Yekaterinburg

You reported Boris Yeltsin’s election campaign activity in Yekaterinburg, and in passing mentioned that this is an industrial city by the Isyet River, and that Yeltsin is a popular son (June 15). All very interesting.

But you don’t tell us that it was in this Yekaterinburg in 1918 that former Czar Nicholas II, his wife, their five children, the family doctor and three servants were murdered--with bullets and bayonets.

Yeltsin was a commissar in Yekaterinburg when the Soviets were in power and it was he who demolished the Ipatiev house in which the murders took place. It had become a place of pilgrimage.

NORMAN JOHNSON