Misha took a deep breath, tried to push himself on, but couldn't. You see, I took care of them with my own hands." Trust me, believe me, when I say this: I am the last living witness and I alone know what really happened that awful night.just as I alone know where the bodies of the two missing children are to be found. They sent me away, but I snuck back, and that night, the moonless night of July 16-17, 1918, I saw the Tsar and his family come down the back twenty-three steps of the Ipatiev House, I saw them go into that cellar room.and I saw them shot. And.and the night they were executed I was sent away. What I wish to confess is that I was the kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House where the Tsar and Tsaritsa, Nikolai and Aleksandra, were imprisoned. Please forgive my years of lies, but now I tell you the truth. No, my real name-the one given to me at birth-was Leonid Sednyov, and I was known as Leonka. I was born in Tula province and my name then was not Mikhail or even Misha, as I am known here in America. I was born in Russia before the revolution. I live in Lake Forest village, Illinois state, the United States of America.
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