Here's why I believe if there possibly were any surviviors we'd NEVER know and anyone who claimed they were are fakes out for money and fame
Seriously if you just watched your family get shot in front of your eyes and somehow survived that, you'd run and change identities immediately and live in constant fear and would never dare come out of hiding, I mean a gay omish man is more likely to come out than a Romanov would. A real romanov would be so tramatised that they'd forever keep their true identity a secret, I know I would.
A possible Romanov surviving will forever be a mystery unless they find the two missing bodies. My point is, a surviving Romanov would never claim their identity.
This topic is about if they survived would they have claimed their identity. So, there is no need to talk about smashed faces, bayonet wounds etc. etc. etc.
I think that a survivor would have kept their identity a secret. Revealing themsleves would have caused a stir and it would have reached the local authorities who would have loved to have had credit for capturing a missing Romanov.
If the survivor never reached a "safe place" then their identity died with the survivor.
If they told a loved one their story, it would have placed the loved one in danger.
One would think that keeping this kind of secret would be impossible. But this was a very deep, dark and dangerous secret.
Even if they told someone, the person hearing the story may not have believed such a "tall tale" but gave pretense to apease an elderly old woman who's mind was failing and starting to imagine she was some kind of princess...
AGRBear
