Last Days Of The Romanovs: Tragedy At Ekaterinburg - Plot & Excerpts
He was 63, and like everybody in the Ipatiev House he was becoming increasingly tired and disconsolate. His kidney problem had flared up at the end of June, laying him low for days. The pain had been so bad that Tatiana had given him an injection of the family’s precious supply of morphine. He had had to stay in bed for several days and had not been able to venture out into the garden again till only two days ago. Time in the Ipatiev House was dragging terribly, and the pain in his back nagged at him; he had tried to distract himself from gloomy thoughts by reading the satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin – the same set of his collected works that the Tsar had also been enjoying – but he couldn’t concentrate. His mind had constantly been wandering and he was increasingly haunted by gloomy thoughts and visions of his children, especially of his dead son Yuri, killed on the Eastern Front during the war. And so, after the arrival of Yurovsky at the house and sensing the tightening of the screws, Botkin had now judged that the time had finally come to put pen to paper.
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