The Arkhipov House – Almost “The House of Special Purpose.”

by Penny Wilson

In the first months of 1918, when it became clear to the Moscow Bolsheviks that they would not be able to bring the Romanovs back to the capital for trial – or at least not at that time – the Ural Bolsheviks centered in Ekaterinburg were advised to begin looking for a secure location in which to hold the family. Yakov Sverdlov wrote:

“At your discretion,…