Medical Findings of the Wound Taken by Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich in Otsu. Attached to the report made by Prince Baryatinski to Emperor Alexander III.

The blow was struck across the felt hat worn by the Tsarevich. The lesions sustained are as follows: The first, or occipital-parietal, wound is linear in form, measuring nine centimetres, with torn edges, and has penetrated the whole thickness of the skin down to the bone; it is situated in the area of the right parietal bone six centimetres from the upper edge of the ear, extending slightly downwards. Furthermore, vessels of the nape and temporal arteries have been cut. At the rear edge of the wound, the parietal bone has lost about a centimetre of periosteum, consistent with a blow from a sharp sabre. The second, or front parietal, wound is situated some six centimetres higher than the first and runs almost parallel, being ten centimetres in length; it has penetrated right through the skin down to the bone, and occupies the area of the parietal and part of the frontal bone.
…While cleaning the second wound, I removed a wedge-shaped splinter, about two and a half centimetres long, which was in the clots of blood.
Kyoto. April. 29th day 1891. State Councillor Rambakh, State Councillor V. Popov, Collegiate councillor M. Smirnov.
34 x 21 cm. ГА РФ, Ф. 677, Оп. 1, Д. 701, Лл. 12-13.