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By RYAN GORMAN Stunning images of the Russian imperial family have emerged nearly 100 years to the date they were taken. The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before ...
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.
The coat-of-arms of the Romanov boyars was included in legislation on the imperial dynasty, [12] and in a 1913 jubilee, Russia officially celebrated the "300th Anniversary of the Romanovs' rule". [13] After the February Revolution of 1917, a special decree of the Provisional Government of Russia granted all members of the imperial family the ...
After the transfer of the former tsar, tsarina and their daughter Maria to Ekaterinburg on April 30, 1918, and the subsequent transfer of the rest of the royal family from Tobolsk in mid-May, the Ural Bolsheviks realized that there would be too large a "concentration" of Romanovs in the city.
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 ...
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастасия Николаевна Романова, romanized: Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova; 18 June [O.S. 5 June] 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Though they died over a century ago, the burial of the Romanovs remains a controversy. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Entertainment. Fitness. Food. Games. Health ...
More than 60 years after her death, neighbors immediately identified photographs of Tatiana as being Larissa. Historians believe that the imperial family were all assassinated on July 17, 1918; however, rumors of the survival of one or more Romanov family members have persisted for nearly 90 years. [4]