Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 1)

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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(1/2) As Russia collapses, the Romanovs find themselves trapped by delusions and failed ideals; by revolution and Russian geography. Helen Rappaport joins Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney for part 1 of the Final Days of the Romanovs.

Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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0:40.3	Over 1,000 miles east of St. Petersburg and Moscow, just a little north of the town of Eccaterinburg, Russia, silver birch trees rustled together in a ravine. Besides the trains that occasionally pass
0:46.3	by on the railway track, this stretch of wood is usually desolate. In August 2007, however, a team of amateur historians are scouring the ground.
0:58.1	This is the site from which the remains of the Tsar, Zarina, and three of their four daughters
1:03.5	and four of their staff were exhumed a few decades before in 1991. The team are looking for
1:10.8	the final missing members of the family, another
1:14.3	daughter and the Tsar's only son. Forty-six-year-old Sergei Plotnikov, a construction worker
1:21.1	by trade, is advancing through the trees, poking at the ground with finding tools, when suddenly he hears a familiar sound,
1:31.2	a scraping. Now, this usually means he has made contact with one of two things, coal or bow.
1:39.1	Plotnikov calls one of his friends over to examine his findings. Soon, the site will be taken over by trained archaeologists.
1:48.0	Potnikov had indeed found human remains, a girl between the ages of 18 and 23, and a boy aged between 10 and 13.
1:58.0	These were the final Romanov children to be found.
2:02.1	But the damage to their bodies, the brutality of their deaths,
2:06.1	in comparison to their titles and the luxury suggested by a fragment of the fine fabric found with their remains,
2:12.9	begs the question,
2:14.5	what could possibly have prompted such a dramatic, murderous fall from grace? Hello and welcome to After Dark, I'm Maddie.
2:49.4	And I'm Anthony.
2:50.6	And today we are getting into one of
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