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Article: Writer Presents Muscovites With Alleged Skull of Nicholas II
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- The Washington Post
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- April 13, 1989
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Minutes after Bolshevik guards shot the last Russian czar and his
family, hacked up the bodies with axes and saws and burned the
remains, one of the executioners, a future Soviet ambassador to
Poland, said, "The world will never know what we did."
Today, the world may have found out.
Detective writer Geli Ryabov, working with the help of Vice Adm.
Alexander Yurovsky, the son of the man who led the execution team,
said he has uncovered what he is convinced are the remains of the
Romanov family near where they were killed in Ekaterinburg, now
called Sverdlovsk.
Since the execution 71 years ago, official Soviet versions of the
event have claimed that sulfuric acid poured over the dead ...