Murder of the Romanov family - Wikipedia
WEBThe 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.
Nicholas II | Biography, Wife, Abdication, Death, & Facts
WEBAug 23, 2024 · Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor (1894–1917), whose autocratic but indecisive rule and disastrous military ventures led to the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. He abdicated in 1917 but was killed, along with his wife, Alexandra, and their children, by the Bolsheviks the following year.
Tsar Nicholas II - Death, Wife & Family - Biography
WEBApr 2, 2014 · On the night of July 16-17, 1918, Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, thus ending more than three centuries of the Romanov ...
Nicholas II - Wikipedia
WEBTsar Nicholas II was the first cousin once-removed of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich. To distinguish between them, the Grand Duke was often known within the imperial family as "Nikolasha" and "Nicholas the Tall", while the Tsar was "Nicholas the Short".
Tsar Nicholas II’s children: What we know about them (PHOTOS)
WEBTsar Nicholas II with wife and five children. Public domain, color by Klimbim. In November 1894, Nicholas II married the granddaughter of British Queen Victoria – German Princess Alix of...
Romanov Family: Facts, Death & Rasputin - HISTORY
WEBSep 21, 2017 · Mondadori via Getty Images. The Romanov family was the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia. They first came to power in 1613, and over the next three centuries, 18 Romanovs took the Russian...
Why Czar Nicholas II and the Romanovs Were Murdered
WEBOct 25, 2018 · Czar Nicholas II’s immediate family was executed in 1918. But there are still living descendants with royal claims to the Romanov name.
BBC - History - Historic Figures: Nicholas II (1868-1918)
WEBNikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born near St Petersburg on 18 May 1868, the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III. When he succeeded his father in 1894, he had very little experience of...
Russian Empire - Nicholas II, Autocracy, Reforms | Britannica
WEB5 days ago · Russian Empire - Nicholas II, Autocracy, Reforms: The death of Alexander III on November 1 (October 20, Old Style), 1894, like that of Nicholas I nearly 40 years earlier, aroused widespread hopes of a milder regime and of social reforms.
Death of a dynasty: Behind the Romanov family's assassination
WEBJul 20, 2018 · The five children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in a 1910 photo, eight years before war and revolution would sweep them all to a violent death.