royalreading:IN MEMORIAM: IPATIEV HOUSE MASSACRE 17 JULY 1918In the early morning of Wednesday 17 Ju
royalreading:IN MEMORIAM: IPATIEV HOUSE MASSACRE 17 JULY 1918In the early morning of Wednesday 17 July 1918, eleven people was led into a cellar of the Ipatiev House (ominously named “The House of Special Purpose”), in Yekaterinburg. This little group consisted of the former tsar, Nicholas II, of Russia, his wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna, his children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei, and four of their loyal attendants, Dr Evgeny Botkin, Anna Demidova, Ivan Kharitonov and Alexei Trupp, who refused to leave the family they loved and loyally served. They were grouped together and were told that they would have a photo taken. Instead they were executed.The next part is especially difficult for me, as an animal lover and animal rights activist, and I get nightmares about it. There are varying accounts of what happened to two of the pets, Jemmy (or Jimmy) and Ortino (or Ortipo), and they are greatly disturbing. You have to be a special kind of vulgar, cruel, vile, piece of shit monster to murder innocents, like the children and the dogs, and especially taking pleasure in it. Among the corpses were found one of the pets, either Ortino or Jemmy, the surviving one either being stabbed with a bayonette or dying of starvation. The only survivor of the group was Joy, the devoted spaniel of Alexei. Again, accounts vary concerning Joy, and perhaps what happened that night will have been buried with Joy, a mute witness to the horrible events. One account states that Joy was heard upstairs in a frenzy barking and yelping on hearing the gunshots, while another account has Joy in the cellar where after one of the soldiers, discovering that Joy survived, took pity on him. When the White Army reached Yekaterinburg they found Joy, distressed and malnourished, cowering in the backyard of the Ipatiev House. Joy was taken to England by Colonel Pavel Rodzianko. He wrote in his book Tattered Banners: ‘With heavy hearts we sailed away from Vladivostok. Joy, the little ill-named spaniel who had seen his master murdered, that fateful night, travelled with me. I have never seen Russia again.‘ Rest in Peace:1.Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov (18 May 1868 - 17 July 1918) Aleksandra Fyodorovna Romonova (6 June 1872 - 17 July 1918) Olga Nikolaevna Romanova (15 June 1895 - 17 July 1918) Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova (10 June 1897 - 17 July 1918) Maria Nikolaevna Romanova (26 June 1899 - 17 July 1918) Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova (18 June 1901 - 17 July 1918) Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov (12 August 1904 - 17 July 1918)2. Alexei Yegorovich Trupp ( 1858 - 17 July 1918)3. Anna Stepanovna Demidova (1878 - 17 July 1918)4. Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov (1872 - 17 July 1918)5. Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin (27 March 1865 - 17 July 1918)6. Jemmy (or Jimmy)7. Ortino (or Ortipo)8. Joy -- source link