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Jul 17, 2023 · It is worth recalling that the blood of Tsar Nicholas II was spilled by Yurovsky. He himself recalled: “I fired the first shot and killed Nikolai on the spot.” The leading Russian playwright and historian Edvard Radzinsky was most intrigued by the idea that there was photographic evidence of the murdered remains of the Imperial family.
Jul 6, 2021 · Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw on 7th June 1927, by Boris Sofronovich Kowerda (1907-1987) a White émigré and monarchist. Kowerda planned to kill Voykov in order to “Avenge Russia, and the deaths of millions of people”, as well for Voykov’s participation in the decision to execute Nicholas II and his family.
Sep 27, 1995 · The remains of Russia’s last czar and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918, will be reburied next February in St. Petersburg, Mayor Anatoly Sobchak said Tuesday. Sobchak told Interfax ...
The Boxer (1932/1933) - by Konstantin Somov (findagrave #31973060) 21½ x 18 1/8 in. (54.8 x 46 cm.) Auctioned at Christie's in 2011 for 713,250 GBP The subject of this painting is Boris Snezhkovsky, who frequently modelled for the artist. Somov (1869-1939) left Russia in 1923 to accompany the seminal exhibition of...
Jan 22, 2020 · Colonel Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov (1882-1945) j oined the army of the Russian Empire in 1901 and graduated from the Nicholas General Staff Academy in 1910, reaching the rank of colonel in the Caucasus Grenadiers division in September 1917 during World War I. Also in 1917, he supported the Russian Revolution, an act unusual for an officer ...
I haven't been able to gather much information* on Somov's model: Boris Mikhailovich Snejkovsky was born 23 July 1910, in Odessa. His father was a ship captain with the Russian Volunteer Fleet. At the time of the Revolution, seven-year-old Boris and his mother traveled the entire breadth of the country - from Odessa to Vladivostok - to rejoin ...
Feb 24, 2024 · Myhailo Yavorskyi died fighting Russia in May 2023. On the second anniversary of the invasion, friends and family wonder what his sacrifice will mean if Russia wins. By Michael Loria. Feb 24, 2024, 8:00am PDT. No one forced Myhailo Yavorskyi, a Ukrainian-born Chicagoan, to go to war.
