Nikolai was scheduled to present these emails to a Russian judge on March 22, 2017. But he never made it to court that day. On the afternoon of March 21, Julia got a panicked call from their daughter. “Mama,” Diana said, her voice shaking, “Papa fell from the roof!” The Gorokhovs lived on the top floor of a five-story apartment building in Moscow, meaning that Nikolai would have fallen 50 feet to the ground.
