What Happened To the Romanov Family?

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What Happened To the Romanov Family?

1. (a) Sources A and B are both very similar, and in some ways these sources are reliable evidence, but in other ways these sources are not very reliable evidence. One way in which both of the accounts are reliable is that they both say that not all of the members of the Romanov family were killed. In fact in both accounts the same 5 people were mentioned as being murdered which show that this is likely to have happened.

Another reason that the accounts may be reliable is because Judge Sergeyev wouldn't have had a motive in which to say that only 5 people were killed. This is because he was taking out an investigation on behalf of the whites, and if he would have had any bias it would have been towards the whole family being murdered by the Bolsheviks.

A way in which the accounts are unreliable is that Judge Sergeyev's account is only taken from people who have spoken to him or who have readd his report, so these people may not be telling the truth. Another reason is that Sir Charles Eliot