Eugene Botkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Court physician for Tsar Nicholas II
Date of Birth: 27-May-1865
Place of Birth: Tsarskoye Selo, Russia
Date of Death: 17-Jul-1918
Profession: physician
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Eugene Botkin
- Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin (Russian: ????´??? ?????´???? ??´????; 27 March 1865 – 17 July 1918), commonly known as Eugene Botkin, was the court physician for Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and, while in exile with the family, sometimes treated the haemophilia-related complications of the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. Botkin went into exile with the Romanovs following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was murdered with the family at Ekaterinburg on 17 July 1918.
- Like them, he was canonised as a passion-bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981. On 3 February 2016, the Bishop's Council of the Russian Orthodox Church church-wide canonised Botkin as Righteous Passion-Bearer Yevgeny the Physician.Dr.
- Botkin’s oldest son Dimitri was killed in World War I.
- His son Yuri became seriously ill from dysentery while fighting at the front but recovered.
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