Ekateringburg and the Romanovs

Paul said at Vladimir that he wished we were travelling straight through to Irkutsk because there wasn’t a lot to see in Ekateringburg.  Well, apart from the fact that I could guarantee there would be a lot of churches (no longer a selling point), I was glad we were splitting our journey and I was interested to see this city, the industrial capital of Russian on the border between Europe and Asia.
Of course Ekateringburg is infamous as a result of it’s connection to the “demise” of the Romanovs but more of that later.