The new book by the famous writer Vladimir Bolshakov is dedicated to one of the bloodiest atrocities of the twentieth century - the murder of the last Russian Emperor and his family in Yekaterinburg, as well as other members of the House of Romanov in Alapaevsk in July 1918. A hundred years have passed since this crime was committed, but many of its circumstances are still not clear. That is why, at the insistence of the Russian Orthodox Church, the investigation into the regicide case was resumed in order to determine the authenticity of the “royal remains” and verify the version about the ritual nature of the crime. The author talks about how and on whose order this crime was prepared by the three Sverdlov brothers - Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov, American banker Veniamin Sverdlov and French army colonel, intelligence officer and high-ranking freemason Zinoviy Sverdlov (Peshkov), what role did the Zionist capital tycoon Jacob Schiff play in this, and whether Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders knew about this. Particular attention in the book is paid to the question of whether the regicide was ritual or an act of “revolutionary revenge.”