What Happened To The Romanov Family?

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What Happened To The Romanov Family?

A)         Source A talks about how Judge Sergeyev investigated the Nicholas Romanov case. The source is from an American newspaper which was written in December 1918. Sergeyev was a supporter of the Provisional Government which was a temporary government after the Tsar had abdicated.

        This course is quite reliable because Sergeyev investigated the death of the Romanov family quite deeply. He came to the conclusion that the Tsar, the family doctor, two servants and the maid were shot in the Impatiev House. He also stated that the rest of the family were not shot in the house.

        On the other hand, the source is not very reliable because after he wrote his report, he was sacked. This shows that he could have been lying about the whole report and everything he investigated. As he was sacked from his job, it implies that the source is very unreliable because he could just be covering up for whoever it was that really killed the Tsar.

        Source B gives a similar account of what happened. It was written by Sir Charles Eliot. He wrote a report to the British Government so that he could inform them about what had happened. This source is reliable because he states that he saw where the bullets would have been and that the victims much have been shot while on the flood because of where the marks of the bullets were.

        However, the source could be very unreliable because he does not really know how many people were actually shot. He also says that the surviving members of the Royal family were believed to have been on the train which left Ekaterinburg on 17th July. This is very unreliable because no one was actually there to witness them leaving on the train, and also we don’t know which of the family actually survived.

        Both sources are quite reliable because they both are written for reports on the case of the deaths. It is also reliable because they both agree that only the Tsar, doctor, maids and servants were shot.

        On the other hand, they both contradict each other because source B says that the survivors went on the train and left Ekaterinburg where as source A does not mention anything about the remaining Romanov family going on the train.

        Both sources are one sided because they don’t include anything about what other people believe. Both sources only tell us about what their point of view. This means the source is quite unreliable because they only tell you what they believe happened.

        

B)        Source C has a totally different account to what was meant to have happened. This source is from a book which was written by Judge Sokolov. He has a very different opinion to what Judge Sergeyev and Sir Charles Elliot believe.

        Sokolov states that he believes that all of the family members were all killed in the house where they were staying. However he says that Sergeyev believed that the whole family were shot. This is a totally different account to what he wrote for a report for an American newspaper. Both sources contradict each other, which makes them both a bit unreliable. On the other hand, source B backs up what Sergeyev says about only some members were shot. This could mean that source C is contradicting the other two sources because it states different things.

        Source C also tells us that a lorry carried the dead bodies to a mind under the cover of the darkness. This is also different to source A because it doesn’t mention anything about the people who killed them, taking away their bodies and disposing of them. This is also different to source B because it says that they did not find any dead bodies or any trace of the family being buried.

        Parts of the book which source C is from never even made it public. This shows that some parts of the book and his finding might not have been true. On the other hand, it could mean that someone might not have wanted people to find out the truth behind his findings.

        The source was produced some years later after the murder. This could mean that some of the things he says might not be true because he was never actually there at the time of the murders of the family. On the other hand, everything he says could be true because he has had a lot of time to look at all the facts and what everyone believes.

        Source C is not one sided. He tells you briefly about what Sergeyev thought. However everything he says doesn’t make sense because Sergeyev says different things in the source. It also tells up totally different things to the other two sources. This makes it hard to work out whether Sokolov was telling the truth or making everything up. He wrote it for a book, but parts of it never got published. This makes you wonder whether parts of the source could be false. He wrote a book because he wanted to let people know about what happened. He also investigated deaths.

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C)        Source D is an eye witness account which is from an interview of Pavel Medvedev by the white Russians. Medvedev was a Bolshevik. It tells you a lot more detail about what happened when the Romanov family were killed.

         This source is reliable because he was there when the shots were fired, however it could be unreliable because he was outside when the actual shots were fired. This means that anything that happened after when he went outside may not be true.

        Source D could be reliable because he was there when ...

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