today i'm in oxford with helen rappaport she's an expert on the russian imperial family particularly the last days of that arm on us who were assassinated in a pattern both during the bolshevik revolution helen rappaport thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you focus on the last thirteen days of that i'm honest lives in your classroom but why did you choose that period well when i looked at the stories of. the end of the dentistry i suddenly realised that although we knew the broad span of nicholas's rain and the overall story no one had looked at any great detail in those final few days particularly new courtroom berg and the main reason for that was because until the collapse of communism there was no access to some of the important eyewitness testimonies by the guards and your crew for your oscar who was in charge of the parts of the city was in a terrible state of panic the bolsheviks were basically taking everything they could out of your culture a book that was worth anything because it was the center of the mining industry so it was gold semi precious minerals and they wan

has talked to historian helen rappaport who's written a book about their last days. some people think they were just lined up in a row by men by no doubt it was not like it was a truthful ill conceived executed murder you can't say it was an execution it was brutal because you know you would also he didn't he didn't check whether they were these guys who good shots they didn't check the guns they had a mixture of. some efficient guns browning's from coats and also old army issue not guns which probably didn't work they didn't count they were killing eleven people in a small dark basement room which rapidly became full of acrid smoke noise panic hysteria people screaming and running around it was an absolute catastrophe because they then had to brutally finish them off the only one of the family really who had a quick death was actually nicholas because the minute they the order came to fire they all want to take pot pot shots at the cellar of course so they could say well i saw nicolas. and watch the full interview with helen rappaport next hour here in our team as w

talks to story and helen rappaport has written a book about their final days. some people think they were just lined up in a row bang bang bang no doubt it was not like that it was a dreadful ill conceived ill executed murder you can't say it was an execution it was brutal because you know your oscar didn't plan it he didn't check out whether they were these guys were good shots they didn't check the guns they had a mixture of some efficient guns browning's and colts and also old army issue nightgowns which probably didn't work they didn't count they were killing eleven people in a small dark basement room which rapidly became full of acrid smoke noise panic hysteria people screaming and running around it was an absolute catastrophe because they then had to brutally finish them off the only one of the family really who had a quick death was actually nicholas because the minute. they the order came she filed they all want to take pol pot shot at the cellar of course so they can say well i shot nicholas. and the demise of the imperial family has left a deep mark

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