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As recently as seven years ago articles were published in Russia about the unresolved nature of the investigation into the fate of Tsar Nicholas II and his family supposedly murdered July 17, 1918 in Ekaterinburg. Caveat lector! Hasn’t the case long been resolved with the uncovering of bones, DNA tests, testimony in dusty Soviet archives, the pronouncements of the Russian Orthodox Church, and any number of “mavens” of Romanov and Russian history? Why is anyone still talking about the fate of the family so well known around the world? Because the case is still “fresh” and the investigation, perhaps not publicized or acknowledged officially, is still ongoing.
There are U.S. based historians who agree that all is not as reported as far as the fate of the Romanovs. This author also insists that Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia, seems to have survived into her mid-nineties leaving behind a philanthropic legacy vibrant and beneficial. Russian historian, Nikolai Sapelkin has stated on DEN TV that there have been many inaccuracies about the supposed assassination of the imperial family.
His insightful observations underline the fact that the basement room of the Ipatiev House, immortalized in any number of documentaries and cinematic depictions which present it as the death room, was too small for any “firing squad” to have finished the gruesome task of “unaliving” the Romanovs. Is it any surprise that the house and the basement have been leveled so that that fact is no longer visible? While no one can longer visit the site, the architectural measurements are extant; 20 square meters and 1.75 meters high. Grandmother might have been able to store her canned peaches and plums there, while the Cheka forces that night would not have been able to mount a death squad event. Other investigators who arrived soon after the assassination only found a stain “resembling blood,” not even analyzed as authentic blood, which seems counterintuitive if 12 people had been shot, stabbed with bayonets and otherwise abused. Three bullets were found in the walls. Enough to maintain that shots had been fired and establish plausible deniability?
In what sounds like a planned escape which employed disguises, why did investigators find that the tsar had shaved his beard in the rooms the family had occupied in the Ipatiev House, dubbed “The House of Special Purposes,” while his daughters’ braids had also been cut off.
While no remains were ever found until allegedly 1991, the story that there WERE NO REMAINS was a beneficial “bubbe-meise” to quickly end any potential “search” for the Romanovs. We all know that bones were supposedly found later by screenwriter G. Ryabov and historian A. Avdonin which were moved, reburied, refound, etc. What DNA evidence would ever be permissible in court after such flagrant disregard for scientific control and protocol?
Why is there supposedly correspondence uncovered in German archives in the late 1980s between Berlin and Moscow about an exchange of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg for the Tsar?
Another enigmatic fact is that the KGB had a directorate to monitor the movements of the Royal Family of Russia which was only abolished in 1991. Sergei Ivanovich, referenced in the original article, goes so far to insist that Romanov daughters, Tatiana and Anastasia had children, while the Tsarevitch, Alexei, also had biological issue.
GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA: STILL A MYSTERY? (histriabooks.com/product/grand-duchess-anastasia) makes the claim, after 25 years of research, that Anastasia Romanov, under the pseudonym of “Evgenia Smetisko” almost reached 97 years of age and bequeathed many Romanov objets d’art and collectibles related to the legacy of the Romanov family to an upstate New York Russian Orthodox monastery and museum which she has arranged to endow IN PERPETUITY with a sizable annuity. While denying that aka “Evgenia” was ever “Anastasia,” the philanthropic woman posited as an “impostress” has, nonetheless, been buried with the date of birth of Her Imperial Highness, namely 18 June 1901.
The author will make a presentation about his research and the book GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA: STILL A MYSTERY? on March 8, 2026, 2PM, at the Greene County Historical Society in Coxsackie, NY.
The original article in Russian, with option to translate into English, can be found here.
