Background
Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov was born in 1868 to Prince and Princess Alexander Vasilievich and Mary Sergeyevna Dolgorukov.
Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov was born in 1868 to Prince and Princess Alexander Vasilievich and Mary Sergeyevna Dolgorukov.
After the arrest of the Russian Imperial Family following the February Revolution, he voluntarily accompanied the family into internal exile in Tsarskoe Selo and later Tobolsk. He was barred from joining them in Yekaterinburg in April 1918, and was killed by order of the Bolshevik government in that July. In 1907 Dolgorukov became an adjutant, in 1910 a General, and in 1914 a commander of the Imperial Guard cavalry regiment, the Life-Guard Horse Artillery unit
During World War I, he was appointed Marshal of the Imperial Court.
Deeply devoted to the Tsar, on August 14, 1917 he voluntarily accompanied the Imperial family to imprisonment in Tobolsk. He was separated from them when they were transferred to Ekaterinburg.
During imprisonment, Dolgorukov constantly pressured the British Consulate in Ekaterinburg to help the Imperial family, using pencil-written notes smuggled from his prison cell. Accused of plotting to rescue the Imperial family, Dolgorukov, Countess Hendrikova and Count Tatishchev were taken by Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation agents beyond the city"s Ivanovskoe Cemetery on July 10, shot in the head and thrown into a pit.
They were executed by Grigory Nikulin, Yakov Yurovsky"s assistant, both of whom also murdered the Imperial family a week later.
Dolgorukov was only buried when the town was captured by the White Army.
Dolgoruukov was initially allowed to stay in the city when he arrived at the end of April, but was arrested by the Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation secret police, along with Count Ilya Tatishchev, Countess Anastasia Hendrikova, lady in waiting to the Empress, as "enemies of the socialist revolution", after maps of the region showing river routes were found in his lodgings.