Romanov family execution

OTAA ~ Olga, Tatiana, Alexei & Anastasia, April-May 1918.

Reconstruction of the positions the Romanovs and their servants were in while in the basement of Ipatiev House right before their execution.

A century on from the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family the Daily Mail looks at their bloody execution with a minute-by-minute account of the night they were killed by their Bolshevik guards.

Once upon a time there was a vast Empire stretching from the beaches of the Crimea to the deep Siberian forests. Its capital never knew the darkness of the night in summer, its countryside flourished with myths and folk legends.... It was a country of great men and of small, a land where beauty and suffering lived side by side. A world swept away, imprisoned forever in books and pictures.

It's been more than a century since the Tsar and his wife and children were brutally executed, but the story still has the power to shock.

'Anastasia' the movie may be a story of hope, but the real Anastasia's life had a much more tragic ending.

This web site is a virtual museum about the captivity and the tragic end of the Romanov in 1918. It presents notably a 3D reconstitution of their last place of detention, Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg

A century on from the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family the Daily Mail looks at their bloody execution with a minute-by-minute account of the night they were killed by their Bolshevik guards.