The true history of the murder of Russian Tsar’s family is still unknown
Boris Romanov
Why two members of the governmental commission for identification of remains of Tsar’s family did not agree with the official version? Why the official investigation did not take into account other versions of a fate of some members of the tsar’s family? Why there are absent the photos of tsar’s family before the shooting (alive), and after the shooting (the dead bodies)? … These and many other problems of the identifying of the «Yekaterinburg remains» are discussed in this brochure.
The true history of the murder of Russian Tsar’s family is still unknown
Boris Romanov
© Boris Romanov, 2021
ISBNВ 978-5-0055-2098-2
Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero
The cover design uses the photo from Wikipedia article «Execution of the Romanov family» (By Anonymous – the exhibition «The death of the family of Emperor Nicholas II. A century-long investigation» Exhibition Hall of the Federal Archives. 2012, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19584445 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19584445))
The basement where the Romanov family was killed. The wall had been torn apart inВ search ofВ bullets and other evidence byВ investigators inВ 1919. The double doors leading toВ aВ storeroom were locked during the execution.
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More than a hundred years separate us of July 17, 1918, when in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg there was killed the family of last Russian Emperor (and four faithful persons who were with them up to the end), but the doubts and disputes about the circumstances of the brutal killing, and even about whether all members of the royal family were killed – these debates, which began in August 1918 with the first investigation (by the investigators of the White Army) is still going on…
Photo of the Ipatiev House (taken in May 1918?) from the article of the English-language Wikipedia «Execution of the Romanov family» By Alexey Nametkin (? -1919) – Ma Este (Tonight) – Hungarian cultural and artistic biweekly magazine – 30 July 1925, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49863176). Note: the palisade around the house was erected in April 1918, before the first Romanovs brought from Tobolsk settled there)
Why two members of the governmental commission for identification of remains (Academician Alexeyev and Dr. Popov) did not agree with the official version? Why the official investigation did not discuss those genetic expertise that are not consistent with the official version, and why this commission does not take into account other versions of a fate of some members of the tsar’s family? Why there is still not available the archives of FSB (Cheka) of the period from 30 April to December 1918? Why there are absent the photos of tsar’s family before the shooting (alive), and after the shooting (the dead bodies)? … These and many other problems of the identifying of Yekaterinburg remains are discussed in this brochure.
Those killed in Ipatiev’s house. Row 1: Nicholas II and his family (from left to right: Olga, Maria, Nikolai, Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexey and Tatiana) row 2: life doctor E. S. Botkin, life cook I. M. Kharitonov row 3: room girl A. S. Demidova, valet Colonel A. E. Troup. Photos from the article of the Russian Wikipedia «The Murder of the Royal Family» (Author: Glavkom_NN-own work, CC0 1.0, https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3459805)
The official version
From the beginning of the 1990s and to the present time, the official version of Prosecutor General’s Office and Investigative Committee RF is based on the so-called. «The note of Yurovsky», which for the first time after the opening the party archives was found and published at the end of the 1980s by the writer Edvard Radzinsky (he himself, as far as I know, never claimed unequivocally that all the facts in this note of Chekist-regicide were absolute truth).
In the shortest form, the essence of this note is as follows: on the night of July 17, all members of the Tsar’s family (seven person), Dr. Botkin, and three servants were woken and assembled in the basement of Ipatiev’s house under the pretext of the riots in the city; into the basement, Yurovsky had read them the decision of Ural Council about their execution; immediately afterwards they were shot; the shooting was complicated by the gunpowder smoke, filling the basement – several prisoners were still alive and they were brutally finished off with bayonets; after that all the bodies were taken to the forest (Koptyakovsky forest); a part of these bodies was dismembered and then were burned; the remains were doused with sulfuric acid and buried. The place of the burial was also indicated in the Yurovsky’s note.
Just at this place (near the В«Ganin PitВ» inВ the Koptyakovsky forest) inВ 1979, the remains ofВ nine people were found byВ Avdonin and Ryabov;
In 1994—1998, the government commission identified these remains as the remains of Nicholas II, Alexandra Fyodorovna, their daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia, Dr. Eugene Botkin, and three servants of the royal family. In summer 2007, near with the same Ganin Pit, there were found 46 small fragments of bone remains of two more (boy and girl) – presumably (or alleged) of Alexei and Maria.
Critics of this release, and of «Note of Yurovsky» are pointing to the many contradictory facts, as well as on several dozens of discrepancies between this Note and the known (from other party archives and publications) memories of witnesses and other participants of the murder (the memories of Ermakov, Strekotin and others). Also it proved that the «Yurovsky’s Note» was composed by main Bolshevik historian (Pokrovsky), who is known with his participation in the fraud of alleged historical texts. Even the Bolsheviks called this historian as «the dashing olderman.» Although the «Note» was signed by Yurovsky himself and the original contained his own editing, however the main Bolshevik historian might well convince Yurovsky to sign up what the Central Committee of CP considered as necessary, rather than what was actually.
Why the archives ofВ the Urals Cheka ofВ 1918В are not available soВ far?
Obviously, the most detailed (and probably without distorting the facts) all the circumstances of the murder of Tsar’s family were to be documented in the archives of the Ural’s Cheka of those year. However, these archives (from May to December 1918) are not available till now.
One member of the government commission (who did not agree with official conclusions about the identification of the remains), the well-known scientist, Director of the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Veniamin Alexeyev in his article «It is too early to put a point in Tsar’s issue» in the interview for newspaper «LG-Ural» reported on his quests of the documents of Ural’s Cheka the following:
В«But where are these documents? None ofВ these documents.
– They are not available or do not exist? What do you think?
– V.V.A.: At present there are none, and from this we should proceed. But I do not exclude that this archive exist. I demanded (in the goverment commission) of access to the Cheka’s documents of those time. I was told that it had not survived. … I tried to find these documents of Cheka. The paradox – the documents from May to December 1918 are absent – neither Cheka, nor VCheka or the Politburo. I do not know, whether these documents are destroyed or hidden.»
Access toВ these documents could not get even the senior investigator ofВ the Investigative Committee ofВ the Russian Federation Vladimir Solovyov, who led aВ judicial investigation byВ the В«Yekaterinburg remainsВ» from the very beginning (from early 1990s), and he leads the investigation so far. 5В November 2009В on one ofВ the online forums, Vladimir Solovyov, inВ particular, wrote about the Archives ofВ the Ural Regional Council and the Urals Cheka ofВ those time the following:
«With regard to the archives of the Uraloblsovet and Ural Cheka, today we can not say with certainty, are it survived or not. All attempts to find these archives have not been successful – and such attempts were undertaken yet in the 1920s. My conscience is at peace; I made a serious effort to this search.»
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Amazing! Surprisingly the following:
1. There is no doubt that these archives were safely evacuated from Yekaterinburg between 17 and 25 July 1918. It is known that the trains left from Yekaterinburg in those days without problems, and Yakov Yurovsky himself calmly went in train to Moscow with a large luggage (the royal family jewels and documents) – he left Ekaterinburg in a few days after the murder of the royal family. The Bolsheviks and the Ural Cheka had 7—8 days to quietly take out all their archives to Moscow.
2. We know how reliably and passionately there guarded and are guarding communists and especially Cheka toВ their archives. And the archives ofВ Uraloblsovet and Ural Cheka were lost inВ Moscow?! It is impossible toВ believe!
3. Pay attention to the fact that there are inaccessible the archives just of the period from May to December 1918: April 30, Tsar’s family was taken to Yekaterinburg; on July 17, the murder took place; but till December 1918 Cheka continued the searching of the Tsar’s youngest daughter (Anastasia) across all controlled by them Russian lands. – That’s why there are inaccessible the archives of the period from May to December 1918!
Hence the conclusion:
These archives from the very beginning were so secret that till now it is unavailable even for goverment investigators (!). Or these archives were destroyed by the Bolsheviks (KGB) after their arrival in Moscow – because we know (according Soloviev’s words), that yet in the 1920s it was allegedly lost. My version of why these archives could be destroyed or forever classified as top secret, you can read in the section «Why did Stalin in 1928 canceled the anniversary of the execution of Tsar.»
These archives, presumably, contained the information so much divergent from the official version, contained in the so-called «Notes of Yurovsky» that chiefs of security officers found it necessary to destroy or scramble forever all these documents. It is also possible that these archives contained details of such atrocities against the female part of the Tsar’s family (according one of the versions they were exported to Perm) that the current leadership of the FSB and the Kremlin finds it impossible to open these files. It is also possible that the files contain information about the fate of the severed head (after the execution) of Nicholas II, who, according to one version, was preserved in alcohol and taken to Moscow to prove the fact of the execution of Tsar. By the way, in the book of Helium Ryabov about the search history of the remains («How was it. The Romanovs. Hiding bodies, the searching and the consequences», 1998), as I recall, there is a chapter about this severed head, where Ryabov said about his dream: at the beginning of the search, he was summoned to the KGB Chairman Andropov, who pulled out of the safe and showed him alcoholized head of Nicholas II… It is only one not documentary chapter inside the fully documentary book… Ostensibly it was a dream?
Photographer Yurovsky and photo-apparatus Kodak
Twenty years ago Edvard Radzinsky in his book («Nicholas II. The Life and Death») wrote that Yakov Yurovsky knew the photo-business and loved to photograph – so strange that he did not two photos: a living Tsar’s family (in the basement of the Ipatiev’s house), and second, terrible photos – the corpses of family members… Both photos were needed to Moscow. Photo of alive Tsar’s family was necessary to Lenin for the misinformation of the world community, especially due that since just before the execution (July 16), Lenin assured the correspondent of a Danish newspaper, that the Tsar’s family is alive and safe. Photos of corpses were needed for Yurovsky himself in Moscow, for the upcoming report about the execution…
The evidence was absolutely necessary for the report toВ Sverdlov. He never did believe anyone on the word, and Yurovsky knew this from previous work withВ him.
All jewels of Tsar’s family would not could be evidence of the death of all their members. Ural Bolsheviks and their leader Sverdlov were known not only as the most brutal red thugs (yet since 1905), but also as the most stringent and brutal in the relationship between them themselves. They did not trust absolutely no one. We can no doubt that Yurovsky was obliged to present for Sverdlov the solid evidence of killing of all members of the Tsar’s family – photos of corpses.
We also know that in those days Yurovsky has had a photo-apparatus – German camera Kodak – the one that was confiscated during the search of Alexandra Feodorovna 17 (30) April in Ipatiev House – the first day of her arrival there. Radzinsky wrote about this referring to the memories of the commandant Avdeeva (the first commandant of the Ipatiev House). In addition, Radzinsky, made a reference to the entries in the book of the Guard on duty:
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