Yakov Yurovsky biography

Photo: public treasure, from the site: Wikipedia. Write to the author Yakov Yurovsky in the USSR in encyclopedias was listed as a Russian revolutionary and statesman, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union received the stigma of the tsareubians. Dusagub, who commanded the murder of a royal family, had lived in Yekaterinodar for several years before the revolution.

The execution of the Romanov family, the murder of the imperial family occurred on the night of July 16 to 17 in Yekaterinburg. The place of the execution of Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, the daughters of Olga, Maria, Tatyana and Anastasia, Tsarevich Alexei, as well as a cook, a valet, a maid and family doctor Romanov, became the basement of the house of engineer Ipatiev.

Ipatiev’s house. Dusogub will later tell about the execution of the royal family on paper. Judging by his report, he personally killed the last tsarist emperor from the first shot, then helped execute his daughters.

After the execution, the bodies of the killed were loaded into the body of the cargo car and went to mines in the Sverdlovsk region. The bodies were thrown into abandoned mines, and on top of disguise were thrown with branches. Since the murder of the royal family almost instantly became known in Yekaterinburg, it was decided to hide the bodies of the dead. They were taken out of the mine, tried to move to another place, but the truck was stuck tightly.

Then the dead were buried right next to the road track. To confuse traces, the remains were doused with sulfuric acid, and the sleepers threw off above the grave. Only a few years later, the Bolsheviks recognized the fact of the execution. However, no one reported details, and the history of the execution of the Romanovs has overgrown with myths and legends. The remains of the royal family began to be sought only in the X years.

Nine bodies were discovered in a year, the remains of two more people - in the metro, judging by the analyzes, the found remains really belong to the royal family. Near the city, he was born in the city with the strange name Kainsk in the Tomsk province in June in the family of Khaim Yurovsky, who worked as a glass. The boy’s mother earned a living with sewing skills. There were 10 children in the family, he had to live literally.

Already at the age of 12, Yakov threw a school and began to master the specialties of a watchmaker and tailor. First, he worked as an apprentice in Tomsk and Tobolsk. The older brothers of Yurovsky in the year successfully emigrated to America. But Yakov decided to stay in Russia - he fell in love and married Mane Yankeleva, was imbued with revolutionary ideas and even began to conduct revolutionary activities.

He began to properly spread the forbidden literature. Together with his wife, Yurovsky moved to Yekaterinodar in the year. There were already many fans of revolutionary ideas in the southern provincial city, so the police worked actively. Yurovsky's activity attracted the attention of the gendarmes, and he had to return to his homeland in Tomsk literally a few months later.

An ordinary apprentice in Germany managed to learn the German language and changed faith in Lutheranism. Yurovsky returned to Russia in the year. The best place in order to again settle down in the Russian Empire, he again considered Yekaterinodar. He was very impressed by the southern city - both the living conditions are acceptable, and the people are good.

However, his revolutionary activity did not allow him to stay in the Kuban. Avoiding the persecution of the gendarmes, he fled to Tomsk. In the year he was arrested there and sent him to Yekaterinburg. In the First World War, the future Tsareubian did not take part. In the year, as soon as the revolution broke out, he was included in the Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies. Yakov Yurovsky.

Photo: The public treasure of his movement along the career ladder was swift. He was the chairman of the Investigative Commission of the Ural Regional Revility, a member of the Board of the Regional Cheka. He sentenced the objectionable and disagreements quickly, did not reflect and did not regret the victims. Perhaps therefore, he, as a comrade devoted to the ideas of the revolution, was appointed to the post of commandant of the Ipatievsky house on June 4, which was the last refuge of the royal family.

After the execution of the representatives of the Romanov’s house, he reported this in the report to Yakov Sverdlov, and a few days later he fled from Yekaterinburg, as the whites attacked the cities. Running away he threw to the mercy of fate a sick old woman - his mother. The escape to the capital allowed him to form useful ties. After the victory over the White Guards, although he was seconded to work in the Urals, he was soon returned to Moscow.

There Yurovsky held prominent positions, and at the end of the year he was retired. He died the tsareubian in Moscow in the Kremlin hospital in August. The cause of death was the perforation of the stomach ulcer. Eyewitnesses say that a man was tormented by leading from the bloody past. However, this is not reflected anywhere. Whether it really was and whether Yurovsky regretted his atrocities is not known.