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A Reconsideration of Richard Halliburton's Interview With P. Z. Ermakov as Evidence for the Murder of the Romanovs

A Reconsideration of Richard Halliburton's Interview With P. Z. Ermakov as Evidence for the... DONALD OSTROWSKI (Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.) A RECONSIDERATION OF RICHARD HALLIBURTON'S INTERVIEW WITH P. Z. ERMAKOV AS EVIDENCE FOR THE MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS Early in the morning of July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alek- sandra, their son Aleksei, their four daughters, Tat'iana, Ol'ga, Mariia, and . Anastasia, plus four others, their physician, Dr. Botkin, the footman Trupp, the cook Kharitonov, and the maid Anna Demidova (a total of eleven people), were murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg in the Ural Oblast'. At the . time, the Bolshevik government acknowledged only the death of Nicholas and indicated that the rest of the family was alive and in a safe place. I By the end of July, White Guards took over the town and surrounding area, but it was - not until the winter that a formal investigation into the murders was begun. Ivan Sergeev, the district commissioner, took depositions that he turned over to his successor Nikolai Sokolov. After a thorough investigation, Sokolov .. concluded that the entire family had been killed and explained his inability to find the bodies by the fact that they had been burned with gasoline and com- pletely destroyed through the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

A Reconsideration of Richard Halliburton's Interview With P. Z. Ermakov as Evidence for the Murder of the Romanovs

Ostrowski, Donald
Russian History , Volume 25 (1-4): 301 – Jan 1, 1998
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© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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DONALD OSTROWSKI (Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.) A RECONSIDERATION OF RICHARD HALLIBURTON'S INTERVIEW WITH P. Z. ERMAKOV AS EVIDENCE FOR THE MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS Early in the morning of July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alek- sandra, their son Aleksei, their four daughters, Tat'iana, Ol'ga, Mariia, and . Anastasia, plus four others, their physician, Dr. Botkin, the footman Trupp, the cook Kharitonov, and the maid Anna Demidova (a total of eleven people), were murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg in the Ural Oblast'. At the . time, the Bolshevik government acknowledged only the death of Nicholas and indicated that the rest of the family was alive and in a safe place. I By the end of July, White Guards took over the town and surrounding area, but it was - not until the winter that a formal investigation into the murders was begun. Ivan Sergeev, the district commissioner, took depositions that he turned over to his successor Nikolai Sokolov. After a thorough investigation, Sokolov .. concluded that the entire family had been killed and explained his inability to find the bodies by the fact that they had been burned with gasoline and com- pletely destroyed through the

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