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N. (Nikolai) Sokolov
1882–1924
Best known for investigating the deaths of Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family, this Russian magistrate wrote with the urgency of someone piecing together a national tragedy from firsthand evidence. His account brings readers close to one of the most haunting episodes of the Russian Revolution.
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The Last Days of the Romanovs
by N. (Nikolai) Sokolov
About the author
Born in 1882, Nikolai Alekseevich Sokolov was a Russian legal investigator and writer whose name is closely tied to the fate of the last Romanovs. He served as an investigator for especially important cases and was tasked during the Russian Civil War with examining the disappearance and deaths of Tsar Nicholas II, his family, and their attendants.
That work became the basis of The Last Days of the Romanovs, the book most associated with him. Drawing on testimony, documents, and physical evidence, Sokolov tried to reconstruct the final chapter of the imperial family with the care of a magistrate and the intensity of a witness to upheaval.
After leaving Russia, he continued his work in exile and died in France in 1924. His writing remains notable not only as a historical narrative, but also as an early, influential record of the investigation into one of the best-known royal murders of the twentieth century.