The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (21 page)
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Authors: Robert K. Massie
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #History, #War, #Biography, #Politics
The Ipatiev House. Nicholas, Alexandra, and Alexis occupied the main-floor corner room, with two windows facing the front and two windows on the side. The four daughters were next to them in the side room, with a single window. The cellar room where the prisoners were massacred is directly below the daughters’ room, behind the small central window on the side of the house
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The Ipatiev House surrounded by a palisade and guards, 1918
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The Ipatiev House being demolished, July 27, 1977
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The Ipatiev House cellar room, with wallpaper and plaster destroyed by the fusillade of bullets
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Dr. Eugene Botkin, who died with the family
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Yakov Yurovsky, “the dark man,” who was the chief executioner
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Nicholas Sokolov, the White investigator
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The grave from which the remains of nine bodies were exhumed, July 11–13, 1991:
| Body No. 1: Demidova | Body No. 6: Maples believes |
| Body No. 2: Botkin | this is Tatiana; Abramov |
| Body No. 3: Olga | thinks it is Anastasia |
| Body No. 4: Nicholas | Body No. 7: Alexandra |
| Body No. 5: Maples believes | Body No. 8: Kharitonov |
| this is Marie; Abramov | Body No. 9: Trupp |
| believes it is Tatiana | |
Three additional skulls were found in the wooden box into which Avdonin and Ryabov had placed them in 1980
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Alexander Avdonin
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Dr. Sergei Abramov
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Abramov’s superimposition technique: a picture of Nicholas II superimposed on the skull of Nicholas II
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Nikolai Nevolin
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left
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and Dr. William Maples in Ekaterinburg
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