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Committee of the RSDLP, which transferred him to an illegal position. Ermakov was assigned the role of one of the leaders of the militants, whose main task was expropriation. The most striking event for
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the imperial family. Feeling that the guards guarding the family had possibly become too sympathetic, it was decided to replace them with zealous
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members annually pay tribute to his gravestone on each anniversary of the murders, though on a few occasions it has also been vandalized. Since the 1980s, the gravestone has been shot several times and doused in red paint, symbolizing the blood of the
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and disposing of the bodies; they were ordered back to the city as
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