In September 1911, he left for Baku, where he got a job in the engine crew of a tanker in the Caspian Sea and joined the "Union of Non-Industrial Workers" and met the Bolsheviks.

According to Helen Rappaport, and Greg King and Penny Wilson, all of the Romanovs were fatally shot by either Yurovsky or Ermakov, as the bullets of the other shooters hit but failed to kill their targets.

[1] In 1938, Medvedev was appointed assistant to the head of the 1st Branch of the Department of the High Commissioner of the NKVD of the Soviet Union, and was given the rank of colonel.

[2] In July 1962, nearing the end of his life, he turned to the party archives of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU with a request "to confirm his direct participation in the execution of the former Tsar Nicholas II and his family."

Before his death, Medvedev left a memoir about the murder of the imperial family, personally addressed to Nikita Khrushchev, entitled "Through Hostile Whirlwinds."

In his will, he asked his son Mikhail to gift to Khrushchev the Browning M1911, with which he claimed he had killed the Tsar, and to give to Fidel Castro a Colt which he used in during the civil war in 1919.

"In 1961, at the editorial office of the Ural Worker newspaper, where my father worked, there was a meeting with a participant in the events, Mikhail Medvedev” recalls S.V.