Grave of Russian engineer Nikolai Ipatiev in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Military and transport engineer Nikolai Nikolayevich Ipatiev (1869 - 1938) was an owner of the notoriously Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered in July 1918 by the Bolsheviks. Engineer Ipatiev lived in exile in Czechoslovakia afterward and died on April 20, 1938. His burial niche is decorated with an orthodox icon of the Saviour Made Without Hands. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built
Grave of Russian engineer Nikolai Ipatiev in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Military and transport engineer Nikolai Nikolayevich Ipatiev (1869 - 1938) was an owner of the notoriously Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered in July 1918 by the Bolsheviks. Engineer Ipatiev lived in exile in Czechoslovakia afterward and died on April 20, 1938. His burial niche is decorated with an orthodox icon of the Saviour Made Without Hands. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built in 1924-1925 by the Russian white emigre. The underground crypt was used as a burial place for the most notable persons of the Russian emigration in Czechoslovakia.
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