Ipatiev House
The decembrists who were sentenced to the exile in Tobolsk had to visit the house. On , the former Russian Emperor Nicholas II, who lost power when he abdicated in response to the February Revolution of 1917; his wife; five children; and forty-five retainers were imprisoned in the mansion. They remained there until April 1918, when they were transferred to the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg and eventually executed.