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was tall and muscular and had black hair. He was dressed like a sailor but gave the impression of having a more cultured background, with a more refined language. He addressed the former Tsar as "Your majesty." He greeted the children's tutor,
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Location of the main events in the last days of
Nicholas II and his family, who were held at Tobolsk from August 1917 to April 1918 before being transported to Ekaterinburg, where they were held for ten weeks before being
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and participated in an uprising of sailors. After being sentenced to death in absentia by a military court, he went into hiding under the name Vasily
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