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Ipatiev House was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II Of Russia , his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna Of Hesse , their four daughters, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Of Russia , Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Of Russia , Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Of Russia , their son, the Tsarevich Alexei Of Russia , and their faithful Doctor Botkin, lady-in-waiting, Demidova, cook, Kharitonov, and footman, Trupp, were shot by a squad of Bolshevik secret police under Yakov Yurovsky , on July 16 / July 17 , 1918 . In 1977 , Boris Yeltsin , the first secretary of the region, ordered the demolition of the Ipatiev House. According to a Russian tradition, the huge "Church on the Blood", with many auxiliary chapels and belfries, was built there after the fall of the Soviet Union . SEE ALSO
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