Hey i have a question..more like a theory..did the Romanovs ever actually die? Any of them? read discription..

Question

Ok i'm just shouting this out here, but what if they never died what if they were never shot?..i'm jst thinking, because, there is no actual footage of the execution..and there were no witnesses to execution except the Bolsheviks(sorry don't know spelling) and they never actually told their side of the story, but even if they did we're just supposed to take there word for it?, i mean the bones came up as the same size and everything, but maybe the Romanovs were taken to America or something and the Soldiers said they died and just got random bones to help with their story...how do we know the Romanov's actually ever died that night at the Ipatiev house?

Answer 1

We don't - we just make assumptions as we never saw or heard from them again. Today many people come out and claim they're related or are direct descendants of the Romanov's. Whether or not they were killed, the Bolsheviks asserted they were dead so strongly that for all intensive purposes, they are dead...whether they really are or aren't.

I'm not even sure DNA evidence could be used as they'd need a sample to compare a person claiming to be a Romanov to.

(On a technical note - based on the amount of time that has passed, they have probably, if not murdered, died of natural causes by now anyway).

Answer 2

While it is very romantic and excititing to think they may have survived, they did not.

Typically Russians are not afraid to admit when they are wrong - for example, my husband's grandmother lost her father when she was just 2.  He was one of many hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered for no reason under Stalin's rule.  He just dissapeared and never came home.  50 years later the government started looking into all of the people who were put to death and the causes and whether what they were accused of was true, or if they were executed without cause.  They sent letters out to families apologizing for what happened and telling them that their family members were killed with no legal cause.  In Russia you can't sue the government or anything, so they aren't afraid of admitting wrong doings.  My husband's grandma has a paper telling her that her father was killed for no reason and he was innocent of the charges.  

I think the soldiers could have lied if they messed up just to save thier skin, but I think if it was false, the government would have figured it out by now and commented on it - especially since it was a dark hour for Russians.

Answer 3

it'd be awesome if they were never shot....but there's scientific proo

f that they were.

Answer 4

There is really no mystery to the Romanovs' fate, and it was reasonably well documented. Immediately after the revolution, Czar Nichlas II requested American asylum. It was personally rejected by President Wilson with the notation: "WE DO NOT HARBOR TYRANTS". Other major powers similarly turned the Romanovs down, except for Germany. However, since Russia was at war with Germany, Nicholas decided not to hide in Germany and surrendered to the revolutionaries instead.

In keeping with the European tradition, the overthrown monarch and his family were eventually executed, with the event being documented and witnessed. However, the Bolsheviks broke with the tradition of making a public spectacle out of the event, and opted for a low key approach instead.

Answer 5

Scientists actually answered this question two weeks ago - http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/...

While the immediate Russian royal family appears to have been shot many, aunts, uncles, nieces etc, survived the revolution, so DNA has been available for use in testing.  If it came to the crunch, all the royal families of Europe were related, so it would probably be quite easy to get a family member to donate DNA for comparison purposes.