Ganina Jama

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Ganina Jama ( Russian Га́нина Я́ма , literally Ganja's pit ) is a place in the Russian Urals region . It is located between the Shuwakish settlement and the village of Koptjaki, about 15 km northwest of Yekaterinburg . The Four Brothers iron ore mine used to be located here .

This is where the bodies of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II , his wife Alexandra Feodorovna and their five children were thrown into the disused pit after they were murdered in the Ipatiev House on the night of July 16-17, 1918 during the course of the Russian civil war had been. A day later, the bodies were recovered and burned and buried about 3.6 kilometers to the southeast. There the remains were found in 1979 through secret private research by geologist Alexander Awdonin.

Today a worship cross is erected at the place of the cremation.

In 2000 a Russian Orthodox male monastery "Monastery of the Holy Tsar Martyrs" was founded in Ganina Jama . The monastery is a unique ensemble, which consists of seven wooden churches and was built by the monks themselves. The wood in these churches was only worked with ax and saw. The seven churches are each dedicated to a member of the royal family.

On September 14, 2010 a fire u. a. the main church (church for Nicholas II, see picture before the fire) of the monastery was badly damaged.

  • Adoration cross in Ganina Jama monastery

  • Entrance to Ganina Jama Monastery

  • Church of Nicholas II in the Ganina Jama monastery

  • The Tsar's Way from Yekaterinburg to Ganina Jama

swell

  • Robert Massie: Romanovs, the Last Chapter
  • G. King, P. Wilson: The Fate of the Romanovs , 2005
  • MD Steinberg, VM Khrustalev: Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution , 1997
  • Images by the author (German)

Web links

Commons : Ganina Yama  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) SEARCH Foundation, Inc.
  2. ^ [1] Message from ru-aktuell, accessed on September 14, 2010, 3:10 pm

Coordinates: 56 ° 56 ′ 32 ″  N , 60 ° 28 ′ 24 ″  E