Sednev, Ivan Dmitrievich

Of the peasants, parents were engaged in agriculture. Upon reaching working age, I. D. Sednev began to work as a butterman at the Varguni paper station. After the death of his father, the whole family (mother and sister) remained in the care of I. D. Sednev. Soon after, he was married. The wedding took place in the Uglich church of the Korsun Mother of God. After the wedding, in 1909, I. D. Sednev left for St. Petersburg to earn money. Having settled down, he transferred to the capital and his wife. At the beginning of 1911 he was called up for service in the Navy . He began his service as a machinist on the Polar Star yacht, then he was transferred to the Standard Imperial yacht ^[2] .

I. D. Sednev came to the service of the royal family thanks to the recommendation of his friend, the sailor of the “Standard”, K. G. Nagorny , who was an uncle under Cesarevich. I. D. Sednev became the lackey of the great princes, being not only an assistant, but also a bodyguard of the tsar’s children, accompanying them everywhere, which was vitally important at a time when revolutionaries hunted representatives of the reigning dynasty ^[2] .

In the diary entries of Nikolai and Alexandra, references to the Sednevs are often found, the latter called him “the good Sednev ...” ^[3] , and the maid of honor, A. A. Vyrubov , “a wonderful man” ^[2] .

In exile with the royal family. Arrest and death

When the imperial family was sent to Tobolsk in August 1917, all the imperial servants had the opportunity to leave the service, but I. D. Sednev chose to remain in the family of the abjured monarch and voluntarily went with them into exile. When the Tsar’s family was sent from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg in part of the Tsarevich Alexei’s disease, I. D. Sednev was sent to the first group together with the Tsar and Tsarina ^[4] .

In April 1918, a Bolshevik armed detachment arrived in Tobolsk, under the command of the sailor of the Baltic Fleet - P. D. Khokhryakov . Upon learning that there were Baltic sailors among the servants of the royal family, Khokhryakov threatened that he would settle accounts with the “traitors to the revolution” who “dishonored the revolutionary fleet” if they did not leave their service with the royal family ^[5] .

Before being allowed into Ipatiev’s house, all the servants who arrived with the royal family gave the security officers a receipt as follows: “I, the undersigned,… give a real receipt that, wishing to continue to serve under the former Tsar Nikolai Romanov, I undertake to obey and comply with all Uralsky orders "of the regional Council coming from the commandant of the house, considering himself on an equal footing, like the rest of the Romanov family." The historian V. M. Khrustalyov wrote that when signing this receipt, the tsar's servants signed their own death sentence ^[5] .

In Yekaterinburg, I.D. Sednev and K. G. Nagorny (who arrived with the second batch of exiles) almost immediately began conflicts with the Yekaterinburg guards of the imperial family - the former sailors of the “Standard” raised their voices in defense of the prisoners oppressed by the guards, began to wash off verses and walls drawings of indecent and offensive content for the imperial family that were left by the Red Army guards. But their fate finally decided that they allowed themselves to openly resent the fact that the guards steal things belonging to the royal family ^[6] .

Pierre Gilliard subsequently recalled: “... these two lovely little ones could not hide their indignation when they saw the Bolsheviks taking themselves the gold chain on which his images were hung at the bedside of the patient Alexei Nikolaevich” ^{[4] [7]} . On May 15 (28), 1918, I. D. Sednev and K. G. Nagorny were taken from the Ipatiev House and taken to Yekaterinburg Prison. The arrested servants were deprived of their belongings and money and placed in the common cell of the prison, where those arrested were detained by the emergency investigation commission. Their cellmate was Prince Lvov , who subsequently testified to the investigators about the killing of the imperial family about the stories of the arrested sailors about the conditions of the imperial family in Ipatiev’s house ^{[4] [8]} .

According to some sources, at the beginning of June 1918 ^[4] , according to other sources, at the beginning of July 1918 ^[2] they were removed from prison in a group of other prisoners, taken out of town to a deserted place and secretly, in the back, killed “for treason revolution ”- as indicated in the decree on their execution. The historian Khrustalyov wrote that Commissioner Khokhryakov thus fulfilled his threat ^[5] . The killers left their dead bodies at the scene of the murder not buried ^[4] . The Soviet Narodnaya Gazeta of the city of Shadrinsk published this notice on July 31, 1918: “Yekaterinburg, July 7. At the suggestion of the Regional Council of the Ural Regional Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution, the following hostages were shot: ... Sednev, ... ” ^[2] .

When Yekaterinburg was occupied by whites, the corpses of I. D. Sednev and K. G. Nagorny, half-decomposed and bent by birds, were found and solemnly buried on August 10, 1918 at the Church of All Who Mourn. Eyewitnesses of the funeral remembered that the graves of the former sailors of the “Standard” were strewn with many white flowers. The graves were destroyed when, during the Soviet era, a city park was created on the site of the cemetery ^[4] .

Wife: Maria Alekseevna Chistyakova from the village of Dyakonovka of the neighboring Christmas volost. The story that the Bolsheviks sent Leonid Sednev’s nephew from Ipatiev ’s house to "visit the freed uncle" fed her hope for a long time: her husband was alive.

Children ^{[3] [4]} :

• Lyudmila. Born in 1910 in St. Petersburg.
• Olga was born in Tsarskoye Selo , where I.D. Sednev, with the permission of Nicholas II, brought his wife and where the apartment was allocated to the Sednev family. Named after the godmother - Olga Nikolaevna . The baptismal cross of the Grand Duchess was passed down from generation to generation along the female line.
• Dmitry was born in 1917 in his native village of Sverchkovo, where I.D. Sednev sent his family from Petrograd in 1916. Until the end of a long life, he retained a clear mind and a good memory. Although he did not remember his father, he talked about him from the words of his mother. According to his memoirs, I. D. Sednev with respect and admiration told his wife about the Royal Family: “Man, what a calm family, what kind of children. We must pass on this upbringing to our children all completely ... "

All the family all the years of Soviet power was forced to hide their kinship with Ivan and Leonid Sednev - "royal servants" ^[4] .

Nephew: L. I. Sednev - at the request of his brother I. D. Sednev took his nephew from his native village to St. Petersburg "to attach at least somewhere . " Leonid became a student assistant cook (cook) in Tsarskoye Selo and a friend for the games of Tsarevich Alexei ^[3] . Information about the fate of L. I. Sednev is contradictory; there is evidence of his death in 1941 during the battles near Moscow ^[2] ; according to other sources, he was shot in 1929 in Yaroslavl on charges of a counter-revolutionary conspiracy ^[9] .

He was counted among the saints among the servants of the royal family, who were killed by the Soviet regime, in 1981, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad - the holy warrior John ^[3] .

On October 16, 2009, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation decided to rehabilitate 52 close relatives of the imperial family who were repressed, including Ivan Sednev ^[10] .

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