The Last Tsar (62 page)

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. Ipatiev house, Ekaterinburg, the last residence of the imperial family, 1918.

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. Alexei in bed in the Ipatiev house during his last illness before his execution.

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. last letter written by Alexei before his death.

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. Joy, Alexei’s spaniel, Ekaterinburg.

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. The dining room of the Ipatiev house, Ekaterinburg, where the imperial family took their last meal.

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. The half-cellar room in the Ipatiev house, the scene of the assassination.

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. The grand duchesses’ bedroom in the Ipatiev house after their deaths.

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. Participants in the murder of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich: Markov, Zhuzhgov, Myasnikov, Ivanchenko, and Kolpashchikov, in the Urals. The assassins had this photograph taken as a keepsake of their “exploit.”

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. Yakov Yurovsky, commander of the execution squad.

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. Chekist Grigory Nikulin, Yurovsky’s deputy, taken at the time of the murder of the tsar and his family, Ekaterinburg.

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. Sergei Lyukhanov (seated, center), who drove the truck bearing the lifeless bodies of the tsar’s family from the Ipatiev House to the burial site. Photo taken in Osa, 1918.

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. Jergei Lyukhanov, just before his death in 1952.

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. White Russians returning to the burial site near Koptyaki to retrieve the bodies of the imperial family.