Hello there,
I have just been re reading "Sovereign" The Lapse and Reign of Emperor Nicholas II, No 6 Edition, 2018, a Royal Russia Publication.
There is an interesting excerpt from:
"A Prisoner of the Reds - The Story of a British Officer captured in Siberia, by Francis McCullagh"
On page 69: First Column...
Francis discusses the little boy of 13 who assisted the cook.....Leonid ?Lyonka? Sednev.
"He was driven by Yurovsky just before the murder and taken away - then on July 17 the soldier Kouzma Ivanovich Letemin entered the guard house opposite
Ippatievsky and went into the room occupied by Metvietev etc. He found in the room two soldiers and this little boy, whose presecne in that house astonished him etc. It goes on...then it says that Leonid was now living in Tsarskoe Selo which has been converted to an orphanage (Alexander Palace?)......where he is being carefully brought up as a Communist etc....
Any records of the orphanage and the children who were taken there to verify this?
