House of Special Purpose was the Bolshevik code name for the Ipatiev House used as a place of confinement for the last czar of Russia Nicholas II and his family after his forced abdication of the throne. After spending seventy-eight days in the house during the early morning hours of April 17th 1918 the royal family is escorted to a basement room where they were assassinated. The killing squad was shocked and horrified when the bullets from their weapons bounced off the czars children. Unbeknown