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House of Special Purpose
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $27.99
ISBN13: 9781734852486
Publisher: Gary Rose Publishing
Published: May 22 2020
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
House of Special Purpose, was the Bolshevik code name for the Ipatiev House, used as a place of confinement for the last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family, after his forced abdication of the throne. After spending seventy-eight days in the house, during the early morning hours of April 17th, 1918, the royal family is escorted to a basement room where they were assassinated. The killing squad was shocked and horrified when the bullets from their weapons bounced off the czar's children. Unbeknownst to them, the royal jewels of the Romanoff dynasty had been sewn into their undergarments. Finding the jewelry, the secret police, Cheka, confiscated the property and place it in a vault, only to discover items missing during an audit in 1925.
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