Vasily Yakovlev

For the Russian zoologist, see Vasily Yakovlev (zoologist).
Yakovlev c. 1911
Location of the main events in the last days of Nicholas II and his family, who were held at Tobolsk from August 1917 to April 1918 before being transported to Ekaterinburg, where they were held for ten weeks before being murdered

Vasily Vasilyevich Yakovlev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Я́ковлев; 29 August [O.S. 17 August] 1885 – 16 September 1938) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. He participated in the October Revolution of 1917; 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 by the White Army, where he became a government advisor; and returned to the Soviet Union in 1928, where he was eventually arrested and executed. Yakovlev was portrayed by the actor Ian Holm in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra.