Please remember that during this time period, even up to JFK's autopsy and currently photographic records were made of emperors, crooks, princesses and others even in their coffins; also its good to remember the Perm (AGRBear?) and Alapayevsk imperial deaths were recorded on film. I choose to believe an Ekaterinburg record exists somewhere and there's frankly not anyone here who can say with certainty that they do or don't.
As I recall summer light even in Siberia was later than midnight in 1997 and I imagine there are indoor images with electric lights should this be the case. [i]Photography of the period has examples of many, many studio portraits and interiors of buildings and palaces. Examples can be found in just about any book on this subject. A photographic record may be a possibility, or a probability, but not an impossibility.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Susana
1. It was IMPERATIVE that no word of the murders leak out for any reason. Lenin feared that word of the death of the Imperial Family would create a pro monarchy backlash. Also, Germany had already demanded assurances that all "Princesses of the Royal German Blood" be protected, and Lenin had agreed.
Photographic evidence would easily have leaked out and provided this proof and Lenin could not risk it. Remember that the Whites took Ekaterinburg very soon after the murders.
2. Yurovsky and the Ural Soviet were acting OUTSIDE of the orders given by Moscow. Yurovsky would not want photos floating around. Remember they were working under the strictest of secrecy to make certain NOBODY found out about the murders. Why in the world would anyone take the time and effort to make photos when they wanted no one to know what they were doing.
3. They made certain their actions were done during the shortened period of night in Siberia. Truck lights were off, it was deliberately dark. The cellar was dark, poorly lit. The technology of the time, as pointed out, required FAR more light that would have been possible. Not ONE of the first hand accounts mentions even a camera, much less taking of photos. The room was filled with smoke and is a very small room, as those who visited before the house was destroyed can attest. There was no ROOM to take photos.
4. Camera equipment in 1917 was in only two forms, large glass plates requiring a large format camera, big and bulky or the newly invented Kodak with sealed box for roll film. ONLY Kodak could process their film, and even if the Kodak outlet in Ekaterinburg was still open for business during the civil war, Yurovsky would never ever ever have "dropped off" the film for outsiders to see the resulting photos of the murder.
Believe these non-existent photos are hidden away somewhere if it makes you feel happy. Believe in the Loch Ness Monster or Space Aliens killing JFK if you like. It won't change the genuine facts that no such photos exist. There is just no way they could have been taken in the first place. No time, no room, no light, no reason, no opportunity, and technically impossible.