It had been two days in Tsarskoye Selo. We had visited many other places. But my mind was still there inside the Catherine Palace. The Amber Room and the pictures of the last ruling members of the Romanov family. I wanted to know more about them—How they died and if they had any successors alive till now. So, I decided to visit Tsentralnaya Rayonnaya Biblioteka, a library in the beautiful, snow-covered town of Tsarskoye Selo. I wanted to know more about the royal family. And the old way to do that was to read history—Even though I hated it.

I sat inside the library with some books on the assassination...