Koptyaki

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Image of Ganina Yama located in Koptyaki, Russia | Ganina Yama.
Koptyaki, Russia

Ganina Yama

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered

"... I asked in passing, 'Oh yes and where is the tsar?' 'It's all over,' he answered. 'He has been shot.' 'And where is his family?' 'And the family with him.' - Leon Trotsky, on finding out... »

Memento Mori, Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Annetta and Nicholas Jackson

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