The Last Tsar: Emperor Michael II (49 page)

41
. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3

42
. Myasnikov, p 119

43
.
Ibid
,
p 114

44
. Alexandrov, pp 81-3

45
Ibid.
The two envoys travelled separately, with Myasnikov escorting his friend Beloborodov’s wife and family, travelling to Moscow. Although he survived, they drowned in a cross-river ferry accident. That would explain why he did not return with Goloshchenkin to Ekaterinburg or play any further role in events there.

23. Long Live Michael

1
. Telegram no 551, June 29, 1918, PRO/ADM 137/883

2
.
The Times
, London, June 27, 1918,

3
.
Ibid,
July 3, 1918

4
.
Ibid,
July 6, 1918

5
. July 8, 1918, PRO WO 106/1220/44

6
.
Nasha rodin
a, Moscow, July 21, 1918 cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 141

7
. Dimitri’s diaries 1918

8
. Moscow to Berlin, July 17, 1918, PRO GFM 6/139 A3097

9
. July 1, 1918, PRO GFM 6/140 A30977

10
. Bykov, p 82

11
. Investigations which established the essentials of the murder were begun after the Whites captured Ekaterinburg on July 25, 1918.

12
. Sinolin; it was Sinolin who recovered the bodies and carried out the first investigations of the murders.

13
. Pipes, pp 780-3

14
. Bruce Lockhart, p 304

15
. Stockholm, August 26, 1918, PRO WO 106/1219/815

16
. Kiev, August 23, 1918, PRO GFM, 6.140/AS 4034

17
. July 22, 1918,

18
. Majolier, p 129

19
. GARF 439/8780, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 156

20
. June 15, 1918, PRO GFM6/139 A29471

21
. Ibid

22
. Majolier p 153

23
.
Ibid
, p 142

24
. Bruce Lockhart, p 321; ‘hung out of window’ Paley, 244

25
. Majolier p 145; the evidence dates her arrest as September 7, 1918

26
.
Ibid
, p 153

27
.
Ibid,
pp 158-60

28
.
Izvestia
, Perm, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev p 156

29
. Russian Telegraph Agency, September 20, 1918,
ibid
p 156

30
. O’Connor, p 256

31
. Mirkina/Khrustalelv p 156

32
. September 21, 1918, PROGFM 6/140/A39669

33
. Wilton, p 129

34
. LRA Ms 1363/82

35
. Majolier, p 142

36
.
Ibid
, p 161

37
.
Ibid
, p 170

38
.
Ibid
pp 166-9

39
. GARF 391/161, cited Buranov/Khrustalev, p 111

40
. Kiev, October 24, 1918, PRO GFM, 16/140 A44463

41
. Copenhagen, November 2, 1918,
ibid
, A46412

42
. Berlin, October 30, 1918,
ibid,
A45995

43
. Majolier, p177

44
.
Ibid,
p 179

24. A Divided Family

1
. Kolchak telegram, September 15, 1919, LRA MS 1363/98

2
. Majolier, p 191

3
. LRA MS 1363/101, Gray, 138

4
. Ibid, 1363/119

5
. Majolier, p 192

6
. August 2, LRA MS 1363/103-3

7
. LRA MS 1363/69

8
.
The Times,
London, July 6,, 1924

9
. Cyril, p 220

10
.
Ibid,
p 248

11
.
Ibid
, p 247

12
.
Ibid,
p 222, 248

13
. Letter, October 4, 1924, kindly provided by Prince Nicholas Romanov, great-nephew of ‘Nikolasha’

14
. Cyril, p 222

15
.
Ibid,
p 165

16
.
Ibid,
p 232

17
.
Ibid,
p 248

18
.
Almanac de Gotha,
1936

19
. Gray, p 146

20
. Majolier, p 226

21
. Ibid, p 230

22
.
Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya,
Paris, August 1, 1931. LRA MS 1363/123

23
. Natasha grand-daughter Pauline Gray to author

24
. Death certificate: copy to author from Natasha’s grand-daughter Pauline

25
. Gushchik, p 46

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