Everyone knows that the Imperial Romanov family was living captivein
the Ural
Mountains. Yet no one expected this: the whole family andtheir
servants
shot dead in the night.
Yakov Yurovsky came forward and admitted to the following story: OnJuly
16, 1:30
a.m., the family was gathered in the cellar of their "prison"to
be "photographed."
They put on their best clothes, and were ready tosmilewhen
the camera
clicked. Unfortunately for them, it wasn’t a
camera
that was clicked. It was a gun that shot.
Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra were the first to die. Their
daughters
-Olga, Maria, Tatiana and Anastasia-, all had diamonds sewninto
their
corsets to make the clothing bullet-proof. (Obviously theRomanovs
recognised
their danger.) Altogether, the diamonds equalled over eight
kilograms.
Amazingly enough, Alexei, the would-be tsar, survived the
longest.
He, and the others that survived the bullets, were killed bybayonets.
Yesterday morning, the Whites discovered garments and jewellery
belonging
to the tsar and his family. According to Yurovsky, theRomanov
grave
is in a swamp about ten kilometres from the mine.