High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ipatiev House (Russian: Дом Ипатьева) was a merchant`s house in Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family and members of his household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution. Coincidentally, its name is identical with that of the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, from where the Romanovs came to the throne.