No, no, no. It's quite obvious that there was desperation that night as well as confusion. It was dark, cold, the bodies were disfigured by acid and gasoline- particularly the faces so that the Whites wouldn't know who it was if they found them...Obviously, Yurovsky was in so much of a mixup that he probably named the wrong person without realizing it.
And about the grave, he burned them. No such grave could exist, unless you mean ashes. Which, of course, could have blown away.
Do you not remember Sokolov's report of finding pieces of fat tissue and ashes not long after the murder? I know this is correct- The family, none of them, escaped.
When the bodies were pulled out of the Four Brothers Mine, they were not bloated and disfigured. Quite the opposite. The frozen water, it was said, kept the bodies in excellent condition. This was described by one of those present who told another who's testimony was taken.
The nine bodies which were placed in the mass grave were given a acid bath and their faces were struck with rifle butts....
Yurovsky, 1920 testimony:
>>We wanted to burn A. [Aleksei] and A.F., but by mistake the lady-in-waiting [he maid Demidova] ws burnt with A. instead. We then immediately buried the remains under the fire and lit the fire again, which comletely covered up traces of the digging. Meanwhile, we dug a common grave for the rest. <<
In his 1934 statement:
p. 364-5 FALL OF THE ROMANOVS by Steinbuerg and Khrustalev:
>>I have to say that we were all so devilishly exhausted that we didn't want to dig new grave, but, as always happens in these cases, two or three began doing it and then others joined in. We immediately lit fires, and while the grave was being readied, we burned two corpses: Aleksei and, apparently, Demidova, instead of Alexandra Fyodorovna, as we had intended. We dug a pit by the spot where they were burned, piled in the bones, evened it over, lit another big fire, and covered all traces with ashes. Before putting the rest of the corpses in the pit....<<
If the two bodies, Alexei and Anastasia or Maria were burned, the temperature needed for cremation could not have been achieved the forensic people tell us. If they were burned, I've given a detail (a gross description) of this earlier on this thead or another. The muscles and tendons would have been intact so the bodies would have been pushed into the grave near the mass grave. No acid was said to have been placed on these two bodies. There were covered.... No railroad ties are mentioned for this smaller grave. A fire was built on top of the grave and it was these ashes that were spread.
Yes, there must have been confusion that night for everyone concern. But how much confusion we don't know.
What we do know is, the two bodies have not been found near the mass grave.
AGRBear
