The murder of the royal family. Sokolov N.A.

In July 1918, a brutal crime was committed in Yekaterinburg. Mother, father and their children - four girls and a little boy - were brutally killed. They were shot point blank, finished off with bayonets. The walls of the room, sprayed with blood, dissected bodies, an attempt to hide traces of the crime...

probably, such a message in the press, even in our criminal time, it would make many shudder. But 100 years ago they killed not just a family - they killed the royal family, trying to end a millennial historical Russia.

The Judicial Investigator for the most important cases of Sokolov, who was engaged in the death of the last royal couple from the Romanov clan in the spring of 1919, scrupulously and meticulously studied the smallest details that could reveal the true course of events. Unfortunately, he himself died in exile under strange circumstances, and the documents collected by him disappeared without a trace.

This book, which he managed to release shortly before his death, is everything that remains of the materials of the most famous and mysterious criminal case of the XX century.