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2. Murder of the Romanov family - Wikipedia

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   The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.

3. Yakov Yurovsky - Wikipedia

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   Yurovsky was commander of the guard at Ipatiev House during the assassination of the Romanov family on the night of 17 July 1918. He is known as the chief executioner of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family, and four of their servants. Yurovsky was responsible for the distribution of weapons, ordering the family to the cellar room ...

4. Canonization of the Romanovs - Wikipedia

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   The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Eastern Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last imperial family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei – by the Russian Orthodox Church.

5. The Romanovs' final days, as seen through the eyes of ... - AOL

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   The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before their 1917 execution at the hands of Lenin ... Pictures show Tsar Nicholas II, wife Alexandra, son Alexei, and daughters ...

6. Inside the Romanov Family's Final Days - AOL

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   A century after the brutal murders of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, and their five children (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei), the execution of the Russian imperial ...

7. Where Are the Romanovs Buried? - AOL

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   On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia ...

8. House of Romanov - Wikipedia

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   In 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Nicholas II and his family. Of the House of Romanov's 65 members, 47 survivors went into exile abroad. [10] In 1924, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, the senior surviving male-line descendant of Alexander II of Russia by primogeniture, claimed the headship of the defunct Imperial House of Russia.

9. Romanov impostors - Wikipedia

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   From left to right, Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Olga; Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Maria with Cossacks in 1916. Courtesy: Beinecke Library . Members of the ruling Russian imperial family, the House of Romanov , were executed by a firing squad led by Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg , Russia, on July 17, 1918 ...