Ivan Kharitonov

Russian saint (1870–1918)

Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov (Russian: Иван Михайлович Харитонов; 1872 – 17 July 1918) was the Head Cook at the court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. He followed the Romanov family into internal exile following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was murdered with them by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918 at Ekaterinburg.

Like the Romanovs, Kharitonov was canonized as a passion-bearer of Soviet oppression by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1991.^[1]

Kharitonov's wife and daughter followed him into exile at Tobolsk but did not join him when the Bolsheviks moved the prisoners to Ekaterinburg in the spring of 1918.^[2]

Kharitonov's grandson attended the funeral held on 17 July 1998 in Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg for his grandfather, the Romanovs, their servants (Anna Demidova and Alexei Trupp), and the other victims who were murdered eighty years before.^[3]

Notes

^ King, Greg, and Wilson, Penny, The Fate of the Romanovs, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003, pp. 65, 495
^ King and Wilson, p. 65
^ "17 July 1998: The funeral of Tsar Nicholas II". romanovfundforrussia.org. 1998. Archived from the original on 29 December 2006. Retrieved 28 February 2007.

Murder of the Romanov family

Victims

Romanovs	Emperor Nicholas II of Russia Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
Entourage	Eugene Botkin Anna Demidova Alexei Trupp Ivan Kharitonov
Pets	Ortino Jemmie Joy

Perpetrators

Organizers	Vladimir Lenin Yakov Sverdlov Felix Dzerzhinsky Filipp Goloshchyokin Alexander Beloborodov Boris Didkovsky Georgy Safarov Nikolay Tolmachyov Pyotr Voykov Fyodor Lukoyanov Gavril Myasnikov Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Executioners	Yakov Yurovsky Grigory Nikulin Peter Ermakov Mikhail Medvedev-Kudrin Pavel Medvedev Stepan Vaganov Alexey Kabanov