14. The Times, London, April 6, 1918
15. Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 153
16. Khrustalev/Lykov, pp 108-9
17. MA to NS, April 10, 1918, LRA MS 1363/36
18. Poutiatine
19. Miss Neame letter
20. Ibid
21. Majolier, p 132
22. March 25, 1918, GARF 130/1109
23. ‘Prisoner of Perm’ photo, LRA MS 1363/268
24. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 153
25. Ibid
26. Wilton, p 120
27. MA to NS, telegram, April 19, 1918, LRA Ms 1363/37-6
28. Ibid, April 25, 1918, 1363/26
29. MA’s diary, May 11, 1918, Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 159
30. Shamarin, GARF 539/2765
31. Myasnikov, p 83
32. MA’s diary, May 16, 1918, cited ibid
33. Ibid, May 12-17, 1918
34. Ibid May 17, 1918
35. Ibid, May 18, 1918
36. Alexandrov, p 221
37. Poutiatine
38. Wilton, p 121
21. Either Him or Us
1. Khrustalev/Likov, p 92
2. Buranov/Khrustalev, p 96
3. MA’s diary, May 21,1918, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev (hereafter MK) p 160
4. MA to NS, June 3, 1918, LRA MS, 1363/31
5. MA’s diary, May 19-23, 1918, MK ibid
6. Krumnis, GARF 5881/414
7. MA’s diary, May 25, 1918, MK p 161
8. Wilton, p 121
9. Unsigned and undated note, LRA MS 1363/22
10. MA’s diary, May 29, 1918, MK ibid
11. MA to NS, June 3, 1918, LRA MS 1363/22
12. Ibid, June 3, 1918
13. MA’s diary, June 7, 1918, MK p 163
14. Myasnikov, p 63
15. Biographical note, Myasnikov
16. Kerensky, Murder, p 255
17. Myasnikov, p 31
18. Ibid, pp 69-70
19. MA’s diary, June 7, 1918, MK ibid
20. Ibid, June 8-9, 1918
21. Ibid, June 10-11, 1918
22. Myasnikov, p 116
23. Malkov statement, GAPO 90/M-60
24. Mikov, GAPO 90/2/M-22b
22. Death in the Woods
1. Myasnkov, p 59
2. Ibid
3. Ibid,, pp 82-4
4. British Meteorological Office,, Bracknell, Berkshire
5. Myasnikov, p 59
6. Ibid, p 87
7. Ibid, pp 94-5
8. Ibid, p 95
9. Biographical note, Introduction, Myasnikov His 1935 statement at the Soviet Paris embassy came after he fled Stalin’s purges and intended to win hi m a pardon. He was allowed back in Russia, though that would do him no good. He was executed by the Soviets in 1945.
10. Myasnikov, p 95
11. Khrustalev/Lykov, p 118
12. Statement by Znamerovsky, ibid cited pp 118-9
13. Statement by Chelyshev, ibid, cited p 109
14. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3
15. Statement by kitchen maid, cited Khrustalev/Lykov, pp 114-5
16. Statement by Chelyshev, ibid, p 109
17. Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3
18. Ibid
19. Wilton, p 123
20. Ibid
21. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 153
22. Chelyshev statement, Khrustalev/Lykov, p 109; Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3
23. Myasnikov, p 98
24. Ibid, pp 98-100
25. Ibid, p 105
26. Ibid, pp 105-8
27. Ibid, p 111
28. Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3
29. Ibid
30. Myasnikov, p 112
31. Markov, Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3
32. Markov was still weating the watch in 1965 when as an old man his statement about Michael’s murder was lodged in Perm Archives.
33. Myasnikov, p 113
34. Ibid
35. Ibid
36. Resolution Perm Provincial Executive Committee, June 13, 1918, cited Khrustalev/Lykov, p 90
37. Wilton, p 240
38. Izvestya, Perm., June 15, 1918, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 149
39. V. F. Sivkov, Perm Provincial Executive Committee, cited Buranov/Khrustalov, p 107
40. Vera Karnaukhova, in evidence to Sokolov, RTsKhIDNI 588/8, cited Khrustalev/Lykov pp 138-40
41. Krumnis, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, pp 152-3
42. Myasnikov, p 119
43. Ibid, p 114
44. Alexandrov, pp 81-3
45 Ibid. The two envoys travelled separately, with Myasnikov escorting his friend Beloborodov’s wife and family, travelling to Moscow. Although he survived, they drowned in a cross-river ferry accident. That would explain why he did not return with Goloshchenkin to Ekaterinburg or play any further role in events there.
23. Long Live Michael
1. Telegram no 551, June 29, 1918, PRO/ADM 137/883
2. The Times, London, June 27, 1918,
3. Ibid, July 3, 1918
4. Ibid, July 6, 1918
5. July 8, 1918, PRO WO 106/1220/44
6. Nasha rodina, Moscow, July 21, 1918 cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 141
7. Dimitri’s diaries 1918
8. Moscow to Berlin, July 17, 1918, PRO GFM 6/139 A3097
9. July 1, 1918, PRO GFM 6/140 A30977
10. Bykov, p 82
11. Investigations which established the essentials of the murder were begun after the Whites captured Ekaterinburg on July 25, 1918.
12. Sinolin; it was Sinolin who recovered the bodies and carried out the first investigations of the murders.
13. Pipes, pp 780-3
14. Bruce Lockhart, p 304
15. Stockholm, August 26, 1918, PRO WO 106/1219/815
16. Kiev, August 23, 1918, PRO GFM, 6.140/AS 4034
17. July 22, 1918,
18. Majolier, p 129
19. GARF 439/8780, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev, p 156
20. June 15, 1918, PRO GFM6/139 A29471
21. Ibid
22. Majolier p 153
23. Ibid, p 142
24. Bruce Lockhart, p 321; ‘hung out of window’ Paley, 244
25. Majolier p 145; the evidence dates her arrest as September 7, 1918
26. Ibid, p 153
27. Ibid, pp 158-60
28. Izvestia, Perm, cited Mirkina/Khrustalev p 156
29. Russian Telegraph Agency, September 20, 1918, ibid p 156
30. O’Connor, p 256
31. Mirkina/Khrustalelv p 156
32. September 21, 1918, PROGFM 6/140/A39669
33. Wilton, p 129
34. LRA Ms 1363/82
35. Majolier, p 142
36. Ibid, p 161
37. Ibid, p 170
38. Ibid pp 166-9
39. GARF 391/161, cited Buranov/Khrustalev, p 111
40. Kiev, October 24, 1918, PRO GFM, 16/140 A44463
41. Copenhagen, November 2, 1918, ibid, A46412
42. Berlin, October 30, 1918, ibid, A45995
43. Majolier, p177
44. Ibid, p 179
24. A Divided Family
1. Kolchak telegram, September 15, 1919, LRA MS 1363/98