The spot where the remains were found this summer appears to correspond to a site described by Yakov Yurovsky, the leader of the family's killers, said Sergei Pogorelov, deputy head of the ...

Yakov Yurovsky was a hardliner chosen by the local committee to take command of the exile. Guards known to have bonded with the family were removed. Yurovsky brought in new men to execute the ...

Yakov Mikhaylovich Yurovsky (1878–1938) served as the superintendant of Ipatyev House in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), where the royal family was held by the Soviet government. He also led the ...

On the night of July 17, 1918, with an anti-Bolshevik White Army regiment headed toward Ekaterinburg, a Bolshevik commissar named Yakov Yurovsky arrived at Ipatiev House, tasked by the Ural ...

Returning to Moscow, he plowed into secret archives using his special Interior Ministry access, and managed to track down even the children of Yakov Yurovsky, the Bolshevik guard who oversaw the ...

Person: Yakov YurovskyBones find 'may be remains of last Tsar's heir' The remains of the last tsar’s son and heir to the Russian throne, missing since the royal family was gunned down nine ...

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated ...

The location of the find announced on Friday appears to coincide with a written account by one of the executioners, Yakov Yurovsky, who is now dead.