Ivan Dmitrievich Sednev (1881 – 28 June 1918

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

), was a Russian sailor. He was the personal servant of the Imperial children of Tsar

Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, Congress Poland, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until Abdication of Nicholas II, hi ...

. His nephew, Leonid Sednev, was a kitchen boy in the imperial court and was Tsarevich Alexis's last companion in the days before his

execution Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in ...

at the

Ipatiev House Ipatiev House () was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg (city in 1924 renamed Sverdlovsk, in 1991 renamed back to Yekaterinburg) where the abdicated Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918, reigned 1894–1917), all his immediate family, and ...

Biography

Ivan Dmitrievich Sednev originally served as a sailor of the imperial yacht. He served the former Imperial family during their exile in Siberia during the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution, social change in Russian Empire, Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia Dissolution of the Russian Empire, abolish its mona ...

. He and

Klimenty Grigorievich Nagorny Klimenty Grigorievich Nagorny (1887 – 28 June 1918) was a Russian sailor. He was the personal assistant of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. Biography Klimenty Grigorievich Nagorny was born in 1887. He originally served as a sailor ...

, who was another former sailor aboard the imperial yacht, were killed shortly before the

murder of the Romanov family The abdicated Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikola ...

, on 28 June 1918.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sednev, Ivan Dmitrievich 1885 births 1918 deaths Court of Nicholas II of Russia Imperial Russian Navy personnel People of the Russian Revolution