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Empress Maria Feodorovna,
with Romanov relatives and officers at Gatchina Palace. |
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The members of the royal House of
Russia that were murdered during the revolution can be divided
up into four groups - because they were executed in groups... |
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Group 1 - June 12 1918 |
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Grand Duke Michail Alexandrovich |
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The first Group consisted of Grand
Duke Michail Alexandrovich and his american aid Johnsson, they
were murdered in Perm, Ural Mountains, June 12 1918. |
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Group 2 - July 17 1918 |
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Emperor Nicholas II |
Czarevich Alexis Nicholaievich |
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna |
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Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaievna |
Grand Duchess Tatiana
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Grand Duchess Marie Nicholaievna |
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Grand Duchess Anastasia
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The second group consisted of
the "near" royal family:
1. Emperor Nicholas II
2. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
3. Czarevich Alexis Nicholaievich
4. Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaievna
5. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicholaievna
6. Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaievna
7. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaievna
They were all murdered in Jekatrinburg,
Ural Mountains, July 17 1918. |
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Group 3 - July 18 1918 |
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Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Feodorovna |
Grand Duke Sergey Mikhailovich |
Prince Ioann Constantinovich |
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Prince Igor Constantinovich |
Prince Constantin Constantinovich |
Prince Vladimir Pavlovich
Paley |
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Grand Duchess Elizabeth was the
sister of empress Alexandra and the widow of the late Grand Duke
Sergey Alexandrovich (who was murdered in 1905 by a terrorist
bomb). When her husband died she founded the convent of Sisters
of Mercy of Martha and Mary and became it's Abbess. In 1918 she
had to leave the convent accompanied by another sister. She joined
Grand Duke Sergey Mikhailovich (cousin of the emperor), the three
sons of the late Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich: Princes
Ioan, Igor and Constantine, and Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley
(son of the morganatic marriage of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich).
They were all throw down a mineshaft in Alapayevsk, Ural Mountains,
July 18 1918. |
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Group 4 - January 30
1919 |
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Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich |
Grand Duke Dmitri Constantinovich |
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich |
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Grand Duke George Mikhailovich |
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The four Grand Dukes: Paul Alexandrovich
(the emperor's uncle), Dimitri Constantinovich (cousin of the
emperor) and the two brothers Nicholas and George Mikhailovich
(cousins of the emperor), were all imprisoned in the St. Peter
& Paul fortress and shot there on January 30 1918. |
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Remember....
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a memorial site |
