Yakov (Yankel) Mikhailovich Yurovsky (in Tomsk, Siberia, Russia - before 2 August 1938 in Moscow) is best known as the chief executioner of Russia's last emperor Tsar Nicholas and his family after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Wikipedia
akov Mikhailovich Yurovsky was born on June 19, 1878, in the Siberian city of Tomsk, the eighth of ten children. www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/yurovski_bio.html
This web site is a virtual museum about the captivity and the tragic end of the Romanov in 1918. It presents notably a 3D reconstitution of their last place of detention, Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg www.romanov-memorial.com/Drama.htm
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