Had a long talk to Alexeieff and Admiral Russin on munition matters, in which there appears to be some improvement, due no doubt to the energy with which the Emperor pursues this all-important question. The reason for the lack of jewels in Maria's underwear was, according to Gillard and other witnesses, "these bras were on exactly those daughters on which they were supposed to be. The basement room chosen for this purpose had a barred window which was nailed shut to muffle the sound of shooting and in case of any screaming. The Fate of the Romanovs by Greg King, Penny Wilson, gives us a detailed view of the betrayal of the family of Romanovs by their servants.

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Answers all the questions about the mystery of skeletons found from the grave near the lands of Siberia. He unsuccessfully tried to collapse the mine with hand grenades, after which his men covered it with loose earth and branches. A coded telegram seeking final approval was sent by Goloshchyokin and Georgy Safarov at around 6 pm to Lenin in Moscow. Goloshchyokin reported back to Yekaterinburg on 12 July with a summary of his discussion about the Romanovs with Moscow, [64] along with instructions that nothing relating to their deaths should be directly communicated to Lenin.

It is a work, as noted by the Maylunas and Mironenko, that lets the royal individuals “tell their story themselves, in their own words. The prisoners were told to wait in the cellar room while the truck that would transport them was being brought to the House. The execution lasted about 20 minutes, Yurovsky later admitting to Nikulin's "poor mastery of his weapon and inevitable nerves".

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Few families—even royal ones—have made quite the impression on both history and the public mind that the Romanovs did.However, in a final letter that was written to his children shortly before his death in 1938, he only reminisced about his revolutionary career and how "the storm of October" had "turned its brightest side" towards him, making him "the happiest of mortals"; [152] there was no expression of regret or remorse over the murders.