![]() The number of people crowded into a comparatively small area led to an inefficient and messy slaughter. He and his squad then opened fire with pistols on the prisoners. Yurovsky spoke briefly to the effect that their Romanov relatives had attempted to save the Imperial family, that this attempt had failed and that the Soviets were now obliged to shoot them all. Three Latvians refused at the last minute to take part in the execution. Ivan Plotnikov, history professor at the Maksim Gorky Ural State University, has established that the executioners were Yakov Yurovsky, G. The remainder of the party stood behind and to one side of the seated pair.Īfter a while, Yurovsky and a party of armed men entered the basement room through the double doors. ![]() Chairs were brought for Tsarevich Alexei and Tsarina Alexandra at the Tsar's request. The reason given was that the anti-Bolshevik White Army forces of Tsarist and moderate democratic socialists in the ensuing Russian Civil War of 1918–1921, were nearing the city and that there had been firing in the streets.Īfter taking about half an hour to dress and pack, the Romanovs, Botkin and the three servants were led down a flight of stairs into the courtyard of the house, and from there through a ground-floor entrance to a small semi-basement room at the back of the building. Botkin was told to awaken the Imperial family and their three remaining servants, so that the whole party could be evacuated from Yekaterinburg. Botkin, who was awake and writing a letter. Ībout midnight on 16–17 July 1918, Commander Yurovsky entered the second-floor room of Dr. A high wooden fence was built around the outer perimeter of the house, closing it off from the street. However, the windows to their rooms were painted over and they were kept in isolation from the outside. The prisoners were permitted brief daily exercise in an enclosed garden. From early July, command of this guard was taken over by Yakov Yurovsky, a senior member of the Ural Soviet. They occupied four rooms on the upper story of the Ipatiev House, while their guards were housed on the ground floor. Yevgeny Botkin, chambermaid Anna Demidova, cook Ivan Kharitonov, and valet Alexei Trupp. This household included Tsar Nicholas Romanov, his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, their four daughters, their son and heir Alexei, the Tsarevich (crown prince) their court physician Dr. The Imperial Romanov family moved in on 30 April 1918 and spent 78 days at the house. Main article: Execution of the Romanov family The Imperial family's stay and on-site execution It seems to have been on the basis of information supplied by Pyotr Voykov that Ipatiev was summoned to the office of the Ural Soviet at the end of April 1918 and ordered to vacate what was soon to be called "The House of Special Purpose." Ten years later, the house was acquired by Nikolai Nikolayevich Ipatiev, a military engineer, who turned the ground floor into his office. In 1898, the mansion passed to Sharaviev, a gold dealer of tainted reputation. In the 1880s, Ivan Redikortsev, an official involved in the mining industry, commissioned a two-story house to be built on the slope of a prominent hill. History Dining room, seen in the picture is the door to the grand duchesses' room in Ipatiev House (1918) ![]() As an act for the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolutions, it was demolished in 1977 by orders of the Politburo to the local soviet government, almost 59 years after the Romanov family murder and 14 years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself. Its name is identical to that of the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, from where the Romanovs came to the throne. ![]() Ipatiev House ( Russian: Дом Ипатьева) was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg (later renamed Sverdlovsk in 1924, renamed back to Yekaterinburg in 1991) where the former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918, reigned 1894–1917), his family, and members of his household were executed in July 1918 following the Bolshevik Revolution. House where the Romanovs were imprisoned Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, (later Sverdlovsk) in 1928 ![]()
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