Vasily Yakovlev
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Vasily Vasilyevich Yakovlev was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. He participated in the October Revolution of 1917; was a Cheka officer for a few months; transferred former Russia
Yakovlev c. 1911
Ipatiev House
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Ipatiev House was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg where the abdicated Nicholas II, all his immediate family, and other house members were executed in July 1918 following the October Revolution.
Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg (city later renamed Sverdlovsk)
Dining room. In 1918 the door led to the grand duchesses' room.
Yekaterinburg's Church on the Blood, built on the spot where the Ipatiev House once stood.