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12. Ibid , June 3, 1918

13. MA’s diary, June 7, 1918, MK p 163

14. Myasnikov, p 63

15. Biographical note, Myasnikov

16. Kerensky, Murder , p 255

17. Myasnikov, p 31

18. Ibid , pp 69-70

19. MA’s diary, June 7, 1918, MK ibid

20. Ibid , June 8-9, 1918

21. Ibid , June 10-11, 1918

22. Myasnikov, p 116

23. Malkov statement, GAPO 90/M-60

24. Mikov, GAPO 90/2/M-22b

1. Myasnkov, p 59

2. Ibid

3. Ibid,, pp 82-4

4. British Meteorological Office,, Bracknell, Berkshire

5. Myasnikov, p 59

6. Ibid, p 87

7. Ibid , pp 94-5

8. Ibid , p 95

9. Biographical note, Introduction, Myasnikov His 1935 statement at the Soviet Paris embassy came after he fled Stalin’s purges and intended to win hi m a pardon. He was allowed back in Russia, though that would do him no good. He was executed by the Soviets in 1945.

10. Myasnikov, p 95

11. Khrustalev/Lykov, p 118

12. Statement by Znamerovsky, ibid cited pp 118-9

13. Statement by Chelyshev, ibid , cited p 109

14. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3

15. Statement by kitchen maid, cited Khrustalev/Lykov, pp 114-5

16. Statement by Chelyshev, ibid , p 109

17. Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3

18. Ibid

19. Wilton, p 123

20. Ibid

21. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 153

22. Chelyshev statement, Khrustalev/Lykov, p 109; Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3

23. Myasnikov, p 98

24. Ibid, pp 98-100

25. Ibid , p 105

26. Ibid , pp 105-8

27. Ibid, p 111

28. Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3

29. Ibid

30. Myasnikov, p 112

31. Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3

32. Markov was still weating the watch in 1965 when as an old man his statement about Michael’s murder was lodged in Perm Archives.

33. Myasnikov, p 113

34. Ibid

35. Ibid

36. Resolution Perm Provincial Executive Committee, June 13, 1918, cited Khrustalev/Lykov, p 90

37. Wilton, p 240

38. Izvestya , Perm., June 15, 1918, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 149

39. V. F. Sivkov, Perm Provincial Executive Committee, cited Buranov/Khrustalov, p 107

40. Vera Karnaukhova, in evidence to Sokolov, RTsKhIDNI 588/8 , cited Khrustalev/Lykov pp 138-40

41. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3

42. Myasnikov, p 119

43. Ibid, p 114

44. Alexandrov, pp 81-3

45 Ibid. The two envoys travelled separately, with Myasnikov escorting his friend Beloborodov’s wife and family, travelling to Moscow. Although he survived, they drowned in a cross-river ferry accident. That would explain why he did not return with Goloshchenkin to Ekaterinburg or play any further role in events there.

1. Telegram no 551, June 29, 1918, PRO/ADM 137/883

2. The Times , London, June 27, 1918,

3. Ibid, July 3, 1918

4. Ibid, July 6, 1918

5. July 8, 1918, PRO WO 106/1220/44

6. Nasha rodin a, Moscow, July 21, 1918 cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 141

7. Dimitri’s diaries 1918

8. Moscow to Berlin, July 17, 1918, PRO GFM 6/139 A3097

9. July 1, 1918, PRO GFM 6/140 A30977

10. Bykov, p 82

11. Investigations which established the essentials of the murder were begun after the Whites captured Ekaterinburg on July 25, 1918.

12. Sinolin; it was Sinolin who recovered the bodies and carried out the first investigations of the murders.

13. Pipes, pp 780-3

14. Bruce Lockhart, p 304

15. Stockholm, August 26, 1918, PRO WO 106/1219/815

16. Kiev, August 23, 1918, PRO GFM, 6.140/AS 4034

17. July 22, 1918,

18. Majolier, p 129

19. GARF 439/8780, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 156

20. June 15, 1918, PRO GFM6/139 A29471

21. Ibid

22. Majolier p 153

23. Ibid , p 142

24. Bruce Lockhart, p 321; ‘hung out of window’ Paley, 244

25. Majolier p 145; the evidence dates her arrest as September 7, 1918

26. Ibid , p 153

27. Ibid, pp 158-60

28. Izvestia , Perm, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev p 156

29. Russian Telegraph Agency, September 20, 1918, ibid p 156

30. O’Connor, p 256

31. Mirkina/Khrustalelv p 156

32. September 21, 1918, PROGFM 6/140/A39669

33. Wilton, p 129

34. LRA Ms 1363/82

35. Majolier, p 142

36. Ibid , p 161

37. Ibid , p 170

38. Ibid pp 166-9

39. GARF 391/161, cited Buranov/Khrustalev, p 111

40. Kiev, October 24, 1918, PRO GFM, 16/140 A44463

41. Copenhagen, November 2, 1918, ibid , A46412

42. Berlin, October 30, 1918, ibid, A45995

43. Majolier, p177

44. Ibid, p 179

1. Kolchak telegram, September 15, 1919, LRA MS 1363/98

2. Majolier, p 191

3. LRA MS 1363/101, Gray, 138

4. Ibid, 1363/119

5. Majolier, p 192

6. August 2, LRA MS 1363/103-3

7. LRA MS 1363/69

8. The Times, London, July 6,, 1924

9. Cyril, p 220

10. Ibid, p 248

11. Ibid , p 247

12. Ibid, p 222, 248

13. Letter, October 4, 1924, kindly provided by Prince Nicholas Romanov, great-nephew of ‘Nikolasha’

14. Cyril, p 222

15. Ibid, p 165

16. Ibid, p 232

17. Ibid, p 248

18. Almanac de Gotha, 1936

19. Gray, p 146

20. Majolier, p 226

21. Ibid, p 230

22. Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya, Paris, August 1, 1931. LRA MS 1363/123

23. Natasha grand-daughter Pauline Gray to author

24. Death certificate: copy to author from Natasha’s grand-daughter Pauline

25. Gushchik, p 46

ORIGINAL SOURCES

MICHAEL ALEKSANDROVICH, GRAND DUKE, EMPEROR MICHAEL II — Letters, 1908-1918: State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow — Letters, 1909-1910: Russian State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg — Diaries, 1915-1918: Forbes Collection, New York

— Letters, telegrams: Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds

— Legal papers, miscellanea: Knebworth House archive, England

— Personal photograph album: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London

NATHALIE SERGEYEVNA BRASOVA (‘NATASHA’)

— Letters, 1909-1916: State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow — Telegrams, 1909-1913; miscellanea 1919-1934: Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds

GEORGE MIKHAILOVICH, COUNT BRASOV

— Letters 1918: Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds

DIMITRI PAVLOVICH, GRAND DUKE

—Diaries, Houghton Library, Harvard University

—Letters, 1915-1917: State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow

Other Archives consulted:

Moscow Historical Archive

Moscow Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation Public Record Office, London (PRO)

Royal Archives, Windsor (RA)

Royal Archives, Copenhagen

State Archive of the Moscow District

State Archive of the Perm District (GAPO)

Wiener Stadt-und Landsarchiv, Vienna

ALEXANDER Mikhailovich, Grand Duke (‘Sandro’): Once a Grand Duke, Cassell, London 1932

— Always a Grand Duke, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1933