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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My Mission To Russia,
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My Life in Russia’s Service,
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The Murder of the Romanovs,
Hutchinson, London, 1935

 

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The Catastrophe,
Appleton, N.Y., 1927

 


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Hutchinson, London, 1921

 

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Savage Squadrons,
Harrap, London, 1936

 

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Dancing in Petersburg,
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