page_title: House arrest
section_title: Soviet Union
hierarchical_section_title: House arrest / Notable instances / Soviet Union
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo in the spring of 1917. Anastasia's King Charles Spaniel was called Jimmy and Tatiana's French Bulldog was called Ortino. It is from Livadia.org. It has been reproduced multiple times in different publications. Because of its age, I think it's probably in the public domain. If it's not, please delete the photo. Portrait of the Four Grand Duchesses, Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana (may 1917) - by Pierre Gilliard, The Last Days of the Romanovs Русский: Царское Село, Александровский парк. Арест императора и его семьи. Дочери Николая Романова и его сын Алексей.
context_page_description: In justice and law, house arrest is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence. Travel is usually restricted, if allowed at all. House arrest is an alternative to being in a prison while awaiting trial or after sentencing.
  While house arrest can be applied to criminal cases when prison does not seem an appropriate measure, the term is often applied to the use of house confinement as a measure of repression by authoritarian governments against political dissidents. In these cases, the person under house arrest often does not have access to any means of communication with people outside of the home; if electronic communication is allowed, conversations may be monitored.
context_section_description: Nicholas II, his wife, four daughters, one son and four retainers were placed under house arrest for over a year before communist revolutionaries murdered them on 17 July 1918.
  Former Premier Nikita Khrushchev was placed under house arrest for the seven years before his death after being deposed in 1964.
  Academician Andrey Sakharov was placed under house arrest in 1980 and released in 1987.
caption: Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana Nikolaevna under house arrest in Tsarskoye Selo, May 1917
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