Word: ekaterinburg
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...second son became the dogmatic, determined state-maker, Alexander I, first king of the Yugoslavs. In his youth, while a student at St. Petersburg, he fell in love with Tatiana, one of the Czar's daughters, who, along with her parents, was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg. All his life Alexander was obsessed by fear and hatred of the Red Russians; they called Yugoslavia "the graveyard of Communists." When Alexander was assassinated at Marseilles in 1934, his son Peter, a shy, eleven-year-old who dreamed of being a radio mechanic, wept: "But I don't want...
...gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
...industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
When the Tsar and his family were moved from their quarters at Tobolsk to a more heavily guarded house in Ekaterinburg, says Bulygin. Moscow had already drawn up the plan for their deaths. As "Superintendent of the House of Special Purpose" came one Yurovsky. a "practical expert"; with him he brought ten Cheka gunmen (most of them Hungarian prisoners of war). At midnight. July 16. 1918 Yurovsky woke the Tsar and his household, asked them to come downstairs. Escorting them into a basement room, he told them that because of the approaching White armies it had been decided to move...
...they might not recognize the existence of Ekaterinburg, whose name they changed to Sverdlovsk in honor of Jacob Sverdlov. chair-man of the Central Executive Committee, who arranged the executions...