Before you is a unique study in which, for the first time, strictly according to documentary sources, in chronological order, episode by episode, events related to the murder of family members of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and the concealment of their remains in July 1918 are listed. The study used the entire range of documents on this topic: materials from the investigation of A. D Nametkin - I. A. Sergeev - N. A. Sokolov, documents from official bodies of Soviet power, recollections of participants in the events, diaries, correspondence, as well as materials from the modern investigation of 1993-2021 (criminal case No. 252404516-15).