Leonid Sednev was the Imperial Family's kitchen hand at the Ipatiev House.
He was sent away (not shot like Nagorny) the day before the murders.
No one knows why the kitchen boy was spared his life, yet other members of the Tsar's help did not survive.
The author of the Kitchen Boy obviously drew up his ideas for a gtreat fiction book from these basis questions, along with the secter messages that were found by the Imperial Family.
In their diaries, while in the Ipatiev House, NAOTMAA had written little passages that signify clues about those mysterious secret messages, and if not clues, some, like Nicky, did not conceal their hope of rescue and outright wrote it down.
There has been much speculation, as with the whole Romanov murders, about the secret messages that supposedly were recieved by the Romanovs, signaling rescuers, possibly soldiers from the Tsar's regime that were still faithful to him. The Romanovs took them to be the oncoming Whites; their artillery could be heard rumbling in the distance and gatting closer during the family's last days.
The possibility was of the nuns, that went and brought the family fresh eggs and milk, were smuggling in the sectret messages from their supposed rescuers.
But, it is also suspected that the Reds were actually the ones sending the secret notes. Probably, to excite the Tsar for rescue and dash his hopes and his family's hopes at the last moment:murder.
These notes were in fact true, Every night a member of the family, or thier household (Dr. Botkin) would stay up till about 3 in the morning, waiting for a ehistle that never came.
The whistle would be signal to start the escape.
As some know, AOTMA had been sewing "medicines", actually the family's jewels, into their corsets and pillows. Which they would, of course, escape with to help their expenses once they were abroad, well abroad in hiding/exile, once they would escape.
There were precisely, I think 3 secret notes.
The scripts of these messages are available, and plenty of books contain them.
The secret notes are shown in the Kitchen Boy, since that is one of the main ideas and plots of the book itself.
Along with the secret messages being in The Kitchen Boy, the book also ventures on the question of an Imperial family member escaping.....
You'll find out who when you read this marvelous book.
Sofia
