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25 paź 2018 · All seven of the Romanovs—and the last gasp of the Russian monarchy—were dead. What may have looked like an impromptu murder was in fact a carefully planned act of violence.
Background. Clockwise from top: the Romanov family, Eugene Botkin, Ivan Kharitonov, Anna Demidova, and Alexei Trupp. On 22 March 1917, Tsar Nicholas II, deposed as a monarch and addressed by the sentries as "Nicholas Romanov", was reunited with his family at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo.
17 lip 2018 · Why Czar Nicholas II and the Romanovs Were Murdered. The imperial family fell out of favor with the Russian public long before their execution by Bolsheviks in July 1918.
17 lip 2017 · After the 1917 February Revolution in Russia, the former Tsar Nicholas II and his family were placed under house arrest. Initially they were held at the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo outside Petrograd, later being moved to the Governor’s Residence at Tobolsk in the Urals.
20 lip 2018 · The Romanovs were to be killed because they were the supreme symbols of autocracy. The irony was that, in Yekaterinburg, the Bolsheviks had turned them into the opposite of aristocrats.
Even after the family was killed there was a lot of confusion surrounding their death. Why? They were murdered in western Siberia, where there weren’t any press or diplomats.
3 sty 2019 · We spoke to her about her latest book, To Free the Romanovs: Royal Kinship and Betrayal in Europe, 1917-1919, to discover how Britain’s George V left the Imperial family high and dry, and the pivotal role she played in laying an empress to rest.
