Czar Nicholas and his family waited patiently in the basement. For much of 1918, the had been the captives of the Bolsheviks who overthrew Nicholas II in the bloody , and they were used to moving from place to place.
They had no idea they had reached their final destination. Suddenly, armed thugs rushed in. Yakov Yurovsky, a revolutionary who led the Bolshevik's secret police, told Nicholas he was about to be executed.
"What? What?" the czar. It was too late: The murder of the entire Russian imperial family, the Romanovs, had been ordered by the highest levels of Soviet leadership.
But the execution-style killings were just the beginning. The lifeless bodies of Russia's last monarch, his wife Alexandra, and their five children, Alexei, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, were about to go on a journey that would stretch over years, stoke controversy and stump historians.
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The Romanovs
Non-FictionThe Romanov family was the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia. They first came to power in 1613, and over the next 3 centuries, 18 Romanovs took the Russian throne, including Peter the great, Catherine the great, Alexander 1 and Nicholas 2. During...
