The Bolsheviks: they knew how to deal with Romanovs

[ELWisty]

None of yer biscuit-ersed yam 30 minute polite protests:

Yurovsky claims to have said something like "Nicholas Alexandrovitch, your friends have tried to save you but they did not succeed and we are obliged to put you to death".
These words make reference to the differents plots (real or imagined by the Soviets to justify the execution) which would have been made to free Romanovs during their captivity.
This version was kept by the judge Sokolov in his work and by Pierre Gilliard in his book.
Other witnesses or sources have a different point of view. According to them, the note sounded like "Because your relatives in Europe carry on their attacks against the Soviet Russia, the Executive committee of Ural had decided to shoot you".

http://www.romanov-memorial.com/Drama.htm

[Davy]

ROMANOV and DRAMA? Now thats unusual