Ekaterinburg, June 30, 1918

The Murder of Sednev and Nagorny

It was once said in the Urals that “every intelligent person in Russia should sit in prison for a while.” (1) Russian Revolutionary Ivan Mikhailovich Malyshev fulfilled this trope by spending no fewer than four custodial sentences behind bars, before being arrested for a fifth time in January 1918, and then being released in the wake of the February Rev…