The Russian Galatea

On July 16 1918 Nicholas Romanov the last Tsar of Russia and his entire family were supposedly murdered by Russian Bolsheviks in the basement of a house in Yekaterinburg Siberia. One year later Alexander Kolchak the Supreme Commander of the White Army appointed a legal investigator to prove beyond any doubt that all members of the Romanov family had indeed been executed. The investigator's name was Nicholas Sokolov. The Russian Galatea is a story based on Sokolov's investigation. It takes place in Siberia 1919 - with the Russian Revolution as its background. The major thesis is fiction but woven around true historical facts. It is a detective story about one courageous investigator's obsession with finding out what really happened to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. It is also a story about Sokolov's deep relationship with the girl in a faded photograph. Is she alive or dead?