Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg

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by Helen Rappaport


  Romanov, Grand Duke Kyrill 154

  Roosevelt, Theodore 110, 111

  Ross, Edward A. 44

  Rozmarin, Imperial Court pharmacist 21

  Russo-Japanese War (1904) 99

  Ryabov, Geli 219–20, 221

  Safarov, Georgy 96, 129, 130, 168, 178, 181, 208, 215

  St Petersburg 3, 7, 22, 40, 52, 64, 75, 87, 112, 145, 149, 220, 221, 222; Alexander Palace 1, 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 27, 42, 83, 100; Fortress of St Peter and Paul 7, 152; Catherine Palace 22; Winter Palace 51, 109, 112–13; Peterhof palace 87, see also Petrograd

  Saint-Simon, Comte de 135

  Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail 24, 71, 98

  Samara 70, 96, 215

  Savinkov, Boris 69–70

  Schlüsselburg Fortress 130, 137

  Sednev, Ivan (footman/valet) 12, 13, 23, 101, 102, 157, 180

  Sednev, Leonid (kitchen boy) 13, 19, 95, 101, 162, 178, 180

  Semchevsky, Madame 14

  Semenova, Evdokiya 171–4

  Sergeev, Ivan 212, 217

  Sergey, Grand Duke 14, 52, 62, 213

  Shartash 32

  Shilder, (author) 24

  Shtandart (royal yacht) 65, 76, 79, 90

  Siberia 3, 9, 22, 31, 37, 41, 56, 96, 104–5, 108, 130, 145, 154, 210, 217

  Sidorov, Colonel Ivan 120

  Simbirsk 121

  Skorokhodov, Ivan 30

  Socialist Revolutionaries 40, 115, 144

  Sokolov, Nikolay 142, 212, 218

  Solovev, Boris 48, 121

  Spala 93, 94

  Spiridonova, Mariya 56, 69, 70

  St Petersburg, Alexander Palace 76

  Stalin, Joseph 32, 105, 141, 215, 216, 219

  Stamfordham, Lord 150

  Starkov, Ivan 86

  Starodumova, Mariya 171, 172, 173–4

  Stepanov, (merchant) 38, 121

  Stolov, Igor 178

  Stolypin, Pyotr 52

  Storozhov, Father Ivan 159, 160–3, 167

  Strekotin, Aleksandr 84, 184, 186, 194

  Sukhorukov, Grigory 203

  Summers, Anthony 153

  Sunegin, Vladimir 203

  Sverdlov, Yakov 10, 13, 39, 41, 56, 97, 104–5, 114, 130, 131, 133, 134, 137, 138, 139, 142, 168, 179, 195, 201, 206, 214

  Sverdlovsk 218

  Sysert iron foundry 4, 17, 33, 86, 167

  Tait Mechanical Works 4

  Talashmanov, M. 168

  Tambov 115

  Tatiana, Grand Duchess, birth and upbringing 79; looks and character of 79–80; maturity of 80; as mother’s favourite 80; becomes Red Cross nurse 83, see also Romanov family

  Tatishchev, Count Ilya 100, 117, 120, 125

  Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich 113

  Thomas, Arthur 34, 180

  Thomson, Basil 150

  Thubron, Colin 222

  The Times 58, 116, 145, 209, 218

  Tobolsk 1, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 29, 31, 34, 44, 45, 48, 54, 55, 67, 68, 81, 83, 84, 100, 101, 102, 114, 121, 132, 137–8, 139, 153, 154, 172, 222

  Tolmachev, Nikolay 130

  Tolstoy, Leo 112

  Tomsk 32, 41, 214

  Torupechev (grocer) 38

  Trakt, the 2; see also Grand Siberian Highway

  Trans-Siberian Railway 3, 5, 10, 11, 15, 71, 96, 108, 138

  Trotskyists 215

  Trotsky, Leon 17, 40, 104, 107, 122, 137, 141, 145, 146

  Trupp, Alexey (footman) 13, 19, 101, 102, 162, 185, 186

  Tsarskoe Selo 22, 43, 45, 47, 49, 53, 67, 81, 82, 89, 92, 94, 99, 147, 148

  Tsel’ms, (or Tsal’ms) Jan 86–7, 187

  Tsvetaeva, Mariya 209

  Tula 115

  Tyumen 2, 7, 11, 121, 222

  Ukraine 56, 116

  Ukraintsev, Konstantin 25

  Ulyanov, Aleksandr 137

  Ulyanova, Mariya 134

  ‘Union for the Defence of the Motherland and Freedom’ 70

  Union of Professional Housemaids 171

  United Nations charter (1945) 157

  United States 39, 42, 44, 106–8, 145

  Ural Mining Industry 4

  Ural Regional Soviet Executive Committee 100

  Ural Regional Soviet (URS) 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 96, 105, 125, 130, 131, 132, 134, 136, 142, 157, 168, 175, 178, 181, 188, 195, 200, 201, 206, 215

  Urals 1, 2, 3, 10, 27, 35, 41, 87, 104, 125, 131, 138, 156, 213, 215, 217

  Urals Communist Party 167

  Ural’skiy Rabochiy 16, 201

  Uritsky, Moisey 140, 213

  Vaganov, Stepan 127, 177, 187, 195, 214

  Vanka (donkey) 91

  Vassili, Count Paul (pseud) see Radziwill, Princess Catherine

  Verhas, Andras 87, 182

  Verkh-Isetsk factory 41, 86, 87, 126, 127, 132, 144, 176, 187, 196, 206

  Verkhistkavo Mill 177

  Versailles 71, 96

  Victoria, Queen 43, 58, 61, 62–3, 65, 79, 88, 150, 153

  Victoria ’Vicky’, Princess 61, 210

  Vladimir 115

  Vladivostok 96, 108, 109, 139, 217

  Voiekov, Major General Vladimir 54

  Voikov, Petr 125, 168, 194, 202, 206, 214

  Voitsekhovsky, Sergey 96

  Volga river 70

  Vologda 56, 108, 125, 208

  Voronov, Pavel 79

  Vvedensky, Nikolay 32

  Vyatka 121

  Vyrubova, Anna 53, 64, 67, 93

  Vytchegda, River 97

  Warsaw 214

  Washington Post 39, 45, 106, 146, 209, 217

  Waters, General Wallscourt 121, 149, 155

  Western Siberia 7, 9, 33

  Western Siberian Soviet 137

  Whites 9, 41, 70, 86, 96, 131, 132, 133, 135, 157, 167, 201, 212, 213, 214, 215

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser 39, 40, 58, 69, 141, 152, 154–6, 211

  Wilson, President Woodrow 70–1, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 145, 157

  Wilton, Robert 142, 212

  Woodhouse, Arthur 154

  Xenia, (Nicholas II’s sister) 76, 82, 211

  Yakimov, Anatoly 86, 159, 207

  Yakovlev, Vasily 8, 11, 138–9

  Yaroslavl 70

  Yeltsin, Boris 219

  YMCA (American) 108

  Yurovsky, Rimma 216

  Yurovsky, Yakov 105, 117, 128, 208; given command at Ipatiev House 30–1, 98; looks and character of 30–1, 33; family background 31–2; and inspection of Romanov valuables 31, 46; political sympathies 32–3; replaces Colt machine gun with Maxim gun 71–2; comment on Tatiana 80; comment on Maria 81; made fun of behind his back 83; replaces friendly but unreliable guards 85, 86; attitude towards Alexey 95, 173–4; tightens security at Ipatiev 95–6, 102, 118–19; comment on Dr Botkin 100; and plots to rescue Romanovs 125; discusses disposal of bodies and evidence of execution 126–7, 129, 157, 167–8, 170, 175–7, 178–9; oversees execution and disposal 140, 184–202, 203–6; arranges final liturgical service for the Romanovs 161–3, 167; arranges cleaning of house 171–2; and fate of kitchen boy, Leonid 178, 180; organises the execution squad 180–3; death of 216

  Yusupov, Prince Felix 54

  Zinoviev, Grigory 178

  Zlokazov works 18, 19, 33, 168

  Zubrovka (cat) 91

  Table of Contents

  Title

  Copyright

  Dedication

  Contents

  Acknowledgements

  List of Illustrations

  INTRODUCTION: The Red Urals

  1 Behind the Palisade

  2 ‘The Dark Gentleman’

  3 The Man with a Cigarette

  4 The Woman in a Wheelchair

  5 Girls in White Dresses

  6 The Boy in the Sailor Suit

  7 The Good Doctor

  8 ‘Our Poor Russia’

  9 ‘Everything Is the Same’

  10 ‘What Is To Be Done with Nicholas?’

  11 ‘Absolutely No News from Outside’

  12 ‘Something Has Happened to Them in
There’

  13 ‘Ordinary People Like Us’

  14 The House of Special Purpose

  15 ‘The Will of the Revolution’

  16 ‘The World Will Never Know What We Did to Them’

  EPILOGUE: The Scent of Lilies

  Note on Sources

  Bibliography

  Index

 

 

 


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