Nicolas Sokoloff

Nikolaï Alexéïevitch Sokoloff (1882 with Moksane, close to Penza - November 23rd, 1924) was a Russian judge .

He east was born in 1882 in a family from merchants (his/her father manufactured cords). After having studied the right to Kharkov, he became judge then examining magistrate for the extraordinary businesses.

After the Revolution of October, refusing to serve the new mode, it gained the town of Omsk, in Siberia, where it came into contact with the monarchists mediums. February 7th, 1919, the admiral Koltchak, chief of the white Armed , entrusted to him the investigation into the death of the imperial family. It collected many testimonys, gathered evidence, identified the persons in charge of the massacre and located the place where the bodies had been transported and temporarily buried. During its investigation, it met that which was going to become his wife, but after the catch of the town of Iekaterinbourg by the troops Bolsheviks, the couple had to flee. Carrying his files with him, Sokoloff judge followed the retirement of part of the white armies along the Transsibérien and arrived to Beijing, from where it embarked with his wife. After a long tour, it unloaded in France and settled in the Sologne, in Salbris (Loir-et-Cher), where prince Orlov, who had been instituted his guard, had a castle. Using his notes and his documents, Sokoloff judge undertook to write the book which always constitutes the primary source of the historians on the end of Romanov: " Judicial enquiry into the assassination of the Russian imperial family " (Payot, 1924). He concludes that all the family members imperial found death in the house Ipatiev, it in what the history gave him reason.

Patient, Sokoloff judge died prematurely of an infarction on November 23rd, 1924, leaving a 23 years old widow and two young children, a Nathalie girl and a Alexis son. He is buried in the cemetery of Salbris.

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