The Romanovs’ Murder Case

About the Book

Every fairy tale contains the story of a prince, and once the prince meets his princess, they often live happily ever after. But for Nicholas II, tsar of all the Russias, and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Hesse, the ending would be different. At age fifty, brutally murdered by his subjects, Nicholas’s body was mutilated and thrown into an unmarked mass grave with eight other people in a swampy bog in the middle of a remote forest.

The Romanovs’ Murder Case takes a detailed look at the infamous mass murder of this Russian imperial family, stripped of its claim to the throne before being executed in 1918 following the February Revolution. Author T. G. Bolen investigates the evidence from the site of the murders, the Ipatiev House, ultimately refuting investigator Nicholas Sokolov’s report that locates the murders in the home’s basement. Bolen also provides, for the first time, details of the United States intelligence officer, Homer Slaughter, who was in the Ipatiev House within twenty-four hours of the murders.

This study shows that the Romanov murders may very well have occurred in different rooms in the house, and that there was no eleven-person massacre. And although this story will never end happily ever after, revealing new evidence to refute the prevailing story will shed new light on the truth.

About the Author

T. G. Bolen attended undergraduate and graduate school, majoring in history, and then received a law degree in 1960, all from the University of Illinois. He retired after fifty years in active practice as the senior partner of Bolen, Robinson, & Ellis, and he now devotes his full time to writing. Mr. Bolen has written on historical nonfiction subjects, primarily those taking place in the nineteenth and twentieth century, such as Custer’s Last Stand at Little Bighorn and the US Army court martials and the subsequent executions of American soldiers in Europe in World War II.