Boris Romanov: The true history of the murder of Russian Tsar’s family is still unknown

© Boris Romanov, 2021

ISBN 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 )

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 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)

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 «Ganin Pit» in the Koptyakovsky forest) in 1979, the remains of nine people were found by 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.

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:

« But where are these documents? None of 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 to these documents could not get even the senior investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Solovyov, who led a judicial investigation by the «Yekaterinburg remains» from the very beginning (from early 1990s), and he leads the investigation so far. 5 November 2009 on one of the online forums, Vladimir Solovyov, in particular, wrote about the Archives of the Ural Regional Council and the Urals Cheka of those time the following: