The Mineshaft in Alapaevsk

On July 5(18), 1918, a group of members of the Russian Royal family and their servants were thrown alive in a mineshaft near Alapaevsk, where they died in torments from their wounds and thirst. There were Grand Duchess Elizabeth with her cell attendant nun Barbara, Princes John, Igor and Constantine -- sons of Grand Duke Constantine, Prince Sergei Michailovich with his steward Theodore Remez, and Count Vladimir Palei.

New Martyrs, Confessors, and Passion-Bearers of Russia

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