Lot n° 342
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ASSASSINATION OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY.
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ASSASSINATION OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY.
Copy of official dispatch no. 19/19 (125880) addressed to King George V, signed by Thomas Preston (1886-1976) British consul in Omsk, transmitted to Sir Charles Eliot (1862- 1931), the king's high commissioner for Siberia in Omsk, dated June 19, 1919 on the letterhead of the British Consulate in Ekaterinburg, 1 page folio, text in English. This document is attached to a copy of a letter signed W. O'Reilly addressed to Earl Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925), then Foreign Secretary, in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lloyd George, dated July 11, 1919 on the letterhead of the
British Commission of Vladivostok n°43/19 (125880), 1 page folio, text in English. The set was addressed to Queen Alexandra of Great Britain (1844-1925), sister of Empress Maria Feodorovna by the secretariat of her son King George V and preserved in its original envelope, with black wax seal with the arms of the court of England.
Folds, in the state.
Translation: dispatch of June 19, 1919: "Sir, I have the honor to inform you that last Saturday I visited the old iron mine located 4 versts from siding no. 120, which is 8 versts northwest of Yekaterinburg along the Perm Railway, where General Dietricks and his group searched for the remains of the Russian imperial family. I am informed that there is evidence corroborated by numerous witnesses that the bodies of the victims were taken out, buried or thrown into one of the old shafts on this mine. Some jewelry identified as belonging to the Ex-Impress was found at this location.
At the top of one of the shafts, gravel impregnated with sulfuric acid was found, which corresponds to the fact established by testimonies that the Bolsheviks used sulfuric acid to destroy faces or possibly body parts.
On the night of the murder from July 16 to 17, 1918, the Bolsheviks were known to have bought 11 powders of sulfuric acid in Ekaterinburg. I am told that it is impossible to say how long the investigations can last, it depends on the success achieved in the difficult and painstaking task of investigation.
Translation: letter of July 11, 1919: "I have the honor to transmit to you enclosed the dispatch n° 19/19 of Mr. Preston, consul of His Majesty in Omsk, relative to the investigation in progress on the fate of the Russian imperial family".
Provenance: this precious document was found in the papers of the empress
Maria Feodorovna after her death and preserved in the direct descent of the grand duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960), by her daughter princess Irina
Alexandrovna Youssoupoff (1895-1970).
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