Read Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg Online
Authors: Helen Rappaport
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #Biography, #History
Kotelnich
121
Krasnoyarsk
214
Kschessinska, Mathilde
50
Kudrin, Mikhail
181
,
185
,
187
,
189
,
195
,
216
Kursk
115
Lacher, Rudolf
87
Lake Baikal
96
Lampson, Oliver Locker
121
Latvian Rifle Brigade
69
League for the Restoration of the Russian Empire
156
Lean, David
8
Left Socialist Revolutionaries
56
,
69
,
70
,
71
,
96
,
104
,
115
,
132
,
135
,
140
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
8
,
10
,
13
,
29
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
56
,
68
,
70
,
97
,
104
,
107
,
114
,
116
,
126
,
130
,
131
,
132
,
133
,
134–9
,
141–2
,
145
,
156
,
157
,
166
,
168–9
,
177
,
178
,
179
,
201
,
206
,
213
,
218
Lermontov, Mikhail
136
Levine, Isaac Don
110
Lied, Jonas
154
Lloyd George, David
151–2
Lukoyanov, Fedor
129
Lunacharsky, Anatoly
104
Lytton, Lady Edith
62
Lyubinskaya
11
Lyukhanov, Sergey (chauffeur)
180
,
183
,
184
,
197
,
204
,
205
McCullagh, Francis
216
Makronosoev (manager of Sysert works)
38
Malinovsky, Captain Dmitri
122
,
212
Manchuria
88
Mangold, Tom
153
Maria, Grand Duchess, arrival at Ekaterinburg
156
, birth of
80
; comments on living conditions
18
,
22
; looks and character of
30
,
80–2
; male admirers of
81–2
; succumbs to near-fatal pneumonia
148
,
see also
Romanov family
Maria Fedorovna, Dowager Empress
48
,
80
,
154
,
211
Marx, Karl
135
Mary, Queen
39
,
58–9
,
150
,
151
,
153
,
210
,
211
Masaryk, Tomas
107
Matveev, Pavel, political commissar
122
May (sister of Alexandra)
61
Medvedev, Pavel
171
,
174
,
178
,
180
,
181
,
187
,
189
,
196
,
207
,
214
Meledin, Father Anatoly
159–60
Mendeleev, Dmitri
129
Migich, Major
125
Military Academy
122
Milyukov, Pavel
148
Mirbach, Count Wilhelm von
39
,
56
,
68
,
69
,
70
,
140
,
155
,
156
Morozova, Praskovya
129
Moscow
10
,
11
,
29
,
39
,
41
,
45
,
56
,
64
,
68
,
69
,
97
,
105
,
108
,
112
,
130
,
133
,
138
,
142
,
145
,
153
,
157
,
178–9
,
182
,
195
,
200
,
213
; Art Theatre
4
; Kremlin
8
,
10
,
39
,
69
,
70
,
105
,
113
,
134
,
177
,
179
; Bolshoy Theatre
56
,
114
; Uspensky Cathedral
113
; Lyubyanka prison
215
; Kremlin Hospital
216
; Museum of Revolution
216
Moshkin, Aleksandr (guard)
20
,
28
,
30
Mosolov, Count Aleksandr
75
,
121
Murmansk (Port Romanov)
39
,
71
,
108
,
145
,
148
,
153–4
Murom
70
Myasnikov, Gabriel
97
Nadezhdinsky factory
130
Nagorny, Klementy (servant)
19
,
23
,
90
,
94
,
102
,
157
Nametkin, Aleksandr
212
Narym
105
National Centre group
121
National Tidende
(Denmark)
177
Nechaev, Sergey
136–7
Netrebin, Viktor
86
,
185
,
186
,
187
Neva, River
112
News of the Ural Regional Soviet of Workers’, Peasants’ and Soldiers’ Deputies
36
Nicholas II, sent to Ekaterinburg
1
,
5
; character of
5
,
48
,
54–5
; domesticity of
5–6
,
53
; abdication of
6–7
,
53
,
54–5
; as voracious reader
24
,
71
,
103
; spiritual and mental decline
46–8
,
55
; upbringing
48–50
; joins Preobrazhensky Guards
49–50
; becomes tsar
50
; coping strategies
50–1
,
54–5
,
102–3
; and dread of assassination
51–2
; marriage
51
,
58
,
62–3
,
65–6
; alienation from his people
52–3
; known as ’Nicholas the Bloody’
52
; dependence on tobacco
54
; health of
55
; Queen Victoria’s affection for
63
; and mobilisation for war
112–14
; keeps a diary
129
,
157–8
Nikolay, Grand Duke
6
,
54
,
66
,
211
,
213
Nikulin, Grigory
30
,
33
,
46
,
117
,
129
,
140
,
161
,
175
,
177
,
181
,
185
,
186
,
187
,
188
,
191
,
192
,
195
,
200
,
216
Nizhe-Tagil works
167
Nizhni-Novgorod
115
Nizhni-Tagil
126
Novo-Tikhvinsky Convent
54
Novosibirsk
31
Occleshaw, Michael
153
October Manifesto (1905)
133
October Revolution (1917)
5
,
32
,
68
,
94
,
97
,
114
,
116
,
125
,
135
,
137
,
140
Odessa
120
Okhrana (Russian secret police)
130
Olga, Grand Duchess
50
,
75
,
82
,
83
,
166
,
211
; looks and character of
77–8
; as emotionally and sexually innocent
78
; and problem of marriage
78–9
; becomes Red Cross nurse
83
,
see also
Romanov family
Omsk Regional Court
212
Oranienbaum
209
Ortipo (dog)
185
Ostrovsky, Aleksandr
167
Oudendyk, William J.
208
Paget, Lady Muriel
107
Paléologue, Maurice
62
,
113
,
151
,
165
Paley, Prince Vladimir Pavlovich
14
Pankhurst, Mrs Emmeline
107
,
109
Pankratov, Vasily
81
Patterson, Lieutenant
164
Pavlushin,
202
People’s Commissars
206
Perm
29
,
85
,
97
,
121
,
126
,
131
,
157
,
174
,
179
,
214
Petrograd
6
,
15
,
34
,
35
,
53
,
54
,
69
,
107
,
121
,
122
,
137
,
145
,
151
,
154
,
179
,
208
; Smolny Institute
178
; Peter and Paul Fortress
211
,
see also
St Petersburg
Petrograd Soviet
152
Petrovsky, Grigory
115
Pisarev, Dimitri
135
Plekhanov, Georgy
135
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin
49
Poland
40
Politiken
(Sweden)
44
Porosenkov Log (Pig’s Meadow)
205–6
Powers, Gary
219
Pozner, (chemist)
128
Preobrazhensky Guards
49
Preston, Thomas
33–5
,
38
,
39
,
103
,
105
,
125
,
131
,
154
,
180
,
200
,
211
,
212
Proskuryakov, Filipp
178
Pushkin, Aleksandr
136
Radishchev, Aleksandr
136
Radziwill, Princess Catherine
45
Rasputin, Grigory
6
,
52
,
53
,
66
,
91
,
93
,
114
,
121
,
199
Rasputin, Mariya
120
Red Army
9
,
17
,
41
,
103
,
122
,
123
,
126
,
128
,
129
,
137
,
143
,
144
,
174
,
178
,
213
,
215
,
219
Red Guards
144
Red Urals
10
Redikortsev, Andrey
15
Robien, Louis de
208
Robinson, Geoffrey
116
Rodzianko, Colonel Paul
214
Romanov family, taken to Tobolsk
7–8
; travel to and arrival at Ekaterinburg
9
,
10–14
; living conditions in the Ipatiev House
16–27
,
42
,
46
; local interest in
26–7
; change of commandant for
28
,
30–1
; and development of prisoner-jailer bonds
29–30
; jewellery belonging to
31
; and removal of symbols of tsarist system
36
; unaware of outside political and social conflicts
36–8
,
39–42
; British attitude towards
38
,
146–54
; outside indifference to
68–9
; daughters’ education and upbringing
74–7
; different characters of daughters
77
; daughters’ reactions to incarceration
84–5
; new guards posted
86–7
; number of servants allocated to
102
; supplied with food from the Convent
118
,
119
,
170
; plots to contact and rescue from Ipatiev
119–25
; meetings held to decide fate of
129–36
,
137–43
,
168–9
,
179
; external royal intiatives for release of
146–57
; German interest in
154–6
; nationalising of properties owned by
157
; religious observance
159–64
; final sense of foreboding
164–7
; cleaning women’s memories of
171–4
; penultimate day
171–4
; final day
177
; and dismissal of
kitchen boy
180
; taken to their place of execution
184–9
; execution of
189–93
,
194
; stripped of their jewellery
193–4
,
198–9
,
201
; disposal of their bodies
194–200
,
201–2
,
203–6
; announcements of death of
200–1
,
206–7
,
208–11
; aftermath of death of
211–13
; and fate of other family members, retainers and actual murderers
213–18
; and fate of Ipatiev House
219
,
220
; location of remains of
219–20
; and annual show of lilies at Ganina Yama
221
,
222
,
223
; and pilgrimages to site of execution
221–3
; and Russian Orthodox Church commemoration of
221–2
,
see also
named members of the family:
Nicholas
,
Alexandra
,
Olga
,
Tatiana
,
Maria
,
Anastasia
,
Alexey