Ivan Kharitonov was a Russian chef who served as the head cook for the court of Tsar Nicholas II. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1870, he remained loyal to the Romanov family during the political upheavals of the Russian Revolution. Following the family into internal exile, he was eventually moved to Yekaterinburg. He died there in July 1918 when he was murdered by Bolshevik forces alongside the imperial family.