… Opening the truth is hindered by a dense veil of secrecy and lies around those issues related to the murder of the Royal Family. Lies and deceit accompanied the Seven everywhere. So, in the house of the engineer Ipatiev, in which the Imperial Family was housed, they threw anonymous letters from the mythical "officer" with a proposal to prepare for an escape. The authors of the letters were the Ural Soviet Commissioner for Supply, P. L. Voikov, and I. I. Rodzinsky, a member of the GUBCHK.
To confirm the existence of the conspiracy, the Ural Council has set up a whole "factory" of forged documents. They lied in the Urals, they also lied in the Center. On July 16, 1918, in response to an inquiry from Copenhagen about the fate of the Emperor, V. I. Lenin sent a reply telegram: “Rumors about the execution of the tsar are a lie. These are all inventions of the capitalist press.”(1)
The next day, July 17 at 12.00, Y. Sverdlov received a telegram from Yekaterinburg: “To the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Comrade. Lenin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee comrade. Sverdlov … In view of the approach of the enemy to Yekaterinburg and the disclosure of a large White Guard conspiracy by the Extraordinary Commission, … by order of the Presidium of the Regional Council, on the night of July 16 (error - July 17) Nikolai Romanov was shot. His family was evacuated to a safe place …”(2).
On the evening of the same day, another, encrypted telegram was received: “Moscow, to the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars Gorbunov. Reverse check. Tell Sverdlov that the whole family suffered the same fate as the head. Officially, the family will die during the evacuation. Beloborodov (Chairman of the Ural Council). (3)
The Bolsheviks lied for fear of popular anger that threatened to sweep them away. NA Sokolov wrote: “They (the Bolsheviks) put on a revolutionary guise and slipped the moral principle under the crime. By this principle, they justified the murder of the Tsar. But what moral can justify killing children? They had only one thing to do: lie. And they lied. (4)
The lie about the murder of the Royal Family was supported by the press. So, on July 19, 1918, an official message was published in Izvestia and Pravda: “… the presidium of the Ural Regional Council decided to shoot Nikolai Romanov, which was carried out on July 16. The Romanovs' wife and son have been sent to a safe place."
On July 22, 1918, the Uralsky Rabochy newspaper published an announcement about the execution of only Nicholas II. (5) …
On September 17, a trial was held in Perm over 28 Socialist-Revolutionaries, accused of murdering all members of the Royal Family and Their retinue.
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And on September 22, when the investigation of the Yekaterinburg atrocity was in full swing, Izvestia published a message about the solemn funeral of Nicholas II. What actually happened?
July 25, 1918 troops of the Siberian Army entered Yekaterinburg.
Two days later, on July 27, the military commandant, Captain Girsh, received the charred things found by the peasants near Ganina Yama, near Yekaterinburg, in the Tract of Four Brothers. (6)
On July 30, a judicial investigation began in the case of the murder of the Tsar Family, by order of Prosecutor Kutuzov, Order No. 131. (7)
At first, the Tsarskoe case was conducted by A. Nametkin, an investigator for especially important cases of the Yekaterinburg District Court. On August 7, 1918 A. Nametkin was replaced by I. A. Sergeev, a member of the court. But, unfortunately, neither one nor the other did not correspond to the level of the task assigned to them.
On November 18, 1918, the supreme power in the Urals passed to the Supreme Ruler, Admiral A. V. Kolchak.
On February 7, 1919, by his order, the leadership of the Tsarskoe case was transferred to the investigator for especially important cases of the Omsk District Court, N. A. Sokolov, in accordance with the order of the Minister of Justice Starynkevich No. 2437. Sokolov was actively assisted by General MK Dieterichs, the English photojournalist of the newspaper "Time" R. Wilton, and the tutor of Tsarevich Alexei, the Swiss Pierre Gilliard.
In the early 1920s, N. A. Sokolov, M. K. Dieterichs, R. Wilton and P. Gilliard published their works on the investigation of the murder of the Tsar's Family abroad. In the 1990s, their books were republished in Russia, which allowed a wide range of readers to learn about the new circumstances of the death of the Imperial Family.
A forensic investigation conducted in 1918-1919 established that on the night of July 16-17, 1918, in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, the entire Royal Family and four of Their loyal servants were brutally murdered. Their bodies were taken to the Tract of the Four Brothers, chopped to pieces, doused with gasoline and sulfuric acid and burned at two fires. At the site of the destruction of the corpses, burnt fragments of human bones were found with traces of the blows of sharp-cutting weapons and the action of acid, a woman's finger, two pieces of human skin, Dr. Botkin's false jaw, pieces of molten lead from bullets in the bodies of victims, greasy earth masses and many chopped and charred toilet articles of all Members of the Royal Family and Their servants. “Here is the same picture as in the Ipatiev House: to hide perfect evil from the world,” N. A. Sokolov in his book. (nine)
Later, invoices were found signed by PL Voikov with a demand addressed to Metzner, the manager of the Russian Society Pharmaceutical Store, to issue 11 poods and 4 pounds of sulfuric acid to Assistant Commissar Zimin. The inventory of the Soviet garage and the testimony of witnesses made it possible to establish that at least 40 poods of gasoline (about 600 liters) were brought to the mine where the corpses were burned. (10) During the investigation and in subsequent years, the participants and witnesses of the atrocity confirmed the fact of the burning of the bodies of the Royal Family. Bolshevik Anton Yakovlevich Valek, interrogated by NA Sokolov, said: “I had a conversation with Beloborodov about this … as a result, I got the opinion that the whole Family was killed and burned.” (eleven)
Nikolai Kochetov, sitting in a prison in Yekaterinburg, overheard a conversation between guards from Shai Goloshchekin's team (military commissar of the Ural Soviet), who claimed that they had heard from Goloshchekin about the burning of Emperor Nicholas II. (12) On July 17, 1968, the newspaper “Russkaya Mysl” published an article entitled “Confessions of Beloborodov,” in which the latter claimed the destruction of the corpses of the entire Royal Family.
In 1921, the Deputy Commissar for Procurement of the Ural Soviet P. Bykov, in his essay “The Last Days of the Last Tsar,” wrote: another day burned. (13)
A member of the GUBCHK I. I. Rodzinsky in a radio broadcast in 1964 said: “… I remember Nikolai was burnt, it was this Botkin … they burned either four, or five, or six people … I remember Nikolai exactly, Botkin and to mine, Alexei. (fourteen)
The Yekaterinburg State Museum contains the memoirs of one of the regicides P. Z. Ermakov. They say: "… All the corpses were burned with sulfuric acid and kerosene, there was the first crematorium over the crowned robber …" (15)
In 1952, P.3. Ermakov, in an interview with the students of the Faculty of Journalism of Yekaterinburg University, said: “Goloshchekin ordered, first of all, to burn three bodies: Nicholas II, Alexei and Anastasia.
The heads were separated because the teeth do not burn … For convenience, the bodies were cut. The chopped bodies were burned on charcoal with gasoline. In the evening of July 18, the team of Goloshchekin and Yurovsky took away some underburned bodies to drown in a quagmire. Voikov took three heads off somewhere. " By order of Goloshchekin and Yurovsky, Ermakov's team collected part of the bones in an acid jug and drowned them in the mine, and scattered some around the fires. (16) Leaving Yekaterinburg at the approach of the White Army, Yermakov's people boasted to the peasants: "We burned your Nikolka and everyone there …"
It is known from R. Wilton's book "The Last Days of the Romanovs" that on July 19, 1918, Yurovsky left for Moscow, taking with him 7 large chests with Romanov good. But, besides this, he was carrying documents about the execution of the Royal Family, which he handed over to the director of the Istpart special archive, Professor MN Pokrovsky. In 1919, the Chicago correspondent Isaac Don Levin got acquainted with these documents. In November 1919. his article was published in the Daily News in which he wrote: “Nikolai Romanov, the former Tsar, his wife, four daughters and only son Alexei, is without a shadow of a doubt dead. They were all executed on July 17, 1918, and their bodies were burned. " In his memoirs in 1973, ID Levin repeated this statement. (17)
There is evidence of another savage crime of the Bolsheviks - the severing of the heads of the Members of the Imperial Family. As stated above, the regicide P. Ermakov spoke about this. M. K. Dieterichs and R. Wilton came to the same conclusion. In his book, M. K. Dieterichs cited the following data: “… in the city (Moscow) the rumor spread that Shaya Goloshchekin brought in three barrels the heads of all the Members of the Royal Family in alcohol … Late in the evening, July 19, 1918 (18) Shaya Goloshchekin left from Yekaterinburg to Moscow, as reported by Beloborodov to Yankel Sverdlov via a direct wire. Goloshchekin was carrying three very heavy, oversized, boxes with him in a separate saloon car … In Moscow, Goloshchekin with boxes went to Sverdlov, where he lived for five days. Five days later he went to Petrograd, but without the boxes. (nineteen)
Indirect confirmation of the separation of the heads are traces of cuts on the neck laces and chains of all Members of the Royal Family and the absence of teeth in the mine, in fires and soil.
General Demontovich found pages from a German medical handbook near the fires, which were apparently used in the removal of heads. Another confirmation of this version is the eyewitness accounts published abroad. Information about the head of Nicholas II seen in alcohol was given in the newspaper "Hannoverische Anzeiger" (Berlin, No. 288, December 7, 1928), on the pages of the magazine "Two-Headed Eagle" (Paris, No. 24, 1928); in a collection of articles dedicated to the memory of Tsar Nicholas II (Sofia, 1930); in the newspaper "Our speech" (Bucharest, 1934), etc.
The bloody lie associated with the death of the Royal Family did not end there. In April 1919, the Kolchak government uncovered a secret Bolshevik organization operating in the area of Yekaterinburg. Some of its members managed to escape and convey to the Bolshevik authorities that their crime had been solved.
To confuse the traces and mislead the future investigation of the Tsar's case, it was decided to arrange a bloody forgery. After the departure of the White Army at the end of August 1919. innocent people were shot, and their corpses were buried under the Koptyakovskaya road by order of Yurovsky. P. Ermakov told about this in 1925. To make it more difficult to identify the dead, their faces were smashed and disfigured with sulfuric acid. In 1991, when the burial ground was opened, human remains were found there with a badly destroyed facial part of the skulls and a jug of sulfuric acid.
On top of the burial, as a landmark, a new bridge was built from sleepers, instead of the old one. There are two photos of this place. One of them was made by the investigation of N. A. Sokolov, the second - by Y. Yurovsky, with P. Ermakov standing on the bridge. The first photo shows no evidence of excavation. On the second, the edge of the removed fresh sod is clearly visible.
Comparing photographs, it is not difficult to guess when the burial ground was made. This was at the end of August 1919, after the departure of the White Army, when the Bolshevik rule was again in Yekaterinburg.
Of course, this new crime was committed in agreement with the Center, which tirelessly followed the events taking place in the Urals. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Professor MN Pokrovsky, the former director of the Istpart special archive, composed the now widely known “Yurovsky's note”. It reported on the alleged burial of the bodies of the Royal Family under the Koptyakovskaya road early in the morning of July 19, 1918. The purpose of this misinformation is to confuse the traces of the crime, confuse the future investigation and lead its work along the wrong path. This goal has been achieved in our day.
In 1946, by order of L. P. Beria, the burial ground was opened. P. Ermakov told about this in 1952, in 1995 the same was reported in the Yekaterinburg newspaper "New Chronicle" (No. 3, November 3, 1995).
In 1975, the Minister of Internal Affairs N. A. Shchelokov visited Yekaterinburg. The next year, 1976, his former employee, screenwriter G. T. Ryabov was sent there to inspect Ipatiev's house. And in 1977, by order of the secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU BN Yeltsin, the Ipatiev House was demolished. This house still kept the evidence of the 1918 crime, and they were afraid of their disclosure.
In 1979, G. T. Ryabov, together with A. N. Avdonin, secretly opened the Koptyakovskoe burial place, removed (according to them) three skulls from it, and in 1980 returned them to their place. A new round of lies began.
In 1989, there was a sensational interview with G. T. Ryabov in the Moscow News newspaper and his essay in the Rodina magazine, in which he announced to everyone that he had found the burial place of the "royal remains." He was guided in the search for the alleged "note of Yurovsky." That's when the falsification created by Professor M. N. Pokrovsky worked.
An intensive processing of public consciousness began. In this he was significantly helped by the writer E. Radzinsky, who was then included in the Government Commission for the identification of the found remains.
On television, radio and in newspapers, photographs of the skull of allegedly Nicholas II were shown, who then turned out to be female. The lie, started in 1919 by the Chekists, began to operate 70 years later.
In 1991, the Koptyakovskoye burial was officially opened. But this was done secretly, with increased protection and in the pouring rain, which immediately alerted many.
In 1993, a criminal case was opened on the discovery of human remains under No. 18 / 123666-93. (20)
Instead of an objective investigation, active propaganda of the official version began. In the same 1993, on October 23, by order of VS Chernomyrdin, a "Commission for the Study of Issues Related to the Study and Reburial of the Remains of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II and Members of His Family" was established. It included mainly officials and cultural figures who have no idea about the essence of the issue. There was not a single lawyer in the Commission, although during the opening of the burial, both before and after it, serious violations of procedural norms were committed, which made it possible to partially replace the remains. The very name of the Commission shows that the idea is imposed on the public that the remains of Emperor Nicholas II and Members of His Family were found near Yekaterinburg. The judicial investigation of NA Sokolov was completely ignored.
1993 to 1998 several times it was publicly announced that on the next Forgiveness Sunday a solemn burial of these remains would be carried out in the Imperial Tomb of the Peter and Paul Fortress. But meeting resistance from the Orthodox community and the Church's demand to answer the 10 questions formulated by the members of the Commission, the burial was postponed.
On January 30, 1998, the last meeting of the Commission was held, at which, without any discussion or vote, it was decided to bury the "Yekaterinburg remains" in the Peter and Paul Fortress on July 17, 1998. This day marks exactly 80 years since the death of the Royal Family.
Two scientists, members of the Commission, Ph. D. Sciences S. A. Belyaev and Professor, Doctor of History sciences V. V. Alekseev put forward reasoned objections to the decision. But this was not taken into account. The First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Vitaly, sent a telephone message to the Commission, in which he protested against such blasphemy, recalling that the real holy relics of the Royal Martyrs are kept in the Brussels memorial church.
Investigator N. A. Sokolov handed them over in a special ark to the representatives of the Russian Church Abroad. Nevertheless, at the next meeting of the Government, chaired by V. S. Chernomyrdin, it was decided to hold the burial ceremony of the remains in St. Petersburg on July 17, 1998.
On February 26, a meeting of the Holy Synod took place, at which the Determination was adopted. It recommended to bury the "Yekaterinburg remains" in a temporary memorial grave to remove all questions regarding their ownership.
On June 9, 1998, this determination was confirmed at a regular meeting of the Holy Synod. At the same time, it was decided not to participate in the burial ceremony in the Peter and Paul Cathedral for any of the hierarchs of the Church.
On June 11, it was announced that the President of the Russian Federation also refused to participate in the burial ceremony of the remains. Deputy Prime Minister B. Ye. Nemtsov will attend the funeral on behalf of the Government. And ordinary priests will serve for the nameless killed.
It should be added that before the meeting of the Synod, pressure was exerted on the hierarchy by the Prosecutor General Yu. I. Skuratov, Prime Minister S. V. Kirienko and B. Ye. Nemtsov. To fully understand the current events, it is necessary to find out the motives and reasons for such a sophisticated, savage murder of the Imperial Family and the destruction of their bodies.
Here is what N. A. Sokolov wrote about this: “Many years before the revolution, an assassination plan arose with the aim of destroying the idea of monarchy. The question of the life or death of members of the House of Romanov was, of course, resolved long before the death of those who died in Russia. (21)
In 1923, General MK Dieterichs wrote: "For the inspirers and leaders of the crime, the destruction of the Anointed One of God and His Family was a definite act of struggle with God, the main historical impulse of all their revolutionary feeling."
… Another reason for the desire to bury the remains as soon as possible is the desire of many to gain access to the Tsar's gold and real estate abroad. According to Professor VG Sirotkin, a member of the International Expert Council on Foreign Gold, Real Estate and Tsar's Debts, the total value of all funds previously owned by the Imperial Family is more than $ 400 billion.
By burying the remains under the guise of "tsarist", these politicians are trying to create the appearance of the restoration of historical continuity and to ensure the imaginary legitimacy of the establishment in Russia of the so-called. "Constitutional monarchy". This, they hope, will give them the right to receive the Tsar's gold. It is no coincidence that the initiators of the speedy burial of the pseudo-royal remains and the documentary consolidation of the "special status" of the self-proclaimed contenders to the Russian Throne, the Hohenzollern-Romanovs, are the same persons.
Our task is to expose the long-term lies about the murder of Emperor Nicholas II, Members of His Family and Their loyal servants, to prevent the creation of false relics and to stop the historical and political falsification of the “Yekaterinburg remains”.
The government must finally understand that the blasphemous funeral of the unknown whose remains in the Imperial Tomb of St. Petersburg will become a shame for the whole of Russia. It is necessary to cancel their burial in the Peter and Paul Fortress on July 17, 1998, to resume the judicial investigation into the murder of the Royal Family and to follow the Church's recommendation - to bury the remains in a symbolic memorial grave until all questions regarding their ownership are removed.
Author: E. V. Maryanova, member of the Council of the Russian Historical Society.
Notes:
1. Yu. A. Buranov, VM Khrustalev "Assassins of the Tsar, the destruction of the dynasty", M., 1997, p. 272.
2. Ibid., P. 278.
3. Ibid, p. 279.
4. N. A. Sokolov "Murder of the Royal Family", Baku, 1991, p. 309.
5. VL Popov “Where are you, Your Majesty?”, St. Petersburg, 1996, pp. 54-55.
6. M. K. Dieterichs "The Murder of the Royal Family and Members of the House of Romanov in the Urals", M., 1991, p. 82.
7. R. Wilton "The Last Days of the Romanovs", M., 1991, p. 444.
8. N. A. Sokolov "Murder of the Tsar's Family", Baku, 1991, p. 9.
9. Ibid., Pp. 271, 272.
10. Ibid., P. 255.
11. MK Dieterichs "The Murder of the Royal Family and Members of the House of Romanov in the Urals", M., 1991, p. 228.
12. Ibid., P. 245.
13. P. M. Bykov "The Last Days of the Last Tsar" (Collection of articles "The House of the Romanovs - to the 300th Anniversary of the Reign (1613-1913)", "The Last Days of the Last Tsar", M., 1991, p. 127.
14. VL Popov "Where are you, Your Majesty?", St. Petersburg, 1996, p. 48.
15. Ibid., P. 38.
16. A. P. Murzin "What Peter Ermakov told before the death of the regicide" ("Komsomolskaya Pravda", November 25, 1997) 17. L. E. Bolotin "Tsarskoe delo", M., 1996, p.
17. 18. VL Popov “Where are you, Your Majesty?”, St. Petersburg, 1996, p. 48.
19. MK Dieterichs "The Murder of the Tsar's Family and Members of the House of Romanov in the Urals", M., 1991, p. 347.
20. ON Kulikovskaya-Romanova "Unequal duel", M., 1995, p. 19.
21. P. N. Paganuzzi "The Truth about the Murder of the Royal Family", M., 1992, p. 20.
22. "Russia before the Second Coming", M., 1993, p. 163.
23. Ibid, p. 166. © E. V. Maryanova, 1998.