Are there any known sources about the Romanov family's last days and death?

Question

I have read the accounts of the events from the words of their executioner and was wondering if any other information about their life in the last days is known?

Answer 1

Yes, all the Romanov's have been identified from their DNA from a mass grave that was discovered in a road in a Russia. ALL OF THEM, EVEN ANASTASIA! Even their maid and doctor was buried with them.

Also, there are Romanov's still alive today, some in America and Europe. Cousins of the Russian Imperial Royal family.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=last+days+of+the+romanov%27s&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

Answer 2

Yes, I once took a tour of the Romanov museum when I was in sixth grade that told about there life up to there death and how rasputen minuplated the family untill he was murded etc.. I do not remember the location of it but I am sure it has a website somewhere you should check on the web

Answer 3

There's a book entitled Last Days of the Romanovs and plenty of information on the mitochondrial DNA testing used to identify their bodies.

Answer 4

In early March the Provisional Government placed Nicholas and his family under house arrest in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo, 15 miles south of Petrograd. In August 1917 the Kerensky government evacuated the Romanovs to Tobolsk Tobolsk in the Urals, allegedly to protect them from the rising tide of revolution. After the Bolsheviks came to power in October 1917, the conditions of their imprisonment grew stricter and talk of putting Nicholas on trial grew more frequent. As the counterrevolutionary White movement gathered force, leading to full-scale civil war by the summer, the Romanovs were moved, during April and May 1918, to Yekaterinburg, a militant Bolshevik stronghold. During the night of 16–17 July, Nicholas, Alexandra, their children, their physician, and three servants were taken into the basement and executed at 2:33 A.M. on the morning of July 17. Whether this was on direct orders from Vladimir Lenin in Moscow (as many believe, though we lack hard evidence), or an option approved in Moscow should White troops approach Yekaterinburg, or at the initiative of local Bolsheviks, remains in dispute, as does whether the order (if there was an order) was for the execution of Nicholas alone or the entire family.

According to Yurovsky, at the time of the execution, he read to Nicholas a letter from the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet saying:

In view of the fact that your relatives continue their offensive against Soviet Russia, the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet has decided to sentence you to death.
According to Yurovsky, Nicholas II cried: "Lord, oh my God! Oh my God! What is this? I can't understand you!"

Then in 1989, Yakov Yurovsky's own report was published, which seemed to show conclusively what had happened that night. The execution took place as units of the Czechoslovak Legion, making their retreat out of Russia, approached Yekaterinburg. Fearing that the Legion would take the town and free him, the Emperor's Bolshevik jailers pursued the immediate liquidation of the Imperial Family, arguing that there was "no turning back." [2] The telegram giving the order on behalf of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow was signed by Yakov Sverdlov, after whom the town was subsequently renamed. Nicholas was the first to die. He was executed with multiple bullets to the head and chest.

After the bodies were exhumed in June, 1991, they sat in laboratories until 1998, while there was a debate as to whether they should be reburied in Yekaterinburg or St. Petersburg. A commission eventually chose St. Petersburg, so they (along with several loyal servants who died with them) were interred in a special chapel in the Peter and Paul Cathedral near the tombs of their ancestors.

Answer 5

The accounts from the executioner are all we have. That, and the forensic evidence at the grave.

Answer 6

Anastasia, the lost princess, hmmm...