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What a macabre coincidence of the names: the Ipatiev monastery saw the birth of the Romanov dynasty and the Ipatiev house saw its annihilation.
Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, where the Romanovs spent their last few months of life, and also the place where they were murdered.
Nicholas in the confines of Ipatiev back yard in Yekaterinburg
The children in exile
How could the people of Yekaterinberg not have been able to guess what was going on inside this house once the big wooden fence was built around it?
Yekaterinburg fell to the counter revoluntionary army, White Russian Army seven days (July 25th) after the brutal murders of the Romanovs. Not long after that, Yekaterinburg fell to the Red Army again and was renamed Sverdlov.
It was the nearing of the White Army that hastened Yurovsky into action on the murder of the Romanovs
In 1991, with the blessing of Borsi Yeltsin, the city was placed back under the origianl name Yekaterinburg (Ekaterinburg)
The field in Koptyaki Forest where the Romanov remains were buried by their murderers.
In July of 1977 Moscow had Ipatiev house in Yekaterinberg, destroyed.
The order of death
A cross was placed (after demolition) upon the place that was the cellar in Ipatiev house where the family was murdered.
Romanov remains are found...
In 1991, Soviet authorities opened the shallow grave (not much more than three feet deep), where the skeletons had lain for decades . They discovered the tangled skeletons of nine people, along with sections of rope and broken sulfuric acid pots.
On April 12, 1989, startling news came from the Soviet Union, that the bones of the Romanov royal family had been found in a mass grave in the Koptyaki Forest. In fact, they had been discovered by amateur historians, led by Alexander Avdonin and Geli Ryabov, in 1979.
Battered Skulls
The American forensic team, led by Maples, and later supported by Falsetti, analyzed teeth and bone, and concluded that the missing female was Marie. The Americans were astonished at the brutality of the crime.
Romanovs' Remains Exhumed
In 1989, an anthropology team, working from photographs and the written report of Jacob Yurovsky, located the grave. Under the supervision of .Dr Maples, almost 1,000 bone fragments were assembled into five female and four male skeletons
Romanov funeral July 17 1998 Petrograd (St Petersburg)
The Hermitage...opposite what was their winter palace
The different phases of Nicholas from Tsarevich to Tsar presented pictorially
