In June, after their mother's June 6 birthday, Tatiana (June 10) Anastasia (June 18) and Marie (June 26) "celebrated" their last birthdays in The house of Special Purpose. The Romanovs as always cherished being together and managed to give love and share their hopes on those dates. Marie's was the most fateful as it fell upon the same day as the Escape Plot, which was or was not a ruse? The letters from 'the Officer" who may have been a spy- and was most likely so as the Plot was unfeasible- for them all to descend from a small window- Alexandra so crippled as was Alexei...and the Tsar reluctant to leave behind Dr.Botkin and the loyal servants who had shared their captivity for so long...