator Nikolai Sokolov took this photograph as evidence of where the Fiat truck had got stuck at 4:30am on 19 July, unaware that it was in fact the second burial site.

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in 1938 aged 60. Prior to his death, he donated the guns he used in the murders to the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow, and left behind three important, though contradictory, accounts of the event.

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from the Novo-Tikhvinsky Monastery also brought the family food on a daily basis, most of which the captors took when it arrived. The family was not allowed visitors or to receive and send letters.

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by order of the Ural Regional Soviet. Historians have debated whether the execution was sanctioned by Moscow leadership. Some Western historians attribute the execution order to the government in

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Over the course of 84 days after the Yekaterinburg murders, 27 more friends and relatives (14 Romanovs and 13 members of the imperial entourage and household) were murdered by the Bolsheviks: at

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In his diary, Trotsky emphasised that he understood Lenin's reasoning, on the grounds that the militant workers and soldiers of Yekaterinburg would not have accepted any other course of action

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was staged on Voznesensky Square, demanding the dismissal of the Yekaterinburg Soviet and the transfer of control of the city to them. This rebellion was violently suppressed by a detachment of

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in the late 1960s stated that Sverdlov instructed him to send a telegram confirming the CEC's approval of the 'trial' (code for execution) but required that both the written form and

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in October 1917, the conditions of their imprisonment grew stricter as talk within the government of putting Nicholas on trial grew more frequent. Nicholas was forbidden to wear

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instead of Yekaterinburg in April 1918, having become worried about the extremely threatening behavior of the Ural Soviets in Tobolsk and along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The

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his sisters, either Maria or Anastasia, they remain stored in the state archives pending a decision from the church, which demanded a more "thorough and detailed" examination.

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to think that these bras were worn by someone else." Yurovsky knew nothing about the lack of jewelry in her underwear, writing in his 1922 memoir that "she is not similar to...

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wrote that he had actually wanted to destroy Alexandra's corpse. Alexei and his sister were burned in a bonfire and their remaining charred bones were thoroughly smashed with

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Location of the main events in the last days of the Romanov family, who were held at Tobolsk, Siberia, before being transported to Yekaterinburg, where they were killed.

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of the family for their "humbleness, patience and meekness". However, reflecting the intense debate preceding the issue, the bishops did not proclaim the Romanovs as

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Nikolai Alexandrovich, in view of the fact that your relatives are continuing their attack on Soviet Russia, the Ural Executive Committee has decided to execute you.

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The remaining two bodies of Alexei and one of his sisters, presumed to be Maria by Russian anthropologists and Anastasia by American ones, were discovered in 2007.

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The Church of All Saints in 2016 (top left), where the Ipatiev House used to be. Voznesensky Cathedral is in the foreground, where a machine gun was mounted in the

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70 bullets were fired, roughly seven bullets per shooter, of which 57 were found in the basement and at all three subsequent gravesites. Some of Pavel Medvedev's

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announced that its new probe had confirmed once again that the bodies were the Romanovs'. The state also remained aloof from the commemoration, as President

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stays, insignias and belt buckles, shoes, keys, pearls and diamonds, a few spent bullets, and part of a severed female finger. The corpse of Anastasia's

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as well as the memoirs of those who directly took part in the murders were scrupulously censored, emphasizing the roles of Sverdlov and Goloshchyokin.

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The killing of the Tsar's wife and children was also discussed, but it was kept a state secret to avoid any political repercussions; German ambassador

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Ipatiev House, with the palisade erected just before Nicholas, Alexandra and Maria arrived on 30 April 1918. On the top left of the house is an attic

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According to the official state version of the Soviet Union, ex-tsar Nicholas Romanov, along with members of his family and retinue, were executed by

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Nevertheless, as of 2011, no official document has been found of either Lenin or Sverdlov giving the order. Vladimir N. Solovyov, the leader of the

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The French Revolution and the Russian Anti-Democratic Tradition: A Case of False Consciousness (1997). Dmitry Shlapentokh. Transaction Publishers.

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was given the specific task of arranging for the disposal of their remains, obtaining 570 litres (130 imp gal; 150 US gal) of

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wrote in his memoirs that "sooner or later we will be ashamed of this piece of barbarism". The destruction of the house did not stop pilgrims or

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During transportation to the deeper copper mines on the early morning of 19 July, the Fiat truck carrying the bodies got stuck again in mud near

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From left to right: Grand Duchesses Maria (age 17), Olga (age 21), Anastasia (age 15) and Tatiana Nikolaevna (age 19) of Russia in captivity at

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destroy eleven bodies. He was under pressure to ensure that no remains would later be found by monarchists who would exploit them to rally

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on the night of 16–17 July 1918. Also murdered that night were members of the imperial entourage who had accompanied them: court physician

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in Moscow. His son, Alexander Yurovsky, voluntarily handed over his father's memoirs to amateur investigators Avdonin and Ryabov in 1978.

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members annually pay tribute to his gravestone on the anniversary of the murders, though on a few occasions it has also been vandalized.

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gunshots. Yurovsky and Pavel Medvedev collected 14 handguns to use that night: two Browning pistols (one M1900 and one M1906), two Colt

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of sleepers under which the royal family was buried, and next lies Ermakov's mauser, with which, in his own words, he "shot the Tsar".

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men to "shoot straight at the heart to avoid an excessive quantity of blood and get it over quickly." At least two of the Letts, an

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In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613–1917)

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The noise of the guns had been heard by households all around, awakening many people. The executioners were ordered to use their

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or soup with meat for lunch; the prisoners were informed that "they were no longer permitted to live like tsars". In mid-June,

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discovered the burial site. The Soviet Union did not acknowledge the existence of these remains publicly until 1989 during the

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was leaving to meet his uncle, Ivan Sednev, who had returned to the city asking to see him; Ivan had already been shot by the

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Michael D. Coble (26 September 2011), "The identification of the Romanovs: Can we (finally) put the controversies to rest?",

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Members of the Ural Regional Soviet – the Bolsheviks who issued the order to execute Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and his family.

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While the Romanovs were having dinner on 16 July 1918, Yurovsky entered the sitting room and informed them that kitchen boy

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morning of 18 July. The sodden corpses were hauled out one by one using ropes tied to their mangled limbs and laid under a

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Inform Sverdlov the whole family have shared the same fate as the head. Officially the family will die at the evacuation.

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To maintain a sense of normality, the Bolsheviks lied to the Romanovs on 13 July 1918 that two of their loyal servants,

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and photographic equipment were confiscated. The servants were ordered to address the Romanovs only by their names and

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along with five other Romanovs on 18 July 1918, remarking that "virtue with the crown on it is a greater enemy to the

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and bayoneted her in the chest, but when it failed to penetrate, he pulled out his revolver and shot her in the head.

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The Romanovs were kept in strict isolation at the Ipatiev House. They were forbidden to speak any language other than

5958: 5943: 5908: 5317: 5086: 4984: 4958: 4878: 4850: 4759: 4654: 4576: 3572: 2668: 2634: 2560:– Москва : Советская энциклопедия, 1926–. Т. 49: Робер – Ручная граната. – 1941. / статья: «Романовы» / кол. 134 1877: 1744: 1208: 1436: 3950:[Chapter 21 Yurovsky's version. 'The true fate of Nicholas II, or Who was killed in the Ipatiev House?']. 1914:, a great-nephew of Alexandra), the bodies were laid to rest with state honors in the St. Catherine Chapel of the 822:

that had occurred under Avdeev, Yurovsky chose mainly foreigners. Nicholas noted in his diary on 8 July that "new

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deemed the Ipatiev House lacking "sufficient historical significance" and it was demolished in September 1977 by

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and were not permitted access to their luggage, which was stored in a warehouse in the interior courtyard. Their

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Diary entry of Tsar Nicholas II, referring to the constant tightening of restrictions on his family by Yurovsky.

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Although official Soviet accounts place the responsibility for the decision with the Uralispolkom, an entry in

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the relics he recovered. Sokolov accumulated eight volumes of photographic and eyewitness accounts. He died in

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made repeated enquiries to the Bolsheviks concerning the family's well-being. Another diplomat, British consul

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before he could complete his investigation. The box is stored in the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Job in

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In August 1917, after a failed attempt to send the Romanovs to the United Kingdom, where the ruling monarch,

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Lenin was, however, aware of Vasily Yakovlev's decision to take Nicholas, Alexandra and Maria further on to

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The Soviet government continued to attempt to control accounts of the murders. Sokolov's report was banned.

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at the nearby church were permitted. In early June, the family no longer received their daily newspapers.

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The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: The Ill-fated British and Russian Royal Alliance

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The windows in all the family's rooms were sealed shut and covered with newspapers (later painted with

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in February 1919. During his interrogation he denied taking part in the murders and died in prison of

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and tossed into a smaller pit. 44 partial bone fragments from both corpses were found in August 2007.

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In 1993, the report of Yakov Yurovsky from 1922 was published. According to the report, units of the

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As the Bolsheviks gathered strength, the government moved Nicholas, Alexandra, and their daughter

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at Alexander Palace in May 1917. The family was allowed no such indulgences at the Ipatiev House.

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claimed to be members of the Romanov family, which drew media attention away from activities of

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to help the Romanovs; Dolgorukov smuggled notes from his prison cell before he was murdered by

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the first two sisters: somewhat reticent and considered like a step-daughter in the family...

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watch during the liturgy and while the housemaids were cleaning the bedrooms with the family.

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was installed on 11 July, after Alexandra had ignored repeated warnings from the commandant,

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in the spring of 1917. This is one of the last known photographs of Nicholas II's daughters.

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Chapter XV: Surrounding the royal family by security officers // Murder of the royal family

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basement rooms of the Ipatiev House. There were four machine gun emplacements: one in the

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The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution

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Romanov murders: Poll reveals near 60% of Russians see Czar's family homicide as atrocity

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Therefore, the found remains of the martyrs, as well as the place of their burial in the

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and addressed by the sentries as "Nicholas Romanov", was reunited with his family at the

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established the Sokolov Commission to investigate the murders at the end of that month.

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identified and interred in St. Petersburg as Anastasia's were really hers or Maria's.

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a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances."

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100,000 Pilgrims March in Memory of the Romanovs on the Centenary of Their Execution

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visited the house in June but was refused entry at gunpoint by the guards, while Dr

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Royal dog fled from Siberia into British exile, living in shadow of Windsor Castle

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described the murder of the royal family as one of the most shameful chapters in

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aimed at the tsar and tsaritsa's bedroom on the southeastern corner of the house.

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Communists Lay Flowers at the Grave of the Murderer of Russia's Imperial Family

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were overlooked by Yurovsky's men and eventually recovered by Sokolov in 1919.

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of the Voznesensky Cathedral located across the road from the house. An iron

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All those under arrest will be held as hostages, and the slightest attempt at

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Why the Romanov Family's Fate Was a Secret Until the Fall of the Soviet Union

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Gill, P; Ivanov, PL; Kimpton, C; Piercy, R; Benson, N; Tully, G; Evett, I;

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in 1924, where he was assassinated by a Russian monarchist in July 1927.

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The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: New Truths Behind the Romanov Mystery

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Steinberg, Mark D.; Khrustalëv, Vladimir M.; Tucker, Elizabeth (1995).

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Nikolai Sokolov: The man who revealed the story of the Romanov killings

3974:"Yurovsky Note 1922 English – Blog & Alexander Palace Time Machine" 2076: 2040: 1880:'s 2007 investigation on the shooting of the Romanov family, declared: 1829: 1783: 1684: 1527: 1496:. On the right is a blouse that belonged to one of the grand duchesses. 1224: 1143: 1038: 922: 904: 811: 794: 741:

with a group of other hostages on 6 July, in reprisal for the death of

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Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe: A Neostructuralist Approach

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Around midnight on 17 July, Yurovsky ordered the Romanovs' physician,

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The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs

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On Centenary, Russian State and Orthodox Church at Odds Over Romanovs

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The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions

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1920 photograph inscribed: "I am standing on the grave of the Tsar."

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was positioned. Directly below it was the tsar and tsarina's bedroom.

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in 1917, the Romanovs and their servants had been imprisoned in the

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In the hasty disposal of the bodies, several belongings like these

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and Ryabov reburied them in the summer of 1980. The presidency of

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ere the special position Maria held in the family was confirmed".

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Alexandre Beloborodov sent a coded telegram to Lenin's secretary,

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The Sokolov investigation inspecting the mineshaft in Spring 1919

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The bodies of the Romanovs and their servants were loaded onto a

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Photographic scans of Sokolov's investigation, published in 1924

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number of people claimed to be survivors of the ill-fated family

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preferring a public trial for Nicholas II with Trotsky as chief

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Announcement in the local newspaper by Bolshevik war commissar

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and drinking and smoking. They also listened to the Romanovs'

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attended the funeral along with Romanov relations, including

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victims of the Revolution" rather than the imperial family.

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passersby could see Nicholas's legs when he used the double

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Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

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were in attendance, three of whom were Lenin, Sverdlov and

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was directed at the Ural Soviets and Yekaterinburg Cheka.

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seven of the 23 members of the Central Executive Committee

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Remnick, Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker, p. 222.

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and burned. Everything was packed into the Romanovs' own

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Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

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During the imperial family's imprisonment in late June,

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Members of the Presidium of the Ural Executive Council:

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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg

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Ivan Plotnikov, history professor at the Maksim Gorky

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100 years on, debate rolls on over Russia's last tsar

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Anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War

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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924

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Daly, Jonathan; Trofimov, Leonid (9 February 2023).

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Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918)

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are known today, buried alongside each other in the

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of the murders fuelled rumors of survivors. Various

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1918 killing of Nicholas II of Russia and his family

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John Curtis Perry, Constantine V. Pleshakov, p. 193

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On the eve of the centennial, the 279:but said that the bodies were destroyed and that 5890: 5477: 5340:The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II 4879:"Nicholas II And Family Canonized For 'Passion'" 4531: 4529: 4483: 4387: 4385: 4234: 4232: 4030: 4028: 4026: 3932: 3930: 3881: 3879: 3877: 3875: 3856: 3854: 3748: 3746: 3744: 3742: 3697: 3684: 3682: 3680: 3678: 3582: 3580: 3038: 3036: 2774: 2772: 2487: 2369: 2152: 3594: 3592: 3411: 3409: 3394: 3387: 3385: 3375: 3373: 3345: 3343: 3341: 3252: 3250: 3240: 3238: 3236: 3159: 3157: 3155: 3013: 3011: 3009: 2994: 2762: 2760: 2758: 2424: 2422: 2420: 2301: 2299: 2289: 2287: 2285: 2283: 1488:Recovered Romanov belongings on display at the 1448:The remains of the dog "Jimmy" found by Sokolov 1402:After Yekaterinburg fell to the anti-communist 1053:which produced a good deal of smoke and fumes; 4699:Trotsky, L.D. (1935), 'Diary In Exile', p.81, 4600: 4422: 4222: 4220: 4051: 4049: 3532: 3166: 3089: 3087: 3077: 3075: 2987: 2985: 2983: 2964: 2962: 2887: 2885: 2866: 2864: 2854: 2852: 2850: 2848: 2846: 2836: 2834: 2832: 2830: 2342: 2215: 2213: 2211: 2209: 2117: 2115: 2113: 2003:them. The rehabilitation was denounced by the 841:were closing on Yekaterinburg, to protect the 5463: 5237:. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. 2014. 4526: 4382: 4229: 4139: 4023: 3927: 3872: 3851: 3762:Kate Baklitskaya, Go East (21 January 2014), 3739: 3675: 3577: 3033: 2769: 2490:"Sleuths say they've found the last Romanovs" 2253: 1619:, has established that the executioners were 961:, similar to the one used by Grigory Nikulin. 663:, not to stand too close to the open window. 224:on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in 171:on instructions from the Ural Regional Soviet 5939:Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia 5529:Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia 4400: 4055: 4007: 4005: 4003: 4001: 3589: 3406: 3382: 3370: 3338: 3247: 3233: 3152: 3006: 2755: 2590: 2440:The mystery of the Romanovs' untimely demise 2417: 2296: 2280: 2148: 2146: 361:All-Russian Central Committee of the Soviets 5228:. 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(2009). 3632: 3127: 3125: 2677: 2023:In late 2015, at the insistence by the 1989:Supreme Court of the Russian Federation 1203:for dispatch to Moscow under escort by 248:to prevent identification, and buried. 5989:Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia 5891: 5850:Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia 5248: 5023: 4287: 4241: 3503:. Random House Publishing. p. 4. 3496: 3469: 2927:. John Wiley & Sons. p. 127. 2182: 2036:Russian Public Opinion Research Center 1699:, were both killed in 1938 during the 1324:sent out to Koptyaki whilst assigning 571:action in the town will result in the 5451: 5428: 4296: 3560: 3558: 3556: 2792:from the original on 12 January 2022. 2734: 2707: 2648: 2594:Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution 2488:Clifford J. Levy (25 November 2007), 1259:at a place called the Four Brothers ( 4916:Blomfield, Adrian (1 October 2008). 4868: 4857:, The Associated Press, 18 July 1998 3768:, The Siberian Times, archived from 3122: 2060:considers Nicholas II a weak ruler. 1707:and consigned to an unmarked grave. 1655:, V. N. Netrebin, and Y. M. Tselms. 1651:assigned to the attic machine gun), 355:. This is supported by a passage in 5835:Church of All Saints, Yekaterinburg 5116:Плужников, Алексей (12 July 2018). 4465: 4407:, Royal Russia News, archived from 1982:Church of All Saints, Yekaterinburg 1667:and 180 kilograms (400 lb) of 1049:. The Nagant operated on old black 505:in considerable comfort. After the 263:, Siberia, in the aftermath of the 13: 5974:Massacres of the Russian Civil War 5327:. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 4918:Russia exonerates Tsar Nicholas II 4672:King and Wilson, Epilogue section. 4270:"Russia dig finds 'tsar's family'" 3792:Excerpt of Sokolov's investigation 3553: 3539:. 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Medvedev (Kuprin) 1581: 729:(Alexei's sailor nanny) and 24:Murder of the Romanov family 7: 5222:Bykov, Pavel Mikhailovich. 4940:, France 24, 1 October 2008 2071:The Black Book of Communism 2063: 1749:Central Executive Committee 1553:brought with it the era of 1214: 192:, and their five children: 10: 6015: 5845:Romanov Family Association 5214: 4903:BBCNews (1 October 2008). 2034:A survey conducted by the 2013:Russian Prosecutor General 1752:The 55 volumes of Lenin's 1228:burial. About 800 metres ( 1076: 326:Russian prosecutor general 5868: 5807: 5727: 5677: 5606: 5599: 5573: 5542: 5492: 5485: 5379:Rappaport, Helen (2018). 5297:. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 4823:, Russian Archives Online 4649:. 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He was placed under 259:before being moved to 220:revolutionaries under 167:revolutionaries under 5994:World War I massacres 5979:Nicholas II of Russia 5634:Alexander Beloborodov 5503:Nicholas II of Russia 5180:Alexander Beloborodov 5122:Московский Комсомолец 4432:Plotnikov, I (2003). 3700:"Reliving a Massacre" 3313:Rappaport, pp. 34–35. 3208:Rappaport, pp. 86–87. 3042:Rappaport, pp. 17–18. 2257:Resurrecting the Czar 1882: 1862: 1818: 1806: 1792:Soviet historiography 1732: 1617:Ural State University 1610: 1589: 1533:Local amateur sleuth 1494:Jordanville, New York 1490:Holy Trinity Seminary 1487: 1447: 1439: 1339: 1245: 1188: 1110: 1084: 875: 854:Alexander Beloborodov 765: 685: 669: 605: 597: 569:counter-revolutionary 565: 186:Nicholas II of Russia 143:extrajudicial killing 95:56.84417°N 60.60972°E 5919:Communist repression 5629:Filipp Goloshchyokin 5509:Alexandra Feodorovna 5192:Filipp Goloshchyokin 4447:on 26 September 2015 3223:, Osprey Publishing 1997:political repression 1809:Church of All Saints 1724:Novodevichy Cemetery 1657:Filipp Goloshchyokin 1459:King Charles Spaniel 1406:on 25 July, Admiral 1283:56.942222; 60.473333 1047:Belgian-made Nagants 780:Anastasia Hendrikova 608:Anastasia Hendrikova 582:Filipp Goloshchyokin 190:Alexandra Feodorovna 5969:Massacres in Russia 5338:Radzinsky, Edvard. 5323:Pringle, Robert W. 5059:. 11 November 2015. 5045:. 11 November 2015. 4987:on 9 November 2015. 4315:2009PLoSO...4.4838C 3915:Montefiore, p. 639. 3704:The Washington Post 3586:Montefiore, p. 645. 3433:Montefiore, p. 644. 2782:(17 January 2011). 2780:The Daily Telegraph 2131:Sokolov, Nikolai A. 1891:Czechoslovak Legion 1366: / 1274: / 1001:Wilhelm von Mirbach 839:Czechoslovak Legion 810:on the confiscated 804:revolutionary songs 768:Catherine Schneider 351:during the ongoing 349:Czechoslovak Legion 253:February Revolution 91: / 5749:October Revolution 5745:Russian Revolution 5649:Nikolay Tolmachyov 5413:Tames, R. 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A. 4464: 4460: 4450: 4448: 4437: 4430: 4423: 4414: 4412: 4399: 4395: 4390: 4383: 4378: 4374: 4365: 4363: 4354: 4350: 4295: 4288: 4279: 4277: 4268: 4267: 4263: 4258: 4254: 4249: 4242: 4237: 4230: 4225: 4218: 4213: 4209: 4199: 4198: 4194: 4185: 4183: 4171: 4167: 4162: 4158: 4149: 4147: 4138: 4134: 4129: 4125: 4121:Massie, p. 123. 4120: 4116: 4111: 4107: 4102: 4098: 4094:Massie, p. 124. 4093: 4089: 4085:(2014), p. 379. 4080: 4076: 4066: 4064: 4054: 4047: 4042: 4038: 4033: 4024: 4019: 4015: 4010: 3999: 3994: 3990: 3985: 3981: 3972: 3971: 3967: 3957: 3955: 3944: 3940: 3935: 3928: 3923: 3919: 3914: 3910: 3905: 3901: 3896: 3889: 3884: 3873: 3868: 3864: 3859: 3852: 3847: 3843: 3838: 3834: 3825: 3823: 3816: 3815: 3811: 3802: 3800: 3789: 3788: 3784: 3775: 3773: 3772:on 11 July 2017 3760: 3756: 3751: 3740: 3735: 3731: 3726: 3717: 3708: 3706: 3696: 3692: 3687: 3676: 3671: 3667: 3662: 3658: 3649: 3645: 3640: 3633: 3628: 3624: 3615: 3611: 3606: 3602: 3597: 3590: 3585: 3578: 3563: 3554: 3547: 3531: 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