We're all familiar with Ipatiev House, during the Imperial Family's captivity there, and to a lesser extent, before and after. But the well-known views of the house are overwhelmingly from the south looking at its southerly side along Vosnesensky Lane, and from the east , looking at its eastern facade along Vosnesensky Prospekt , the wide avenue runing north and south. Sorry I can't provide photos , but these are the obvious views.
The question is , what were the properties like on the north side of the IH property, and likewise, what lay to its west, in both cases immediately adjoining IH property ? I think I know ,but I could go for some specific input. I think to the north was another house and to the west , on a downward slope was eventually a lake, though I don't know how far from the IH western property line.
The intriguing thing about this if I understand the layout more or less correctly, and from what we know independently,is that were no fences or pallisades barring access to the IH from those sides, and yet the Bolsheviks obviously wouldn't have allowed movement over those property borders. What was going on? Did they also control those adjoining properties? I think not. Did IH also originally have serious fencing along its western and northern facing sides?
I think I've seen photos, I think post-Romanov captivity, that show the IH situated pretty snugly among its neighbors on the north and west, but this is hard to pin down. Also, nothing I've read about the Bolshevik concern with isolating the house says a word about those two sides.
So, what do you all know about this?