Here is an interesting side note found in The Myths and Legends of Surviviors under the thread Anna Anderson and Anastasia, page39 with my post 580 and I wrote:
>>I haven't picked up the Peter Kurth's book ANASTASIA. THE RIDDLE OF ANNA ANDERSON. I did this morning to look for what he had written, if anything, about FS. I happen to turn to pps. 332-33 about Rudopf Lacher, who was an Austrian prisioner of war in Ekaterinburg who served as the personal orderly to Yurovsky. And, he was the last living witness of Yurovsky's "boys". He, however, wasn't part of the executioners. Anyway, he refused any interviews, however, he did say, just ask AA if she remembers "Rudolf".
When AA was asked if she knew a "Rudolf", and I quote:
She did not remember "Rudolf".
Is this just one more person AA should have remembered? Or had it just been too long for her to remember?
AGRBear
PS Forgot to mention the pipe. Lacher had "a gold case, a handkerchief or two, and a small cigarette holder, shaped like a tobacco pipe. It had belong to the Tsar." When shown to AA, she expressed her father's "pipes were darker than that". It wasn't a pipe but a cigarette holder, the kind Nicholas II used in his last days.
Those who wanted to believe AA was GD Anastasia, searched why AA would not reconize the holder and proved her father's "pipe" was darker, probably dark amber.
The point was, to me, that it wasn't a pipe it was a cigarette holder, and, it had been the one GD Anastasia's father had used while in the Impatiev House.<<
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My point here is:
Lacher and others had taken items.
In V.V. Alekseyev's THE LAST ACT OF A TRAGEDY there is mention of various Romanov items the Bolsheviks tracked down a number of people who had taken items.... after the Reds had retaken Ekaterinburg a year later.
In July of 1918 Yurovsky had gone off to Moscow and the house was not guarded, so, thievery did occur. The Whites enter Ekaterinburg and took control of the Ipatiev House a few days later.
AGRBear
