Kolya Derevenko’s Nightmare

Kolya Derevenko’s Nightmare Kolya was interviewed sometime in the 1990’s, as part of a promotion for the release of Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya Sem’ya, in 2003. Rough translation: I was a little boy, just 12 years old. I didn’t know anything about the evil in people’s soul. We were living at the Popov house, nearby the Ipatiev house. In the middle of the summer of 1918, I was afraid and worry for Alexei. I wanted to see him and at the same time I’m sure, he wanted to see me. Until that sad day of July 1