House of Special Purpose

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The House of Special Purpose was the fortified residence in Yekaterinburg where Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were imprisoned and ultimately executed in 1918.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf building
historical site
residence
associatedWith Russian Revolution
surface form: Bolshevik Revolution

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
surface form: Nicholas II of Russia

House of Romanov
surface form: Romanov family

Ural Soviet
surface form: Ural Regional Soviet
city Yekaterinburg
controlledBy Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Ural Soviet
country Russia
currentStatus demolished
dateOfEvent 1918
demolishedBy Soviet authorities
demolitionDate 1977
demolitionOrderedBy Boris Yeltsin
era Russian Civil War
Russian Revolution
event execution of Nicholas II and his family
imprisonment of the Romanov family
formerName Ipatiev House
hasFortifications yes
historicalPeriod early Soviet period
late Russian Empire
locatedIn Russia
Yekaterinburg
memorialFunction commemoration of the Romanov family
namedAfter Nikolai Ipatiev
notableFor execution of the imperial family in 1918
final residence of the last Russian tsar
occupant Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
surface form: Alexandra Feodorovna

Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
surface form: Alexei Nikolaevich

Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
surface form: Anastasia Nikolaevna

Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
surface form: Maria Nikolaevna

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
surface form: Nicholas II of Russia

Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
surface form: Olga Nikolaevna

Tatiana Nikolaevna
members of the Romanov household
region Sverdlovsk Oblast
replacedBy Church on the Blood of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land
surface form: Church on the Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land
significance site of the end of the Romanov dynasty
usedAs execution site
place of imprisonment
residence of Nicholas II under arrest

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Ipatiev House alsoKnownAs House of Special Purpose