In addition, the Patriarch was decorated with the Order of St. Anna (pictured below) and was promised another additional order that only the Czar himself was able to bestow. However, the Bolshevik uprising in 1917, during the October Revolution prevented this second decoration being awarded to Mar Benyamin.The assassination of Mar Benyamin took place in 1918 on March 3, and although historical consensus on the event of the assassination of the Czar's Romanov family is not fully established, 17 July 1918 would be the date given by Yakov Yurovsky, the chief executioner of the Romanov family.