Ipatiev House

Ipatiev House is a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, 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, son, the Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, and their faithful Doctor, lady-in-waiting, cook and footman were executed by a squad of Bolshevik secret police under Yakov Yurovsky on July 16/July 17, 1918.

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Ipatiev House - Yekaterinburg - Nicholas II of Russia - Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia - Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia - Bolshevik - Yakov Yurovsky - July 16 - July 17 - 1918

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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.

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1977 - Boris Yeltsin - Soviet Union

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