Alexei Trupp was the faithful valet of Tsar Nicholas II who followed the royal family into exile and house arrest.
He was murdered by assassination carried out by forces of the Bolshevik secret police in the cellar room of the Ipatiev House (dubbed the House of Special Purpose)
in Yekaterinburg, along with the Royal Family and with 3 other faithful servants - Anna Demidova, maid; Ivan Kharitonov, chef and Dr. Eugene Botkin.
Shortly after midnight Commander Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the command at the Ipatiev House, knocked on Botkin's door and ordered him to waken the Romanov party, get dressed and come downstairs. Yurovksy told him there was firing in the town and the party was to be evacuated immediately. Instead, the family and their servants were murdered a short time later while believing they were posing for a photograph.
Every attempt was made to destroy the bodies before they were thrown into an unmarked pit in the woods. For 58 years the whereabouts of the pit remained a secret. In 1976 the pit was first discovered but remained a secret awaiting the time for a formal investigation. In 1991 the site was documented and the investigation began. The remains in the pit were identified by proper forensics and DNA testing. They discovered there the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their daughters: (all titled as Grand Duchess) Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia, along with Botkin, Demidova, Trupp, and Kharitonov. Later excavations in 2007 a short distance away yielded the remains of Grand Duchess Maria and Tsarevich Alexei, their remains also having been tested as the first group.
In 1981 The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) glorified (canonized) the Imperial Family and their four servants as Saints, titled Martyrs of the Revolution. On July 17, 1998, eighty years after their execution, the remains of all those in the first pit were entombed in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter & Paul in St. Petersburgh. This is the traditional burial site of the Romanov family royals. Despite extensive forensics and DNA testing the Russian government and the Moscow Patriarchate have not accepted the idenity of the remains. They were interred without mention of their names or titles.
In 2000 the Moscow Patriarchate acknowledged ROCOR's glorification of the Imperial Family only, using the title Passion Bearers.
At this time (Feb. 2014) no plans have been made to inter the remains of Tsarevich Alexei or Grand Duchess Maria with the rest of their family. Their bones remain the property of the Russian State Archive.
He was murdered by assassination carried out by forces of the Bolshevik secret police in the cellar room of the Ipatiev House (dubbed the House of Special Purpose)
in Yekaterinburg, along with the Royal Family and with 3 other faithful servants - Anna Demidova, maid; Ivan Kharitonov, chef and Dr. Eugene Botkin.
Shortly after midnight Commander Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the command at the Ipatiev House, knocked on Botkin's door and ordered him to waken the Romanov party, get dressed and come downstairs. Yurovksy told him there was firing in the town and the party was to be evacuated immediately. Instead, the family and their servants were murdered a short time later while believing they were posing for a photograph.
Every attempt was made to destroy the bodies before they were thrown into an unmarked pit in the woods. For 58 years the whereabouts of the pit remained a secret. In 1976 the pit was first discovered but remained a secret awaiting the time for a formal investigation. In 1991 the site was documented and the investigation began. The remains in the pit were identified by proper forensics and DNA testing. They discovered there the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their daughters: (all titled as Grand Duchess) Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia, along with Botkin, Demidova, Trupp, and Kharitonov. Later excavations in 2007 a short distance away yielded the remains of Grand Duchess Maria and Tsarevich Alexei, their remains also having been tested as the first group.
In 1981 The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) glorified (canonized) the Imperial Family and their four servants as Saints, titled Martyrs of the Revolution. On July 17, 1998, eighty years after their execution, the remains of all those in the first pit were entombed in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter & Paul in St. Petersburgh. This is the traditional burial site of the Romanov family royals. Despite extensive forensics and DNA testing the Russian government and the Moscow Patriarchate have not accepted the idenity of the remains. They were interred without mention of their names or titles.
In 2000 the Moscow Patriarchate acknowledged ROCOR's glorification of the Imperial Family only, using the title Passion Bearers.
At this time (Feb. 2014) no plans have been made to inter the remains of Tsarevich Alexei or Grand Duchess Maria with the rest of their family. Their bones remain the property of the Russian State Archive.
Alexei Trupp was the faithful valet of Tsar Nicholas II who followed the royal family into exile and house arrest.
He was murdered by assassination carried out by forces of the Bolshevik secret police in the cellar room of the Ipatiev House (dubbed the House of Special Purpose)
in Yekaterinburg, along with the Royal Family and with 3 other faithful servants - Anna Demidova, maid; Ivan Kharitonov, chef and Dr. Eugene Botkin.
Shortly after midnight Commander Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the command at the Ipatiev House, knocked on Botkin's door and ordered him to waken the Romanov party, get dressed and come downstairs. Yurovksy told him there was firing in the town and the party was to be evacuated immediately. Instead, the family and their servants were murdered a short time later while believing they were posing for a photograph.
Every attempt was made to destroy the bodies before they were thrown into an unmarked pit in the woods. For 58 years the whereabouts of the pit remained a secret. In 1976 the pit was first discovered but remained a secret awaiting the time for a formal investigation. In 1991 the site was documented and the investigation began. The remains in the pit were identified by proper forensics and DNA testing. They discovered there the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their daughters: (all titled as Grand Duchess) Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia, along with Botkin, Demidova, Trupp, and Kharitonov. Later excavations in 2007 a short distance away yielded the remains of Grand Duchess Maria and Tsarevich Alexei, their remains also having been tested as the first group.
In 1981 The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) glorified (canonized) the Imperial Family and their four servants as Saints, titled Martyrs of the Revolution. On July 17, 1998, eighty years after their execution, the remains of all those in the first pit were entombed in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter & Paul in St. Petersburgh. This is the traditional burial site of the Romanov family royals. Despite extensive forensics and DNA testing the Russian government and the Moscow Patriarchate have not accepted the idenity of the remains. They were interred without mention of their names or titles.
In 2000 the Moscow Patriarchate acknowledged ROCOR's glorification of the Imperial Family only, using the title Passion Bearers.
At this time (Feb. 2014) no plans have been made to inter the remains of Tsarevich Alexei or Grand Duchess Maria with the rest of their family. Their bones remain the property of the Russian State Archive.
He was murdered by assassination carried out by forces of the Bolshevik secret police in the cellar room of the Ipatiev House (dubbed the House of Special Purpose)
in Yekaterinburg, along with the Royal Family and with 3 other faithful servants - Anna Demidova, maid; Ivan Kharitonov, chef and Dr. Eugene Botkin.
Shortly after midnight Commander Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the command at the Ipatiev House, knocked on Botkin's door and ordered him to waken the Romanov party, get dressed and come downstairs. Yurovksy told him there was firing in the town and the party was to be evacuated immediately. Instead, the family and their servants were murdered a short time later while believing they were posing for a photograph.
Every attempt was made to destroy the bodies before they were thrown into an unmarked pit in the woods. For 58 years the whereabouts of the pit remained a secret. In 1976 the pit was first discovered but remained a secret awaiting the time for a formal investigation. In 1991 the site was documented and the investigation began. The remains in the pit were identified by proper forensics and DNA testing. They discovered there the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their daughters: (all titled as Grand Duchess) Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia, along with Botkin, Demidova, Trupp, and Kharitonov. Later excavations in 2007 a short distance away yielded the remains of Grand Duchess Maria and Tsarevich Alexei, their remains also having been tested as the first group.
In 1981 The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) glorified (canonized) the Imperial Family and their four servants as Saints, titled Martyrs of the Revolution. On July 17, 1998, eighty years after their execution, the remains of all those in the first pit were entombed in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter & Paul in St. Petersburgh. This is the traditional burial site of the Romanov family royals. Despite extensive forensics and DNA testing the Russian government and the Moscow Patriarchate have not accepted the idenity of the remains. They were interred without mention of their names or titles.
In 2000 the Moscow Patriarchate acknowledged ROCOR's glorification of the Imperial Family only, using the title Passion Bearers.
At this time (Feb. 2014) no plans have been made to inter the remains of Tsarevich Alexei or Grand Duchess Maria with the rest of their family. Their bones remain the property of the Russian State Archive.
