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Koptyaki village
126
,
127
,
198

Kotelnich
121

Krasnoyarsk
214

Kronstadt
7
,
35

Kschessinska, Mathilde
50

Kudrin, Mikhail
181
,
185
,
187
,
189
,
195
,
216

Kuntsevo
168
,
177

Kursk
115

Kusvinsky works
38
,
203

 

Lacher, Rudolf
87

Lake Baikal
96

Lampson, Oliver Locker
121

Latvian Rifle Brigade
69

League of Nations
108
,
157

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

Lepa, Adolf
86
,
182

Lermontov, Mikhail
136

Letemin, Mikhail
177
,
214

Levine, Isaac Don
110

Lied, Jonas
154

Lisitsyn, Aleksandr
195
,
200

Livadia
65
,
76
,
84

Lloyd George, David
151–2

Lockhart, Bruce
112
,
153

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

Malyshev, Ivan
38
,
157

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

Mensheviks
40
,
115
,
135

Migich, Major
125

Mikhail, Grand Duke
38
,
68

Military Academy
122

Milyukov, Pavel
148

Mirbach, Count Wilhelm von
39
,
56
,
68
,
69
,
70
,
140
,
155
,
156

Mogilev
66
,
94
,
99
,
121
,
147

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

New York Herald
106
,
133
,
217

New York Times
209
,
217

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

NKVD (secret police)
215
,
216

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
1
,
38
,
41
,
136
,
139
,
214

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

Paris
39
,
130

Patterson, Lieutenant
164

Pavel, Grand Duke
211
,
213

Pavlushin,
202

People’s Commissars
206

Perm
29
,
85
,
97
,
121
,
126
,
131
,
157
,
174
,
179
,
214

Peter the Great
3
,
51

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

Riezler, Dr Kurt
156
,
210

Robien, Louis de
208

Robinson, Geoffrey
116

Rodzianko, Colonel Paul
214

Rodzinsky, Isay
125
,
129
,
203

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

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