In the last article, we heard about the women who pretended to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia after her death. To follow on from that, in this post, we will have a look into those who impersonated her siblings who died alongside her in 1918. Soon after the Romanov family were killed by the [read more]
When Russia erupted into revolution, almost overnight the pampered lifestyle of the Imperial family vanished. Within months many of them were under arrest and they became “enemies of the Revolution and the Russian people.” None of them wanted to leave Russia; they expected to be back on their estates soon and live as before. When [read more]
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia was born on 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 as the daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark). “On the 25th day of the present month of March our well-beloved daughter-in-law H.I.H. the Czarevna…wife of H.I.H. the Cesarevitch…brought into the world a daughter… who has [read more]
The Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg where the last Romanovs were killed has also been known as the House of Special Purpose. That special purpose being, of course, the murder. The family spent 78 days at the house. The house was commissioned in the 1880s by Ivan Redikortsev, and in 1909 it was bought by Nikolai [read more]
At four in the morning of the 18th, Yurovsky arrived back at the forest. He sent some men to watch the road and others to warn the locals that they would be shot if they tried to come near. Ten men had begun trying to retrieve the bodies from the flooded mine. One by one, [read more]
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