A governmental commission to authenticate them was to complete its final examination by the end of 1997. As the commission started work, people started gossiping. At Ekaterinburg, the royal family were placed in the former house of Engineer Ipatiev. The name of their last home is significant, since Ipatiev was also the name of the monastery where the first member of the Romanov dynasty had been crowned in 1613. Thus, a circle had closed, as the Romanov's reign came to a close in the homonym of its beginning.
History can sometimes be more captivating than any detective story.
While the official version claimed that the whole of the emperor's family had been assassinated, every now and then contradictory stories would emerge. One of these rumours holds that the family was secretly removed abroad. In another version, great princess Tatiana survived only to spend the rest of her life living quietly in Kent. The most famous story of all asserts that great princess Anastasia was miraculously saved and spirited away abroad. Meanwhile, another myth claims that Nicholas's head was removed and kept in Lenin's safe in the Kremlin.