Leonid Ivanovich Sednev (Russian: Леонид Иванович Седнев) (1903 – 1941 or 1942[1]) was a chef's assistant who, together with his uncle Ivan Dmitriyevich Sednev,[2] served former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his family during their exile in Siberian villages of Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg from 1917 to 1918.

[citation needed] Officials from the Ural Regional Soviet then shipped him off to live with relatives in Kaluga.

[5] Sednev is alleged to have written a brief set of memoirs of his time in the Ipatiev House, though its existence is disputed.

[citation needed] There are conflicting accounts of his ultimate fate; according to one report, he was shot in 1929 in Yaroslavl on charges of participating in a counter-revolutionary conspiracy, while other evidence suggests that he was killed during the Battle of Moscow in 1941; according to the obd-memorial.ru (CAMO) he was executed on the verdict of the tribunal of the Bryansk Front for an unspecified crime on 17 July 1942, exactly 24 years to the day the Romanovs were executed.

[6] On October 1, 2008, the Presidium of the Russian Supreme Court approved a petition to recognize the Imperial Family and many of their servants, including Sednev, as victims of political repression.