Articles by Moniek Bloks

Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 14 July 1918, one of the guards of the Ipatiev House knocked on the door of Father Ivan Storozhev, one of the priests at the Ekaterinisnky Cathedral, and requested that he conduct a liturgy for the Romanovs. He agreed to be at the [read more]

Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 13 July 1918, Alexei was finally well enough to take a bath. Alexandra spent yet another day lying in bed with pains in her back. Alexandra could hear the shots that were being fired just outside the Ipatiev House to crush a demonstration. [read more]

Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 12 July 1918, Alexandra woke up with a lot of pain and it was so bad that she had to remain in bed all day. Dr. Botkin was there but there was little he could do. He was running out of medicines and [read more]

Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 11 July 1918, Yurovsky had kept the family waiting for their morning inspection as he ate cheese brought by nuns, who usually came by daily with food for the family. When the morning inspection was finally over and done with, three workmen arrived [read more]

Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 10 July 1918, the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow was packed with people for the ratification of the newly composed Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. Lenin’s government had prepared for over six months and were now ready to unveil a constitution [read more]