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Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky was the eighth of ten children born to Chaim, son of Izka, a glazier, and his wife Ester daughter of Moishe (1848–1919), a seamstress. He was born on 19 June [O.S. 7 June] 1878 in the Siberian city of Tomsk, Russia. The Yurovsky family was Jewish. While the young Yurovsky was raised as a Jew, his family seemed to ...
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Shortly after the incident, Zapeta-Calil was arrested and formally charged with first-degree and second-degree murder with an additional arson charge. [27] Zapeta-Calil was also transferred to a hospital late on December 23 but was released the following day. [ 23 ]
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A man arrested on suspicion of murder after two women died in a suspected stabbing on Christmas Day remains in custody, police said. The 49-year-old from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, is also ...
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On August 23, 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two burned, partial skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg that appeared to match the site described in Yurovsky's memoirs. The archaeologists said the bones are from a boy who was roughly between the ages of ten and thirteen years at the time of his death and of a ...
As Russian troops approached Dniprorudne in their February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the city's long-term mayor Yevhen Matvieiev could have fled to safety. Instead, he stayed behind to coordinate ...