Although, Yurovsky and his men were very meticulous and careful to wipe away all traces of incriminating evidence, six months later, the supreme ruler of the Siberian government, “...assigned Nicholas Sokolov, a thirty-six year old professional legal investigator, to search for the missing remains of the Romanovs” (“The Final Chapter”). As soon as the supreme ruler of the Russian government, retrieved a letter written by Yurovsky, he hired Nicholas Sokolov, a Soviet archaeologist to follow the clues in Yurovsky’s letter. After encountering many false leads, the tomb of the Romanovs was finally discovered in 1991. After unearthing the skeletal remains they had found, scientists believed that the corpses had belonged to Tsar Nicholas II,
