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An 1850s caricature ridiculing the pre-reform court system. General judicial settlements included district courts, judicial chambers, and the Senate. [4] Each district court covered several uyezds. Judges were nominated by the Minister of Justice and appointed by the tsar. A judge had to meet certain requirements, which included a length of ...
In April 1918, the Romanovs were moved to the Russian town of Yekaterinburg, in the Urals, where they were placed in the Ipatiev House. Here, on the night of 16–17 July 1918, the entire Russian Imperial Romanov family, along with several of their retainers, were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, most likely on the orders of Vladimir Lenin.
The name comes from the fact that they were initially established by Emperor Paul I of Russia in 1797. Previously drafted privately as a contract between Paul Petrovich while being the heir apparent, and his wife Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) , it was made public and signed into law after Paul succeeded his mother Catherine ...
A century after the brutal murders of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, and their five children (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei), the execution of the Russian imperial ...
A brief history of Ipatiev House, the fortified mansion where the Romanovs were held captive and executed on that fateful morning in 1918. A brief history of Ipatiev House, the fortified mansion ...
The Romanovs were kept in strict isolation at the Ipatiev House. [34] They were forbidden to speak any language other than Russian [35] and were not permitted access to their luggage, which was stored in a warehouse in the interior courtyard. [34] Their Brownie cameras and photographic equipment were confiscated. [33]
The ordinary tribunals, in their organization, personnel and procedure, were modelled very closely on those of France.From the town judge (), who, in spite of the principle laid down in 1864, combines judicial and administrative functions, an appeal lies (as in the case of the justices of the community) to an assembly of such judges; from these again there is an appeal to the district court ...
The Ostankino District Court of Moscow said in a statement dated Jan. 6 but released Tuesday that Robert Romanov Woodland would be detained for two months as part of a "pre-trial restriction.