Whether the execution of the Romanov royal family. Who shot the royal family

On the night of July 16-17, 1918 in the city of Yekaterinburg, in the basement of the house of mining engineer Nikolai Ipatiev, Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, their children - Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, heir Tsarevich Alexei, as well as life -medic Evgeny Botkin, valet Alexey Trupp, room girl Anna Demidova and cook Ivan Kharitonov.

The last Russian emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov (Nicholas II) ascended the throne in 1894 after the death of the emperor's father Alexandra III and ruled until 1917, until the situation in the country became more complicated. On March 12 (February 27, old style), 1917, an armed uprising began in Petrograd, and on March 15 (March 2, old style), 1917, at the insistence of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma, Nicholas II signed an abdication of the throne for himself and his son Alexei in favor of the younger brother Mikhail Alexandrovich.

After his abdication, from March to August 1917, Nicholas and his family were under arrest in the Alexander Palace of Tsarskoye Selo. A special commission of the Provisional Government studied materials for the possible trial of Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on charges of treason. Having not found evidence and documents that clearly convicted them of this, the Provisional Government was inclined to deport them abroad (to Great Britain).

Execution of the royal family: reconstruction of eventsOn the night of July 16-17, 1918, Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family were shot in Yekaterinburg. RIA Novosti brings to your attention a reconstruction of the tragic events that took place 95 years ago in the basement of the Ipatiev House.

In August 1917, the arrested were transported to Tobolsk. The main idea of ​​the Bolshevik leadership was an open trial of the former emperor. In April 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to transfer the Romanovs to Moscow. Vladimir Lenin spoke out for the trial of the former tsar, and Leon Trotsky was supposed to be the main accuser of Nicholas II. However, information appeared about the existence of “White Guard conspiracies” to kidnap the Tsar, the concentration of “conspiratorial officers” in Tyumen and Tobolsk for this purpose, and on April 6, 1918, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to transfer the royal family to the Urals. The royal family was transported to Yekaterinburg and placed in the Ipatiev house.

The uprising of the White Czechs and the advance of the White Guard troops on Yekaterinburg accelerated the decision to shoot the former tsar.

The commandant of the House of Special Purpose, Yakov Yurovsky, was entrusted with organizing the execution of all members of the royal family, Doctor Botkin and the servants who were in the house.

© Photo: Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg

The execution scene is known from investigative reports, from the words of participants and eyewitnesses, and from the stories of the direct perpetrators. Yurovsky spoke about the execution of the royal family in three documents: “Note” (1920); "Memoirs" (1922) and "Speech at a meeting of old Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg" (1934). All the details of this crime, conveyed by the main participant in different times and under completely different circumstances, they agree on how the royal family and its servants were shot.

Based on documentary sources, it is possible to establish the time when the murder of Nicholas II, members of his family and their servants began. The car that delivered the last order to exterminate the family arrived at half past two on the night of July 16-17, 1918. After which the commandant ordered physician Botkin to wake up the royal family. It took the family about 40 minutes to get ready, then she and the servants were transferred to the semi-basement of this house, with a window overlooking Voznesensky Lane. Nicholas II carried Tsarevich Alexei in his arms because he could not walk due to illness. At Alexandra Feodorovna’s request, two chairs were brought into the room. She sat on one, and Tsarevich Alexei sat on the other. The rest were located along the wall. Yurovsky led the firing squad into the room and read the verdict.

This is how Yurovsky himself describes the execution scene: “I invited everyone to stand up. Everyone stood up, occupying the entire wall and one of the side walls. The room was very small. Nikolai stood with his back to me. I announced that Executive Committee The Council of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies of the Urals decided to shoot them. Nikolai turned and asked. I repeated the order and commanded: “Shoot.” I shot first and killed Nikolai on the spot. The shooting lasted for a very long time and, despite my hopes that the wooden wall would not ricochet, the bullets bounced off it. For a long time I was unable to stop this shooting, which had become careless. But when I finally managed to stop, I saw that many were still alive. For example, Doctor Botkin lay leaning on the elbow of his right hand, as if in a resting position, and finished off him with a revolver shot. Alexey, Tatyana, Anastasia and Olga were also alive. Demidova was also alive. Comrade Ermakov wanted to finish the matter with a bayonet. But, however, this did not work. The reason became clear later (the daughters were wearing diamond armor like bras). I was forced to shoot each one in turn."

After death was confirmed, all the corpses began to be transferred to the truck. At the beginning of the fourth hour, at dawn, the corpses of the dead were taken out of Ipatiev’s house.

The remains of Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna, Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia Romanov, as well as people from their entourage, shot in the House of Special Purpose (Ipatiev House), were discovered in July 1991 near Yekaterinburg.

On July 17, 1998, the burial of the remains of members of the royal family took place in the Peter and Paul Cathedral of St. Petersburg.

In October 2008, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to rehabilitate the Russian Emperor Nicholas II and members of his family. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office also decided to rehabilitate members of the imperial family - the Grand Dukes and Princes of the Blood, executed by the Bolsheviks after the revolution. Servants and associates of the royal family who were executed by the Bolsheviks or subjected to repression were rehabilitated.

In January 2009, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation stopped investigating the case into the circumstances of the death and burial of the last Russian emperor, members of his family and people from his entourage, shot in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918, "due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for bringing criminal charges responsibility and death of persons who committed premeditated murder" (subparagraphs 3 and 4 of part 1 of article 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR).

The tragic history of the royal family: from execution to reposeIn 1918, on the night of July 17 in Yekaterinburg, in the basement of the house of mining engineer Nikolai Ipatiev, Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and their children - Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and heir Tsarevich Alexei were shot.

On January 15, 2009, the investigator issued a resolution to terminate the criminal case, but on August 26, 2010, the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow decided, in accordance with Article 90 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, to recognize this decision as unfounded and ordered the violations to be eliminated. On November 25, 2010, the investigation decision to terminate this case was canceled by the Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee.

On January 14, 2011, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that the resolution was brought in accordance with the court decision and the criminal case regarding the death of representatives of the Russian Imperial House and people from their entourage in 1918-1919 was discontinued. The identification of the remains of members of the family of the former Russian Emperor Nicholas II (Romanov) and persons from his retinue has been confirmed.

On October 27, 2011, a resolution was issued to terminate the investigation into the case of the execution of the royal family. The 800-page resolution outlines the main conclusions of the investigation and indicates the authenticity of the discovered remains of the royal family.

However, the question of authentication still remains open. The Russian Orthodox Church, in order to recognize the found remains as the relics of royal martyrs, the Russian Imperial House supports the position of the Russian Orthodox Church on this issue. The director of the chancellery of the Russian Imperial House emphasized that genetic testing is not enough.

The Church canonized Nicholas II and his family and on July 17 celebrates the day of remembrance of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

According to official history, on the night of July 16-17, 1918, Nikolai Romanov, along with his wife and children, was shot. After opening the burial and identifying the remains in 1998, they were reburied in the tomb of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. However, then the Russian Orthodox Church did not confirm their authenticity.

“I cannot exclude that the church will recognize the royal remains as authentic if convincing evidence of their authenticity is discovered and if the examination is open and honest,” Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said in July of this year.

As is known, the Russian Orthodox Church did not participate in the burial of the remains of the royal family in 1998, explaining this by the fact that the church is not sure whether the original remains of the royal family are buried. The Russian Orthodox Church refers to a book by Kolchak investigator Nikolai Sokolov, who concluded that all the bodies were burned. Some of the remains collected by Sokolov at the burning site are kept in Brussels, in the Church of St. Job the Long-Suffering, and they have not been examined. At one time, a version of Yurovsky’s note, who supervised the execution and burial, was found - it became the main document before the transfer of the remains (along with the book of investigator Sokolov). And now, in the coming year of the 100th anniversary of the execution of the Romanov family, the Russian Orthodox Church has been tasked with giving a final answer to all the dark execution sites near Yekaterinburg. To obtain a final answer, research has been carried out for several years under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church. Again, historians, geneticists, graphologists, pathologists and other specialists are rechecking the facts, powerful scientific forces and the forces of the prosecutor's office are again involved, and all these actions again take place under a thick veil of secrecy.

Genetic identification research is carried out by four independent groups of scientists. Two of them are foreign, working directly with the Russian Orthodox Church. At the beginning of July 2017, the secretary of the church commission for studying the results of the study of the remains found near Yekaterinburg, Bishop Egoryevsky Tikhon(Shevkunov) reported: opened large number new circumstances and new documents. For example, Sverdlov’s order to execute Nicholas II was found. Moreover, based on the results latest research criminologists confirmed that the remains of the Tsar and Tsarina belonged to them, since a mark was suddenly found on the skull of Nicholas II, which is interpreted as a mark from a saber blow he received while visiting Japan. As for the queen, dentists identified her using the world's first porcelain veneers on platinum pins.

Although, if you open the conclusion of the commission, written before the burial in 1998, it says: the bones of the sovereign’s skull are so destroyed that the characteristic callus cannot be found. The same conclusion noted severe damage to the teeth of Nikolai’s presumed remains due to periodontal disease, since this person had never been to the dentist. This confirms that it was not the tsar who was shot, since the records of the Tobolsk dentist whom Nikolai contacted remained. In addition, no explanation has yet been found for the fact that the height of the skeleton of “Princess Anastasia” is 13 centimeters greater than her lifetime height. Well, as you know, miracles happen in the church... Shevkunov did not say a word about genetic testing, and this despite the fact that genetic studies in 2003 conducted by Russian and American specialists showed that the genome of the body of the alleged empress and her sister Elizabeth Feodorovna did not match , which means no relationship.

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In addition, in the museum of the city of Otsu (Japan) there are things left after the policeman wounded Nicholas II. They contain biological material that can be examined. Based on them, Japanese geneticists from Tatsuo Nagai’s group proved that the DNA of the remains of “Nicholas II” from near Yekaterinburg (and his family) does not 100% match the DNA of biomaterials from Japan. At Russian expertise The DNA of second cousins ​​was compared, and in the conclusion it was written that “there are matches.” The Japanese compared relatives of cousins. There are also the results of a genetic examination of the President of the International Association of Forensic Physicians, Mr. Bonte from Dusseldorf, in which he proved: the found remains and doubles of the Nicholas II Filatov family are relatives. Perhaps, from their remains in 1946, the “remains of the royal family” were created? The problem has not been studied.

Earlier, in 1998, the Russian Orthodox Church, on the basis of these conclusions and facts, did not recognize the existing remains as authentic, but what will happen now? In December, all conclusions of the Investigative Committee and the ROC commission will be considered by the Council of Bishops. It is he who will decide on the church’s attitude towards the Yekaterinburg remains. Let's see why everything is so nervous and what is the history of this crime?

This kind of money is worth fighting for

Today, some of the Russian elites have suddenly awakened an interest in one very piquant history of relations between Russia and the United States, connected with the Romanov royal family. The story in a nutshell is this: More than 100 years ago, in 1913, the United States created the Federal Reserve System (FRS), a central bank and international currency printing press that still operates today. The Fed was created for the newly created League of Nations (now the UN) and would be a united world financial center with your own currency. Russia contributed 48,600 tons of gold to the “authorized capital” of the system. But the Rothschilds demanded that Woodrow Wilson, who was then re-elected as US President, transfer the center to their private ownership along with the gold. The organization became known as the Federal Reserve System, where Russia owned 88.8%, and 11.2% belonged to 43 international beneficiaries. Receipts stating that 88.8% of gold assets for a period of 99 years are under the control of the Rothschilds were transferred in six copies to the family of Nicholas II. The annual income on these deposits was fixed at 4%, which was supposed to be transferred to Russia annually, but was deposited in the X-1786 account of the World Bank and in 300 thousand accounts in 72 international banks. All these documents confirming the right to the gold pledged to the Federal Reserve from Russia in the amount of 48,600 tons, as well as income from leasing it, were deposited by the mother of Tsar Nicholas II, Maria Fedorovna Romanova, for safekeeping in one of the Swiss banks. But only heirs have conditions for access there, and this access is controlled by the Rothschild clan. Gold certificates were issued for the gold provided by Russia, which made it possible to claim the metal in parts - the royal family hid them in different places. Later, in 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference confirmed Russia's right to 88% of the Fed's assets.

At one time, two well-known Russian oligarchs, Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, proposed to tackle this “golden” issue. But Yeltsin “didn’t understand” them, and now, apparently, that very “golden” time has come... And now this gold is remembered more and more often - though not at the state level.

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In Lahore, Pakistan, 16 police officers were arrested for the shooting of an innocent family on the streets of the city. According to eyewitnesses, the police stopped a car traveling to the wedding and brutally dealt with its driver and passengers.

People kill for this gold, fight for it, and make fortunes from it.

Today's researchers believe that all wars and revolutions in Russia and in the world occurred because the Rothschild clan and the United States did not intend to return gold to the Federal Reserve System of Russia. After all, the execution of the royal family made it possible for the Rothschild clan not to give up the gold and not pay for its 99-year lease. “Currently, out of three Russian copies of the agreement on gold invested in the Fed, two are in our country, the third is presumably in one of the Swiss banks,” says researcher Sergei Zhilenkov. – In a cache in the Nizhny Novgorod region, there are documents from the royal archive, among which there are 12 “gold” certificates. If they are presented, the global financial hegemony of the USA and the Rothschilds will simply collapse, and our country will receive huge money and all the opportunities for development, since it will no longer be strangled from overseas,” the historian is sure.

Many wanted to close the questions about the royal assets with the reburial. Professor Vladlen Sirotkin also has a calculation for the so-called war gold exported to the West and East during the First World War and the Civil War: Japan - 80 billion dollars, Great Britain - 50 billion, France - 25 billion, USA - 23 billion, Sweden - 5 billion, Czech Republic – $1 billion. Total – 184 billion. Surprisingly officials For example, in the USA and Great Britain these figures are not disputed, but they are surprised at the lack of requests from Russia. By the way, the Bolsheviks remembered Russian assets in the West in the early 20s. Back in 1923, People's Commissar foreign trade Leonid Krasin ordered a British investigative law firm to evaluate Russian real estate and cash deposits abroad. By 1993, this company reported that it had already accumulated a data bank worth 400 billion dollars! And this is legal Russian money.

Why did the Romanovs die? Britain did not accept them!

There is a long-term study, unfortunately, by the now deceased professor Vladlen Sirotkin (MGIMO) “Foreign Gold of Russia” (Moscow, 2000), where the gold and other holdings of the Romanov family, accumulated in the accounts of Western banks, are also estimated at no less than 400 billion dollars, and together with investments - more than 2 trillion dollars! In the absence of heirs from the Romanov side, the closest relatives turn out to be members of the English royal family... These are whose interests may be the background to many events of the 19th–21st centuries... By the way, it is not clear (or, on the contrary, it is clear) for what reasons the royal house of England refused the family three times The Romanovs are in refuge. The first time in 1916, in the apartment of Maxim Gorky, an escape was planned - the rescue of the Romanovs by kidnapping and internment of the royal couple during their visit to an English warship, which was then sent to Great Britain. The second was Kerensky's request, which was also rejected. Then the Bolsheviks’ request was not accepted. And this despite the fact that the mothers of George V and Nicholas II were sisters. In surviving correspondence, Nicholas II and George V call each other “Cousin Nicky” and “Cousin Georgie” - they were cousins ​​with a smaller age difference three years, and in their youth these guys spent a lot of time together and were very similar in appearance. As for the queen, her mother, Princess Alice, was the eldest and beloved daughter of Queen Victoria of England. At that time, England held 440 tons of gold from Russia’s gold reserves and 5.5 tons of Nicholas II’s personal gold as collateral for military loans. Now think about it: if the royal family died, then who would the gold go to? To the closest relatives! Is this the reason why cousin Georgie refused to accept cousin Nicky's family? To obtain gold, its owners had to die. Officially. And now all this needs to be connected with the burial of the royal family, which will officially testify that the owners of untold wealth are dead.

Versions of life after death

All versions of the death of the royal family that exist today can be divided into three. First version: the royal family was shot near Yekaterinburg, and its remains, with the exception of Alexei and Maria, were reburied in St. Petersburg. The remains of these children were found in 2007, all examinations were carried out on them, and they will apparently be buried on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. If this version is confirmed, for accuracy it is necessary to once again identify all the remains and repeat all examinations, especially genetic and pathological anatomical ones. Second version: the royal family was not shot, but was scattered throughout Russia and all family members died a natural death, having lived their lives in Russia or abroad, while in Yekaterinburg a family of doubles was shot (members of the same family or people from different families, but similar on members of the emperor's family). Nicholas II had doubles after Bloody Sunday 1905. When leaving the palace, three carriages left. It is unknown which of them Nicholas II sat in. The Bolsheviks, having captured the archives of the 3rd department in 1917, had data of doubles. There is an assumption that one of the families of doubles - the Filatovs, who are distantly related to the Romanovs - followed them to Tobolsk. Third version: the intelligence services added false remains to the burials of members of the royal family as they died naturally or before opening the grave. To do this, it is necessary to very carefully monitor, among other things, the age of the biomaterial.

Let us present one of the versions of the historian of the royal family Sergei Zhelenkov, which seems to us the most logical, although very unusual.

Before investigator Sokolov, the only investigator who published a book about the execution of the royal family, there were investigators Malinovsky, Nametkin (his archive was burned along with his house), Sergeev (removed from the case and killed), Lieutenant General Diterichs, Kirsta. All these investigators concluded that the royal family was not killed. Neither the Reds nor the Whites wanted to disclose this information - they understood that American bankers were primarily interested in obtaining objective information. The Bolsheviks were interested in the tsar's money, and Kolchak declared himself the Supreme Ruler of Russia, which could not happen with a living sovereign.

Investigator Sokolov was conducting two cases - one on the fact of murder and the other on the fact of disappearance. At the same time, military intelligence, represented by Kirst, conducted an investigation. When the Whites left Russia, Sokolov, fearing for the collected materials, sent them to Harbin - some of his materials were lost along the way. Sokolov’s materials contained evidence of the financing of the Russian revolution by the American bankers Schiff, Kuhn and Loeb, and Ford, who was in conflict with these bankers, became interested in these materials. He even called Sokolov from France, where he settled, to the USA. When returning from the USA to France, Nikolai Sokolov was killed. Sokolov’s book was published after his death, and many people “worked” on it, removing many scandalous facts from it, so it cannot be considered completely truthful. The surviving members of the royal family were watched by people from the KGB, where a special department was created for this purpose, dissolved during perestroika. The archives of this department have been preserved. The royal family was saved by Stalin - the royal family was evacuated from Yekaterinburg through Perm to Moscow and came into the possession of Trotsky, then the People's Commissar of Defense. To further save the royal family, Stalin carried out an entire operation, stealing it from Trotsky’s people and taking them to Sukhumi, to a specially built house next to the former house of the royal family. From there, all family members were distributed according to different places, Maria and Anastasia were taken to the Glinsk hermitage (Sumy region), then Maria was transported to the Nizhny Novgorod region, where she died of illness on May 24, 1954. Anastasia subsequently married Stalin’s personal guard and lived very secluded on a small farm, died

June 27, 1980 in the Volgograd region. The eldest daughters, Olga and Tatyana, were sent to Serafimo-Diveevsky convent– the empress was settled not far from the girls. But they did not live here for long. Olga, having traveled through Afghanistan, Europe and Finland, settled in Vyritsa, Leningrad Region, where she died on January 19, 1976. Tatyana lived partly in Georgia, partly in the Krasnodar Territory, was buried in the Krasnodar Territory, and died on September 21, 1992. Alexey and his mother lived at their dacha, then Alexey was transported to Leningrad, where they “did” a biography on him, and the whole world recognized him as party and Soviet leader Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (Stalin sometimes called him Tsarevich in front of everyone). Nicholas II lived and died in Nizhny Novgorod (December 22, 1958), and the queen died in the village of Starobelskaya, Lugansk region on April 2, 1948 and was subsequently reburied in Nizhny Novgorod, where she and the emperor have a common grave. Three daughters of Nicholas II, besides Olga, had children. N.A. Romanov communicated with I.V. Stalin, and the wealth of the Russian Empire was used to strengthen the power of the USSR...

The murder of the Romanov family gave rise to many rumors and conjectures, and we will try to figure out who ordered the murder of the Tsar.

Version one "Secret Directive"

One of the versions, which is often and very unanimously preferred by Western scientists, is that all the Romanovs were destroyed in accordance with some “secret directive” received from the government in Moscow.

It was this version that investigator Sokolov adhered to, setting it out in his book, filled with various documents, about the murder of the royal family. The same point of view is expressed by two other authors who personally took part in the investigation in 1919: General Dieterichs, who received instructions to “monitor” the progress of the investigation, and London Times correspondent Robert Wilton.

The books they wrote are the most important sources to understand the dynamics of the development of events, but - like Sokolov’s book - they are distinguished by a certain bias: Dieterichs and Wilton strive at any cost to prove that the Bolsheviks who operated in were monsters and criminals, but just pawns in the hands of “non-Russian” elements, that is, a handful Jews

In some right-wing circles white movement- namely, the authors we mentioned adjoined them - anti-Semitic sentiments manifested themselves at that time in extreme forms: insisting on the existence of a conspiracy of the “Judeo-Masonic” elite, they explained by this all the events that took place, from the revolution to the murder of the Romanovs, blaming the deeds exclusively on the Jews.

We know practically nothing about a possible “secret directive” coming from Moscow, but we are well aware of the intentions and movements of various members of the Urals Council.

The Kremlin continued to evade making any concrete decision regarding the fate of imperial family. Perhaps, at first, the Moscow leadership was thinking about secret negotiations with Germany and intended to use the former tsar as their trump card. But then, once again, the principle of “proletarian justice” prevailed: they had to be judged in a show open trial and thereby demonstrate to the people and the whole world the grandiose meaning of the revolution.

Trotsky, filled with romantic fanaticism, saw himself as a public prosecutor and dreamed of experiencing moments worthy of the significance of the Great French Revolution. Sverdlov was instructed to deal with this issue, and the Urals Council was supposed to prepare the process itself.

However, Moscow was too far from Yekaterinburg and could not fully assess the situation in the Urals, which was rapidly escalating: the White Cossacks and White Czechs successfully and quickly advanced towards Yekaterinburg, and the Red Army soldiers fled without offering resistance.

The situation was becoming critical, and it even seemed that the revolution could hardly be saved; in this difficult situation When Soviet power could fall any minute, the very idea of ​​holding a show trial seemed anachronistic and unrealistic.

There is evidence that the Presidium of the Urals Council and the regional Cheka discussed with the leadership of the “center” the issue of the fate of the Romanovs, and precisely in connection with the complicated situation.

In addition, it is known that at the end of June 1918, the military commissar of the Ural region and member of the presidium of the Urals Council, Philip Goloshchekin, went to Moscow to decide the fate of the imperial family. We do not know exactly how these meetings with government representatives ended: we only know that Goloshchekin was received at Sverdlov’s house, his great friend, and that he returned to Yekaterinburg on July 14, two days before the fateful night.

The only source that speaks of the existence of a “secret directive” from Moscow is Trotsky’s diary, in which the former People’s Commissar claims that he learned about the execution of the Romanovs only in August 1918 and that Sverdlov told him about it.

However, the significance of this evidence is not too great, since we know another statement by the same Trotsky. The fact is that in the thirties, the memoirs of a certain Besedovsky, a former Soviet diplomat who fled to the West, were published in Paris. An interesting detail: Besedovsky worked together with the Soviet ambassador in Warsaw, Pyotr Voikov, an “old Bolshevik” who had a dizzying career.

This was the same Voikov who, while still commissar of food for the Ural region, took out sulfuric acid to pour it over the corpses of the Romanovs. Having become an ambassador, he himself would die a violent death on the platform of the Warsaw station: on June 7, 1927, Voikova was shot with seven shots from a pistol by a nineteen-year-old student and “Russian patriot” Boris Koverda, who decided to avenge the Romanovs.

But let's return to Trotsky and Besedovsky. The memoirs of the former diplomat contain a story - allegedly written down from Voikov's words - about the murder in the Ipatiev House. Among other numerous fictions, the book contains one absolutely incredible one: Stalin turns out to be a direct participant in the bloody massacre.

Subsequently, Besedovsky will become famous precisely as the author of fictional stories; to the accusations that fell from all sides, he replied that no one was interested in the truth and that his main goal was to lead the reader by the nose. Unfortunately, already in exile, blinded by hatred of Stalin, he believed the author of the memoirs and noted the following: “According to Besedovsky, the regicide was the work of Stalin...”

There is another piece of evidence that can be considered confirmation that the decision to execute the entire imperial family was made “outside” Yekaterinburg. It's about again about Yurovsky’s “Note”, which talks about the order to execute the Romanovs.

We should not forget that the “Note” was compiled in 1920, two years after the bloody events, and that in some places Yurovsky’s memory fails: for example, he confuses the cook’s surname, calling him Tikhomirov, not Kharitonov, and also forgets that Demidova was a maid, not a maid of honor.

One can put forward another hypothesis, more plausible, and try to explain some not entirely clear passages in the “Note” as follows: these short memoirs were intended for the historian Pokrovsky and, probably, with the first phrase the former commandant wanted to minimize the responsibility of the Urals Council and, accordingly, his own own. The fact is that by 1920, both the goals of the struggle and the political situation itself had changed dramatically.

In his other memoirs, dedicated to the execution of the royal family and still unpublished (they were written in 1934), he no longer talks about the telegram, and Pokrovsky, touching on this topic, mentions only a certain “telephonogram”.

Now let’s look at the second version, which perhaps looks more plausible and appealed more to Soviet historians, since it relieved the top party leaders of all responsibility.

According to this version, the decision to execute the Romanovs was made by members of the Urals Council, and completely independently, without even seeking permission from the central government. Ekaterinburg politicians “had” to take such extreme measures due to the fact that the Whites were rapidly advancing and it was impossible to leave the former sovereign to the enemy: to use the terminology of that time, Nicholas II could become a “living banner of the counter-revolution.”

There is no information - or it has not yet been published - that the Urals Council sent a message to the Kremlin about its decision before the execution.

The Urals Council clearly wanted to hide the truth from the Moscow leaders and, in connection with this, gave two false information of paramount importance: on the one hand, it was claimed that the family of Nicholas II was “evacuated to a safe place” and, moreover, the Council allegedly had documents confirming the existence of a White Guard conspiracy.

As to the first statement, there is no doubt that it was a shameful lie; but the second statement also turned out to be a hoax: indeed, documents related to some major White Guard conspiracy could not exist, since there were not even individuals capable of organizing and carrying out such a kidnapping. And the monarchists themselves considered it impossible and undesirable to restore autocracy with Nicholas II as sovereign: the former tsar was no longer interested in anyone and, with general indifference, he walked towards his tragic death.

Third version: messages “via direct wire”

In 1928, a certain Vorobyov, editor of the Ural Worker newspaper, wrote his memoirs. Ten years have passed since the execution of the Romanovs, and - no matter how creepy what I’m about to say may sound - this date was considered as an “anniversary”: many works were devoted to this topic, and their authors considered it their duty to boast of direct participation in the murder.

Vorobyov was also a member of the presidium of the executive committee of the Urals Council, and thanks to his memoirs - although there is nothing sensational in them for us - one can imagine how communication took place “via direct wire” between Yekaterinburg and the capital: the leaders of the Urals Council dictated the text to the telegraph operator, and in Moscow Sverdlov I personally tore it off and read the tape. It follows that Yekaterinburg leaders had the opportunity to contact the “center” at any time. So, the first phrase of Yurovsky’s “Notes” - “On July 16, a telegram was received from Perm ...” - is inaccurate.

At 21:00 on July 17, 1918, the Urals Council sent a second message to Moscow, but this time a very ordinary telegram. There was, however, something special in it: only the recipient’s address and the sender’s signature were written in letters, and the text itself was a set of numbers. Obviously, disorder and negligence have always been constant companions of the Soviet bureaucracy, which was just being formed at that time, and even more so in an atmosphere of hasty evacuation: leaving the city, they forgot many valuable documents at the Yekaterinburg telegraph office. Among them was a copy of that same telegram, and it, of course, ended up in the hands of the whites.

This document came to Sokolov along with the investigation materials and, as he writes in his book, immediately attracted his attention, took up a lot of his time and caused a lot of trouble. While still in Siberia, the investigator tried in vain to decipher the text, but he succeeded only in September 1920, when he was already living in the West. The telegram was addressed to the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars Gorbunov and signed by the Chairman of the Urals Council Beloborodov. Below we present it in full:

"Moscow. Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars Gorbunov with a reverse check. Tell Sverdlov that the whole family suffered the same fate as the head. Officially, the family will die during the evacuation. Beloborodov."

Until now, this telegram has provided one of the main evidence that all members of the imperial family were killed; therefore, it is not surprising that its authenticity was often questioned, moreover by those authors who willingly fell for fantastic versions about one or another of the Romanovs who allegedly managed to avoid a tragic fate. There is no doubt about the authenticity of this telegram serious reasons, especially when compared with other similar documents.

Sokolov used Beloborodov's message to show the sophisticated deceit of all Bolshevik leaders; he believed that the deciphered text confirmed the existence of a preliminary agreement between the Yekaterinburg leaders and the “center.” Probably, the investigator was not aware of the first report transmitted “via direct wire,” and in the Russian version of his book the text of this document is missing.

Let us abstract, however, from Sokolov’s personal point of view; we have two pieces of information transmitted nine hours apart, with the true state of affairs only revealed at the last moment. Giving preference to the version according to which the decision to execute the Romanovs was made by the Urals Council, we can conclude that, by not immediately reporting everything that happened, the Yekaterinburg leaders wanted to soften, perhaps negative reaction Moscow.

Two pieces of evidence can be cited to support this version. The first belongs to Nikulin, deputy commandant of the Ipatiev House (that is, Yurovsky) and his active assistant during the execution of the Romanovs. Nikulin also felt the need to write his memoirs, clearly considering himself - like his other “colleagues” - an important historical figure; in his memoirs, he openly states that the decision to destroy the entire royal family was made by the Urals Council, completely independently and “at your own peril and risk.”

The second evidence belongs to Vorobyov, already familiar to us. In a book of memoirs, a former member of the presidium of the executive committee of the Urals Council says the following:

“...When it became obvious that we could not hold Yekaterinburg, the question of the fate of the royal family was raised head on. There was nowhere to take the former tsar, and it was far from safe to take him. And at one of the meetings of the Regional Council, we decided to shoot the Romanovs, without waiting for their trial.”

Obeying the principle of “class hatred,” people should not have felt the slightest pity towards Nicholas II “Bloody” and utter a word about those who shared his terrible fate with him.

Version analysis

And now the following completely logical question arises: was it within the competence of the Urals Council to independently, without even turning to the central government for sanction, make a decision on the execution of the Romanovs, thus taking upon itself all political responsibility for what they had done?

The first circumstance that should be taken into account is the outright separatism inherent in many local Soviets during the civil war. In this sense, the Urals Council was no exception: it was considered “explosive” and had already managed to openly demonstrate its disagreement with the Kremlin several times. In addition, representatives of the left Socialist Revolutionaries and many anarchists were active in the Urals. With their fanaticism they pushed the Bolsheviks to demonstrate.

The third motivating circumstance was that some members of the Urals Council - including Chairman Beloborodov himself, whose signature is on the second telegraph message - held extreme left-wing views; these people survived for many years exiles and royal prisons, hence their specific worldview. Although the members of the Urals Council were relatively young, they all went through the school of professional revolutionaries, and they had years of underground activity and “serving the cause of the party” behind them.

The fight against tsarism in any form was the only purpose of their existence, and therefore they did not even have any doubts that the Romanovs, “enemies of the working people,” should have been destroyed. In that tense situation when the civil war and the fate of the revolution seemed to hang in the balance, the execution of the imperial family seemed to be a historical necessity, a duty that had to be fulfilled without falling into sympathetic moods.

In 1926, Pavel Bykov, who replaced Beloborodov as chairman of the Urals Council, wrote a book entitled “ Last days Romanovs"; as we will see later, this was the only Soviet source that confirmed the fact of the murder of the royal family, but this book was very soon confiscated. This is what Tanyaev writes in the introductory article: “This task was completed by the Soviet government with its characteristic courage - to take all measures to save the revolution, no matter how arbitrary, lawless and harsh they may seem from the outside.”

And one more thing: “...for the Bolsheviks, the court in no way had the significance of a body clarifying the true guilt of this “holy family.” If the trial had any meaning, it was only as a very good propaganda tool for the political education of the masses, and nothing more.” And here is another one of the most “interesting” passages from Tanyaev’s preface: “The Romanovs had to be liquidated in an emergency manner.

In this case, the Soviet government showed extreme democracy: it did not make an exception for the all-Russian murderer and shot him just like an ordinary bandit.” The heroine of A. Rybakov’s novel “Children of the Arbat”, Sofya Alexandrovna, was right, who found the strength to shout in the face of her brother, an unbending Stalinist, the following words: “If the tsar had judged you according to your laws, he would have lasted another thousand years...”

Royal family. Was there an execution?

THE ROYAL FAMILY - LIFE AFTER THE "EXECUTATION"

History, like a corrupt girl, falls under every new “king”. Here you go recent history our country has been rewritten many times. “Responsible” and “unbiased” historians rewrote biographies and changed the fates of people in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.

But today access to many archives is open. Only conscience is the key. What gets to people bit by bit does not leave those who live in Russia indifferent. Those who want to be proud of their country and raise their children to be patriots of their native land.

In Russia, historians are a dime a dozen. If you throw a stone, you will almost always hit one of them. But only 14 years have passed, and no one can establish the real history of the last century.

Modern henchmen of Miller and Baer are robbing the Russians in all directions. Either they will start Maslenitsa in February by mocking Russian traditions, or they will put an outright criminal under the Nobel Prize.

And then we wonder: why is it that in a country with the richest resources and cultural heritage, there are such poor people?

Abdication of Nicholas II

Emperor Nicholas II did not abdicate the Throne. This act is “fake”. It was compiled and printed on a typewriter by the Quartermaster General of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief A.S. Lukomsky and the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the General Staff N.I. Basili.

This printed text was signed on March 2, 1917, not by Sovereign Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov, but by the Minister of the Imperial Court, Adjutant General, Baron Boris Fredericks.

After 4 days, the Orthodox Tsar Nicholas II was betrayed by the top of the Russian Orthodox Church, misleading all of Russia by the fact that, seeing this false act, the clergy passed it off as real. And they telegraphed it to the entire Empire and beyond its borders that the Tsar had abdicated the Throne!

On March 6, 1917, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church heard two reports. The first is the act of “abdication” of the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II for himself and for his son from the Throne of the Russian State and the abdication of Supreme Power, which took place on March 2, 1917. The second is the act of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich’s refusal to accept the Supreme Power, which took place on March 3, 1917.

After the hearings, pending the establishment of a form of government and new fundamental laws of the Russian State in the Constituent Assembly, they ORDERED:

“Take note of the said acts and implement them and announce them in all Orthodox churches, in urban churches on the first day after receiving the text of these acts, and in rural churches on the first Sunday or holiday, after Divine Liturgy, with the performance of a prayer to the Lord God for the pacification of passions, with the proclamation of many years to the God-protected Russian Power and its Blessed Provisional Government.”

And although the top generals of the Russian Army were mostly Jews, the middle officer corps and several senior ranks of the generals, such as Fyodor Arturovich Keller, did not believe this fake and decided to go to the rescue of the Tsar.

From that moment on, the split in the Army began, which turned into a Civil War!

The priesthood and the entire Russian society split.

But the Rothschilds achieved the main thing - they removed Her Lawful Sovereign from governing the country, and began to finish off Russia.

After the revolution, all the bishops and priests who betrayed the Tsar suffered death or dispersion throughout the world for perjury before the Orthodox Tsar.

To the Chairman of the V.Ch.K. No. 13666/2 comrade. Dzerzhinsky F.E. INSTRUCTION: “In accordance with the decision of the V.Ts.I.K. and the Council of People's Commissars, it is necessary to put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible. Popovs should be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, and shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are subject to closure. The temple premises should be sealed and turned into warehouses.

Chairman V. Ts. I. K. Kalinin, Chairman of the Council. adv. Commissars Ulyanov /Lenin/.”

Murder simulation

There is a lot of information about the Sovereign’s stay with his family in prison and exile, about his stay in Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg, and it is quite truthful.

Was there an execution? Or perhaps it was staged? Was it possible to escape or be taken out of Ipatiev’s house?

It turns out yes!

There was a factory nearby. In 1905, the owner, in case of capture by revolutionaries, dug an underground passage to it. When Yeltsin destroyed the house, after the decision of the Politburo, the bulldozer fell into a tunnel that no one knew about.

Thanks to Stalin and the intelligence officers of the General Staff, the Royal Family was taken to various Russian provinces, with the blessing of Metropolitan Macarius (Nevsky).

On July 22, 1918, Evgenia Popel received the keys to the empty house and sent her husband, N.N. Ipatiev, a telegram in the village of Nikolskoye about the possibility of returning to the city.

In connection with the offensive of the White Guard Army, the evacuation of Soviet institutions was underway in Yekaterinburg. Documents, property and valuables were exported, including those of the Romanov family (!).

Great excitement spread among the officers when it became known in what condition the Ipatiev House, where the Royal Family lived, was located. Those who were free from service went to the house, everyone wanted to take an active part in clarifying the question: “Where are they?”

Some inspected the house, breaking open the boarded up doors; others sorted out the lying things and papers; still others raked out the ashes from the furnaces. The fourth ones scoured the yard and garden, looking into all the basements and cellars. Everyone acted independently, not trusting each other and trying to find an answer to the question that worried everyone.

While the officers were inspecting the rooms, people who came to profit took away a lot of abandoned property, which was later found at the bazaar and flea markets.

The head of the garrison, Major General Golitsin, appointed a special commission of officers, mainly cadets of the Academy of the General Staff, chaired by Colonel Sherekhovsky. Which was tasked with dealing with the finds in the area of ​​Ganina Yama: local peasants, raking out recent fire pits, found burnt items from the Tsar’s wardrobe, including a cross with precious stones.

Captain Malinovsky received an order to explore the area of ​​​​Ganina Yama. On July 30, taking with him Sheremetyevsky, the investigator for the most important cases of the Yekaterinburg District Court A.P. Nametkin, several officers, the doctor of the Heir - V.N. Derevenko and the servant of the Sovereign - T.I. Chemodurov, he went there.

Thus began the investigation into the disappearance of Sovereign Nicholas II, the Empress, the Tsarevich and the Grand Duchesses.

Malinovsky's commission lasted about a week. But it was she who determined the area of ​​all subsequent investigative actions in Yekaterinburg and its environs. It was she who found witnesses to the cordon of the Koptyakovskaya road around Ganina Yama by the Red Army. I found those who saw a suspicious convoy that passed from Yekaterinburg into the cordon and back. I obtained evidence of the destruction there, in the fires near the mines of the Tsar's things.

After the entire staff of officers went to Koptyaki, Sherekhovsky divided the team into two parts. One, headed by Malinovsky, examined Ipatiev’s house, the other, led by Lieutenant Sheremetyevsky, began inspecting Ganina Yama.

When inspecting Ipatiev’s house, within a week the officers of Malinovsky’s group managed to establish almost all the basic facts, which the investigation later relied on.

A year after the investigations, Malinovsky, in June 1919, testified to Sokolov: “As a result of my work on the case, I developed the conviction that the August Family is alive... all the facts that I observed during the investigation are a simulation of murder.”

At the scene

On July 28, A.P. Nametkin was invited to the headquarters, and from the military authorities, since civil power had not yet been formed, he was asked to investigate the case of the Royal Family. After this, we began to inspect the Ipatiev House. Doctor Derevenko and old man Chemodurov were invited to participate in the identification of things; Professor of the Academy of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Medvedev, took part as an expert.

On July 30, Alexey Pavlovich Nametkin participated in the inspection of the mine and fires near Ganina Yama. After the inspection, the Koptyakovsky peasant handed over to Captain Politkovsky a huge diamond, which Chemodurov, who was there, recognized as a jewel belonging to Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

Nametkin, inspecting Ipatiev’s house from August 2 to 8, had at his disposal publications of resolutions of the Urals Council and the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, which reported on the execution of Nicholas II.

An inspection of the building, traces of gunshots and signs of spilled blood confirmed known fact– possible death of people in this house.

As for the other results of the inspection of Ipatiev’s house, they left the impression of the unexpected disappearance of its inhabitants.

On August 5, 6, 7, 8, Nametkin continued to inspect Ipatiev’s house and described the state of the rooms where Nikolai Alexandrovich, Alexandra Feodorovna, the Tsarevich and the Grand Duchesses were kept. During the examination, I found many small things that, according to the valet T.I. Chemodurov and the Heir's doctor V.N. Derevenko, belonged to members of the Royal Family.

Being an experienced investigator, Nametkin, after examining the scene of the incident, stated that a mock execution took place in the Ipatiev House, and that not a single member of the Royal Family was shot there.

He repeated his data officially in Omsk, where he gave interviews on this topic to foreign, mainly American correspondents. Stating that he had evidence that the Royal Family was not killed on the night of July 16-17 and was going to publish these documents soon.

But he was forced to hand over the investigation.

War with investigators

On August 7, 1918, a meeting of the branches of the Yekaterinburg District Court was held, where, unexpectedly for the prosecutor Kutuzov, contrary to agreements with the chairman of the court Glasson, the Yekaterinburg District Court, by a majority vote, decided to transfer the “case of the murder of the former Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II” to a member of the court Ivan Aleksandrovich Sergeev .

After the case was transferred, the house where he rented the premises was burned down, which led to the destruction of Nametkin’s investigative archive.

The main difference in the work of a detective at the scene of an incident lies in what is not in the laws and textbooks to plan further actions for each of the significant circumstances discovered. What is harmful about replacing them is that with the departure of the previous investigator, his plan to unravel the tangle of mysteries disappears.

On August 13, A.P. Nametkin handed over the case to I.A. Sergeev on 26 numbered sheets. And after the capture of Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks, Nametkin was shot.

Sergeev was aware of the complexity of the upcoming investigation.

He understood that the main thing was to find the bodies of the dead. After all, in criminology there is a strict attitude: “no corpse, no murder.” They had great expectations for the expedition to Ganina Yama, where they very carefully searched the area and pumped out water from the mines. But... they found only a severed finger and a prosthetic upper jaw. True, a “corpse” was also recovered, but it was the corpse of the Grand Duchess Anastasia’s dog.

In addition, there are witnesses who saw the former Empress and her children in Perm.

Doctor Derevenko, who treated the Heir, like Botkin, who accompanied the Royal Family in Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg, testifies over and over again that the unidentified corpses delivered to him are not the Tsar and not the Heir, since the Tsar must have a mark on his head / skull / from the blow of the Japanese sabers in 1891

The clergy also knew about the liberation of the Royal Family: Patriarch St. Tikhon.

Life of the royal family after “death”

In the KGB of the USSR, on the basis of the 2nd Main Directorate, there was a special officer. department that monitored all movements of the Royal Family and their descendants across the territory of the USSR. Whether someone likes it or not, this will have to be taken into account, and, therefore, Russia’s future policy will have to be reconsidered.

Daughters Olga (lived under the name Natalia) and Tatyana were in Diveyevo Monastery, disguised as nuns and sang in the choir of the Trinity Church. From there, Tatyana moved to the Krasnodar Territory, got married and lived in the Apsheronsky and Mostovsky districts. She was buried on September 21, 1992 in the village of Solenom, Mostovsky district.

Olga, through Uzbekistan, left for Afghanistan with the Emir of Bukhara, Seyid Alim Khan (1880 - 1944). From there - to Finland to Vyrubova. Since 1956, she lived in Vyritsa under the name of Natalya Mikhailovna Evstigneeva, where she rested in Bose on January 16, 1976 (11/15/2011 from the grave of V.K. Olga, Her fragrant relics were partially stolen by one demoniac, but were returned to Kazan Temple).

On October 6, 2012, her remaining relics were removed from the grave in the cemetery, added to those stolen and reburied near the Kazan Church.

The daughters of Nicholas II Maria and Anastasia (lived as Alexandra Nikolaevna Tugareva) were in the Glinsk Hermitage for some time. Then Anastasia moved to the Volgograd (Stalingrad) region and got married on the Tugarev farm in the Novoanninsky district. From there she moved to the station. Panfilovo, where she was buried on June 27, 1980. And her husband Vasily Evlampievich Peregudov died defending Stalingrad in January 1943. Maria moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region in the village of Arefino and was buried there on May 27, 1954.

Metropolitan John of Ladoga (Snychev, d. 1995) looked after Anastasia’s daughter Julia in Samara, and together with Archimandrite John (Maslov, d. 1991) looked after Tsarevich Alexei. Archpriest Vasily (Shvets, died 2011) looked after his daughter Olga (Natalia). The son of the youngest daughter of Nicholas II - Anastasia - Mikhail Vasilyevich Peregudov (1924 - 2001), coming from the front, worked as an architect, according to his design a railway station was built in Stalingrad-Volgograd!

The brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, was also able to escape from Perm right under the nose of the Cheka. At first he lived in Belogorye, and then moved to Vyritsa, where he rested in Bose in 1948.

Until 1927, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna stayed at the Tsar’s dacha (Vvedensky Skete of the Seraphim Ponetaevsky Monastery Nizhny Novgorod region). And at the same time she visited Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sukhumi. Alexandra Feodorovna took the name Ksenia (in honor of St. Ksenia Grigorievna of Petersburg /Petrova 1732 - 1803/).

In 1899, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna wrote a prophetic poem:

“In the solitude and silence of the monastery,

Where guardian angels fly,

Far from temptation and sin

She lives, whom everyone considers dead.

Everyone thinks she already lives

In the Divine celestial sphere.

She steps outside the walls of the monastery,

Submissive to your increased faith!”

The Empress met with Stalin, who told Her the following: “Live quietly in the city of Starobelsk, but there is no need to interfere in politics.”

Stalin's patronage saved the Tsarina when local security officers opened criminal cases against her.

Money transfers were regularly received from France and Japan in the name of the Queen. The Empress received them and donated them to four kindergartens. This was confirmed by the former manager of the Starobelsky branch of the State Bank, Ruf Leontyevich Shpilev, and the chief accountant Klokolov.

The Empress did handicrafts, making blouses, scarves, and for making hats she was sent straws from Japan. All this was done on orders from local fashionistas.

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

In 1931, the Tsarina appeared at the Starobelsky okrot department of the GPU and stated that she had 185,000 marks in her account in the Berlin Reichsbank, as well as $300,000 in the Chicago Bank. She allegedly wants to put all these funds at the disposal of the Soviet government, provided that it provides for her old age.

The Empress’s statement was forwarded to the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR, which instructed the so-called “Credit Bureau” to negotiate with foreign countries about receiving these deposits!

In 1942, Starobelsk was occupied, the Empress on the same day was invited to breakfast with Colonel General Kleist, who invited her to move to Berlin, to which the Empress replied with dignity: “I am Russian and I want to die in my homeland.” Then she was offered to choose any house in the city that she wanted: it was not suitable, they say, for such a person to huddle in a cramped dugout. But she refused that too.

The only thing the Queen agreed to was to use the services of German doctors. True, the city commandant still ordered to install a sign at the Empress’s home with the inscription in Russian and German: “Do not disturb Her Majesty.”

Which she was very happy about, because in her dugout behind the screen there were... wounded Soviet tankers.

The German medicine was very useful. The tankers managed to get out, and they safely crossed the front line. Taking advantage of the favor of the authorities, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna saved many prisoners of war and local residents who were threatened with reprisals.

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, under the name of Xenia, lived in the city of Starobelsk, Lugansk region, from 1927 until her death in 1948. She took monastic tonsure in the name of Alexandra at the Starobelsky Holy Trinity Monastery.

Kosygin - Tsarevich Alexei

Tsarevich Alexei - became Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (1904 - 1980). Twice Hero of Social. Labor (1964, 1974). Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru. In 1935, he graduated from the Leningrad Textile Institute. In 1938, head. department of the Leningrad regional party committee, chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council.

Wife Klavdiya Andreevna Krivosheina (1908 - 1967) - niece of A. A. Kuznetsov. Daughter Lyudmila (1928 - 1990) was married to Jermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani (1928 - 2003). Son of Mikhail Maksimovich Gvishiani (1905 - 1966) since 1928 in the State Political Directorate of Internal Affairs of Georgia. In 1937-38 deputy Chairman of the Tbilisi City Executive Committee. In 1938, 1st deputy. People's Commissar of the NKVD of Georgia. In 1938 – 1950 beginning UNKVDUNKGBUMGB Primorsky Krai. In 1950 - 1953 beginning UMGB Kuibyshev region. Grandsons Tatyana and Alexey.

The Kosygin family was friends with the families of the writer Sholokhov, composer Khachaturian, and rocket designer Chelomey.

In 1940 – 1960 – deputy prev Sovnarkom - Council of Ministers of the USSR. In 1941 - deputy. prev Council for the evacuation of industry to the eastern regions of the USSR. From January to July 1942 - authorized State Committee defense in besieged Leningrad. Participated in the evacuation of the population and industrial enterprises and property of Tsarskoye Selo. The Tsarevich walked around Ladoga on the yacht “Standard” and knew the surroundings of the Lake well, so he organized the “Road of Life” across the Lake to supply the city.

Alexey Nikolaevich created an electronics center in Zelenograd, but enemies in the Politburo did not allow him to bring this idea to fruition. And today Russia is forced to purchase household appliances and computers from all over the world.

The Sverdlovsk Region produced everything from strategic missiles to bacteriological weapons, and was filled with underground cities hiding under the symbols “Sverdlovsk-42”, and there were more than two hundred such “Sverdlovsks”.

He helped Palestine as Israel expanded its borders at the expense of Arab lands.

He implemented projects for the development of gas and oil fields in Siberia.

But the Jews, members of the Politburo, made the main line of the budget the export of crude oil and gas - instead of the export of processed products, as Kosygin (Romanov) wanted.

In 1949, during the promotion of G. M. Malenkov’s “Leningrad Affair,” Kosygin miraculously survived. During the investigation, Mikoyan, deputy. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, “organized Kosygin’s long trip around Siberia, due to the need to strengthen cooperation activities and improve the procurement of agricultural products.” Stalin agreed on this business trip with Mikoyan on time, because he was poisoned and from the beginning of August to the end of December 1950 lay in his dacha, miraculously remaining alive!

When addressing Alexei, Stalin affectionately called him “Kosyga”, since he was his nephew. Sometimes Stalin called him Tsarevich in front of everyone.

In the 60s Tsarevich Alexei, realizing the ineffectiveness of the existing system, proposed a transition from social economics to real economics. Keep records of sold, and not manufactured, products as the main indicator of the efficiency of enterprises, etc. Alexey Nikolaevich Romanov normalized relations between the USSR and China during the conflict on the island. Damansky, meeting at the airport in Beijing with the Prime Minister of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai.

Alexey Nikolaevich visited the Venevsky Monastery in the Tula region and communicated with the nun Anna, who was in touch with the entire Royal family. He even once gave her a diamond ring for clear predictions. And shortly before his death he came to her, and she told him that He would die on December 18!

The death of Tsarevich Alexei coincided with the birthday of L.I. Brezhnev on December 18, 1980, and during these days the country did not know that Kosygin had died.

The ashes of the Tsarevich have been resting in the Kremlin wall since December 24, 1980!

There was no memorial service for the August Family

Royal Family: real life after the alleged execution
Until 1927, the Royal Family met on the stones of St. Seraphim of Sarov, next to the Tsar’s dacha, on the territory of the Vvedensky Skete of the Seraphim-Ponetaevsky Monastery. Now all that remains of the Skete is the former baptismal sanctuary. It was closed in 1927 by the NKVD. This was preceded by general searches, after which all the nuns were relocated to different monasteries in Arzamas and Ponetaevka. And icons, jewelry, bells and other property were taken to Moscow.

In the 20s - 30s. Nicholas II stayed in Diveevo at st. Arzamasskaya, 16, in the house of Alexandra Ivanovna Grashkina - schemanun Dominica (1906 - 2009).

Stalin built a dacha in Sukhumi next to the dacha of the Royal Family and came there to meet with the Emperor and his cousin Nicholas II.

In the uniform of an officer, Nicholas II visited Stalin in the Kremlin, as confirmed by General Vatov (d. 2004), who served in Stalin’s guard.

Marshal Mannerheim, having become the President of Finland, immediately withdrew from the war, as he secretly communicated with the Emperor. And in Mannerheim’s office there hung a portrait of Nicholas II. Confessor of the Royal Family since 1912, Fr. Alexey (Kibardin, 1882 - 1964), living in Vyritsa, cared for a woman who arrived there from Finland in 1956 as a permanent resident. the Tsar's eldest daughter, Olga.

In Sofia after the revolution, in the building Holy Synod On the square of St. Alexander Nevsky, the confessor of the Highest Family, Vladyka Feofan (Bistrov), lived.

Vladyka never served a memorial service for the August Family and told his cell attendant that the Royal Family was alive! And even in April 1931 he went to Paris to meet with Sovereign Nicholas II and with the people who freed the Royal Family from captivity. Bishop Theophan also said that over time the Romanov Family would be restored, but through the female line.

Expertise

Head Department of Biology, Ural medical academy Oleg Makeev said: “Genetic examination after 90 years is not only complicated due to changes that have occurred in bone tissue, but cannot give an absolute result even with careful implementation. The methodology used in the studies already conducted is still not recognized as evidence by any court in the world.”

The foreign expert commission to investigate the fate of the Royal Family, created in 1989, chaired by Pyotr Nikolaevich Koltypin-Vallovsky, ordered a study by scientists from Stanford University and received data on the DNA discrepancy between the “Ekaterinburg remains”.

The commission provided for DNA analysis a fragment of the finger of V.K. St. Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova, whose relics are kept in the Jerusalem Church of Mary Magdalene.

“The sisters and their children should have identical mitochondrial DNA, but the results of the analysis of the remains of Elizaveta Fedorovna do not correspond to the previously published DNA of the alleged remains of Alexandra Fedorovna and her daughters,” was the conclusion of the scientists.

The experiment was carried out by an international team of scientists led by Dr. Alec Knight, a molecular taxonomist from Stanford University, with the participation of geneticists from Eastern Michigan University, Los Alamos National Laboratory with the participation of Doctor of Sciences Lev Zhivotovsky, an employee of the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After the death of an organism, the DNA begins to quickly decompose (cut) into pieces, and the more time passes, the more these parts are shortened. After 80 years, without creation special conditions, DNA segments longer than 200–300 nucleotides are not preserved. And in 1994, during analysis, a segment of 1,223 nucleotides was isolated.”

Thus, Pyotr Koltypin-Vallovskoy emphasized: “Geneticists again refuted the results of the examination carried out in 1994 in the British laboratory, on the basis of which it was concluded that the “Ekaterinburg remains” belonged to Tsar Nicholas II and his Family.”

Japanese scientists presented the Moscow Patriarchate with the results of their research regarding the “Ekaterinburg remains”.

On December 7, 2004, in the MP building, Bishop Alexander of Dmitrov, vicar of the Moscow Diocese, met with Dr. Tatsuo Nagai. Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Director of the Department of Forensic and scientific medicine Kitazato University (Japan). Since 1987, he has been working at Kitazato University, is vice-dean of the Joint School of Medical Sciences, director and professor of the Department of Clinical Hematology and the Department of Forensic Medicine. Published 372 scientific works and made 150 presentations at international medical conferences in various countries. Member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

He identified the mitochondrial DNA of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. During the assassination attempt on Tsarevich Nicholas II in Japan in 1891, his handkerchief remained there and was applied to the wound. It turned out that the DNA structures from the cuts in 1998 in the first case differ from the DNA structure in both the second and third cases. The research team led by Dr. Nagai took a sample of dried sweat from the clothes of Nicholas II, stored in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo, and performed a mitochondrial analysis on it.

In addition, mitochondrial DNA analysis was performed on hair, lower jaw bone and nails. thumb V.K. Georgiy Alexandrovich, younger brother of Nicholas II, buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral. He compared DNA from bone cuts buried in 1998 in the Peter and Paul Fortress with blood samples from Emperor Nicholas II’s own nephew Tikhon Nikolaevich, as well as with samples of the sweat and blood of Tsar Nicholas II himself.

Dr. Nagai's conclusions: "We obtained different results from those obtained by Drs. Peter Gill and Dr. Pavel Ivanov in five respects."

Glorification of the King

Sobchak (Finkelstein, d. 2000), while mayor of St. Petersburg, committed a monstrous crime - he issued death certificates for Nicholas II and his family members to Leonida Georgievna. He issued certificates in 1996 - without even waiting for the conclusions of Nemtsov’s “official commission”.

"Protection of rights and legitimate interests“Imperial House” in Russia began in 1995 by the late Leonida Georgievna, who, on behalf of her daughter, “the head of the Russian Imperial House,” applied for state registration of the deaths of members of the Imperial House killed in 1918–1919, and the issuance of certificates of their death."

On December 1, 2005, an application was submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office for the “rehabilitation of Emperor Nicholas II and members of his family.” This application was submitted on behalf of “Princess” Maria Vladimirovna by her lawyer G. Yu. Lukyanov, who replaced Sobchak in this post.

The glorification of the Royal Family, although it took place under Ridiger (Alexy II) at the Council of Bishops, was just a cover for the “consecration” of the Temple of Solomon.

After all, only a Local Council can glorify the Tsar in the ranks of the Saints. Because the King is the exponent of the Spirit of the entire people, and not just the Priesthood. That is why the decision of the Council of Bishops in 2000 must be approved by the Local Council.

According to ancient canons, glorify God's saints possible after healings from various ailments occur at their graves. After this, it is checked how this or that ascetic lived. If he lived a righteous life, then healings come from God. If not, then such healings are performed by the Demon, and they will later turn into new diseases.

In order to be convinced from your own experience, you need to go to the grave of Emperor Nicholas II, in Nizhny Novgorod at the Red Etna cemetery, where he was buried on December 26, 1958.

The funeral service and burial of Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II was performed by the famous Nizhny Novgorod elder and priest Gregory (Dolbunov, d. 1996).

Whoever the Lord grants to go to the grave and be healed will be able to see it from his own experience.

The transfer of His relics is yet to take place at the federal level.

Sergey Zhelenkov

The Romanovs were not shot (Levashov N.V.)

16 Dec 2012. A private video in which a Russian journalist in the past talks about an Italian who wrote an article about witnesses that the Romanovs were alive... The video contains a photograph of the grave of the eldest daughter of Nicholas II, who died in 1976...
Interview with Vladimir Sychev on the Romanov case
A most interesting interview with Vladimir Sychev, who refutes official version execution of the royal family. He talks about the grave of Olga Romanova in northern Italy, about the investigation of two British journalists, about the conditions of the Brest Peace of 1918, under which all the women of the royal family were handed over to the Germans in Kyiv...

I bring to the attention of readers very interesting information from the book “Way of the Cross of the Holy Royal Martyrs”
(Moscow 2002)

The murder of the Royal Family was prepared in the strictest secrecy. Even many high-ranking Bolsheviks were not initiated into it.

It was carried out in Yekaterinburg on orders from Moscow, according to a long-conceived plan.

The investigation names Yankel Movshevich Sverdlov, who held the position of Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Escort, as the main organizer of the murder. Committee of the Congress of Soviets, the all-powerful temporary ruler of Russia in this era.

All the threads of the crime converge on him. From him came the instructions received and carried out in Yekaterinburg. His task was to give the murder the appearance of an unauthorized act of the local Ural authorities, thereby completely removing the responsibility of the Soviet government and the real initiators of the crime.

The following persons were accomplices in the murder from among the local Bolshevik leaders: Shaya Isaakovich Goloshchekin - a personal friend of Sverdlov, who seized actual power in the Urals, the military commissar of the Ural region, the head of the Cheka and the main executioner of the Urals at that time; Yankel Izidorovich Weisbart (called himself Russian worker A.G. Beloborodov) - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ural Regional Council; Alexander Mobius - Chief of the Revolutionary Staff - Bronstein-Trotsky's special representative; Yankel Khaimovich Yurovsky (who called himself Yakov Mikhailovich, - Commissioner of Justice of the Ural Region, member of the Cheka; Pinhus Lazarevich Weiner (who called himself Pyotr Lazarevich Voikov (his name is the modern Moscow metro station "Voikovskaya") - Commissar of Supply of the Ural Region, - Yurovsky's closest assistant and Safarov is Yurovsky's second assistant. All of them carried out instructions from Moscow from Sverdlov, Apfelbaum, Lenin, Uritsky and Bronstein-Trotsky (in his memoirs, published abroad in 1931, Trotsky accused himself, cynically justifying the murder of the entire Royal Family, including including the August Children).

In the absence of Goloshchekin (he went to Moscow to Sverdlov for instructions), preparations for the murder of the Royal Family began to take a concrete form: unnecessary witnesses were removed - the internal guards, because she was almost completely disposed towards the Royal Family and was unreliable for the executioners, namely on July 3, 1918. - Avdeev and his assistant Moshkin (who was even arrested) were suddenly expelled. Instead of Avdeev, the commandant of the “House of Special Purpose”, Yurovsky became his assistant, Nikulin (known for his atrocities in Kamyshin, working in the Cheka) was appointed his assistant.

All security was replaced by selected security officers seconded by the local emergency service. From that moment and during the last two weeks, when the Royal Prisoners had to live under the same roof with their future executioners, Their Life became sheer torment...

On Sunday, July 1/14, three days before the murder, at the request of the Sovereign, Yurovsky allowed the invitation of Archpriest Father Ioann Storozhev and Deacon Bumirov, who had previously served the mass for the Royal Family on May 20/June 2. They noticed a change in the state of mind of Their Majesties and Most August Children. According to St. John, they were not in “depression of spirit, but still gave the impression of being tired.” On this day, for the first time, none of the Members of the Royal Family sang during the Divine Service. They prayed silently, as if anticipating that this was their last church prayer, and as if it was revealed to Him that this prayer would be extraordinary. And indeed, a significant event took place here, the deep and mysterious meaning of which became clear only when it became a thing of the past. The deacon began to sing “Rest with the Saints,” although according to the rite of the liturgy, this prayer is supposed to be read, recalls Fr. John: “...I also began to sing, somewhat embarrassed by such a deviation from the rules, but as soon as we started singing, I heard that the Members of the Romanov Family standing behind me knelt down...” So the Royal Prisoners, without suspecting it themselves, prepared for death by accepting funeral instructions...

Meanwhile, Goloshchekin brought an order from Moscow from Sverdlov to execute the Royal Family.

Yurovsky and his team of executioners quickly prepared everything for the execution. On the morning of Tuesday, July 3/16, 1918. he removed the cook’s apprentice, little Leonid Sednev, I.D.’s nephew, from the Ipatiev house. Sednev (children's footman).

But even in these dying days, the Royal Family did not lose courage. On Monday, July 2/15, four women were sent to Ipatiev's house to wash the floors. One later testified to the investigator: “I personally washed the floors in almost all the rooms reserved for the Royal Family... The princesses helped us clean and move the beds in Their bedroom and talked cheerfully among themselves...”

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Yurovsky ordered the revolvers to be taken away from the Russian outer guards, then he distributed the same revolvers to the participants in the execution, Pavel Medvedev helped him.

On this last day of the life of the Prisoners, the Sovereign, the Heir Tsarevich and all the Grand Duchesses went for their usual walk in the garden and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon during the changing of the guards they returned to the house. They didn't come out anymore. The evening routine was not disrupted by anything...

Suspecting nothing, the Royal Family went to bed. Shortly after midnight, Yurovsky entered Their rooms, woke everyone up, and, under the pretext of the danger threatening the city from the approaching White troops, announced that he had orders to take the Prisoners to a safe place. After some time, when everyone had dressed, washed and prepared to leave, Yurovsky, accompanied by Nikulin and Medvedev, led the Royal Family to the lower floor to the outer door facing Voznesensky Lane.

Yurovsky and Nikulin walked ahead, holding a lamp in his hand to illuminate the dark narrow staircase. The Emperor followed them. He carried the Heir, Alexei Nikolaevich, in his arms. The Heir's leg was bandaged with a thick bandage, and with every step He moaned quietly. Following the Emperor were the Empress and the Grand Duchesses. Some of them had a pillow with them, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna carried her beloved dog Jimmy in her arms. Next came the physician E.S. Botkin, the room girl A.S. Demidova, the footman A.E. Trupp and the cook I.M. Kharitonov. Medvedev brought up the rear of the procession. Having gone downstairs and passing through the entire lower floor to the corner room - it was the front room with the exit door to the street - Yurovsky turned left into the adjacent middle room, just under the bedroom of the Grand Duchesses, and announced that they would have to wait until the cars were delivered. It was an empty semi-basement room 5 1/3 long and 4 1/2 m wide.

Since the Tsarevich could not stand and the Empress was unwell, at the Emperor’s request three chairs were brought. The Emperor sat down in the middle of the room, seating the Heir next to Him and hugging Him right hand. Behind the Heir and slightly to the side of Him stood Doctor Botkin. The Empress sat down left hand from the Emperor, closer to the window and a step behind. A pillow was placed on Her chair and on the Heir's chair. On the same side, even closer to the wall with the window, in the back of the room, stood Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna and a little further, in the corner near the outer wall, Anna Demidova. Behind the Empress’s chair was one of the senior V. Princesses, probably Tatyana Nikolaevna. On Her right hand, leaning against the back wall, stood V. Princesses Olga Nikolaevna and Maria Nikolaevna; Next to them, a little ahead, is A. Troupe, holding a blanket for the Heir, and in the corner far left of the door is cook Kharitonov. The first half of the room from the entrance remained free. Everyone was calm. They are apparently accustomed to such night alarms and movements. Moreover, Yurovsky’s explanations seemed plausible, and some “forced” delay did not arouse any suspicion.

altYurovsky went out to make the last orders. By this time, all 11 executioners who shot the Royal Family and Her faithful servants that night had gathered in one of the neighboring rooms. Here are their names: Yankel Haimovich Yurovsky, Nikulin, Stepan Vaganov, Pavel Spiridonovich Medvedev, Laons Gorvat, Anselm Fischer, Isidor Edelstein, Emil Fecte, Imre Nad, Victor Grinfeld and Andreas Vergazi - mercenaries - Magyars.

Each had a seven-shot revolver. Yurovsky, in addition, had a Mauser, and two of them had rifles with fixed bayonets. Each killer chose his victim in advance: Gorvat chose Botkin. But at the same time, Yurovsky strictly forbade everyone else to shoot at the Sovereign Emperor and the Tsarevich: he wanted, or rather, he was ordered, to kill the Russian Orthodox Tsar and His Heir with his own hand.

Outside the window, the noise of the engine of a four-ton Fiat truck, prepared for transporting bodies, was heard. Shooting to the sound of a running truck engine in order to muffle the shots was a favorite technique of the security officers. This method was applied here as well.

It was 1 o'clock. 15m. Nights according to solar time, or 3 hours. 15m. according to summer time (translated by the Bolsheviks two hours ahead). Yurovsky returned to the room, along with the entire team of executioners. Nikulin moved closer to the window, opposite the Empress. Gorvat positioned himself facing Doctor Botkin. The rest split up on either side of the door. Medvedev took a position on the threshold.

Approaching the Emperor, Yurovsky said a few words, announcing the upcoming execution. This was so unexpected that the Emperor, apparently, did not immediately understand the meaning of what was said. He stood up from his chair and asked in amazement: “What? What?" The Empress and one of the Grand Duchesses managed to cross themselves. At that moment, Yurovsky raised his revolver and shot several times at point-blank range, first at the Sovereign and then at the Heir.

Almost simultaneously, others started shooting. The Grand Duchesses, standing in the second row, saw their Parents fall and began to scream in horror. They were destined to outlive Them for several terrible moments. Those shot fell one after another. About 70 shots were fired in just 2-3 minutes. The wounded Princesses were finished off with bayonets. The heir moaned weakly. Yurovsky killed Him with two shots to the head. The wounded Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna was finished off with bayonets and rifle butts.

Anna Demidova rushed about until she fell under the blows of bayonets. Some victims were shot and stabbed to death before everything died down.

...Through the bluish fog that filled the room from many shots, with the weak illumination of one electric light bulb, the picture of the murder presented a terrifying spectacle.

The Emperor fell forward, close to the Empress. The Heir was lying on his back nearby. The Grand Duchesses were together, as if They were holding each other's hands. Between Them lay the corpse of little Jimmy, whom the Great Anastasia Nikolaevna held close to her until the last moment. Dr. Botkin took a step forward before falling on his face with his right arm raised. Anna Demidova and Alexey Trupp fell near the back wall. Ivan Kharitonov lay supine at the feet of the Grand Duchesses. All those killed had several wounds, and therefore there was especially a lot of blood. Their faces and clothes were covered in blood; it stood in puddles on the floor, splashes and stains covered the walls. It seemed that the whole room was covered in blood and represented a slaughterhouse (an Old Testament altar).

On the night of the martyrdom of the Royal Family, Blessed Maria of Diveyevo raged and shouted: “The princesses with bayonets! Damned Jews! She raged terribly, and only then did they understand what she was screaming about. Under the arches of the Ipatiev basement, in which the Royal Martyrs and their Faithful servants completed their way of the cross, inscriptions left by the executioners were discovered. One of them consisted of four cabalistic signs. It was deciphered as follows: “Here, on the orders of satanic forces, the Tsar was sacrificed for the destruction of the State. All nations are informed of this.”

“...At the very beginning of this century, even before the First World War, small shops in the kingdom of Poland sold under the counter rather crudely printed postcards depicting a Jewish “tzaddik” (rabbi) with a Torah in one hand and a white bird in the other. The bird had the head of Emperor Nicholas II, with an imperial crown. Below... was the following inscription: “Let this sacrificial animal be my cleansing, it will be my substitute and cleansing sacrifice.”

During the investigation into the murder of Nicholas II and His Family, it was established that the day before this crime, a special train consisting of a steam locomotive and one passenger carriage arrived in Yekaterinburg from Central Russia. It brought a face in black clothes, looking like a Jewish rabbi. This person examined the basement of the house and left a Kabbalistic inscription on the wall (the above-mentioned comp.)..."."Christography", magazine "New Book of Russia".

...By this time, Shaya Goloshchekin, Beloborodov, Mobius and Voikov arrived at the “House of Special Purpose”. Yurovsky and Voikov began a thorough examination of the dead. They turned everyone over on their backs to make sure there were no signs of life left. At the same time, they took jewelry from their victims: rings, bracelets, gold watches. They took off the princesses' shoes, which they then gave to their mistresses.

Then the bodies were wrapped in pre-prepared overcoat cloth and transferred on a stretcher made of two shafts and sheets to a truck parked at the entrance. Zlokazovsky worker Lyukhanov was driving. Yurovsky, Ermakov and Vaganov sat down with him.

Under the cover of darkness, the truck drove away from Ipatiev’s house, went down Voznesensky Avenue towards Main Avenue and left the city through the suburb of Verkh-Isetsk. Here he turned onto the only road leading to the village of Koptyaki, located on the shores of Lake Isetskoye. The road there goes through the forest, crossing the Perm and Tagil railway lines. It was already dawn when, about 15 versts from Yekaterinburg and, not reaching four versts to Koptyakov, in a dense forest in the “Four Brothers” tract, the truck turned left and reached a small forest clearing near a row of abandoned mines, called “Ganina Yama”. Here the bodies of the Royal Martyrs were unloaded, cut up, doused with gasoline and thrown onto two large bonfires. The bones were destroyed using sulfuric acid. For three days and two nights, the killers, assisted by 15 responsible party communists specially mobilized for this purpose, carried out their diabolical work under the direct supervision of Yurovsky, on the instructions of Voikov and under the supervision of Goloshchekin and Beloborodov, who came from Yekaterinburg to the forest several times. Finally, by the evening of July 6/19, it was all over. The killers carefully destroyed traces of fires. The ashes and all that was left of the burnt bodies were thrown into a mine, which was then blown up with hand grenades, and the ground around was dug up and covered with leaves and moss to hide the traces of the crime committed there.

alt Beloborodov immediately telegraphed Sverdlov about the murder of the Royal Family. However, this latter did not dare to reveal the truth not only to the Russian people, but even to the Soviet government. At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, which took place on July 5/18 under the chairmanship of Lenin, Sverdlov made an emergency statement. It was a complete pile of lies.

He said that a message had been received from Yekaterinburg about the execution of the Sovereign Emperor, that He was shot by order of the Ural Regional Council and that the Empress and Heir were evacuated to a “safe place.” He kept silent about the fate of the Grand Duchesses. In conclusion, he added that the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee approved the resolution of the Ural Council. Having listened in silence to Sverdlov’s statement, the members of the Council of People’s Commissars continued the meeting...

The next day it was announced in all newspapers in Moscow. After long negotiations with Sverdlov over a direct line, Goloshchekin made a similar message to the Ural Council, which was published in Yekaterinburg only on July 8/21, since the Yekaterinburg Bolsheviks, who allegedly arbitrarily shot the Royal Family, in fact did not even dare to issue a message without Moscow’s permission about the execution. Meanwhile, with the approach of the front, a panicked flight of Bolsheviks from Yekaterinburg began. On July 12/25 it was taken by troops of the Siberian Army. On the same day, guards were assigned to Ipatiev’s house, and on July 17/30 the judicial investigation, which restored in almost all details the picture of this terrible crime, and also established the identities of its organizers and perpetrators. In subsequent years, a number of new witnesses appeared, and new documents and facts became known, which further supplemented and clarified the investigation materials.

Investigating the ritual murder of the Royal Family, investigator N.A. Sokolov, who literally sifted through all the earth at the site of the burning of the bodies of the Royal Family and discovered numerous fragments of crushed and burnt bones and extensive greasy masses, did not find a single tooth, not a single fragment, and As you know, teeth don’t burn in fire. It turned out that after the murder Isaac Goloshchekin immediately went to Moscow with three barrels of alcohol... He took with him to Moscow these heavy barrels, sealed in wooden boxes and wrapped in ropes, and there was no place at all in the cabin of the carriage, without touching the contents in them in the salon. Some of the accompanying security officials and train servants were interested in the mysterious cargo. To all questions, Goloshchekin answered that he was carrying samples of artillery shells for the Putilov plant. In Moscow, Goloshchekin took the boxes, went to Yankel Sverdlov and lived with him for five days without returning to the carriage. What documents in the literal sense of the word, and for what purpose, could be of interest to Yankel Sverdlov, Nakhamkes and Bronstein?

It is quite possible that the murderers, destroying the Royal bodies, separated honest heads from them, to prove to the leadership in Moscow about the liquidation of the entire Royal Family. This method, as a kind of “reporting,” was widely used in the Cheka during those terrible years of mass murder of the defenseless population of Russia by the Bolsheviks.

There is a rare photograph: during the days of the February Troubles, the Tsar’s children, sick with measles, after recovery, all five were photographed with shaved heads - so that only their heads are visible, and they all have the same face. The Empress burst into tears: five children’s heads seemed to be cut off...

There is no doubt that it was a ritual murder. This is evidenced not only by the ritual Kabbalistic inscriptions in the basement room of the Ipatiev House, but also by the murderers themselves.

The wrongdoers knew what they were doing. Their conversations are noteworthy. One of the regicides M.A. Medvedev (Kudrin) described the night of July 17 in December 1963:

...We went down to the first floor. That room is “very small.” “Yurovsky and Nikulin brought three chairs - the last thrones of the condemned Dynasty.”

Yurovsky declares out loud: “...we have been entrusted with the mission to put an end to the House of Romanov!”

And here is the moment immediately after the massacre: “Near the truck I meet Philip Goloshchekin.

Where have you been? - I ask him.

I walked around the square. I heard shots. It was audible. — He bent over the Tsar.

The end, you say, of the Romanov Dynasty?! Yes…

The Red Army soldier brought Anastasia's lap dog on a bayonet - when we walked past the door (to the stairs to the second floor) a long, plaintive howl was heard from behind the doors - the last salute to the All-Russian Emperor. The dog's corpse was thrown next to the king's.

Dogs - dog death! - Goloshchekin said contemptuously.”

After the fanatics initially threw the bodies of the Royal Martyrs into the mine, they decided to remove them from there in order to set them on fire. “From July 17th to 18th,” recalled P.Z. Ermakov, - I arrived in the forest again, brought a rope. I was lowered into the mine. I began to tie each one up individually, and two guys pulled them out. All the corpses were taken (sic! - S.F.) from the mine in order to put an end to the Romanovs and so that their friends would not think of creating HOLY RELICS.”

M.A., already mentioned by us. Medvedev testified: “Before us lay ready-made “MIRACLE WORKING POWERS”: ice water The mines were not only completely washed away by the blood, but also froze the bodies so much that they looked as if they were alive—a blush even appeared on the faces of the Tsar, the girls and women.”

One of the participants in the destruction of the royal bodies, security officer G.I. Sukhorukov recalled on April 3, 1928: “So that even if the whites had found these corpses and had not guessed from the number that these were the Royal Family, we decided to burn two of them at the stake, which we did, the first Heir and the second is the youngest daughter Anastasia...”

Participant in the regicide M.A. Medvedev (Kudrin) (December 1963): “Given the deep religiosity of the people in the province, it was impossible to allow even the remains of the Royal Dynasty to be left to the enemy, from which the clergy would immediately fabricate “HOLY MIRACLE-WORKING RECENTS” ....”

Another security officer, G.P., also thought the same. Nikulin in his radio conversation on May 12, 1964: “... Even if a corpse had been discovered, then, obviously, some kind of POWERS were created from it, you know, around which some kind of counter-revolution would have grouped...”.

The same thing was confirmed the next day by his comrade I.I. Rodzinsky: “...It was a very serious matter.<…>If the White Guards had discovered these remains, do you know what they would have done? POWERS. Processions of the Cross, would use the darkness of the village. Therefore, the question of hiding traces was more important than even the execution itself.<…>This was the most important thing...”

No matter how distorted the bodies are, M.K. believed. Diterichs, - Isaac Goloshchekin understood perfectly well that for a Russian Christian it is not the finding of a physical whole body that matters, but their most insignificant remains, as sacred relics of those bodies whose soul is immortal and cannot be destroyed by Isaac Goloshchekin or another fanatic like him from the Jewish people "

Truly: even the demons believe and tremble!

...The Bolsheviks renamed the city of Yekaterinburg to Sverdlovsk - in honor of the main organizer of the murder of the Royal Family, and thereby not only confirmed the correctness of the accusations of the judiciary, but also their responsibility for this greatest crime in the history of mankind, committed by the world forces of evil...

The date of the savage murder itself—July 17—is no coincidence. On this day Russian Orthodox Church honors the memory of the holy noble prince Andrei Bogolyubsky, who with his martyr’s blood sanctified the autocracy of Rus'. According to the chroniclers, the Jewish conspirators, who “accepted” Orthodoxy and were blessed by Him, killed him in the most cruel way. Holy Prince Andrei was the first to proclaim the idea of ​​Orthodoxy and Autocracy as the basis of the statehood of Holy Rus' and was, in fact, the first Russian Tsar.

According to God's providence, the Royal Martyrs were taken from earthly life all together. As a reward for boundless mutual love, which tightly bound them into one inseparable whole.

The Emperor courageously ascended Golgotha ​​and with meek submission to the Will of God accepted martyrdom. He left a legacy of an unclouded Monarchical Beginning as a precious Pledge received by Him from His Royal ancestors.