The Last Tsar: Emperor Michael II

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

2. Majolier, p 191

3. LRA MS 1363/101, Gray, 138

4. Ibid, 1363/119

5. Majolier, p 192

6. August 2, LRA MS 1363/103-3

7. LRA MS 1363/69

8. The Times, London, July 6,, 1924

9. Cyril, p 220

10. Ibid, p 248

11. Ibid, p 247

12. Ibid, p 222, 248

13. Letter, October 4, 1924, kindly provided by Prince Nicholas Romanov, great-nephew of ‘Nikolasha’

14. Cyril, p 222

15. Ibid, p 165

16. Ibid, p 232

17. Ibid, p 248

18. Almanac de Gotha, 1936

19. Gray, p 146

20. Majolier, p 226

21. Ibid, p 230

22. Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya, Paris, August 1, 1931. LRA MS 1363/123

23. Natasha grand-daughter Pauline Gray to author

24. Death certificate: copy to author from Natasha’s grand-daughter Pauline

25. Gushchik, p 46

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SOURCES AND WORKS CITED

ORIGINAL SOURCES

MICHAEL ALEKSANDROVICH, GRAND DUKE, EMPEROR MICHAEL II — Letters, 1908-1918: State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow — Letters, 1909-1910: Russian State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg — Diaries, 1915-1918: Forbes Collection, New York

— Letters, telegrams: Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds

— Legal papers, miscellanea: Knebworth House archive, England

— Personal photograph album: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London

NATHALIE SERGEYEVNA BRASOVA (‘NATASHA’)

— Letters, 1909-1916: State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow — Telegrams, 1909-1913; miscellanea 1919-1934: Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds

GEORGE MIKHAILOVICH, COUNT BRASOV

— Letters 1918: Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds

DIMITRI PAVLOVICH, GRAND DUKE

—Diaries, Houghton Library, Harvard University

—Letters, 1915-1917: State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow

Other Archives consulted:

Moscow Historical Archive

Moscow Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation Public Record Office, London (PRO)