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Alexandra, Queen Mother 154, 210
Alexey, Tsarevich, as haemophiliac 2, 14, 23, 26, 88–92; shares parents’ room 18; birth of 59, 87–8; looks and character of 89, 90, 92; musicality of 91; given massage and electrotherapy 92–3; recovers from near-death attack of haemophilia 93–4; journey to Ekaterinburg 94–5; activities circumscribed by Yurovsky 95; has first bath in nine weeks 144, 158, see also Romanov family
Alexey Mikhailovich, Tsar 88
Alfonso, King of Spain 153, 211
Alice, Princess of Hesse 61, 63
All-Russia Conference of Tourism (2007) 222
Alley, Stephen 154
Allied Intervention Force 214
anarchists 115
Anastasia, Grand Duchess, birth of 82; looks and character of 82–3; and ’Anna Anderson’ claims 218, see also Romanov family
Anderson, Anna 218
Andreev, Nikolay 69
Anthony, Metropolitan of St Petersburg 88
Archangel 71, 121, 135, 214
Ardatov, Ensign 103
Arkhipov, Dr Kensorin 15, 105, 168
Armistead, Henry 154
Asquith, Mrs 210
Avdeev, Aleksandr 12, 16, 19–20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 34, 41, 42, 55, 86, 87, 95, 100, 102, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125, 132, 140, 160, 180
Avdonin, Aleksandr 219–20, 221
Badmaev, P.A. 55
Baku 32
Balfour, Arthur 150, 151, 153, 200
Baltic/s 40, 116
Barbara, Sister 213
Battenburg, Admiral Prince Louis 152
Battenburg, Princess Victoria 153
Belinsky, Vissarion 135
Beloborodov, Aleksandr 10, 12, 20, 28, 29, 30, 41, 97, 125, 129, 130, 131, 138, 140, 157, 168, 175, 177, 181, 200, 201, 206, 208, 215
Belorussia 40
Benckendorff, Count (Pavel Konstantinovich) 27, 67
Benedict XV, Pope 211
Berlin 32, 121, 218
Bernstein, Herman 45, 106–7, 112, 133, 145, 146, 217
Berzin, Reinhold 29
Bethman, Theodor von 155
Bialoveza (Poland) 93
Black Sea 145
Blavatsky, Madame Helena 121
Bloody Sunday (1905) 52
Blyumkin, Yakov 69
Bochkareva, Lieutenant Colonel Mariya 108–11, 214
Bochkareva, Nadya 110–11
Bolshevik Party 17, 32
Bolsheviks 8, 9, 16, 20, 28, 33, 34, 35–7, 40–2, 44, 55, 56, 68, 69, 70, 86, 97, 102, 104, 109–10, 115, 123, 125, 133, 138, 140, 142, 144, 155, 156, 163, 177, 206, 210–12, 213
Botkin, Alexander (‘Sasha’) 98, 101, 105, 182
Botkin, Dr Evgeny Sergeevich 9, 12, 13, 19, 26, 31, 60, 92, 95, 98–101, 102, 105, 123, 128, 159, 161, 162, 173, 180, 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 190, 192, 194, 218
Botkin, Gleb 100
Botkin, Dr Sergey (father of Evgeny) 99
Botkin, Sergey (son of Evgeny) 101
Botkin, Tatyana 100
Botkin, Yuri 98
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (3 March 1918) 40, 56, 69, 131, 136, 141, 154, 155
Brezhnev, Leonid 219
‘Brotherhood of St John of Tobolsk’ 121
Buchanan, Sir George 54, 147–8, 149, 151
Buchanan, Meriel 151
Buimirov, Deacon Vasily 160, 161, 162, 163
Bulygin, Captain Paul 121–2
Buxhoeveden, Baroness Sophie von 34, 78, 84, 214
Catherine the Great 134, 136
Caucasus 32, 40, 136
Central Executive Committee (CEC) 104, 125, 130, 131, 134, 137, 138, 139, 142, 178–9, 206, 215
Chaliapin, Fedor I. 4, 56
Charles I 141
Cheka (secret police) 10, 30, 38, 69, 71, 104, 115, 117, 121, 122, 126, 131, 135, 140, 176; Ekaterinburg 12, 27, 34, 86, 96, 97, 121, 126, 129, 131, 142, 154, 157, 168, 170, 175, 178, 183, 195, 204, 216; ’Letts’ 181–2, 187; Petrograd 213; Moscow city 215, 216; Ural 216
Chekhov, Anton 2, 3–4, 12, 84, 129
Chelyabinsk 9, 41, 96, 182
Chemodurov, Terenty (valet) 12, 13, 19, 99, 102
Chicago Tribune 218
Chicherin, Georgy 39, 218
Chrezvychainaya Komissiya (secret police) see Cheka
Christian, King of Denmark 154, 211
Chutskaev, Sergey 12, 35, 129, 201
Coburg 154
‘Committee for Examination of the Question of Windows in the House of Special Purpose’ 16
Communist Party 39–40, 214, 215; 7th Congress 131
Congress of Soviets, 5th (July 1918) 56–7, 69
Constanta 79
Constitution of the Russian Federated Soviet Republic 114
Constitutionalists 40
Copenhagen 39, 44
Cossacks 52, 87
Council of People’s Commissars 70, 135, 137, 142, 157, 208
Crimea 19, 76, 117, 211
Cromwell, Oliver 141
Czechs 37–8, 41, 42, 70, 71, 72, 96, 103, 108, 122, 123, 124, 126, 128, 132, 143, 144, 145, 156, 164, 167, 168, 178, 182, 185, 201, 210, 211
Daily Express 218
Daily Mail 209
Daily Telegraph 209
Decembrist revolt (1825) 136
Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People (1918) 114–15
Dedyukhina, Fekla 129
Dehn, Lili 64
Demidova, Anna (maid) 12, 19, 25, 101, 185, 191
Derevenko, Andrey 90
Derevenko, Dr Vladimir 23, 25, 31, 93, 95, 100, 120, 121, 163
Didkovsky, Boris 12, 29, 130, 215
Dimitry, Grand Duke 79, 211, 213
Diterikhs, General Mikhail 142, 212
Dobrynin, Konstantin 86
Dolgorukov, Prince Vasily 9, 13, 34, 102, 117, 121, 125, 140
Don river 3
Don valley 145
Dostoevsky, Fedor 49
Dr Zhivago (1965 film) 8
Dryagina, Varvara 171
Duma 116
Duncan, Isadora 218
Dutov, Aleksandr 17, 86, 131
Dyachenko, Grigory 128
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks 39, 130, 136
Eastern Siberia 41
Edward, Duke of Clarence 58, 62
Ekaterinburg 2–4, 5, 218–23, 222; Amerikanskaya Hotel 3–4, 9–10, 34, 129–30, 132, 143, 168, 170, 175, 178, 179, 181, 183, 195, 202, 204, 221; Rastorguev-Kharitonov House 4, 15; Ipatiev House 9, 12, 14–17, 18, 23–7, 54, 55, 212, 219; Voznesensky Cathedral 15, 17, 103, 165; Popov House 17, 18–21, 87, 171, 174, 180, 182, 196; Commercial Assembly House 24; Novo-Tikhvinsky Convent 24, 119, 120, 122, 123, 170; Ekaterininsky Cathedral 159, 160, 219; Iset Pond 167; Church on the Blood 220, 222–3; Institute of History & Archaeology 220; Military Historical Club 220, see also Romanov family
Ekaterinburg Soviet 13, 15, 24, 33
Elizabeth ’Ella’, Grand Duchess 14, 23, 62, 63, 156, 213
Engels, Friedrich 135
Enisei, River 154
Ermakov, Petr 97, 127, 144, 167–8, 170–1, 177, 181, 182, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 194, 195, 196, 197, 201, 204, 206, 215–16
Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse 66, 154, 155
Ezhov, Nikolay 215
Fabergé, Karl 3
Fadeev (mining engineer) 38
Far East 50
February Revolution (1917) 111
Fesenko, Ivan 126–7
Finland 145
First World War 6, 9, 38–9, 40, 54, 70–1, 76, 96, 98, 103, 107, 113, 128, 132, 147, 150, 157, 167, 209
Fischer, Dr 60
Fotieva, Lidiya 134
Four Brothers mine 168, 197–200, 201–2, 203–4, 221
Francis, David 107–8
Francis, Richard 56–7
Franco-Prussian War (1870–1) 67
Gaida, General Rudolf 212
Ganina Yama 126, 197–200, 201–2, 203–4, 208, 218, 220, 221–3 see also Four Brothers mine
Gatchina 49
Geneva 125
Geneva Convention (1949) 1
57
George, Duke of Leuchtenberg 121
George V 33, 38–9, 44, 58–9, 110, 147, 148, 148–54, 155, 210
Georgy, Grand Duke 211, 213
Gerhardie, William 145
Germans, Germany 68–9, 145, 146, 148, 154–6, 211
Gibbes, Charles Sidney 22, 23, 34, 100, 164, 196
Gilliard, Pierre 23, 34, 90, 92, 100
Golitsyn, Princess Maria 87
Goloshchekin, Filipp 10, 12, 29, 30, 41, 97, 105, 122, 129, 130–1, 132–4, 137, 138, 139, 142, 143, 168, 178, 179, 181, 188, 195, 200, 201, 203, 206, 208, 215
Gorbachev, Mikhail 220
Gorbunov, Nikolay 201
Gorno-Uralsk railway 197
Graphic 209
Great Siberian Highway 2
Halliburton, Richard 215
Harriman, Florence 109
Heath, Charles 51
Hegel, G.W.F. 135
Helena, Princess of Serbia 34, 125, 210
Hélène of Orleans, Princess 62
Hermogen, Bishop of Tobolsk 121
Holman Brothers Ltd 34
House, Colonel Edward 106, 157
Hubbard Candle Works 4
Hudson’s Bay Company 153–4
India 50
Ipatiev, Nikolay 9, 15
Irkutsk 41, 96, 108
Iset Pond 126, 176, 182, 195
Iset River 15, 159
Ivan the Terrible 51, 165
Izvestiya 38, 157, 206, 208
Japan 50, 87, 88, 89
Jimmy (Pekinese dog) 83, 185, 195
Jodiches, Leo 211
Joy (King Charles spaniel) 13, 91, 185, 207, 214
Kabanov, Alexey 86, 87, 187, 193
Kabanov, Mikhail 86, 176
Kainsk 31
Kaluga 115
Kamchatka 3
Kamenev, Lev 104, 131
Kappel, Lieutenant 121
Karamzin (historian) 48
Karol, Crown Prince of Romania 79
Kazan 122, 222
Kerensky, Aleksandr 7, 8, 39, 100, 109, 148, 152
Kharitonov, Ivan (cook) 13, 19, 24, 25, 101, 185, 186, 189
Kiev 121
King George’s Fund for Sailors 147
Kochubey, Prince 121
Kolchak, Admiral Aleksandr 9, 41, 212, 214
Kolomna 136
Konstantin, Grand Duke 55, 156
Konstantinovich, Prince Igor 14
Konstantinovich, Prince Ioann 14, 34
Konstantinovich, Prince Konstantin 14
Koptyaki Forest 126, 157, 177, 188, 196, 202, 203, 203–6, 219–20, 221
Koptyaki village 126, 127, 198
Kotelnich 121
Krasnoyarsk 214
Kronstadt 7, 35
Kschessinska, Mathilde 50
Kudrin, Mikhail 181, 185, 187, 189, 195, 216
Kuntsevo 168, 177
Kursk 115
Kusvinsky works 38, 203
Lacher, Rudolf 87
Lake Baikal 96
Lampson, Oliver Locker 121
Latvian Rifle Brigade 69
League of Nations 108, 157
League for the Restoration of the Russian Empire 156
Lean, David 8
Left Socialist Revolutionaries 56, 69, 70, 71, 96, 104, 115, 132, 135, 140
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 8, 10, 13, 29, 39, 40, 41, 56, 68, 70, 97, 104, 107, 114, 116, 126, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134–9, 141–2, 145, 156, 157, 166, 168–9, 177, 178, 179, 201, 206, 213, 218
Lepa, Adolf 86, 182
Lermontov, Mikhail 136
Letemin, Mikhail 177, 214
Levine, Isaac Don 110
Lied, Jonas 154
Lisitsyn, Aleksandr 195, 200
Livadia 65, 76, 84
Lloyd George, David 151–2
Lockhart, Bruce 112, 153
Lukoyanov, Fedor 129
Lunacharsky, Anatoly 104
Lytton, Lady Edith 62
Lyubinskaya 11
Lyukhanov, Sergey (chauffeur) 180, 183, 184, 197, 204, 205
McCullagh, Francis 216
Makronosoev (manager of Sysert works) 38
Malinovsky, Captain Dmitri 122, 212
Malyshev, Ivan 38, 157
Manchuria 88
Mangold, Tom 153
Maria, Grand Duchess, arrival at Ekaterinburg 156, birth of 80; comments on living conditions 18, 22; looks and character of 30, 80–2; male admirers of 81–2; succumbs to near-fatal pneumonia 148, see also Romanov family
Maria Fedorovna, Dowager Empress 48, 80, 154, 211
Marx, Karl 135
Mary, Queen 39, 58–9, 150, 151, 153, 210, 211
Masaryk, Tomas 107
Matveev, Pavel, political commissar 122
May (sister of Alexandra) 61
Medvedev, Pavel 171, 174, 178, 180, 181, 187, 189, 196, 207, 214
Meledin, Father Anatoly 159–60
Mendeleev, Dmitri 129
Mensheviks 40, 115, 135
Migich, Major 125
Mikhail, Grand Duke 38, 68
Military Academy 122
Milyukov, Pavel 148
Mirbach, Count Wilhelm von 39, 56, 68, 69, 70, 140, 155, 156
Mogilev 66, 94, 99, 121, 147
Morozova, Praskovya 129
Moscow 10, 11, 29, 39, 41, 45, 56, 64, 68, 69, 97, 105, 108, 112, 130, 133, 138, 142, 145, 153, 157, 178–9, 182, 195, 200, 213; Art Theatre 4; Kremlin 8, 10, 39, 69, 70, 105, 113, 134, 177, 179; Bolshoy Theatre 56, 114; Uspensky Cathedral 113; Lyubyanka prison 215; Kremlin Hospital 216; Museum of Revolution 216
Moshkin, Aleksandr (guard) 20, 28, 30
Mosolov, Count Aleksandr 75, 121
Murmansk (Port Romanov) 39, 71, 108, 145, 148, 153–4
Murom 70
Myasnikov, Gabriel 97
Nadezhdinsky factory 130
Nagorny, Klementy (servant) 19, 23, 90, 94, 102, 157
Nametkin, Aleksandr 212
Narym 105
National Centre group 121
National Tidende (Denmark) 177
Nechaev, Sergey 136–7
Netrebin, Viktor 86, 185, 186, 187
Neva, River 112
New York Herald 106, 133, 217
New York Times 209, 217
News of the Ural Regional Soviet of Workers’, Peasants’ and Soldiers’ Deputies 36
Nicholas II, sent to Ekaterinburg 1, 5; character of 5, 48, 54–5; domesticity of 5–6, 53; abdication of 6–7, 53, 54–5; as voracious reader 24, 71, 103; spiritual and mental decline 46–8, 55; upbringing 48–50; joins Preobrazhensky Guards 49–50; becomes tsar 50; coping strategies 50–1, 54–5, 102–3; and dread of assassination 51–2; marriage 51, 58, 62–3, 65–6; alienation from his people 52–3; known as ’Nicholas the Bloody’ 52; dependence on tobacco 54; health of 55; Queen Victoria’s affection for 63; and mobilisation for war 112–14; keeps a diary 129, 157–8
Nikolay, Grand Duke 6, 54, 66, 211, 213
Nikulin, Grigory 30, 33, 46, 117, 129, 140, 161, 175, 177, 181, 185, 186, 187, 188, 191, 192, 195, 200, 216
Nizhe-Tagil works 167
Nizhni-Novgorod 115
Nizhni-Tagil 126
NKVD (secret police) 215, 216
Novo-Tikhvinsky Convent 54
Novosibirsk 31
Occleshaw, Michael 153
October Manifesto (1905) 133
October Revolution (1917) 5, 32, 68, 94, 97, 114, 116, 125, 135, 137, 140
Odessa 120
Okhrana (Russian secret police) 130
Olga, Grand Duchess 50, 75, 82, 83, 166, 211; looks and character of 77–8; as emotionally and sexually innocent 78; and problem of marriage 78–9; becomes Red Cross nurse 83, see also Romanov family
Omsk 1, 38, 41, 136, 139, 214
Omsk Regional Court 212
Oranienbaum 209
Ortipo (dog) 185
Ostrovsky, Aleksandr 167
Oudendyk, William J. 208
Paget, Lady Muriel 107
Paléologue, Maurice 62, 113, 151, 165
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Pankhurst, Mrs Emmeline 107, 109
Pankratov, Vasily 81
Paris 39, 130
Patterson, Lieutenant 164
Pavel, Grand Duke 211, 213
Pavlushin, 202
People’s Commissars 206
Perm 29, 85, 97, 121, 126, 131, 157, 174, 179, 214
Peter the Great 3, 51
Petrograd 6, 15, 34, 35, 53, 54, 69, 107, 121, 122, 137, 145, 151, 154, 179, 208; Smolny Institute 178; Peter and Paul Fortress 211, see also St Petersburg
Petrograd Soviet 152
Petrovsky, Grigory 115
Pisarev, Dimitri 135
Plekhanov, Georgy 135
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin 49
Poland 40
Politiken (Sweden) 44
Porosenkov Log (Pig’s Meadow) 205–6
Powers, Gary 219
Pozner, (chemist) 128
Preobrazhensky Guards 49
Preston, Thomas 33–5, 38, 39, 103, 105, 125, 131, 154, 180, 200, 211, 212
Proskuryakov, Filipp 178
Pushkin, Aleksandr 136
Radishchev, Aleksandr 136
Radziwill, Princess Catherine 45
Rasputin, Grigory 6, 52, 53, 66, 91, 93, 114, 121, 199
Rasputin, Mariya 120
Red Army 9, 17, 41, 103, 122, 123, 126, 128, 129, 137, 143, 144, 174, 178, 213, 215, 219
Red Guards 144
Red Urals 10
Redikortsev, Andrey 15
Riezler, Dr Kurt 156, 210
Robien, Louis de 208
Robinson, Geoffrey 116
Rodzianko, Colonel Paul 214
Rodzinsky, Isay 125, 129, 203
Romanov family, taken to Tobolsk 7–8; travel to and arrival at Ekaterinburg 9, 10–14; living conditions in the Ipatiev House 16–27, 42, 46; local interest in 26–7; change of commandant for 28, 30–1; and development of prisoner-jailer bonds 29–30; jewellery belonging to 31; and removal of symbols of tsarist system 36; unaware of outside political and social conflicts 36–8, 39–42; British attitude towards 38, 146–54; outside indifference to 68–9; daughters’ education and upbringing 74–7; different characters of daughters 77; daughters’ reactions to incarceration 84–5; new guards posted 86–7; number of servants allocated to 102; supplied with food from the Convent 118, 119, 170; plots to contact and rescue from Ipatiev 119–25; meetings held to decide fate of 129–36, 137–43, 168–9, 179; external royal intiatives for release of 146–57; German interest in 154–6; nationalising of properties owned by 157; religious observance 159–64; final sense of foreboding 164–7; cleaning women’s memories of 171–4; penultimate day 171–4; final day 177; and dismissal of kitchen boy 180; taken to their place of execution 184–9; execution of 189–93, 194; stripped of their jewellery 193–4, 198–9, 201; disposal of their bodies 194–200, 201–2, 203–6; announcements of death of 200–1, 206–7, 208–11; aftermath of death of 211–13; and fate of other family members, retainers and actual murderers 213–18; and fate of Ipatiev House 219, 220; location of remains of 219–20; and annual show of lilies at Ganina Yama 221, 222, 223; and pilgrimages to site of execution 221–3; and Russian Orthodox Church commemoration of 221–2, see also named members of the family: Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexey