It should came as no surprise Commandant Avdayev was relieved of duty, and replaced with someone who was willing to murder the family, one Yakov Yurovsky. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1983. The team haddug up the Villa garden and scoured the forests but the graves were allusive. President Boris Yeltsin ordered the remains dug up and studied. One of themostreasonablestories was thatAnastasia wasbadly wounded but alive when here body was thrown in the back of the Fiat. Against Peters will, his mother pushed him into a marriage with Eudoxia Lopukhina, the daughter of a minor Russian noble. Just liketheir brother, theGrand Duchesses were allwearing undergarments with the royal jewels sewn into them. Unknown to Yurovsky, Alexei, was wearingan under shirtthat hadsome of the royal jewelssewn into it, basically creating abullet proof vest. Her German ancestry and her devotion to Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin contributed to her unpopularity. When he succeeded his fatherCzar Alexander IIINicholas II had little experience in government. June 9, 1672 - February 8, 1725. At first, you might think Eudoxia got lucky. Peter and Ivan had a large, dual-seated throne to use for matters of state. Oh, and he was a daddy, too! Peters 15-year-old brother Fyodor took the throne next. When Yakov Yurovskyis mentioned he is usually described as a Chekist thug, drunk, Jew, jeweler, thief and a murderer. It lasted two decades, but by the time it had finished, Russia would be changed forever. Thebullets caught her in the upper thigh shattering the bone sending her crashing to the floor, no doubt in excruciating pain but alive. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006. Ipatiev himself has been summonedby the Ural Soviet sometime prior, and told to vacatehis home as it was required for a special purpose by the Revolution. On Annas death (1740), her elder sisters daughter Anna Leopoldovna, whose father belonged to the house of Mecklenburg, assumed the regency for her son Ivan VI, of the house of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, but in 1741 this Ivan VI was deposed in favour of Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I and Catherine I. Thereafter the succession followed Pauls rules: Alexander II, 185581; Alexander III, 188194; and Nicholas II, 18941917.