The Investigative Committee found that Nicholas II and his family were shot at the same time

SK: Nicholas II, his family and close associates were shot at the same time

The investigation refuted the assumptions of some historians that in the room where the Romanovs were shot, all the victims could not fit together with the firing squad.

The investigation finally confirmed that all members of the royal family of the Romanovs were shot at the same time, said in released on the “First Channel” documentary film “The Case of the Romanovs. The investigation established…” senior investigator for particularly important cases under the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Major General of Justice Marina Molodtsova.

The investigation studied the parameters of the room where the Romanovs and their entourage were shot, and restored the arrangement of all the people who were in it at the time of the event. The scheme was drawn up, among other things, on the basis of the testimony of Grigory Nikulin, one of the executioners.

As a result, it was possible to refute the opinion of some researchers, according to which 11 people, along with members of the firing squad, could not fit in a small room.

“The fact has been fully established that the whole family, that is, Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna, the four Grand Duchesses (Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia) and Tsarevich Alexei, as well as [врач Евгений] Botkin, [горничная Анна] Demidov, [повар Иван] Kharitonov and [камердинер Алексей] The troupes were shot in this house at the same time, on the same day, ”the investigator concluded. She added that the execution “continued, according to the testimony and recollections of the participants, from two to five minutes.”

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