National Tidende.Kebenhavn.

Rumour is not true exczar safe all rumours are only lies of capitalist press.

Lenin.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 6601 - autograph.

Translation "National Tidende". Copenhagen.

The rumor is wrong, the former tsar is unharmed, all rumors are only lies of the capitalist press.

Lenin.

1V.I.Lenin replies to the following telegram (in English) to the editors of the newspaper "National Tidende" from Copenhagen: "Lenin. Member of the Government. Msk. Rumour here going, that the exszar has been murdered. Kindly wire fakts. Natinal Tidende" ("Lenin, Member of the Government. Moscow. There are rumors here that the former Tsar has been murdered. Please report the actual state of affairs. "Natinal Tidende"). Lenin wrote a reply on July 16, 1918 and at 4 p.m. the text of the reply was sent to the telegraph office, but the telegram was not sent. There is a record of a member of the secretariat staff: "Returned from the telegraph. Have no communication" (see: Buranow Juri, Chrustaljow Wladimir. Die zaren Morder. Berlin und Weimar, 1993, S. 289).

Former Tsar Nicholas II was shot together with his family by order of the Ural Regional Council in Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16-17, 1918. The message of the Presidium of the Ural Regional Council about this was received in Moscow on July 17, and at first at 12 o'clock there was a message about the execution of the Tsar and the evacuation of the family from the city, then, after 19 o'clock, a clarification "that the whole family suffered the same fate as the head". (For the texts of the messages of the Presidium of the Ural Regional Council see: Buranov Y., Khrustalev V. The Death of the Imperial House. M., 1992, pp. 265, 267). On the same day the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee recognized "the decision of the Urals Soviet as correct". On July 18, the chairman of the VTsIK made an extraordinary statement in the Sovnarkom about the shooting of the royal family, which the Sovnarkom took note of. On July 19, information about the execution appeared in the newspapers Izvestiya VTsIK and Pravda (see: Decrees of Soviet Power. Vol. III, p. 57).