What Happened to the Romanovs' Servants After the Revolution?

What happened to the people who followed the Romanovs into exile? On the night of July 16th, 1918, four people who weren't Romanovs died in the Ipatiev House basement: the court physician Yevgeny Botkin, the maid Anna Demidova, the footman Alexei Trupp and the cook Ivan Kharitonov. They were the last of a whole household. This documentary follows them all. Anna Vyrubova's months in the Peter and Paul Fortress, the sorting on the Yekaterinburg platform, the sailor Nagorny, Prince Dolgorukov and Count Tatishchev shot in a pit, the nun Varvara Yakovleva thrown into the Alapayevsk mine, the valet Alexei Volkov running from his own execution at Perm, and the tutors Pierre Gilliard and Sydney Gibbes, who spent the rest of their lives keeping the family close. If you want more stories about the people who stood behind the throne when it fell, subscribe. That's what this channel follows. This video covers: The four servants who died in the Ipatiev House basement Who followed the family to Tobolsk, and who was sent away at Yekaterinburg The executions of Nagorny, Dolgorukov, Tatishchev, Hendrikova and Schneider Varvara Yakovleva and the Alapayevsk martyrs Alexei Volkov's escape and Anna Anderson Sydney Gibbes, the tutor who became Father Nicholas in Oxford The 1998 burial and the canonizations Topics covered: Romanov servants, Romanov family, Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg 1918, Yevgeny Botkin, Anna Demidova, Pierre Gilliard, Sydney Gibbes, Anna Vyrubova, Anna Anderson, Russian Revolution Sources: Pierre Gilliard, Thirteen Years at the Russian Court (1921) Alexei Volkov, Souvenirs d'Alexis Volkov (1928) Sophie Buxhoeveden, Left Behind: Fourteen Months in Siberia During the Revolution (1929) Anna Vyrubova, Memories of the Russian Court (1923) Records of the 1979 discovery, 1991 exhumation and 1998 burial at the Peter and Paul Cathedral #Romanovs #RussianHistory #History