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we barely pulled it out. That was when we got the idea we eventually carried out. We decided we weren’t going to find anyplace better.… We dug out that quagmire immediately … poured sulfuric acid over the corpses … disfigured them … and dumped them into the quagmire.… The railway wasn’t far from there.” He recalled how they trucked in rotten ties to disguise the grave. But they only buried some of those shot in the grave: “The rest we burned.”

As soon as he gets to the burning, the Chekist’s memory starts to betray him: “I don’t remember how many we burned exactly … or exactly who.” This is where he starts making strange mistakes: “Nicholas we did burn, I remember.… And Botkin, too, and Alexei, I think….”

No, I never am going to finish this book!

APPENDIX

i1.43. The testimony of A. I. Guchkov on the ceremonial procedure of the signing of the act of abdication.

i1.44. 1918 document signed by the chairman of the Ural Soviet and a Bolshevik party member, Aleksandr Georgievich Beloborodov (1891–1938), concerning the transmittal of the former Tsar Nicholas, the former Tsarina Aleksandra Feodorovna, and their daughter Maria Nikolaevna (1899–1918).

i1.45. The last pages of the diary of Tsarina Aleksandra Feodorovna, 1918.

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