Ipatiev House
Ipatiev House was a merchant's house in
Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor
Nicholas II of Russia and several members of his family and household were executed.
The Emperor, his wife
Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, their four daughters,
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia,
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia,
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia and
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, their son, the
Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, and their faithful Doctor Botkin, lady-in-waiting, Demidova, cook, Kharitonov, and footman, Trupp, were shot there by a squad of
Bolshevik secret police under
Yakov Yurovsky, on July 16/July 17, 1918.
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Ipatiev House was a merchant's house in
Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor
Nicholas II of Russia and several members of his family and household were executed.
The Emperor, his wife
Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, their four daughters,
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia,
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia,
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia and
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, their son, the
Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, and their faithful Doctor Botkin, lady-in-waiting, Demidova, cook, Kharitonov, and footman, Trupp, were shot there by a squad of
Bolshevik secret police under
Yakov Yurovsky, on July 16/July 17, 1918.
In 1977,
Boris Yeltsin, the first secretary of the region, ordered the demolition of the Ipatiev House. According to a Russian tradition, the huge "Church on the Blood", with many auxiliary chapels and belfries, was built there after the fall of the
Soviet Union.
See also
- Ipatiev Monastery - a place with the same name, ironically, where the Romanovs came to the throne
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