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MAN V
WERE EXE

here can be few eo le who
don’t know that the tsar, tsarina
nd their children were
xecuted in the cell r f
ouse in Yekaterinbur on 17
u 1918. Their deaths, the fate
f their rem in nd the
ccasional eme ence of fraudsters osin as
embersof thefamil haveenteredintotheannals
f risly royal history around the world. Yet it wasn’t
n members of the House of Romanov who died
hat ni ht, for they were joined by loyal household
ta andservantswhohadbeenherdedintothe
ellar to die alongside them. These other victims o
eBo s evi so dierswereDoctorYev Bot in,
oo Ivan K aritonov, va et A exei Trupp and Anna
Demidova e tsarina’s maid. Anna tried to cover
ersel with a pillow stu ed with jewels. S
urvived over 30 bu et wounds, but was eventua

rd h overnment as quic y as possib e. T e
su lies intended or RoyalMarines o eredtheirsupporttothe
Ru i n u e didn’t f ll in anti-Bolshevik orces but this mainly took the
erman or Bolshevik orm o an increased number weapons and
hands, the British W ammunition, as opposed to supp ying
Cabinet sent Ro al Marines additionalsoldiersto ightalongside them.In
ent t Murm n k n act while War Minister Winston Churchill w
h bl h th irulently in avour o sending additional
It uick became a arent that there was to troops to depose t e Bo s evi government,
e no coo eration from the Bolsheviks and the Prime Minister David L oyd George advocated
Britishdecidedthatthebestthin orthewar a less interventionist approach. British orces
e ort would be to de ose the Bolshevik le t ob