From the Tsar's diary, May 20: It was unbearable to sit that way, locked up, and not be in a position to go out into the garden when you wanted and spend a fine evening outside.
May 27: Finally got up and quit my bed, it was a summer's day, walked twice. The green is very fine and lush, a pleasant smell.
May 31: This afternoon we were let out into the garden for some reason.
Seems to me that they were walking in the garden (jardin) and not in the courtyard.
Heinrich Kleibenzetl testimony in Hamburg: One evening, however, a friend of Kleibenzetl's in the guard had come over to the Baoudins' to say that "something [was] happening." Kleibenzetl was curious. He had entered the courtyard carrying some uniforms: "The guards knew me, they didn't ask any questions, they were drinking." Kleibenzetl had hidden behind some boxes and suddenly heard gunshots, screams, and a single female cry: "Mamma!"
After being grilled by the Hamburg court for 6 hours, the judges could not find a single hole in his story.
Kind regards
Chat Noir