Peter Ermakov
Pyotr Zakharovich Ermakov | |
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Died | 22 May 1952 | (aged 67)
Pyotr Zakharovich Ermakov (
Biography
Pyotr Zakharovich Ermakov was born on 13 December [
Soon, Ermakov became a member of the underground Yekaterinburg Committee of the RSDLP, which transferred him to an illegal position. Ermakov was assigned the role of one of the leaders of the militants, whose main task was expropriation. The most striking event for Ermakov was the expropriation of the factory cash desk in favor of the Ural Committee of the RSDLP, during which 6 people were killed and 12,400 rubles were seized. During a congress of the Ural party district, Ermakov was arrested, imprisoned for one year and then exiled to the city of Velsk.
By the outbreak of the
Murder of the Imperial Family
By early 1918, the former
According to historians
Prior to the killings, Ermakov had promised his Upper Isetsk companions that they would get to rape the women and kill the males, instructing them to wait in the forest with light carts for transporting the bodies.
Later life
Ermakov later participated directly in the Russian Civil War, and after the war found work in law enforcement in Omsk, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk. His political career did not work out, in large parts due to his borderline illiteracy and alcoholism. In 1927, Ermakov was employed as inspector for the prisons of the Urals region, and by 1934 was drawing his pension.
In 1935, Ermakov, claiming to be dying of cancer, gave an interview to American journalist Richard Halliburton, describing the burning and destruction of the bodies of the Imperial family and their servants.[10] It was later discovered that his "deathbed confession" had been staged by the NKVD; the story was deliberately fabricated and then spoon-fed to the naive Halliburton in order to conceal the actual events.[11]
Unlike the other killers, Ermakov received no awards or advancements for his part in the murders, for which he grew bitter. For the rest of his life,[12] he fought relentlessly for primacy by inaccurately inflating his role in the murders as well as the revolution.[11] Towards the end of his life, he lived in extreme poverty. The memoirs of residents of Sverdlovsk, who saw him at the end of his life on the church porch, have been preserved: Ermakov begged for alms.
Death
Ermakov died in Sverdlovsk on 22 May 1952 from throat cancer at the age of 67 and was buried at Ivanovskoye Kladbishche. After his death, which was reported in the Ural Worker, the local Communist Party renamed one of the streets in Sverdlovsk to Ermakova. After 1991, the street was renamed back to its historical name of Klyuchevskaya. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, some local
In popular culture
Ermakov appears as the principal antagonist in the 2020
References
- ^ a b Paul Gilbert (18 July 2014), Communists Lay Flowers at the Grave of the Murderer of Russia's Imperial Family, Royal Russia News, archived from the original on 2 February 2017, retrieved 1 October 2016
- ^ Alexandrov 1966, p. 232.
- ^ Steinberg & Khrustalev 1995, p. 361.
- ^ Massie 2012, p. 26.
- ^ Radzinsky 2011, p. 402.
- ^ a b c Slater 2007, p. 9.
- ^ a b c Rappaport 2010, p. 197.
- ^ Rappaport 2010, p. 198.
- ^ Rappaport 2010, p. 196.
- ^ "1935". Scientific Expedition to Account for the Romanov Children. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ a b Rappaport 2010, p. 215.
- ^ Radzinsky 2011, p. 397.
Bibliography
- Alexandrov, Victor (1966). The End of the Romanovs. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 1033574974.
- Massie, Robert K. (2012). The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. New York: The Modern Library. ISBN 9780679645634.
- Rappaport, Helen (2010). The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9780312603472.
- Radzinsky, Edvard (2011). The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday. ISBN 9781299006898.
- Slater, Wendy (2007). The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415345163.
- Steinberg, Mark D.; Khrustalev, Vladimir M. (1995). The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300065572.
External links
- Media related to Peter Ermakov at Wikimedia Commons