Hello again. I've noticed you're very interested in the resting place of the murdered Romanovs. I found this on the following site:
http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/pdf/E3e_Weedn.pdf
The bodies were loaded onto a truck and took the Koptyaki Road. The burial site had been chosen - north of Yekaterinburg, in the Four Brothers, an area of swamps, peat bogs and abandoned mines including Ganin's Pit. At sunrise they reached the Four Brothers. Bodies undressed, faces crushed. They were thrown down into a nameless, small but deep pit (30') with water at the bottom. Then several grenades were dropped.
The place did not remain secret, so the bodies were moved. A pit was dug when the truck got stuck. The bodies were buried 12 miles north of Yekaterinburg.
This article might help regarding a secret document:
http://science.education.nih.gov/home2.nsf/Educational+ResourcesResource+FormatsOnline+Resources+High+School/7B03A00B7B8D9EA685256CCD00749BD5
Have you read Yurovsky's account? -
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/yurovmurder.html
There are some interesting pictures here, including some at the Four Brothers. Also, towards the end, something about the graves. There may be some useful information to you, mixed up with the Anastasia story. Perhaps you could contact Ryabov. It's quite a long site:
http://www.peterkurth.com/ROMANOV%20BONES.htm
Look under "1978" here:
http://www.searchfoundationinc.org/Chronology.html
The trouble is, it seems, that the whole tragic episode was carried out in such secrecy. Also, many other bones were found in the area over the years. I'm sorry I can't help you with maps - there is a dearth of information.
(I have quite an interest, too: my great-aunt, who died aged 100 in 2000, was at boarding school in Russia at the time of the Revolution; she just about remembered the rumours at the time. Unfortunately, as she got older, the memories became confused. And as a teenager, this news would not have been so important to her...)
2006-07-06 14:42:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Look for Koptyaki village on Iset Lake (or river?). It's about 20 miles from Ekaterinburg. "Four brothers" is the name of the forest area (урочище - "urochishche" in Russian) where the mine was. The interactive map is here:
http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=6725000.30487031&Y=8200000.4148411&width=500&height=300&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=mercator&db=w3&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&out.x=8&out.y=13&scale=1000000
If you read Russian, check here:
http://www.rus-sky.org/history/library/sokolov.htm
Chapter XX describes the location of the mine.
Last but not least - although the "mine" version is an offiicial one, it is still not 100% certain that the bodies were dumped there.
2006-07-06 02:25:38
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answered by hec 5
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