opped. The executioners stripped the bodies, taking anything of value including the gold from their teeth. The women's corsets were said to be filled with diamonds. These corsets behaved like a sort of shield against the bullets, which had shocked the men, because the bullets seemed to bounce off the women. The twelve men found eighteen pounds of diamonds. Each daughter was wearing a charm, containing a picture of Rasputin. The bodies were heaved into the grave, and they were covered with earth. After rumours circulated about where the Romanov bodies were buried, Yurovsky decided to move them twenty miles away. The bodies were then burned, deposited in a mine, and covered with sulphuric acid, then set alight. The opening to the place of burial was boarded up, covered with earth, and finally driven over several times to leave no evidence that anyone had ever been buried there.
             The Romanov tragedy has been so very well documented, with many a historian attempting to come to a conclusion based on solid facts as to what exactly hap
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