![]() ![]() They were next moved to a house in Yekaterinburg, near the Ural Mountains before their execution in July 1918. ![]() įollowing the February Revolution in 1917, the Romanovs and their servants had been imprisoned in the Alexander Palace before being moved to Tobolsk, Siberia, in the aftermath of the October Revolution. The bodies were taken to the Koptyaki forest, where they were stripped, buried, and mutilated with grenades to prevent identification. Also murdered that night were members of the imperial entourage who had accompanied them: court physician Eugene Botkin lady-in-waiting Anna Demidova footman Alexei Trupp and head cook Ivan Kharitonov. ![]() ![]() 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 by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918. Clockwise from top: the Romanov family, Ivan Kharitonov, Alexei Trupp, Anna Demidova, and Eugene Botkin ![]()
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