Age | 33 (age at death) |
Birthday | 1885 |
Died | 28 June, 1918 |
Place of Death | small wooded area behind the Yekaterinburg-2 railway station (modern name – Shartash |
Nationality | Russian |
Claim to Fame | He was the personal servant of the Imperial children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia |
Ivan Dmitrievich Sednev (1885 – 1918), was a Russian sailor. He was the personal servant of the Imperial children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
He originally served as a sailor of the imperial yacht. He served the former Imperial family during their exile in Siberia during the Russian revolution. He was killed shortly before the Execution of the Romanov family.
Of the peasants, parents were engaged in agriculture. Upon reaching working age, I. D. Sednev began to work as a butterman at the Varguni paper station. After the death of his father, the whole family (mother and sister) remained in the care of I. D. Sednev. Soon after, he was married. The wedding took place in the Uglich church of the Korsun Mother of God. After the wedding, in 1909, I. D. Sednev left for St. Petersburg to earn money. Having settled down, he transferred to the capital and his wife. At the beginning of 1911 he was called up for service in the Navy . He began his service as a machinist on the Polar Star yacht, then he was transferred to the Standard Imperial yacht.
Has three children Lyudmila, Olga, and Dmitry, with Maria Alekseevna Chistyakova.