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At last the mystery
was beginning to unravel.

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I've just got off the phone
to the Von Kleist family,

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who looked after her.

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They have some new information.

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It should help us know once and for all,

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if she is who she says she is.

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Of course.

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Did Anastasia really escape

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one of the most tragic events
of recent times?

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We were about to find out.

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In May 1918...

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a year after the revolution...

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the Bolsheviks sent Anastasia, Alexei,
Tatiana and Olga

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to join the rest of the family in
Ekaterinburg.

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The city was a communist stronghold
in the Urals,

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surrounded by vast forests.

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The kind of place political prisoners
could easily disappear.

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Come on. Down.

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In Ekaterinburg,
they're put in the Ipatiev mansion.

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Move it!

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And it's chosen because it's separate,
it's guardable, it's fortifiable.

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Come on, faster!

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And It's given the name
"The House of Special Purpose."

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Can you imagine a more sinister name
for a house

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than "The House of Special Purpose?"

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They should be here by now.

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Where are they?

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They must be through here.

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They're here, they're here.

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Come here.

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Alexei!

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Where is Mother?

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She's not well,
but she is desperate to see you.

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- Now you must be tired after the journey.
- Why are the windows like that?

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This is a prison.

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Not a hotel.

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What does he mean?

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Let's go and see your mother.

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Mm? Okay.

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Come on, come on.

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Come here and give me a proper hug.

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Ah!

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Look at you.

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Maria, could you close the door,
please?

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You must be so tired.

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Mm no, not at all.

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Now.

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Remember, we are being watched
all the time,

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so be very careful what you say.

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Don't provoke them,

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and they'll leave you alone
if you stick to the rules.

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What rules?

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Roll call every morning.
One hour's exercise in the yard a day.

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What?

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No matter how hard things get,

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we must keep our dignity.

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Don't forget you're Grand Duchesses.

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And this is temporary.

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We won't be here long.

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Maria, why don't you show
your sisters their room?

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Yes.

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Up to this moment, they had kept
their spirits relatively high,

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that they were either going to be
secretly sent abroad,

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or rescued, essentially.

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The room is along here.

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Forget what Papa said.
The guards aren't that bad.

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Actually, some are quite nice.

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This is where we sleep.

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Comrade Goloshchyokin,
we can't keep them here any longer.

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The whole town seems to know
who we have got locked up.

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I can't do anything
without the go-ahead from Moscow.

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There are rumors they have allies
planning to free them.

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I'll make it very clear to Comrade Lenin.

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The imperial family is in the power
of the Ural Soviet Bolsheviks.

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They're quite radical,
even by Leninist standards

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and they want to execute the royal family.

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Keep a close eye on them.

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Check up all security.

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We cannot afford any fuck-up.

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But there are different views

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about what to do with the Romanovs.

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Lenin is concerned
that executing the imperial family

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would make him look bad,
that it would be a very unpopular move.

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It is not that easy to overcome
imperial tradition overnight

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and just kill the Czar.

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By the spring of 1918,

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the Bolshevik hold on power in Russia
is becoming very shaky.

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There is a major famine,
and the Bolshevik solution

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is to requisition food from farmers,
which becomes very unpopular.

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The Bolsheviks have signed
the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany.

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A lot of European Russia is lost

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and Lenin starts losing support
for his betrayal of Russia.

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Revolution changes into civil war.

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White armies are formed
by former Czarist officers and generals,

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and challenge the Bolshevik hold on power.

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And furthermore,
foreign interventions start.

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Britain and France
send substantial armies

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to fight against the Bolsheviks,
to try to restore

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the republican and/or Imperial regime,
and bring Russia back into World War One.

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It looks quite possible
that the whole Bolshevik regime

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won't even survive.

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And the one thing
they don't want to happen

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is for the Romanovs to become a banner
of their enemies.

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Oh Christ, God,

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bless the food and drink of thy servants.

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For holy art thou, always, now and ever,

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and unto the ages of ages.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Cutlets again?

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It's cutlets every night.
Can't we have something else?

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Elbows down.

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Just be grateful for what we have...

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Girls.

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- Is he drunk?
- Sh.

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There you are.

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Mother, I don't have a fork.

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Use your fingers.

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- How dare you talk to us like that?
- Lexi!

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Look, please, there's no need...

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Come on. Let's go.

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Let's go.

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It's alright...

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- it's alright.
- Don't look at him like that.

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Let's just get back to dinner.

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Here, take mine.

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Who'd like a game of Bezique
tonight?

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- I'll play.
- Me too.

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- Whose turn is it to win?
- Not yours!

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"The friends of the Romanovs
are no longer sleeping.

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The hour so long awaited has come.

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The Czechs are approaching Ekaterinburg
and will force the Red Army to capitulate.

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Be ready at all times for liberation."

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Signed,
"Someone who's ready to die for you.

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Officer of the Russian army."

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In the summer of 1918,
the family begins to receive

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mysterious communications.

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These are letters that assure them

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that they still have friends
on the outside, so to speak,

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and that they need to wait for a signal

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and then attempt an escape.

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They do not suspect
that these letters are actually written

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by the Urals Bolsheviks

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in an attempt to lure the family
out of the house.

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They are trying to trick them

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into an escape
in which they could be killed.

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When the Romanovs
left the Alexander Palace

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they managed to take their hidden cache
of jewelry with them,

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as an insurance policy to live off
if they went into exile

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and to pay for any escape
that needed paying for.

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So they need to hide the jewels.

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From now on, you'll wear these
under your clothes at all times.

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Why?

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We need to be ready to leave
at any moment.

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- To go where?
- Quick!

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Happy birthday!

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Thank you.

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Within the house,
things are getting lax.

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Imagine, you've got
these very pretty teenage girls

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and they've never really had contact
with young men before.

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What did you wish for?

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I'm not telling,
or it might not come true.

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Suddenly there are all
these young Bolshevik guards

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flirting with them.

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Maria.

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Yes.

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Particularly Maria.

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Her eyes always known
as "Maria's saucers".

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Comrade Goloshchyokin.

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Speaking.

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Security at the house is compromised.

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Some of the guards are getting too close
to the girls.

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How bad is it?

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If we don't do something soon,

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they will be the ones
helping them escape.

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Really?

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You need to come and see for yourself.

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Stay where you are.

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Turn everything upside down!

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- You can't do...
- You stay here!

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Nicky!

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When the Bolshevik leaders
arrive to inspect,

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they are absolutely ruthless.

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When I say everywhere,
I mean everywhere!

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They are fanatical Marxists.

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They hate Nicholas,
they hate the Romanov family.

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They regard them as criminals,
bloodsuckers.

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Give it back!

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Sh, don't.

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Or what?

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What is this?

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An inspection.

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Cooperate, and no one gets hurt.

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Where is the fourth girl?

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Right, search the rooms!

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They believe in terror...

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as a revolutionary weapon.

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Check that room, down there.

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Lord have mercy
on our souls.

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Lord have mercy on our souls.
Protect and guard us.

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Protect and guard us.

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Left, check all the rooms.

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Protect and guard our souls
from the hands of evil, oh Lord.

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Lord have mercy on our souls.

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Get out!

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I said get out!

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No. Please, please, no, stop!

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Stop!

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No!

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No, no!

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By July 1918,

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the Ural Bolsheviks
are getting more and more concerned

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about the imperial family,
and how secure they are.

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On the one hand, there's been
a kind of breakdown of order

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within the house itself.

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On the other hand, the war isn't going
that well for the Reds.

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In fact, the White Army is getting closer
and closer to Ekaterinburg.

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And so the very real threat

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that the imperial family might be rescued
is ever more apparent.

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Lenin agrees
that if the Whites get close

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then he gives the permission
for the Ural Bolsheviks to kill them all.

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The action agreed upon cannot be put off.

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Stop.

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We cannot wait.

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Stop.

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Ifyour opinion differs...

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then immediately notify.

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Stop.

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Yurovsky takes personal control.

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He sacks all the lax guards,
he tightens the schedule,

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and he brings in new, tougher,
more hostile guards.

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This does not bode well for the family.

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Your new commander, Yakov Yurovsky.

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From now on the rules
will be strictly enforced.

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No fraternizing with guards.

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Comply and you will be safe.

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Any attempt at escape

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will be severely punished.

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What's going to happen to us?

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We'll get out of here.

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And go where?

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I don't know.

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We might have to leave Russia.

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You told me, God chose me to be Czar.

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He did.

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So why has he let this happen?

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Maybe... he's testing us.

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Maybe it's all part of his plan.

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One has to try to imagine

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the psychological pressure on a man

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who was convinced
that he was anointed by God.

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He knows he's failed in his role

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as God's representative on Earth,

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that he has brought about this crisis.

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00:21:38,125 --> 00:21:42,805
And now he has to worry
about Alexei, his handicapped son,

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what will become of him.

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This is the ultimate nightmare.

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How does he protect him
from the Bolsheviks?

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You wanted to see me.

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00:22:07,165 --> 00:22:09,605
Yes, I need to know
what you're planning to do with us.

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I'm waiting for instructions
from the general committee.

262
00:22:13,925 --> 00:22:14,925
I see.

263
00:22:15,565 --> 00:22:17,125
How long is that going to take?

264
00:22:18,845 --> 00:22:20,005
My son is unwell.

265
00:22:20,565 --> 00:22:22,725
We need to get him
proper medical attention.

266
00:22:23,045 --> 00:22:24,965
And my wife has asked to see a priest.

267
00:22:25,165 --> 00:22:26,645
That is not up to me.

268
00:22:30,325 --> 00:22:31,805
But you could report to the...

269
00:22:31,885 --> 00:22:34,245
They are fully aware of the situation.

270
00:22:40,245 --> 00:22:41,925
I have never met people like you.

271
00:22:44,685 --> 00:22:46,125
I hope I never will again.

272
00:22:47,685 --> 00:22:48,885
But, you and I have met.

273
00:22:50,205 --> 00:22:51,525
In a manner of speaking.

274
00:23:13,645 --> 00:23:14,685
1891...

275
00:23:17,485 --> 00:23:18,485
I was ten.

276
00:23:19,245 --> 00:23:21,365
You were completing your Far East tour.

277
00:23:22,045 --> 00:23:23,405
You stopped in Tomsk.

278
00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:28,605
Beautiful day, perfect weather.

279
00:23:32,165 --> 00:23:33,165
I was happy.

280
00:23:34,925 --> 00:23:36,685
We all got the day off from school.

281
00:23:39,325 --> 00:23:40,325
Please.

282
00:23:46,845 --> 00:23:47,845
Thank you.

283
00:23:52,925 --> 00:23:56,725
I remember I was with all my friends.

284
00:23:57,645 --> 00:23:58,645
My family.

285
00:23:59,485 --> 00:24:00,805
I had a little flag.

286
00:24:01,845 --> 00:24:02,845
I was waving it.

287
00:24:04,365 --> 00:24:06,125
Just one of the little ants

288
00:24:06,725 --> 00:24:08,645
you were nodding and waving at.

289
00:24:11,925 --> 00:24:12,925
Of course.

290
00:24:14,725 --> 00:24:15,765
You don't remember.

291
00:24:18,285 --> 00:24:19,605
There were millions of us.

292
00:24:20,445 --> 00:24:22,085
And one of you.

293
00:24:37,525 --> 00:24:39,005
I know what you think of me.

294
00:24:45,765 --> 00:24:47,965
I tried to be a good Czar.

295
00:24:50,925 --> 00:24:53,045
Everything I did, I did for my country.

296
00:24:56,565 --> 00:24:58,445
What did you do for the people?

297
00:24:59,685 --> 00:25:01,005
Russia is the people.

298
00:25:02,405 --> 00:25:03,725
Did you ever realize that?

299
00:25:08,045 --> 00:25:09,405
Was there anything else?

300
00:25:30,045 --> 00:25:32,285
By this point,
the Bolshevik government

301
00:25:32,365 --> 00:25:33,445
is in serious danger.

302
00:25:34,485 --> 00:25:36,325
It has lost a great deal of Russia

303
00:25:36,405 --> 00:25:38,965
and an uprising has just occurred
in Moscow.

304
00:25:41,005 --> 00:25:43,965
Different armies
are converging from every side

305
00:25:44,245 --> 00:25:46,965
on a shrinking Bolshevik heartland.

306
00:25:49,725 --> 00:25:53,685
The White Forces
are just 20 miles from Ekaterinburg.

307
00:25:53,805 --> 00:25:55,845
It is a very serious possibility

308
00:25:55,925 --> 00:25:58,485
that they will take the city
and liberate the Romanovs.

309
00:25:59,845 --> 00:26:02,285
The Romanovs can actually hear guns

310
00:26:02,405 --> 00:26:03,965
at the front, booming away.

311
00:26:04,405 --> 00:26:06,285
That's how close the war is getting.

312
00:26:07,565 --> 00:26:10,845
And, of course, they don't realize
that the closer the war gets,

313
00:26:11,045 --> 00:26:12,605
the more danger they're in.

314
00:27:14,085 --> 00:27:15,325
Thank you.

315
00:27:16,845 --> 00:27:18,525
This is a great comfort to us.

316
00:27:20,165 --> 00:27:21,165
Of course.

317
00:27:29,805 --> 00:27:31,525
I spoke to Comrade Lenin.

318
00:27:36,125 --> 00:27:38,845
We have the go-ahead for our operations.

319
00:27:41,125 --> 00:27:42,125
Good.

320
00:28:14,525 --> 00:28:15,605
Here is good.

321
00:28:16,365 --> 00:28:17,925
The trucks will come to the house.

322
00:28:18,005 --> 00:28:20,485
Be ready to leave, 01:30 hours.

323
00:28:41,165 --> 00:28:42,405
It's getting nearer.

324
00:28:54,885 --> 00:28:56,725
What's going to happen to us, Nicky?

325
00:29:02,925 --> 00:29:04,885
Do you remember Livadia in the spring?

326
00:29:08,765 --> 00:29:10,085
And the cherry blossom?

327
00:29:15,245 --> 00:29:16,965
I'm going to take you back there.

328
00:29:19,165 --> 00:29:20,565
When this madness is over.

329
00:29:24,325 --> 00:29:25,325
Just you and I.

330
00:29:31,085 --> 00:29:32,125
I would love that.

331
00:29:47,765 --> 00:29:48,765
I love you.

332
00:29:51,965 --> 00:29:52,965
I love you too.

333
00:31:15,765 --> 00:31:18,085
- What's happening?
- It's alright.

334
00:31:30,125 --> 00:31:31,725
There's a fight for the city.

335
00:31:32,445 --> 00:31:34,485
We need to move you all,
for your own safety.

336
00:31:35,325 --> 00:31:36,485
Let the children know.

337
00:31:36,565 --> 00:31:38,725
We need them dressed and ready
as soon as possible.

338
00:31:52,525 --> 00:31:54,645
On the night
that they're woken up,

339
00:31:54,725 --> 00:31:59,485
the first thing they do is to pull on
their diamond-encrusted underwear.

340
00:32:04,365 --> 00:32:05,365
Quickly, girls.

341
00:32:08,845 --> 00:32:10,405
Where are they taking us?

342
00:32:11,725 --> 00:32:12,725
Crimea?

343
00:32:13,245 --> 00:32:14,245
Who knows?

344
00:32:14,605 --> 00:32:16,965
The important thing is,
we're finally moving on.

345
00:32:22,125 --> 00:32:23,125
Hurry, girls.

346
00:32:25,725 --> 00:32:28,885
The fact that they're wearing
their bejeweled vests

347
00:32:28,965 --> 00:32:32,445
shows that for the children at least,
they had a great hope

348
00:32:32,525 --> 00:32:35,925
that somehow they would survive this.

349
00:32:36,005 --> 00:32:38,645
It was unthinkable that anything
would happen to the children.

350
00:32:40,605 --> 00:32:41,605
Ready?

351
00:32:48,645 --> 00:32:49,645
Okay, please.

352
00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:52,205
My men will take these.

353
00:32:55,525 --> 00:32:56,365
Okay.

354
00:32:56,445 --> 00:32:57,525
Okay, let's go.

355
00:33:07,445 --> 00:33:10,765
Do everything they tell you to.
We don't want to be split up again.

356
00:33:48,805 --> 00:33:51,765
- I thought we were heading...
- Wait here until your transport is ready.

357
00:34:12,245 --> 00:34:14,085
They're brought into the cellar.

358
00:34:15,125 --> 00:34:17,445
They're confused.
It's the middle of the night.

359
00:34:17,965 --> 00:34:20,245
Could I have some chairs
for my son and wife, please?

360
00:34:20,485 --> 00:34:21,485
Of course.

361
00:34:50,205 --> 00:34:52,205
You have been drinking.

362
00:34:55,565 --> 00:34:56,565
Start the lorries.

363
00:35:33,725 --> 00:35:34,805
That's our transport.

364
00:36:21,845 --> 00:36:23,645
For a second,
it looks a bit like

365
00:36:23,725 --> 00:36:25,725
a family photograph's about to be taken.

366
00:36:26,245 --> 00:36:28,805
They're gathered around
the two seated at the front.

367
00:36:29,565 --> 00:36:32,485
But in fact, things
are getting darker and darker

368
00:36:32,725 --> 00:36:34,525
in the "House of Special Purpose".

369
00:36:41,605 --> 00:36:43,165
Nikolai Alexandrovich,

370
00:36:43,405 --> 00:36:44,685
Alexandra Feodorovna,

371
00:36:45,125 --> 00:36:46,405
Alexei Nikolayevich,

372
00:36:47,085 --> 00:36:48,085
Olga Nikolaevna,

373
00:36:48,645 --> 00:36:49,645
Maria Nikolaevna,

374
00:36:50,325 --> 00:36:51,445
Tatiana Nikolaevna,

375
00:36:52,245 --> 00:36:53,325
Anastasia Nikolaevna.

376
00:36:54,005 --> 00:36:57,205
The Ural Regional Soviet Committee
has sentenced you to death.

377
00:36:58,485 --> 00:36:59,485
But...

378
00:37:00,405 --> 00:37:01,445
I don't understand.

379
00:37:02,685 --> 00:37:05,405
You have been sentenced to death.

380
00:37:22,245 --> 00:37:23,365
Finish it!

381
00:37:31,365 --> 00:37:33,565
Shoot! Fucking shoot!

382
00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:44,645
One of the most tragic aspects of the
murder of the Russian imperial family

383
00:37:45,245 --> 00:37:49,805
is that because they were wearing so many
jewels sewn into their clothes...

384
00:37:52,005 --> 00:37:53,405
it was harder to kill them.

385
00:37:59,605 --> 00:38:03,645
They were essentially wearing the
world's most expensive bulletproof vests.

386
00:38:08,485 --> 00:38:09,965
Stop firing.

387
00:38:13,325 --> 00:38:14,885
In all of history,

388
00:38:14,965 --> 00:38:20,205
it's hard to imagine an act
that was so utterly barbarous

389
00:38:21,205 --> 00:38:26,205
than the messy slaughter
of the imperial family.

390
00:39:00,485 --> 00:39:02,605
I don't know how to break this to them.

391
00:39:04,045 --> 00:39:07,005
The Von Kleists told me,
a few months ago,

392
00:39:07,085 --> 00:39:10,525
they and Anna had dinner
with a Russian army officer

393
00:39:10,605 --> 00:39:12,525
who was based at the Alexander Palace.

394
00:39:12,965 --> 00:39:15,405
He told her about the nickname "Pixie."

395
00:39:19,525 --> 00:39:20,525
Then there is this.

396
00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:32,645
She's been practicing for months.

397
00:39:36,645 --> 00:39:38,085
She's an imposter.

398
00:39:46,045 --> 00:39:47,405
She's still my patient.

399
00:39:48,285 --> 00:39:50,205
And she's in a very fragile condition.

400
00:39:51,725 --> 00:39:55,165
I think it's best you don't tell her
about your discovery.

401
00:39:56,325 --> 00:39:57,325
Wait here.

402
00:40:06,165 --> 00:40:07,165
Excuse me.

403
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:11,165
I think it's best for you to come outside.

404
00:40:38,165 --> 00:40:41,485
I have inside here,
page upon page upon page

405
00:40:41,965 --> 00:40:45,365
of her attempting to practice
the signature of Anastasia.

406
00:40:45,445 --> 00:40:46,925
The resemblance is not there.

407
00:40:47,245 --> 00:40:48,725
Our instincts were right.

408
00:40:49,125 --> 00:40:51,885
There is irrefutable evidence inside here

409
00:40:52,085 --> 00:40:53,525
that she is not the...

410
00:41:02,325 --> 00:41:03,525
Are you leaving me?

411
00:41:10,725 --> 00:41:12,245
We'll write to you, I promise.

412
00:41:15,605 --> 00:41:16,765
I'm so glad we met.

413
00:41:18,565 --> 00:41:22,325
No, don't go. Please.

414
00:41:23,605 --> 00:41:24,605
Please.

415
00:41:26,365 --> 00:41:27,365
Please.

416
00:41:34,045 --> 00:41:35,205
We're not leaving you.

417
00:41:37,045 --> 00:41:38,525
We will see each other again.

418
00:41:40,485 --> 00:41:41,485
Goodbye...

419
00:41:43,805 --> 00:41:44,805
Anastasia.

420
00:42:03,645 --> 00:42:05,965
It had been too much to ask for.

421
00:42:07,805 --> 00:42:10,125
Nobody could have escaped that massacre.

422
00:42:12,445 --> 00:42:16,805
The real Anastasia was almost certainly
resting somewhere

423
00:42:17,165 --> 00:42:18,165
with her family.

424
00:42:20,045 --> 00:42:21,765
That was my only consolation.

425
00:42:36,565 --> 00:42:39,405
At the same time
as the imperial family is killed

426
00:42:39,485 --> 00:42:41,565
in "The House of Special Purpose,"

427
00:42:42,485 --> 00:42:46,845
The Bolsheviks try to eliminate
all of the Romanovs under their control.

428
00:42:48,845 --> 00:42:52,645
They execute a total
of 18 members of the imperial family.

429
00:42:54,325 --> 00:42:56,965
They throw Alex's sister, Ella,

430
00:42:57,045 --> 00:42:58,165
down a mine shaft,

431
00:42:58,725 --> 00:43:00,845
and then they throw grenades
on top of her.

432
00:43:01,725 --> 00:43:04,685
She was heard singing hymns
from down the mine

433
00:43:04,765 --> 00:43:06,285
before everything went quiet.

434
00:43:07,485 --> 00:43:09,325
But many of the Romanovs did get out.

435
00:43:11,245 --> 00:43:13,245
Minny, the last Czar's mother...

436
00:43:15,925 --> 00:43:18,405
Nikolasha, his supreme commander...

437
00:43:20,245 --> 00:43:22,325
And "The Black Crows."

438
00:43:23,445 --> 00:43:27,485
Their last great act is their escape,
from the Crimea,

439
00:43:28,245 --> 00:43:32,725
aboard a British battleship,
HMS Marlborough,

440
00:43:32,805 --> 00:43:35,405
as the Bolsheviks are pouring
into the Crimea.

441
00:43:38,805 --> 00:43:41,565
Also on board is Prince Felix Yusupov,

442
00:43:42,245 --> 00:43:45,885
the man that masterminded
the assassination of Rasputin.

443
00:43:50,205 --> 00:43:53,085
About a week
after the imperial family is killed

444
00:43:53,165 --> 00:43:56,485
the anti-Bolshevik powers
take Ekaterinburg.

445
00:43:57,205 --> 00:44:00,325
They try to figure out what happened
to the royal family.

446
00:44:03,685 --> 00:44:06,565
Pierre Gilliard travels to Ekaterinburg.

447
00:44:06,645 --> 00:44:09,765
He sees "The House of Special Purpose"
for himself.

448
00:44:10,765 --> 00:44:13,285
He sees the cellar riddled with bullets.

449
00:44:14,205 --> 00:44:15,045
Shoot!

450
00:44:18,645 --> 00:44:20,645
And tries to help find the bodies

451
00:44:20,685 --> 00:44:22,085
of the slaughtered royal family.

452
00:44:24,525 --> 00:44:26,965
In the Koptyaki woods near Ekaterinburg

453
00:44:27,045 --> 00:44:31,205
the investigation finds remnants
of bones, but only fragments.

454
00:44:31,285 --> 00:44:34,365
They do not find bodies
that would prove the deaths

455
00:44:34,445 --> 00:44:36,725
of all of the members
of the imperial family.

456
00:44:39,205 --> 00:44:42,365
As the Red Army
nears victory in the civil war

457
00:44:42,445 --> 00:44:45,525
the anti-Bolshevik forces
have to flee Ekaterinburg

458
00:44:46,565 --> 00:44:49,525
and they cannot finish the investigation.

459
00:44:53,245 --> 00:44:56,965
The Bolsheviks announce
the execution of Nicholas II,

460
00:44:57,165 --> 00:45:00,045
but they do not say anything about
the fate of the family.

461
00:45:03,325 --> 00:45:06,325
They understood
it would be a public relations disaster

462
00:45:06,405 --> 00:45:09,085
to admit the innocent children
had all been massacred.

463
00:45:09,725 --> 00:45:13,685
And so they deliberately spread mystery
over the story.

464
00:45:16,485 --> 00:45:19,365
About the same time
as the Soviet Unionis formed,

465
00:45:19,445 --> 00:45:23,965
rumors that one of the Grand Duchesses
has escaped start circulating.

466
00:45:26,645 --> 00:45:31,485
One of the claimants is a young woman,
later to be known as Anna Anderson,

467
00:45:32,005 --> 00:45:33,485
and she appears in Berlin.

468
00:45:34,805 --> 00:45:37,805
Anastasia's Auntie Olga
and Pierre Gilliard

469
00:45:37,885 --> 00:45:40,205
conclude that Anna Anderson is a fraud.

470
00:45:40,645 --> 00:45:41,645
Goodbye.

471
00:45:42,245 --> 00:45:44,885
And yet the young woman
continues to claim

472
00:45:44,965 --> 00:45:49,085
that she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia
for several decades afterwards.

473
00:45:50,645 --> 00:45:53,685
You can believe it,
or you don't believe it.

474
00:45:53,765 --> 00:45:54,885
It doesn't matter.

475
00:45:55,165 --> 00:45:57,485
DNA testing
does not exist at this time,

476
00:45:57,565 --> 00:46:00,605
and so it is very, very difficult
to conclusively prove

477
00:46:00,685 --> 00:46:03,605
that she is or isn't Princess Anastasia.

478
00:46:06,845 --> 00:46:10,365
In 1979, two amateur historians
find a number of bodies

479
00:46:10,445 --> 00:46:12,285
in the woods outside of Ekaterinburg

480
00:46:12,365 --> 00:46:15,805
that might be the bodies
of the slaughtered imperial family.

481
00:46:18,045 --> 00:46:22,965
But 1979 is much too early
in terms of Soviet history

482
00:46:23,045 --> 00:46:26,005
for anyone to accept finding the bodies.

483
00:46:26,085 --> 00:46:27,285
They were reburied.

484
00:46:27,845 --> 00:46:31,525
And it was only with the fall
of the Soviet Union, in 1991,

485
00:46:31,605 --> 00:46:34,005
that the bodies were re-exhumed.

486
00:46:35,165 --> 00:46:39,085
DNA testing was possible on them
with modern science,

487
00:46:39,165 --> 00:46:41,845
and members of the wider royal family
of Europe,

488
00:46:41,925 --> 00:46:44,285
including Prince Philip,
the Duke of Edinburgh,

489
00:46:44,365 --> 00:46:47,805
gave blood to enable the tests to be made.

490
00:46:49,765 --> 00:46:54,885
The bones found
in Ekaterinburg three years ago

491
00:46:55,645 --> 00:46:57,685
beyond any reasonable doubt

492
00:46:58,325 --> 00:47:02,085
are the remains of Czar Nicholas II

493
00:47:02,165 --> 00:47:05,045
and members of his family.

494
00:47:07,525 --> 00:47:10,805
They test the remains
of the imperial family

495
00:47:10,885 --> 00:47:14,885
against the remains of Anna Anderson
and they find that conclusively

496
00:47:14,965 --> 00:47:17,085
she was not a member
of the Romanov family.

497
00:47:17,165 --> 00:47:19,085
In fact, not even vaguely related.

498
00:47:19,885 --> 00:47:23,645
Franziska Schanzkowska
was the real name of Anna Anderson.

499
00:47:24,005 --> 00:47:27,605
She was a Polish factory worker
who was declared insane

500
00:47:27,685 --> 00:47:29,405
and went missing in 1920.

501
00:47:48,405 --> 00:47:50,085
In 1998,

502
00:47:50,165 --> 00:47:54,485
President Yeltsin presided over
the reburial

503
00:47:54,565 --> 00:47:57,205
of Nicholas and the imperial family

504
00:47:58,245 --> 00:48:00,285
in the Peter and Paul Cathedral,

505
00:48:00,445 --> 00:48:03,965
the ancestral tomb of the Romanov dynasty.

506
00:48:09,165 --> 00:48:11,285
But two bodies were missing.

507
00:48:18,205 --> 00:48:19,525
In 2007,

508
00:48:19,605 --> 00:48:22,285
the last two bodies
of the imperial family are found

509
00:48:22,365 --> 00:48:24,005
in the woods outside Ekaterinburg.

510
00:48:25,405 --> 00:48:28,285
Scientists,
archaeologists, historians believe

511
00:48:28,365 --> 00:48:29,765
that these are the remains

512
00:48:29,845 --> 00:48:32,165
of Alexei and his sister Maria.

513
00:48:32,245 --> 00:48:34,645
These remains still await burial today.

514
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:43,000
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