A FAMILY LOST IN TIME

 

They were housed in the house at 49 Voznesensky Street on April 30, 1918. They had traveled by train, with curtains covering the windows, perhaps so as not to be recognized; he had stopped at the Omsk station before reaching his destination. The house had been built in the late 1880s, a two-story stone mansion with a small basement, located on the steepest western slope of Ascension Hill, Yekaterinburg City, Urals. The first days the inhabitants of the place approached, prowled and tried to satisfy their curiosity, they wondered what was happening in the Ipatiev House and why its previous owner no longer lived. Then the mystery was solved and they did not stop visiting the place. The Ipatiev mansion was called because the civil-military engineer Nikolai Ipatiev had bought it in 1908. Days later, some soldiers had built a wooden fence in the outline of the house which prevented the locals from greeting and bringing gifts to the new residents, Nicholas II and his family. Nicholas Alexandrovich the last Emperor of Holy Russia. His parents were Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, born Princess of Denmark. When Nicholas met his future wife, Princess Alix of Hesse and By Rhine, they were too young, but the infatuation was mutual and very great, they did not accept impositions, refusals or advice from anyone. The future Empress Alexandra, as she was called when she adopted the Orthodox faith, was the maternal granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, who was called the grandmother of Europe because her daughters were married to European kings.

Nicholas and Alexandra were a wonderful Orthodox family, they loved God and never forgot their daily prayers. They had four daughters who were named Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, the Grand Duchesses of Russia; And then the long-awaited miracle arrived, on August 12, 1904, the heir to the throne from birth, Tsesarevich Alexey, a beautiful and sweet little boy with blue eyes who became the joy of the family, the pride of his father for being a man. and inherit the Throne of the Empire. The Grand Duchesses or Royal Highnesses were called by their name together with the patronymic, for example Olga Nikolaevna, which meant that she was the daughter of her father Nikolay; and so also with the Tsesarevich Alexey Nikolaevich. Nicholas II belonged to the Romanov Dynasty, the reigning imperial house in Russia and made up the largest fortune in the world along with the most important Empire of the time. The disappearance of the family on the night of the 16th to July 17, 1918 caused alarm, there were many stories, stories, versions and a single official of the Bolshevik State that after ten years began to spread the execution of all the members of the family in the small basement. In the early hours of That night they knocked on the door of Nicholas II's room under the pretext that they had to leave urgently, they made them all go down to the basement, they walked down some steep wooden stairs and waited for further instructions, this was the official version. In that small basement it was impossible to shoot members of the royal family with the firing squad, taking into account Yurovsky's account that he was the Commander of the Ipatiev House. The room where they were supposed to shoot was 20 square meters and a height of 1.75 meters and with 11 people, 7 of the family and the other trusted people of the Emperor, the question was how to shoot?

Then the investigation showed that only one spot resembling blood was found in the basement, but 11 people had been shot. The first investigators were men of the Tsardom and claimed not to find any trace of what happened and with respect to the family, they were found neither alive nor dead. Three investigators concluded that the crime scene had been set up, the execution had not occurred. They had shot 11 people in the form of an execution, but for the investigators who arrived at the scene, the absence of blood was striking. They fired several times to achieve the objective, but on the walls they found only three marks of projectiles that were expelled from bullets. When checking the rooms and the whole house, the beard and mustache were found shaved in the rooms of Nicholas II, while in the girls' room they found cut braids. Everything indicated that before leaving for a new destination they changed their physiognomies so as not to be recognized, the Civil War had begun and the White Army loyal to Nicholas was near the city. There were no documents on the alleged execution of the Romanov royal family. They were missing. No photographs of the execution or of the corpses were ever shown. On that July night they disappeared in the mist and penetrating cold of the Urals.

Some assumed that Nicholas and his family were sent to West Germany. As was known, they had gold and money in an English bank and there were also millions of gold from the Romanov family in Berlin for that reason everyone could have lived with other identities. The change of identity would have been to preserve life. Another version indicated that it was the Vatican itself who, with the help of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, managed to protect the lives of the Empress and her five children, giving her the possibility of escaping from Russia. A family Lost in history, in time... a family that in the darkness of a cold night disappeared without a trace... Or perhaps the traces and the evidence remain reserved for a story not yet told?