Sister's Affidavit of His Death The various stories current as to certain members of the Russian Royal Family having escaped the massacre in which the Tsar met his death should be disposed of by an official document filed in the Principal Probate Registry in Lom-ion.
This is an affidavit by the Grand Duchess Konia Alexandrovna of Russia (wife of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelowitch,—and sister of the late Tsar),-now residing at 28, Draycott-place, Chelsea, made on May 14, in which she swears that His Imperial Majesty Nicholas Alexandrovitch, Tsar All the Russias, died on July 10, 1918, at Ekaterinburg in Russia, domiciled in Russia, intestate, and that neither his wife nor any child of his survived him, and that under Russian Law his mother (who survived him) has no interest in the estate or in the grant of Letters of Administration, which interest vests in his two sisters who survive ed him.
A further affidavit' by James Sheftel, a Russian sworn advocate of the Court of Appeal in Petrograd, confirms this statement regarding Russian Law.
On these affidavits, Mr. Registrar Barnard, by Order dated May 15. 1920, ordered -the issue of a grant of Letters of Adminstration to the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, as regards the English estate of the Tsar. The gross value of this estate is £500.
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