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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