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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.
Alexei Nikolaevich (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич) (12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1904 – 17 July 1918) was the last Tsesarevich (heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire). [note 1] He was the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Tsarevich Alexei’s short life was full of pain and suffering: he was afflicted by a congenital disease his entire life, and was shot by the Bolsheviks at the age of 13. When Alexandra Feodorovna,...
25 paź 2018 · Learn how the Romanov family, including Alexei, was executed by Bolsheviks in July 1918 after being imprisoned for months. Explore the factors that led to their downfall, such as Nicholas' unpopular reign, World War I, Rasputin's influence and the October Revolution.
20 lip 2018 · Death of a dynasty: Behind the Romanov family's assassination. The Romanovs, in a 1913 photo. In the center of the group, Tsar Nicholas II sits with his wife, the tsarina Alexandra. Behind,...
21 wrz 2017 · She believed the self-proclaimed holy man could cure her son Alexei’s chronic illness. Alexei, the only son and heir to the throne, suffered from severe hemophilia, and was often confined to...
24 wrz 2015 · Tsar Alexander II was killed by a bomb thrown by a "People's Will" revolutionary in 1881, and buried in his military uniform in the Peter and Paul Cathedral. A lawyer for Grand Duchess Maria...
