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Yurovsky was commander of the guard at Ipatiev House during the assassination of the Romanov family on the night of 17 July 1918. He is known as the chief executioner of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family, and four of their servants.
The Bolsheviks, led by Yakov Yurovsky, a rigid black-bearded man who worked in the local Cheka (secret police), acted in cold blood, finishing off those who didn’t die right away with knives and...
YUROVSKY'S ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY. February 1, 1934: On the 16th in the morning I dispatched the little cook, the boy Sednev, under the pretext that there would be a meeting with his uncle who had come to Sverdlovsk. It caused anxiety among the prisoners.
Oct 18, 2018 · Suddenly, armed thugs rushed in. Yakov Yurovsky, a revolutionary who led the Bolshevik’s secret police, told Nicholas he was about to be executed. “What? What?” the czar exclaimed. It was too...
Jul 17, 2023 · Pavel Medvedev, Yakov Yurovsky and Grigory Nikulin. The murders of Emperor Nicholas II, his family and four faithful retainers in Ekaterinburg on 17th July 1918, remains one of the darkest pages in 20th century Russian history.
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Increasingly ill from heart trouble and an ulcer, Yakov Yurovsky spent his last days in a Kremlin hospital, haunted by the ghosts of his bloody past; to the end, recalled his son Alexander, Yurovsky continued to express great regret over his role in the murders.
Jun 27, 2012 · The Mauser pistol and a long knife belonging to the head of the execution squad, Yakov Yurovsky, can be seen. Some of the bullets used in the killings are on show, alongside photos and diagrams...
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky was a Russian Old Bolshevik, communist revolutionary, and Soviet Chekist. Yurovsky was commander of the guard at Ipatiev House during the assassination of the Romanov family on the night of 17 July 1918.
Aug 13, 1995 · Describes the execution of the Tsar's family in Ekaterinburg, by a group of men led by Bolshevik Yakov Yurovsky. During WW2, Ekaterinburg, which had been renamed Sverdlovsk, in honor of Yakov...
