Vasily Yakovlev

Vasily Vasilyevich Yakovlev (; - 16 September 1938) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. He participated in the October Revolution of 1917; was a Cheka officer for a few months; transferred former Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family to Yekaterinburg, where they were later killed; rose to become a commander in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War; fled to China after being captured and released by the White Army, where he became a government advisor; and returned to the Soviet Union in 1928, where he was arrested for desertion and treason, and imprisoned; released in 1933, he was arrested again in 1938 for treason and executed during the Great Purge. Yakovlev was portrayed by the actor Ian Holm in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra. Provided by Wikipedia