Richard Halliburton biography – BOLD adventurer, globe trotter
by William R. Taylor
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Please comment on - The Grisly Death of the Romanovs

6/26/2014

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          Spurred on by a tip from William Stoneman, Moscow correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, Richard eagerly rushed off to the Siberian city of Sverdlovsk, formerly Ekatrinberg, to search for Peter Zacharovitch Ermakov who was rumored to be one of the assassins of the Romanov family. When he found Ermakov, the man claimed to be on his deathbed and seemed anxious to blurt out as he was dying the “true story” in his own words of the Romanovs’ fate and the disposal of their remains. It was a dramatic performance filled with drama, horror, and gore. Halliburton captured it well in all its graphic details. He did not know the recitation was laced with half truths and that the disposal of the Romanovs and heir retainers’ corpses was purposefully misstated for political and other reasons. He also did not know that Ermakov was faking his “terminal” illness.

          After the Russian coughed out the horrific chain of events that produced the sea of blood in the murder house, he bragged of how they disposed of the remains. Halliburton captured it and the whole tragic story of the Romanovs in six chapters of his fifth book, Seven League Boots. From A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death, Why and How Richard Halliburton Conquered the World.


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Daniel Raymond
7/11/2014 07:23:30 am

This anecdote and so many other quirky stories about the life of Richard Halliburton fill the pages of this well written biography. An enjoyable read... Check it out.

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