This book, based on the documents of the investigation, is devoted to one of the tragic pages of Russian and world history - the assassination of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family in the Urals in the summer of 1918. This publication contains all chapters of the work of investigator N.A. Sokolov (1882–1924), published in Berlin the year after the author's death. This book contains all chapters and is published without abbreviations, which are sometimes found in other editions. In this regard, this book also contains materials related to the investigation of the murder in Perm of the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, as well as the Great Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, who was tortured at Alapaevsk, with other representatives of the House of Romanov and their companions. The publication is intended for everyone interested in Russian history.

Nikolay Sokolov
Murder of the royal family

Foreword

A century has passed since one of the most terrible tragedies of Russian history - the assassination of Emperor Nicholas II and his family in the Urals. Materials of the investigation of N.A. Sokolov helped to reveal many secrets of this cruel crime.

Nikolai Alekseevich Sokolov was born in 1882 in the Penza province. Graduated from the law faculty of Kharkov University. The revolution found him in the position of a forensic investigator for the most important cases in Penza. After the revolutionary coup, Sokolov made his way to Siberia on foot. There he was appointed to the position of a forensic investigator for especially important cases of the Omsk District Court, and he was soon assigned an investigation into the murder of the royal family. Based on various testimonies, as well as on numerous pieces of evidence and objects found at the scene of the crime and the destruction of the remains of the Romanov family, Sokolov tried to reconstruct as accurately as possible the course of the tragic events of July 1918. After the defeat of the army, A.V. Kolchak Sokolov emigrated to China, then moved to Europe. In France, he continued to interview anyone who might add something new to his investigation. He published part of the investigation materials in French. On November 23, 1924, Nikolai Alekseevich Sokolov was found dead near his home in the town of Salbri. The following year, his book, The Murder of the Tsar's Family, was published in Russian. According to some researchers, it has signs of editing by outsiders. Nonetheless, this work is the most valuable material in the case of the murder of the royal family and other representatives of the Romanov dynasty in the Urals. Buried N.A. Falcons in the cemetery of Salbris. On his grave was written "Your Truth - Your Truth Forever".

Materials of N.A. Sokolov organically complements the book of Lieutenant General M.K. Dieterichs, who played an important role in the investigation of the murder of the royal family. The general closely followed the course of the investigation and helped Sokolov in every possible way. In 1922, in Vladivostok, he published the book "The Murder of the Tsar's Family and Members of the House of Romanov in the Urals".

From the author

It fell to me to carry out an investigation into the murder of the Emperor Nicholas II and his family.

Within the limits of the law, I tried to do everything possible to find the truth and keep it for future generations.

I did not think that I myself would have to talk about it, hoping that it would be established by its authoritative verdict by the Russian national authorities. But the harsh reality does not promise favorable conditions for this in the near future, and the inexorable time puts on everything its stamp of oblivion.

I do not pretend that I know all the facts and through them all the truth. But until now I know it more than anyone else.

The sorrowful pages about the Tsar's sufferings speak of Russia's sufferings. And, having decided to break the vow of my professional silence, I assumed the full burden of responsibility in the consciousness that serving the law is serving the good of the people.

I know that the inquisitive human mind will not find answers to many questions in this study: it is necessarily limited, for its main subject is murder.

But the victim of the crime is the bearer of the supreme power, who ruled for many years one of the most powerful nations.

Like any fact, it happened in space and time and, in particular, in the conditions of the greatest struggle of the people for their destiny.

Both of these factors: the personality of the victim and the reality in which the crime was committed, give it a special character: a historical phenomenon.

"One of the hallmarks of a great nation is its ability to rise to its feet after a fall. No matter how hard its humiliation, but the hour will strike, it will collect its lost moral strength and embody them in one great man or in several great people, who will bring him on the temporarily abandoned historical road ".

No historical process is inconceivable outside the perceptions of the past. In this past of ours - a grave crime: the murder of the Tsar and his family.

By telling the truth, I would think to serve my native people.

Therefore, remembering the words of the great Russian historian, I tried, no matter how temptingly vivid at times my personal memories of the experience were, to present the facts based solely on the data of a rigorous legal investigation.

Such a transfer was caused, on the one hand, by the behavior of Nametkin himself, on the other, by the situation of that time.

In the face of facts pointing to the murder, if not of the entire royal family, then at least of the Emperor himself, the military power, which was the only one to ensure order in the first days of the capture of Yekaterinburg, presented Nametkin, as an investigator for the most important cases, a decisive demand to start an immediate investigation.

Relying on the letter of the law, Nametkin declared to the military authorities that he had no right to start investigations and would not start it until he received an offer from the prosecutor of the court, which was absent in the first days of the liberation of Yekaterinburg.

Nametkin's behavior caused great indignation at his address and in military environment, and in society. They did not believe in the purity of his boundless respect for the law. Some accused him of cowardice before the Bolsheviks, who continued to threaten Yekaterinburg, others went further in their suspicions.

From the editor: As our readers know, "Russkaya Liniya" pays close attention to events around the so-called "Yekaterinburg remains", all news and publications on this issue are collected on a special page of the RL). This is connected not only with the special veneration of the Holy Royal Passion-bearers by the RL staff, but also with the understanding of the importance of the Royal theme for the life of our Church and our Fatherland. Is it a joke to say: in 1998, the "Yekaterinburg remains" were buried in Peter and Paul Fortress, and a month later a default broke out; Last year, the topic was raised again, genetic examinations began again, new pressure on the hierarchy began, they started talking about a final solution to the issue, and again there was a crisis. Is this coincidence?

Let me remind you that on December 5 last year in Yekaterinburg an international scientific Conference, on which it was supposed to solemnly announce the last word of science that the remains are genuine. However, on this day His Holiness Patriarch Alexy died, and the sensation was blurred, the media paid little attention to the conference. RL published a skeptical note on this topic. In response, on December 19, I received an angry letter from the investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office VN Solovyov, who was prosecuting the "Yekaterinburg remains", in which I was accused of "dashingly fighting the investigation" and even of being "a persecutor of the Orthodox shrines ". True, after the Christmas holidays, Vladimir Nikolaevich called me and, more peacefully, offered to meet and record an interview with him following the investigation. So far, this proposal has not been implemented, but I hope that we will be able to meet with investigator V.N. Solovyov, and we will discuss all the acute questions and doubts of the Orthodox community in this fateful case.

Meanwhile, the other day we received by mail an article published below, in which important issues related to the results of the investigation are discussed. It is curious that an author unknown to me raises the question of the need for a court for the logical conclusion of the case. This was discussed almost a year ago at a round table organized by the Russian National Journal and Russian Line. It is obvious that, despite the official completion of the investigation, it is too early to put an end to the Tsar's case.
Chief Editor of RL Anatoly Stepanov

On new Year According to the old Russian calendar, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation announced the end of the "Investigation into the murder of the imperial family" (the first attempt to close this case was made on September 15, 1995).

The main findings of the investigation:

1. "Note" Yurovsky is identical to other documents of YM Yurovsky; the conclusion about the authenticity of these documents and the reliability of the facts set forth in them, connected with the history of the death of the Royal Family, was confirmed.

2. The royal family was shot by order of the Uraloblsovet.

An assessment of the conclusions of the investigation can only be given by the court, without which the results of 15 years of work simply hang in the air. "Broad discussion", as is often practiced in modern Russia, cannot help find a way out of the existing legal impasse. Taking the oath before the court of those who participated in the work of the commission of inquiry, incl. experts, employees of archives and special depositories, their answers to the questions of the court and opponents would help to establish the reliability of the conclusions of the investigation. The most reasonable, understandable for people, would be an open trial by the Board of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of the conclusions of the investigation presented by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

According to the legislation in force in the Russian Empire, the investigator had no right to assess the collected evidence without a final judicial investigation.

A more complete analysis of these conclusions is possible only after familiarization with the materials of the commission of inquiry, which should be available to a wide range of people professionally dealing with this topic (and not only!). But even now, on the basis of the materials presented in the book by L.A. Lykova (Investigation of the murder of the Russian imperial family. M. 2007), it can be concluded that in this case there are still ambiguities and contradictory facts. There are also certain "strains" of the investigation in its desire to "help" its "conclusions".

The dating of Yurovsky's "Notes" in 1920 is not very convincing, as evidenced by the fact that the Letter to Patriarch Alexy II from the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Skuratov "carefully" says: "could have been written in the early 1920s." But at the same time, contrary to logic, the Prosecutor General declares that “Yurovsky's note is an official account of the shooting Royal family"(again" cautious "" about the shooting ", keeping silent" about the burial. "" The story of the commandant, "who learned a lot after returning to the" crime scene ", recorded by M.N. Pokrovsky, who followed the development of events after the murder of the Tsar's Family, up to of an unspecified date of this recording, it was decided to recognize it as an “official report.” Which court would agree with this “conclusion” of the investigation?

A typical example of a "stretch" in the dating of "Notes" is set out in the book by L.A. Lykova, who conducted a "source analysis" of "Notes" and "Memories" (1922): "The following phrase stands out:" The original place of the burial , as I indicated earlier, 16 versts from Yekaterinburg and 2 versts from Koptyakov, the last place is approximately 8-8.5 from Yekaterinburg, approximately 0.5 versts from railroad". A very important detail is the words of Ya.M. Yurovsky that he had previously indicated the place of burial of the remains of the Tsar's family. To whom and when?"

The following is the conclusion that he indicated this earlier in the "Note" (1920), which is now confirmed by Memoirs. No, not confirmed! Careful reading of the "phrase" allows you to make a very definite conclusion that the words "As I indicated earlier" belong only to "original burial place", about which Yurovsky really already indicated earlier in the text of the same "Memories": "About 16 versts from Verkh-Isetsk and 1.5 or 2 versts from the village of Koptyaki we stopped ... The mine turned out to be very shallow." In the analyzed phrase, after the comma, it follows: "... the last place(! - VC.) is ... "- he indicates it, separating it from the" original. "You should pay attention to the word" indicated ", that is, in time close to the stated, while when referring to another document that is far away in time logical use of the verb "pointed out".

At the time of writing "Memories" Yurovsky had information from "the other side": "The White Guard Kolchak and other press, including foreign, describe this fact in a completely perverted form (and they could not have all the data)." Yurovsky, according to his son, did not like to read, but he didn’t have to do that, since he was well informed by MN Pokrovsky, who closely followed everything connected with the murder of the Tsar's family and clarified the "details" from the main killer.

But even when writing the "Note" Yurovsky knew a lot about the course of the "white investigation": after the liberation of Yekaterinburg, he was sent there as the chairman of the GubChK (not by chance!) And worked there until the end of 1920. He carried out arrests and interrogations in the case of the "white investigation", incl. and the first investigators L.P. Nametkin and I.A. Sergeeva.

The investigation established the identity of the "Note" to other documents of Yurovsky - "Memories" (1922) and "Report" (1934). But this is far from the case, for example, in relation to the main question: who gave the order and on what basis? In the "Note": "On 16 / VII / 1918 a telegram was received from Perm in a conventional language, containing an order for the extermination of the Romanovs." In "Memoirs": "On July 16, 1918, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Comrade Philip came to my house and handed over the resolution of the Executive Committee to execute Nikolai." And on what basis was the rest of the Family shot? On their own initiative? No, before the execution, he announces that by order of the Executive Committee. In the "Report": "On the morning of July 15th, Philip (Goloshchekin) arrived and said that tomorrow the case must be liquidated ... It was also said that we will execute Nikolai and officially announce, and as for the family, there may be announced, but how, when and how, nobody knows about it. "

Why, having a copy of the "Note", Yurovsky does not repeat what was said in it about the "telegram" (and not only - there are dozens of discrepancies with "Memories")? Perhaps the fact of decrypting the telegram has become known " Tell Sverdlov that the whole family suffered the same fate as the head of the family will officially die during the evacuation"(spelling preserved). In the summer of 1921 in Berlin, seven volumes of the official investigation were stolen and sent to Moscow (according to the German police), which PP Bulygin" kept at the request of Sokolov "(PP Bulygin" The Murder of the Romanovs " M. 2000. S. 121).

Yurovsky gets Sverdlov out of the blow, referring to the "resolution of the Executive Committee." But in the "Report", which is listened to by the Bolsheviks-Urals who are sufficiently aware of this matter, Yurovsky does not mention the "Executive Committee" at all, and before the execution "told Nikolai approximately the following that his royal relatives and friends both in the country and abroad tried to free him, and that the Soviet of Workers' Deputies decided to shoot them. " This expression - "on the verdict of the Yekaterinburg Council of Deputies" sounded in the mouth of Lenin, who gave the floor for "an extraordinary statement to the chairman of the Central Executive Committee, Comrade Sverdlov, at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on July 18 (about midnight).

L.A. Lykova writes about "the conclusions of the source analysis": "In matters concerning the organization of the burial of the remains of Nicholas II, there are no contradictions and discrepancies ... the information of people completely coincides, or they are not related to each other by position or occupation (cf. memoirs Ya.M. Yurovsky and Sukhorukov - a security officer involved only for the reburial of the remains), and the coincidence of the data of Ya.M. Yurovsky, Sukhorukov, M.A.Medvedev and I.I. Rodzinsky ... "By the nature of" activity "they all are connected by service in the Cheka and this is the most vulnerable spot in the evidence base of the investigation.

Saying that the testimonies of all these KGB officers could not have been "specially fabricated", experts clearly underestimate the methods and capabilities of the "glorious organs". Let us recall that they organized a "conspiracy" with the help of letters from "Russian officers".

The testimony of GI Sukhorukov (09/31/1929) appeared at a time when a noisy newspaper campaign about the "miraculous salvation" of Grand Duchess Anastasia flared up in the USA again (after Berlin in 1920). The "Center" demanded new data on the fate of the Tsar's Family, not content with Yurovsky's "Note", which at that time was no longer in the works. Why is the investigation sure that someone familiar with the circumstances of the murder and burial of the Tsar's family according to Pokrovsky-Yurovsky was not sent to Sverdlovsk? This is how the "testimony" of Sukhorukov appeared, whose handwritten text is preceded by a certificate of him from the body where he gives testimony that not completely (!) coincide with the "data" of Yurovsky. Moreover. Sukhorukov is mistaken in significant episodes associated with "burial", but he confidently declares that "on our altar ( bonfire - V.K.) hit the first Heir and the second youngest daughter Anastasia ", which was required for the answer to the Center." According to the study of the two remains found, it was the Grand Duchess Maria, who was very different in physique from Anastasia. Sukhorukov did not know the members of the Tsar's family, he could not have known Yurovsky's "considerations", but he accurately repeats his words: "So that if the whites even found these corpses and did not guess by the number that this was the Tsar's family, we decided to burn two pieces on fire ". Yurovsky in the "Note" says: together with Alexei they burned the maid of honor. Here is such a "complete coincidence of information"!

Sukhorukov writes: "In the evening, trucks came, the corpses ... loaded onto cars and drove off." Trucks parked not far from the level crossing No. 184 left for the city in the evening, and Lyukhanov's Fiat stood in a place where he could not get stuck, as Yurovsky pointed out in the Report. The fact that only one and not two cars passed through the crossing at 12 o'clock in the morning on July 19 is evidenced by the father and son of Lobukhina.

Further, Sukhorukov reports: "there was a hollow, laid with sleepers in the form of a bridge, and here is the rear truck ( the front went safely? - VC.), having almost passed, he got stuck ... "He does not know that they were carrying the sleepers to build a bridge, which was not there before, and in fact, most of this KGB detachment participated in such a rather laborious work.

He also wrongly names the place where the truck was heading, accompanied by carts and drogs, with "the corresponding cargo to be taken to V.-Isetsky pond." He does not say anything about the appearance near the mine of the "acquaintance Ermakov", who violated all "plans" of Yurovsky, thereby confirming that it was a lie, as well as the fact that they only tried to dig a hole near the mine, but "the ground turned out to be rocky" (according to Yurovsky - "almost dug").

II Rodzinsky, whose testimony also "completely coincides", said that they burned "either four, or five, or six people ... I remember exactly Nikolai, Botkin and, in my opinion, Alexei." And further: "Well, they fiddled with this matter for a long time, I even, while they were burning, went, reported, and then I arrived. It was already at night, I arrived in a car ... So, in fact, they buried it." It is known that he arrived in the morning, thus. on Rodzinsky burned almost a day.

How did Rodzinsky's "memories" appear? Yes, just like Sukhorukov: in 1964-1967. (note the duration!) In Göttingen, a trial was held in the case of Anna Anderson, posing as Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the "center" once again showed interest in this topic, again not trusting the data of the Cheka-OGPU (he knew how testimony by the authorities), demanded to find "living witnesses".

The testimony of M.A. Medvedev, who tried to "free" Yurovsky from the "laurels of the regicide", about which E. Radzinsky wrote at length, cannot be attributed to the "core of the investigation" - "reburial", since After "temporary" burial in the mine (for some reason, with explosions in order to collapse the mine), he left and did not appear in the Koptyakovsky forest again.

The most confusing question in all Yurovsky's "documents" is the question with the "deep mines": "In Memories (not for the authorities he writes, but how it actually happened!) He writes:" From Chutskaev ( he told about the location of the "deep mines" - V.K.) I went to the Extraordinary Commission there and again found Philip and other comrades. They decided to burn the corpses here. "

Goloshchekin offered him "one comrade ( Polushin - V.K.), which had to destroy the corpses in some other way. "Yurovsky ordered three barrels of kerosene, three cans of sulfuric acid from Voikov. Everything is ready for incineration, there is also a" specialist ", but Yurovsky goes to look for" deep mines. " this is where the mystery appears, which the investigation did not try to solve.All these days the cars went to the crossing number 184 "temporary house" - the road along the railroad bed, because on July 15th there was a heavy downpour and the road through the ravine, and without that place On that night of July 17, at dawn, Lyukhanov's Fiat with the bodies of the victims of the shooting was driving exactly as a “temporary hut.” Y. Lobukhin, who was woken up by the noise of a car, told NA Sokolov: “It was amazing, because never before had it happened that cars passed my booth, and even went at night. I looked out the window: I see, a truck is going as a "temporary hut" on the road to Koptyaki ... "

Why Yurovsky ordered Lyukhanov to go through the ravine? The driver himself could not go like that, because I did not know this road and was driving it for the first time. And how far he was going to drive a "lame" "Fiat", the rear wheel of which was damaged (when it fell into a pit on the morning of July 17th) and was wrapped in ropes, in this form he returned to the garage on the morning of July 19th.

On that evening, July 18, at crossing No. 184, the Bolshevik leadership of Yekaterinburg also "lit up": "At 5-6 pm on the same day ( July 18, 1928 - V.K.), when the trucks had already left, one passenger car stopped near us, he came to us as a "temporary house". There were four people on it, "- V. Lobukhin said. Two of them" went along the road to Koptyaki, and when a truck arrived at about 12 o'clock in the morning, several people got into our car (I could not see them at all) and they left "makeshift" to the city. What did these two do at the mine for 4-5 hours, if they didn’t “accept the work” of Yurovsky and didn’t make a decision about “burying” in the log. But who?

Historians argue - was the "sleepers' bridge" in line of sight from the crossing (200 m to it) or was it hidden by trees? The road went along the edge of the forest and one should not forget that the truck got stuck in the ravine - the place is open, if there were trees there in line of sight from the crossing, they could reliably shelter such a mass of people and, most importantly, they could not have a fire. How could Yurovsky be sure that the Lobukhin family was asleep? At night, after the truck got stuck, "a box drove up to my well ... They poured water into a barrel and drove off to the ravine ... Then we all went to sleep," Y. Lobukhin said. Did he tell N.A. Sokolov everything, but the investigator no longer had time to take repeated testimonies.

On the evening of the 18th, summer residents who rented apartments in Koptyaki began to drive up to the move from the city side. "At that time ( when a passenger car approached the crossing - V.K.) three carts of summer residents gathered near our booth, who were not allowed to enter Koptyaki ... They drank tea with us and waited for a ride to Koptyaki, "V. Lobukhin told N. Sokolov. The best place for a" demonstration " There was no burial! In his "Report" Yurovsky says that "having dug up the whole area, they did not think to look under the sleepers. They would have "guessed": the interrogation of the Lobukhins was carried out on July 10, and on the 11th N.A. Sokolov received a secret order from Dieterichs to leave Yekaterinburg and take out the investigation materials. He just didn't have enough time.

There is no certainty that the safe where the secret protocol to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was kept does not contain Yurovsky's official report (1918) and that secret telegram to Lenin that he received at 12 noon on July 17. The primary document of Yurovsky's "Notes" is, after all, the handwritten text of the historian MN Pokrovsky, a skillful forger, who prudently did not set the date, leaving "room" for future falsifications.

Academician Yu.V. Gautier wrote about him: "Pokrovsky ... this is a truly shameful name in Russian history and a disgrace for the school of Moscow Russian historians" (A.A. Chernobaev. Professor with a lance or three lives of the historian M.P. Pokrovsky M. 1992. S. 5).

In the period 1995-2007, judging by the review of documents in the book by L.A. Lykova, the investigation did not find a single new source on this topic. But it is known that in Yekaterinburg there were consulates of the United States and Great Britain, German agents watching the situation around the Royal family, there were also intelligence officers from other countries, as reported by S. McNeill (secret plan to save the Royal Family. M. 2006). Intelligence reporter Karl Ackerman published an article in the New York Times - "The Parfen Domnin Report," which was passed on by someone to the US Consul, now in the US military intelligence archives. Establishing the authorship of this "Report" is very important, because it was from it that the world received the first falsified version of the events in the Ipatiev House. K. Ackerman is also the author of the book "In the Footsteps of the Bolsheviks", published in New York in 1919, listed in the catalog of Lenin's Kremlin Library (office). There is a connection between K. Ackerman and M.P. Pokrovsky and in the so-called. "banking scheme", which writes S. McNeill.

On April 23, 1919, the English intelligence officer, Major Peer Groves, visited the Empress Dowager Maria Feodorovna, who was in Malta at that time, and assured her that “her sons were alive and presented her with several signs that confirmed this fact for her” (S. McNeill, op. . P. 139). This played a decisive role in her attitude towards the investigator N.A. Sokolov.

When asked who gave the order to the murderers, the modern investigation answered unequivocally: Uraloblsovet. The resolution itself has not been found, there are only telegrams, one of which, written on a telegraph form, is mistaken for a "resolution Of the Presidium of the Uraloblsovet about the execution of Nikolai Romanov ".

On July 18 (about midnight) at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, Lenin gives the floor "for an extraordinary statement by the chairman of the Central Executive Committee, Comrade Sverdlov, on the verdict Yekaterinburg Council of Deputies"." Juggling "goes on the very high level: no longer "Presidium", but "Sovdep". But there is no document on the meeting of the Uraloblsovet or even its Presidium with the date of its holding, discussion and voting on this issue. Here is what L.A. Lykova writes: “The source study analysis of the documents of the central and Soviet bodies made it possible to draw the following conclusions:

First, the assertions of researchers that Lenin was not involved in the execution of the Tsar's family are not consistent;

Secondly, the shooting of the Tsar's family is not an initiative of the Uraloblsovet, but of the central bodies of Soviet power - the SNK and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and their leaders;

Third, it is possible that Lenin conducted direct negotiations with A.G. Beloborodov not only on April 28, but also on July 7, 1918 and later, since a direct line between the Kremlin and Yekaterinburg was established. "

Why the investigation took an unsubstantiated conclusion, it must answer to the court: after all, the decision to shoot the entire Royal Family and Her retinue has not been found, which indicates that it is classified and deeply hidden. If it had been a decision of the UralChK, the Center would have "passed" it. On July 21, the CheKa News Bulletin published a telegram from Dzerzhinsky under the heading "Top Secret": "Nikolai Romanov and his family were shot in Yekaterinburg by order of the Central Executive Committee."

The well-known encryption "Tell Sverdlov ..." was recognized by the investigation as genuine, as evidenced by its inclusion in the "set of sources." This is proof that Sverdlov's task was completed. For many years, foreign historians have argued that this telegram is a "fake", thereby "protecting" Sverdlov, since understood that she was proving his supremacy in deciding the fate of the Royal Family.

Getting Lenin secret telegram at 12 noon on July 17 (the conclusions of L.A. Lykova that this was the first telegram of the Presidium of the Uraloblsovet in plain text are unconvincing) also testifies to his, together with Sverdlov, responsibility for the murder of the Tsar's Family.

On July 17, 1918, Lenin "triumphs": at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, "the question of installing 50 monuments to figures of Russian and foreign culture in Moscow" is discussed. M.N. Pokrovsky was the speaker on this issue. Among the "28 sayings of outstanding thinkers, writers and poets" the second after Cicero was G. Heine, "imprinted" on the wall of the murder room in the Ipatiev House.

In fact, only the genetic identification of the remains in the log near the crossing, today, is proof that the remains of the Royal Family and Her retinue were "hidden" there. Investigator V.N. Solovyov took on himself and the investigation a burden that was only feasible for the goddess of history, Clea, and he was not destined to put an end to a crime unseen in human history. As for genetic identification, this is a special conversation. But immediately surprised by the fact that no research was carried out on the remains of non-members of the Royal family, especially since their direct descendants are still alive? Only a lack of confidence in the work of the researchers of the remains can explain the reluctance to give out the "morocco box" with part of the material evidence, the existence of which is beyond doubt.

RTVi was the first to respond to the decision of the General Prosecutor's Office: "Enough disturbing the public, it's time to put an end to this matter." The Russian people had nothing to do with this "public either in 1917 or in 2009. Let us recall the words of Mayakovsky addressed to the public at that time" (it did not work out very smoothly): "Let's finish, we will finish the job for which Voikov fell." ... The only "intellectual" in that gang of murderers (however, he was no different from them in this: you can kill in different ways and when you write letters about a "conspiracy") confidently declared: "The world will never know what we did to them." It turned out that in order to "learn" it was enough to "guess to look under the sleepers"? Isn't it too simple!
01/25/2009

"Ritual, symbolic content"

No, let's say right away, the investigation into the murder of the royal family is not yet ready to agree with the "ritual version" of the murder of the royal family, which is so close to the radical conservative part of the Orthodox community. But progress, from the point of view of this public, is obvious: this version is no longer rejected in the TFR.

Patriarch Kirill at the conference "The case of the murder of the royal family: new examinations and archival materials." Photo: patriarchia.ru

"The investigation plans to appoint a psychological and historical examination to resolve the issue, including the possible ritual nature of the murder of members of the royal family," - said the senior investigator in charge of the case. The Investigative Committee RF Marina Molodtsova. But not only the words themselves are important, but also, so to speak, the context in which they were sounded. The statement was made at the conference "The case of the murder of the royal family: new examinations and archival materials", held on Monday at the Sretensky monastery with the participation of Patriarch Kirill.

Neither Molodtsova herself nor her colleagues hide the fact that the course of the investigation, in fact, is determined by the patriarchy: many examinations, they say, are carried out at the "request" of the church. And by and large - everything. And the case itself, as the patriarch said, speaking at the same conference, was resumed after he, in a conversation with the president, "formulated the conditions under which the church could seriously consider the results of examinations." Namely: 1) the whole process must be repeated anew, from the very beginning to the end; 2) the church should not be watched from the outside - it should be included in this process.

Marina Molodtsova, Senior Investigator for Especially Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Photo: patriarchia.ru

Meanwhile, the main question that the ROC puts before the investigation is not even the authenticity of the "Yekaterinburg remains." The main thing that worries and worries is whether the Orthodox sovereign was tortured by adherents of another, non-Orthodox cult - out of their religious need? Without an answer to this question, the church refuses to believe in the authenticity of the remains. Indeed, according to supporters of the "ritual" version, the bodies of the Romanovs simply could not remain intact. Either they were dismembered, or burned, or dissolved in acid. Either the one, and the other, and the third was consistently accomplished.

How far everything is running, in the sense of how far the process of popularizing such an interpretation has gone, say the words of the secretary of the Patriarchal Commission for the Study of the Results of the Study of the Remains of Bishop Tikhon of Yegoryevsk (Shevkunov), said at the same Sretensky conference: “We have the most serious attitude to the version of ritual murder. Moreover, a significant part of the church commission has no doubts that this was the case. " The church leadership is not politically correct about who could have performed this bloody ritual. According to Tikhon, the murder of the tsar and his family "for many" had "ritual, symbolic content."

But what is not allowed to Jupiter is allowed to the bull: the supporters of the "ritual" version on the lower floors of the church vertical are less inclined to polite. And the matter, alas, is not limited to marginal network resources. For example, on the respectable and fairly close to the patriarchy of the Russian People's Line, someone Leonid Bolotin, presented as a “historian, publicist and public figure”, Thoroughly proves the inconsistency of the version of the murder of the Romanovs by Hasidic Jews. In favor of the version of the murder by the Sadducee Jews ...

All members of this society "Ritual" - both moderate and completely frostbitten - base their position on the fact that the investigation and the authorities as a whole have not answered, they say, to the question that worries the clergy and flock. Naturally, we are talking about the previous consequence and the previous government. Specifically, about the investigator Vladimir Solovyov and the government commission for the study of issues related to the study and reburial of the remains of the royal family, which operated in 1993-1997. Meanwhile, among the materials of the latter, one can easily find the report of Vladimir Solovyov "Checking the version about the so-called" ritual murder "of the family of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II and people from his entourage in 1918", read at one of the meetings of the commission in 1997. The "ritual" version is broken down in it literally on each point.

“It can be concluded that the decision to shoot the entire royal family was not associated with any religious or mystical motives, but mainly with the mood of the leadership and the masses in the Urals,” says the final part of this document. - The reason was the aggravation of the military situation and the proximity of the fall of Yekaterinburg. The execution of the sentence also does not testify in favor of the "ritual" version ... The day of the execution was not timed to coincide with any Jewish religious holiday. The execution procedure was worked out "collectively" by the Ural Chekists. There were proposals to blow up the Romanovs with grenades, kill them with sleepy ones, and finally, shoot them. The Russians dominated among those who discussed the execution options (Medvedev, Nikulin, Kabanov). The study of the personal files of the participants in the events showed that none of them at the time of the execution had an educational level that allowed them to navigate in Jewish customs, ancient languages \u200b\u200b... "

Skull of Skeleton # 4, identified as the remains of the last Russian emperor.

But, as we see, the church was not convinced by these arguments. Nor were the first results of the renewed investigation convinced. By the way, the very first examination, appointed as part of the "rebooted" in September last year of the tsarist case, was a genetic comparison of the skulls of the emperor and empress with the rest of their skeletons. As you might guess, the study was carried out at the urgent request of the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church, who wished to make sure again that the heads were not cut off and preserved in alcohol. According to sources "MK" familiar with the course of the investigation, the results of this examination were ready at the beginning of October 2015 and then reported to the church leadership. There was no sensation: the skulls corresponded to the rest of the bones.

“Complete sets” of bones were found near Yekaterinburg. But supporters of ritual murder do not believe scientists and insist on replacing the remains. Photo: frame from video

Nevertheless, the church and the investigation put under its full control persistently continue to dig in the same direction. Well, god help, as they say. But, perhaps, it would be useful to remind the prospectors that establishing the ritual nature of the murder of the Russian Tsar turned out to be an unbearable task even for Hitler and his henchmen. For your information: the materials of the "White Guard" investigation into the tsarist case, which was conducted by forensic investigator Nikolai Sokolov, who emigrated after the victory of the Reds, returned to the country in a very interesting way - they were found in Berlin, in the Reich Chancellery. According to reports, the Nazis, having seized the Sokolov documents that were previously stored in France, intended to organize a grandiose anti-Semitic process with their help. But the texture, it seems, was still not enough.

However, he who seeks will always find. There would be desire, energy and the corresponding mood of the higher authorities.

The royal family. Early 1910s

The exhibition “The death of the family of Emperor Nicholas II. A century-long investigation ”.Its exhibits tell not only about the last months, days and minutes of the life of the royal family, but also about the subsequent long-term search for the truth - what exactly happened on the night of July 16-17, 1918. Especially for The New Times, a tour of the exhibition was conducted by Vladimir Solovyov, a senior criminal investigator of the Main Department of Criminalistics of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, who had been conducting this criminal case since the 1990s

On the night of July 16-17, 1918, in the basement of the house of engineer Ipatiev in Yekaterinburg, the Bolsheviks shot the family and servants of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II. On July 25, the city was occupied by whites. Leaflets were scattered around the city with a message about the execution of the former tsar. The officers entered Ipatiev's house. A strange and eerie picture: the trampled toys and medicines of Tsarevich Alexei, icons, without which the royal family did not even take a step, were thrown into the trash. Washed up traces of blood and traces of bullets. The killers tried to confuse the trail, hide the murder of children and spread rumors that only the king had been shot, and the family was taken to a safe place. Things said something else: a terrible tragedy had taken place here.

Things

The things from the Ipatiev house presented at the exhibition are witnesses of this tragedy. The most amazing thing is that something has survived at all.

After Admiral Kolchak came to power * * The leader of the White movement, from November 18, 1918 to January 4, 1920 - the Supreme ruler of Russia. the criminal case of the death of the royal family was given great political significance; material evidence acquired historical value. The investigation was overseen by a prominent military leader, former chief of staff of Brusilov, Lieutenant General Dieterichs. Nikolai Sokolov was appointed the new forensic investigator, who conducted the investigation until 1924, until his death. All things found during examinations of the houses of Ipatiev and Popov, during research and searches in the area of \u200b\u200bGanina Yama, during excavations of a mine in the vicinity of Alapaevsk, where the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna was dumped, in the rooms of the former regional council and in the post-telegraph office, were transported to Omsk ... Sokolov examined them, packed them - 50 boxes turned out. The Bolsheviks were advancing; in the confusion of the Civil War, only 29 boxes reached Vladivostok. They were sent to England to the king's sister Xenia Alexandrovna. Here it was found that most of the items in the remaining boxes had been replaced by rubbish. Many things were spoiled by the sea water, and they were burned. In the spring of 1948, the Grand Duchess decided to transfer part of the relics of the royal family to the rector of the London parish, Archpriest Mikhail Polsky, who by that time was going to move to the USA, to San Francisco. Ksenia Alexandrovna transferred the rest in 1950 to Brussels, to the ROCOR memorial church of St. Righteous Job, built in memory of the Tsar Martyr Nicholas II.

“When the investigation into the death of the imperial family began in 1991,” says Vladimir Solovyov, “we thought that everything connected with the Ipatiev house and the execution was lost. Today we are standing next to the icons before which the king prayed, which saw how the royal family was going on their last journey. Here are the things found on Ganina's pit, and even bullets from the bodies of members of the royal family. " 22 items donated by Fr. Mikhail Polsky, now presented at the exhibition. These are the trousers of Nicholas II, the tunic and shoulder straps of the Tsarevich, a plate, several icons. All these items were kept in deep secrecy, and they did not leave the walls of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, where they were transferred after the death of Fr. Michael. After the unification of the churches in 2007, it became possible to show unique things in Moscow.

On display is the denture of Dr. Botkin, found at the bottom of a mine in Ganina's pit. Soloviev points to the inconspicuous skirt of Princess Anastasia. “It's a pity,” he says, “that the skirt did not fall into the hands of the investigation in time. Experts all over the world argued hoarsely about how tall the Tsar's youngest daughter was in the summer of 1918. Many were sure that she was small, which means that the girl from the burial cannot be Anastasia, she is too tall. The skirt confirms: the remains were identified correctly. "

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All the regicides pulled the blanket over themselves, each said that he fired the first shot, that it was he who killed the king. They wanted to go down in history

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Paper

The main documents on the death of the royal family are kept in the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The meeting was started by the regicide Yurovsky. Immediately after the execution, he brought the royal papers and things from the Ipatiev house to Moscow. Among them are many personal photos from albums. All members of the royal family were fond of photography, and their personal albums are kept in the archive. The exposition features terrible documents. The Chekists, on behalf of the monarchist officer, sent letters to the tsar and tried to stage an escape in order to kill the family while "trying to escape." The king, fearing that people might die during the "escape", refused salvation.

According to Solovyov, the search for the papers presented at the exhibition is unprecedented, it is a good detective story. Director of the State Archives Sergei Mironenko supervised the search within the framework of the work of the government commission in 1993-1998. The Russian and world archives of Russia and private collections were examined. The most important acquisition was the so-called Liechtenstein collection. Having got out of Russia to France, Sokolov, hoping for help in the investigation, transferred the case materials to the former Russian commander-in-chief, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, who, in turn, to a specially created committee. With difficulty Sokolov obtained access to his materials and, fearing for their safety, replaced the most important original documents with copies in volumes. After the death of Sokolov, these important documents ended up in the possession of Prince Nikolai Orlov. In 1994, at the suggestion of a search group at Sotheby's in London, this collection was purchased for about $ 500,000 by Prince of Liechtenstein Hans Adam II to exchange it for the archives of the principality of Liechtenstein, confiscated in 1939 at the direction of Hitler and taken to the USSR after the end of the war. To study the archive, Solovyov, Mironenko and the REN TV television group led by Irena Lesnevskaya specially traveled to Liechtenstein, and then they sought (the help of President Boris Yeltsin was required) for the exchange to take place. So the documents from the archive of Nikolai Sokolov ended up in the State Archive of the Russian Federation.

Today all documents of Sokolov's investigation file have been collected, and the materials of these cases are presented at the exhibition. Here is a genuine coded telegram from Yekaterinburg, where for the first time in an official document the Soviet authorities recognized the fact of the execution of all members of the royal family. Nearby - the demand for the issuance of 170 liters of sulfuric acid for the destruction of corpses, written out by the supply commissar of the Urals Voikov. Nearby - the famous "note" of the organizer of the execution of Yakov Yurovsky, a record of his story made by the historian Mikhail Pokrovsky approximately in 1920, and an authentic map of the vicinity of Yekaterinburg made by military topographers of General Dieterichs. On the basis of these documents, scriptwriter Geliy Ryabov and geologist Alexander Avdonin, who were engaged in illegal searches for the remains of the king, found a secret burial in 1979. "Field documents" by Avdonin and Ryabov are also on display. There are also documents of the modern investigation - materials of examinations, which proved that the remains of 11 people belonged to the royal family and servants.

People

At the end of the exposition there are ordinary headphones. Visitors put them on, listen, faces change. In the headphones - the voices of regicides recalling their young years. Without regretting at all, sometimes laughing, Nikulin, Rodzinsky and Kabanov tell how they killed the tsar's children and burned the corpses. Nobody was supposed to hear their secret words. The recordings were in special storage in the archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

The fact is that in 1964 one of the regicides, Mikhail Medvedev, turned to the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Khrushchev with resentment: they say, he does not receive a personal pension. Soon after his conversion, Medvedev died, and his son wrote a letter to Khrushchev asking him to provide for his mother, i.e. Medvedev's wife, a place in a sanatorium. This document is on display: “When dying, dad asked to congratulate you on your 70th birthday, wish you good health and personally present you on his behalf with a historical relic of our family - a Browning pistol, from which my father shot the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. " The son also conveyed his father's historical memories "of the liquidation of the Romanov dynasty", which were immediately classified - probably for being too naturalistic.

Khrushchev then ordered to organize a commission and find out how everything was. They found other participants in the execution, questioned them, invited them to the radio studio, recorded detailed memoirs: how Nikolai did not manage to understand anything, how he had to finish off the victims in the basement of the house, how they reunited a small dog with the owners, stabbed them with a bayonet, how they hid corpses, how unpleasantly human bodies burn - They tried to destroy the corpses in order to prevent "counter-revolutionary activities" ("Would you know what to make of them? They would make relics of them. Religious processions would be arranged. This could not be allowed" - something like this explained one of the defendants). The only drawback of these memories is that everyone pulled the blanket over themselves, everyone said that it was he who killed the king. They wanted to go down in history: the end of the dynasty, the last shot. Nobody considered it a crime. Party organs have always justified and approved this. The documents in the neighborhood contain portraits of other regicides. Yurovsky, who shot the young Tsarevich and came home, where he was met by a son of the same age. Before his death, he wrote to Stalin and tried unsuccessfully to rescue his daughter from prison. Goloshchekin, who served more than one year in the Turukhansk Territory together with Stalin and Sverdlov, and then sent by Stalin to be shot. Safarov, who left Switzerland with Lenin in a "sealed carriage" from Switzerland to Petrograd, and then was shot as a traitor to the motherland. The executioner Ermakov died a natural death. On the stand there is a bayonet from an American rifle, which Medvedev used to finish off children, a pistol from which the Tsar was killed.

When asked whether the people who made the decision to shoot and killed the royal family were recognized as criminals, investigator Soloviev replies: “No. At first they were recognized as murderers by the investigation, but after the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia of October 1, 2008 on rehabilitation, they were “rehabilitated” - like the members of the royal family. The responsibility is collective - there are no guilty ones at all. And I, it turns out, was engaged in repressions against specific figures - Yurovsky and others, unfairly accused them of murder.

The first criminal case, which was led by Nikolai Sokolov, like people, had its own fate. Together with Sokolov, it passed along the fronts of the Civil War, almost losing the investigator himself when the chieftain Semyonov in Chita wanted to shoot Sokolov. Then this case passed to the French general Janin, who gave Kolchak to the Reds for slaughter. After passing through China and Japan, I ended up in France. With some of the documents presented, Sokolov traveled to the United States to visit the famous owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford. Some of Sokolov's documents were stolen in Germany, they ended up in the USSR and are now combined with the main volumes at the exhibition. One of the mysteries remained unsolved. General Dieterichs made copies of Sokolov's investigation file, and after the general's death, his relatives transferred them to the Jordanville Museum. It is not clear how one volume from Dieterichs' archive - this volume is presented at the exhibition - ended up in the archives of the Reich Chancellery, was taken to Moscow and eventually ended up in the archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

The original criminal case during the Second World War was in one of the French banks. The closest associate of Hitler, Rosenberg, suggested using the "tsarist cause" as another reason for the persecution of Jews. He was guided by the fact that some authors tried to portray the murder of the king as a "Jewish-Masonic conspiracy." On February 18, 1943, the Nazis took documents and material evidence to Germany. Ardent anti-Semites did not find signs of "ritual murder", but now many Russian sites fiercely defend ideas that were rejected by the Nazis. In 1946, examining the archives of the Reich Chancellery, the Chekists and employees of the military prosecutor's office found eight volumes of Sokolov's investigation file. In the end, the volumes settled in the Russian archives * * Four volumes, including one that belonged to General Dieterichs, are at the RGASPI, and four are at the State Archives of Russia. The State Archives of the Russian Federation also contains documents taken by Yurovsky from Yekaterinburg in 1918, official party and state documents related to Nicholas II, as well as "Liechtenstein" documents.... This is how the “paperwork” of the Sokolov case ended.

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Ardent anti-Semites did not find signs of "ritual murder", but now many Russian sites fiercely defend ideas rejected by the Nazis

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Bones

One of the important questions is the fate of the remains of two people found near Yekaterinburg in 2007. “The exhibition lacks two of the most important exhibits - the remains of Tsarevich Alexei and his sister Maria, identified three years ago as a result of sophisticated modern examinations. Their ashes are still not reposed, and formally they are the storage units of one state organization to which I handed them over, says investigator Soloviev. - They are still listed as material evidence in the case. I believe that the decision on the burial cannot be made without the participation of the Russian Orthodox Church. "

The state is waiting for the Church to remember her saints. The Church is silent or expresses its doubts about the reliability of the examination. Meanwhile, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, Metropolitan Hilarion, not only provided exhibits for the exhibition, but also carefully studied all the materials of expert research. “It's a pity that our compatriots, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, will never find time to resolve the issue of the holy children of the Russian tsar,” says Soloviev. "The coffins stand unburied, but the Church is silent."

As already reported, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Federation sent a request to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with a request, as an exception, to allow the publication of the results of examinations from among those that have already been completed to date in case No. 252 / 404516-15 on the murder of members of the Russian Imperial House in 1918-1919 According to Russian law, experts in a criminal offense sign a non-disclosure agreement until the investigation is closed.

To date, permission from the Investigative Committee to publish the results of completed examinations has been received. On behalf of the chairman and members of the Church Commission for the study of the results of the study of the remains found near Yekaterinburg, we thank for the understanding and support of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin and his first deputy Igor Viktorovich Krasnov, who is in charge of this investigation.

So, today we publish:

• questions posed to the investigation and expert groups by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, experts and representatives of the Orthodox community;

Questions posed to the investigation and expert groups
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation,
experts and representatives of the Orthodox community
in case No. 252 / 404516-15 about murder
members of the Russian Imperial House in 1918-1919

Questions of the Investigative Committee

1. What authentic documents testify to the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich Romanov from the throne?

2. In what documents of the central authorities and the highest party bodies of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Cheka in the period from November 7, 1917 (October 25, 1917 according to the old style) to July 17, 1918 there is information about the detention of members of the Royal family and those around them?

3. Have the Cheka documents related to the stay of the family of Nicholas II in the Urals been preserved?

4. Are there any documents proving that the central government is preparing a trial over the family of the former Emperor Nicholas II and persons from their inner circle?

5. What documents contain information about the maintenance of the family of Nicholas II in custody in the city of Tobolsk from November 7, 1917 (October 25, 1917 according to the old style) to departure to Yekaterinburg?

6. What documents contain information about the initiative to transfer the family of Nicholas II from Tobolsk to other places?

7. What documents testify to the mission of the Extraordinary Commissioner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee K. A. Myachin (V. V. Yakovlev, K. A. Stoyanovich) to transport part of the Tsar's family and persons from their entourage from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg in March 1918? What documents reflect the reaction of the authorities and party bodies of the Urals and Siberia to the results of K.A.Myachin's actions?

8. Are there any documents proving the intention of the authorities of the Urals to destroy members of the Tsar's family and persons from their entourage during the move from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg in April 1918?

9. What documents testify to the transport of members of the Royal family and servants under the leadership of PD Khokhryakov from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg in May 1918?

10. What documents of the party bodies, the bodies of Soviet power in the Urals and the UralChK contain data on the stay of the Tsar's family and persons from its entourage in Siberia and the Urals until the question of execution is resolved?

11. Have the archives of the bodies of Soviet power, the UralChK and the party bodies of the Urals been preserved in the period from November 1917 to September 1918, if so, where are they?

12. Are there any documents testifying to the attempt of the Soviet authorities in the Urals and the UralChK to misinform the members of the Tsar's family about the presence of a monarchist underground in Yekaterinburg?

13. Are there documents proving the initiative higher bodies the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet government in the execution of the Tsar's family and persons from their entourage?

14. Which documents reflect the position of the party bodies, the bodies of Soviet power in the Urals and the UralChK regarding the resolution of the issue of the execution of the Tsar's family?

15. Are there documents that contain information about the preparation and execution of the family of the former Emperor Nicholas II and people from his entourage? Which of the participants in the execution was identified according to the surviving documents?

16. What documents belonging to the participants in the events describe the movements and manipulations with the corpses of members of the Royal family and servants after the execution, attempts to conceal and destroy them? Are there documents showing the burial of nine corpses and the attempted burning of two corpses?

17. Are there any documents about the fate of the royal values \u200b\u200bthat the Romanovs had at the time of their move from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg?

18. Are there memoirs of persons who participated in the execution and burial of the Royal family, as well as persons of their number who knew these persons closely or were participants in these events?

19. Are there any documents on the territory of the Russian Federation testifying to the investigation into the shooting of the Tsar's family and persons from their entourage, conducted from July 30, 1918 by the investigator for the most important cases of the Yekaterinburg District Court, A.P. Nametkin, and then continued by a member of the Yekaterinburg District Court IA Sergeev and the investigator for particularly important cases at the Omsk District Court, NA Sokolov?

20. Is there a private correspondence of the participants in the investigation into the circumstances of the death of the Tsar's family, containing information about the death and burial?

21. Are there any documents proving that members of the Royal family were saved from being shot?

22. Are there documents containing different versions of the death, burial or destruction of the Royal family?

23. Are there any documents on the history of storage of material evidence found during the "White Guard" investigation into this fact?

24. Are there documents on the autopsy of the burial of the Tsar's family and people from the environment in the period from 1918 to 1977?

25. What documents are included in the materials of the check carried out by the Central Committee of the CPSU at the request of the participants in the execution of the royal family, MM Medvedev-Kudrin, addressed to NS Khrushchev?

26. Are there reliable data on historical sources associated with the execution of the Royal family and who disappeared for various reasons?

27. What is the historical reliability of the materials of the investigation conducted by the investigator N. A. Sokolov, which are at the disposal of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation?

28. What is the historical reliability of the recollections of the participants and witnesses of the execution of the Tsar's family and its servants, available to the investigation?

29. What is the historical reliability of the available information about the salvation of members of the Royal family?

On all these issues, it is necessary to find out: what is the history of origin of the documents, in which archives, museums, private collections or other places they are contained, which collections of documents are included, what is their historical reliability?

Questions expert groups

Anthropological examination

1. Conduct a new anthropological examination of the Yekaterinburg remains. Pay attention to traces of bullet, chopped and stab wounds. It is necessary to raise the archives of the Royal family regarding fractures, cracks, bruises and other injuries that could leave traces.
2. Give an answer about the reason for the absence of three cervical vertebrae in skeleton No. 4, as well as part of the bones in this and other skeletons.
3. Conduct a tomographic study of the skull No. 4. In particular, it is necessary to find out whether there is a mark on the skull from a blow with a saber, which was inflicted on the future emperor in Japan in 1891.
4. It is necessary to raise the archives of the dentists of the Tsar's family and compare their data with what is observed on the "Yekaterinburg remains".
5. To carry out an anthropological study of the alleged bones of Tsarevich Alexy and Grand Duchess Maria (70 grams of bone remains, found, according to the investigation, in the Porosenkovy Log).

Forensic examination

1. Conduct a soil science examination of Porosenkov's log, finding out the specifics of decomposition of bodies in such soils.
2. Obtain an opinion on the peculiarities of the action of sulfuric acid on the tissues of the human body and on the amount of combustible materials (firewood, kerosene) required to destroy 11 human bodies under conditions known from the description of the murder of the Tsar's family.
3. Conduct a cryptographic examination of the inscriptions in the Ipatiev House.
4. Conduct an examination on the likelihood of the ritual murder of the Royal family.
5. Could the fact of the disappearance of the beds from the Ipatiev house (if any) be related to the ritual nature of the murder of the Tsar's family?

Historical expertise

1. Raise documents on Lenin's negotiations with the Soviet authorities of the Urals and the UralChK in the period from April 1918 to the concealment of the bodies of members of the Tsar's family.
2. What kind convincing evidence death of Nicholas II were presented to the leadership of Soviet Russia?
3. Are there any documents about the presence in the Kremlin of a vessel with the head of Emperor Nicholas II, as stated in a number of memoirs?
4. What documents related to the execution of the Tsar's family are kept in the Yekaterinburg archives?
5. It is necessary to obtain a detailed conclusion regarding the "Yurovsky's Note" - how many versions of this note exist, the origin of the last two paragraphs of the note, written by Academician Pokrovsky. Conduct a handwriting examination.
6. Raise the original of Yurovsky's memoirs, published in the magazine "Source".
7. Are there facts concerning the murder of the Tsar's family in Yurovsky's letter to Stalin in the second half of the 1930s from the Kremlin hospital?
8. Raise the letter of M.M.Medvedv-Kudrin's son to N. S. Khrushchev (1964), to which a plan of the area where the burial is located was attached.
9. Are there Avdonin's diaries about searches in Pig's Log in 1979?
10. Make a table of discrepancies between the memories of Avdonin and Ryabov.
11. Obtain the testimony of Mikhail Gorbachev, the former general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, about whether the USSR leadership was interested in closing the question of the murder of the Tsar's family?
12. What were the reasons for the refusal of the 1993 investigation from the main conclusions reached by the 1918-1922 investigation?
13. To request from investigator V.N.Solovyov acts of acceptance and transfer of remains during research in 1993.
14. Is it true that the statement of the St. Petersburg criminalist V.L.Popov that in the morgue of the Military Medical Academy, after the re-burial of the remains of Grand Duke Georgy Alexandrovich, exhumed for genetic examination in 1993, there was a box with bone fragments from the burial of Grand Duke Georgy Alexandrovich ? According to V.L.Popov, these fragments were seen by him and the current deputy head of the forensic medical examination, Isakov.
15. What documents are available regarding the transfer of members of the Tsar's family arrested by the Provisional Government to the protection of the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution?
16. There is information about a certain examination of Maples, which reports that the skulls were chopped with shovels. Was there really such an examination?
17. What is the history of the discovery of 70 grams of bone remains in the Porosenkovy Log, attributed to the passion-bearers Tsarevich Alexy and the Grand Duchess Maria?

Questions to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

1. There is evidence that the ROCOR provided the finger of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna for examination. The examination showed discrepancies between the genome of Elisaveta Fedorovna and the genome of the alleged "Alexandra Fedorovna". Is it really?
2. There is information that the remains and personal belongings of the Tsar's family, taken out by the investigator Sokolov (in the "blue box"), are kept in Brussels and the USA. Is it really?

Questions to be resolved
with foreign archives and funds

1. Request the results of genetic research in Japan (Nagaya Genetics Results).
2. To raise Rostropovich's personal funds concerning the Tsar's family.
3. Request a correspondence between Investigator Sokolov and Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich.
4. Request the French archives for documents relating to the murder of Investigator Sokolov in Paris in 1925.
5. Request the grandson of investigator Sokolov about the original manuscript of the book about the death of the Tsar's family in French.
6. Request the Danish State Archives for documents relating to the death of the Royal Family.
7. Request Ford's archive regarding documents relating to the death of the Royal family.

Questions to the investigation on the "Yekaterinburg remains"
from representatives of the patriotic community,
for many years dealing with the murder of the Royal family

First ... According to the version of the modern investigation, the car with the bodies of the murdered, walking from Ganina Yama, got stuck in the Pig's Log, and at this place the killers decided to make a grave. Was the consequence of an experiment: how much soil above the total surface of the earth could have formed if the bodies of 9 adults were placed in the grave - taking into account that sleepers were laid on top? Since there was no hill above the burial ground, where could the killers hide this land, given that the grave was dug at night? Why did the officers and investigator Nametkin, who arrived shortly after the murder on Ganina Yama, not notice these piles of fresh earth?

Second ... What are the grounds to assert that the grave under the bridge was made of sleepers precisely on July 17, 1918, and not later, in August-September 1919, or, say, in 1920, or much later?

Third ... It is known that a large amount of alcohol was prescribed, which became one of the indirect confirmations of the version of the separation of the heads of the sovereign and the heir for demonstration to the Soviet ringleaders. Is there any other explanation for the consumption of alcohol?

Fourth ... MK Dieterichs writes: “Isaak Goloshchekin left Yekaterinburg in a separate saloon car late in the evening on July 19 and headed straight for Moscow. He was traveling by that special courier that Beloborodov had informed Yankel Sverdlov about in a conversation over a direct wire and which was carrying “documents” that interested Yankel Sverdlov. He carried three very heavy boxes with him in the cabin. These were not trunks or suitcases from among the tsarist ones, in which Yankel Yurovsky and Nikulin, after the murder, packed the things of the Tsar's family that they had robbed and stolen from the Ipatiev house. These were the most ordinary plank, capping boxes, hammered in with nails and tied with ropes, which, without touching the contents in them, had absolutely no place in the cabin. Here, of course, they were striking and could not fail to attract the attention of Isaac Goloshchekin's companions, who accompanied the security officials and train servants. Isaac Goloshchekin noticed this and hastened to explain to those who were interested what he was carrying in these boxes samples of artillery shells for the Putilov factory.

In Moscow, Isaak Goloshchekin took the boxes, went to Yankel Sverdlov and lived with him for five days without returning to the carriage. With his stay in Moscow, among the small employees of the Council of People's Commissars, mainly from among those American emigrants with whom Russian military statistics were so familiar, a rumor spread that Isaac Goloshchekin had brought in alcohol the heads of the former Tsar and Members of his Family, and one more pessimistically looked at the strength of Soviet power in Russia, rubbing his hands, said: “ Well, now at least life is assured; let's go to America and show the heads of the Romanovs in cinemas”. Of course, such a view of a secured future could only be the result of rumors and idle rumors, but, as the associate and collaborator of Isaac Goloshchekin and Yankel Yurovsky, Dr. Sakovich put it: “ I do not believe in the execution of the former Tsar, but when faced with Goloshchekin and Yurovsky, I can admit that, regardless of anything, they - cynics to the core - could commit any vileness”. Why should these “cynics” not commit another heinousness, as they did the first, and bring the heads of the Christian martyrs of the Royal Family in Isaac Goloshchekin's boxes as indisputable proof of the fact of the murder. What documents, in the literal sense of the word, and for what purpose could be of interest to Yankel Sverdlov, Nakhamkes and Bronstein? Conspiracy documents? But, as you know, there was no such thing, just as there was no conspiracy. Diaries of the Tsar? But the Soviet government could have them without murder. Beloborodov, in conversation, speaks allegorically about the documents of interest, placing them in close connection with the crime committed. What kind of “documents” could they really be, and were they “documents” in the literal sense of the word?

Isaac Goloshchekin spent five restless days in Moscow; the inspirers and leaders of the Soviet government had to think over and decide what to do if a crime was accidentally discovered and a noise arose, and especially abroad, since now the Soviet government was already beginning to be interested in the question: “what will they say abroad”, because it dreamed of pushing the boundaries of the professed International ... Five days later, Isaac Goloshchekin with four new companions returned to the saloon car and went with them to Petrograd. The boxes were no longer with him. On the way, there were talks about the Royal Family, and Isaac Goloshchekin told his companions that “ now the affair with the Queen is settled”, But did not expand on this especially, so that p the listener only managed to hear that the body of the former Tsar was burned».

4.1. Did the investigation study the circumstances of I. Goloshchekin's stay in Moscow as a guest of Ya. M. Sverdlov on about July 21-26, 1918, and at the same time the chronology of Ya. M. Sverdlov's actions and contacts in those days?

4.2. Were the personnel lists of employees of the Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars studied in the second half of July - early August 1918 in order to identify among them the re-emigrants from the USA, about whom M.K.Diterichs writes?

4.3. What is the version of the modern investigation about the contents of the three boxes that I. Goloshchekin, under constant personal supervision, delivered from Yekaterinburg to Y. M. Sverdlov's apartment in Moscow?

4.4. Why, on the basis of the conversations of I. Goloshchekin and four companions who accompanied him on or about July 26, 1918, on the way from Moscow to Petrograd, the informant of M. K. Dieterichs reported that he had a chance to "hear that the body of the former Tsar was burned" ? After all, information about the possible burning of the tsar and the royal martyrs from the investigation of N.A. Sokolov could have been available to the public not earlier than late spring 1919, when the investigator began to lean towards this version based on his study of Ganina Yama (before the snow melted in the spring of 1919, investigative actions in the tract was impossible). Prior to that, neither Nametkin nor Sergeev had considered such a version.

Fifth ... Who and for what purpose wrote on the wall of the basement of the Ipatiev house a quatrain from the poem by G. Heine about Tsar Belshazzar? Is the modern investigation carried out a study of all the blasphemous graffiti that were recorded by the investigation of N.A. Sokolov on the walls of the Ipatiev House?

Sixth ... Does the investigation have a different explanation for the "kabbalistic signs" that Enel (Skaryatin) decoded? Have these marks been examined by experts?

Seventh ... The investigation claims that it is impossible to burn human bodies in the open air even with the help of gasoline. Did the investigation consider the version of burning the bodies of those killed in barrels, how the body of the Socialist-Revolutionary Fanny Kaplan was destroyed in Moscow, in which, according to V.N.Solovyov, Yurovsky was a participant?

Eighth ... What reasons are there to believe that the sulfuric acid prescribed by Voikov and, according to the investigation, poured onto the bodies in the grave under the bridge, could not have a strong effect on the bodies?