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Unanswered questions prompted by the historic events of 1917-18 have lingered through more than four decades. The Romanov tragedy has even touched Torontonians because the closest known kin of the Tsar to survive those revolutionary days — his sister, Olga — lived for 12 years in Cooksville before her death here in obscurity in 1960. It is her two sons, Tihon and Gury, who are generally accepted as the ones to continue the Romanov line.
On the warm summer night of July 16, 1918, Bolshevik guards stormed into the sleeping quarters of Tsar Nicholas II, held captive in Ipatiev House at Ekaterinburg in central Russia, and told him that the White Army was approaching to rescue him. The Tsar, Tsarina Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexei and his four sisters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Maria, Tatiana and Anastasia, along with the family doctor, a valet, a cook, a parlormaid and Anastasia’s
spaniel, named Jimmy, were hustled into a small basement room to await transportation to a more secure place of custody.
Instead the Bolshevik guards drew their weapons and in a sudden volley of shots, followed by bayonet stabs and clubbing, all the captives were killed. In that brief, bloody moment, the House of Romanov, which had ruled Russia for 304 years — since 1613 — came to an end.
Or did it?
Conventional history claims that the corpses of the Romanovs and their servants were put in a truck and driven from Ipatiev House to the abandoned Four Brothers mine 14 miles away. There the bodies were systematically dismembered, doused with 150 gallons of gasoline and burned. The grisly ashes were then immersed in 400 pounds of sulphuric acid. :
All that remained of the Romanov