July 18, 1918
Under Alapaevsk, the day after the execution of the royal family, six members were killed House of Romanov and their servants.
Members of the imperial family were exiled to the Urals in the spring of 1918. Among those housed in the Alapaevsk school were the grand dukes' grandsons and great-grandsons. Nicholas I, as well as the empress's elder sister Alexandra Fedorovna - Elizabeth.
At first, the prison regime was almost free: one could walk around Alapaevsk, correspond, go to church, and drink tea in the garden.
The measures were tightened in June after news broke about the "escapee" from Perm. Prince Mikhail - a brother Nicholas II (It only became known five years later that the prince had been kidnapped and killed).
The Alapaevsk prisoners had all their property taken away, their rations were reduced, and they were forbidden to go into the city.
On July 18, the Bolsheviks reported that the princes had been kidnapped during the night by a gang of White Guards. When Alapayevsk came under Kolchak's control in the fall, it was discovered that they had been killed by the "Reds."
The chairman of the Extraordinary Commission and other members of the local party activists recounted the events on the record in 1933, in order to “preserve the memories of the party organization for history.”
Along with six members of the imperial household, the cell attendant and the steward were killed: under the pretext of being transferred to another location, they were all taken to an abandoned mine shaft, struck on the head with an axe, and thrown down. The pit was pelted with grenades, covered with poles and logs, and covered with earth.
When the bodies were recovered three months later, it turned out that some had died almost immediately, while others were alive and died of hunger and wounds.
They wanted to lower them to the bottom, but they missed. There was a barrier there, and they stopped there, and ended up alive. Something had to be done to finish them off. We wanted to blow up the shaft, but we hit water. Then we buried them like that. (from the memoirs of a participant in the murder)
The bodies of Princess Elizabeth and her cell attendant were taken away and buried in Jerusalem, the rest in Beijing.
In 1998, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office established that the murder was organized and carried out by 24 people: members of the party and the Cheka, and factory workers.
