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]
Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 9 July 1918, an angry mob gathered across the road from the Ipatiev House in the square in front of the Voznesensky Cathedral. They feared for their lives, their homes and the city. Several spies were watching the Ipatiev House to check on [read more]
Natalia Sergeyevna Sheremetyevskaya was born on 9 July 1880 (O.S. 27 June) as the daughter of Sergei Alexandrovich Sheremetevsky and Julia Vyacheslavovna Sventitskaya in the outskirts of Moscow. Her parents lived in a rented apartment beside the Kremlin until Natalia was one year old. Over the next ten years, the family would move six times. Her father [read more]
Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 8 July 1918, the Romanovs were confronted with a group of strangers just as they emerged to use the bathrooms. Nicholas noted in his diary, “Inside the house new Latvians are standing guard.” The morning was cool after the storm yesterday. The new [read more]
Counting down to 17 July 1918 when the family was murdered. On 7 July 1918, the family woke up to a bright and sunny Sunday. For the first time in two weeks, Alexandra ventured out into the garden with everyone else. But later that day, a violent storm passed over the city and all the [read more]
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