Leonid Sednev

Leonid Ivanovich Sednev (Russian: Леонид Иванович Седнев) (1903-1942) was a chef's assistant who in 1917-18 served the former Russian Imperial Family during their exile in the Siberian villages of Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg. He served with his father, Ivan Dmitriyevich Sednev, a child lackey.

Six hours before the shooting of the former Imperial family and four retainers in the cellar of the Ipatiev House on the night of July 16/17, 1918 Sednev was taken to a neighboring house, held until July 20, and then put on a train by officials from the Ural Regional Soviet and sent to live with relatives in Kaluga. Sednev is alleged to have written a brief set of memoirs of his time in the Ipatiev house, though its existence has yet to be established..

On October 1, 2008 a petition to rehabilitate the Imperial Family, and a large number of servants, was presented to the Presidium of the Russian Supreme Court. Among the list is this excerpt: "In the late 1920s in the Yaroslavl Oblast, E.S. Kobylinsky, the former head of the guard of the royal family during their exile in Tobolsk, and L. Sednev, who in childhood was a cook's helper in the Ipatiev House, were executed for counter-revolutionary activity."