Yevgeny Stepanovich Kobylinsky (Russian: Евгений Степанович Кобылинский) was born into a noble family in Kiev on 11 October [O.S.

1 March] 1917 Kobylinsky was appointed commandant of the Alexander Palace,[1] where the former Russian Imperial Family was imprisoned.

He was hired as an accountant by the Rybinsk County Bureau of Statistics in July 1921, and soon after married Claudia Bitner, a former tutor to the Imperial children from Tsarskoe Selo, with whom he had a son, Innokenty.

[2] In 1926 a Tobolsk resident named Paulina Mežanc suggested during an interrogation that Kobylinsky was in possession of jewelry that once belonged to the Imperial family.

He was sacked by his employer, charged with "monarchical conspiracy" against the Soviet state, and was killed by firing squad in Moscow, along with eight others, that December.