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Execution of the Romanov family
The
Russian Imperial
Romanov family
(
Tsar Nicholas II
, his wife
Tsarina Alexandra
and their five children
Olga
,
Tatiana
,
Maria
,
Anastasia
, and
Alexei
) and all those who chose to accompany them into exile – notably
Eugene Botkin
,
Anna Demidova
,
Alexei Trupp
and
Ivan Kharitonov
– were shot in
Yekaterinburg
on 17 July 1918. The Tsar and his family were executed by Bolsheviks led by
Yakov Yurovsky
under the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet.
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