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The
murder of the Romanov family
, the imperial family of Russia, took place on the night of 16–17 July 1918 in
Yekaterinburg
. Following the
February Revolution
, the
Romanov family
and their servants had been imprisoned in the
Alexander Palace
near
Saint Petersburg
before being moved to
Tobolsk
in Siberia in the aftermath of the
October Revolution
. They were shot and
bayoneted
to death by
Bolshevik
revolutionaries under
Yakov Yurovsky
on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in
Ipatiev House
. This 1913 photograph of the family depicts the imperial couple and their five children: from left to right,
Grand Duchess Olga
,
Grand Duchess Maria
,
Emperor Nicholas II
,
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
,
Grand Duchess Anastasia
,
Tsesarevich Alexei
, and
Grand Duchess Tatiana
.
Photograph credit: Levitsky Studio; restored by
Wolcott
and
Yann Forget
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
Template:POTD
Picture of the day archives
:
2022 July
<
2022 July 16
2022 July 18
>
Picture of the day
The
murder of the Romanov family
, the imperial family of Russia, took place on the night of 16–17 July 1918 in
Yekaterinburg
. Following the
February Revolution
, the
Romanov family
and their servants had been imprisoned in the
Alexander Palace
near
Saint Petersburg
before being moved to
Tobolsk
in Siberia in the aftermath of the
October Revolution
. They were shot and
bayoneted
to death by
Bolshevik
revolutionaries under
Yakov Yurovsky
on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in
Ipatiev House
. This 1913 photograph of the family depicts the imperial couple and their five children: from left to right,
Grand Duchess Olga
,
Grand Duchess Maria
,
Emperor Nicholas II
,
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
,
Grand Duchess Anastasia
,
Tsesarevich Alexei
, and
Grand Duchess Tatiana
.
Photograph credit: Levitsky Studio; restored by
Wolcott
and
Yann Forget
Archive
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:
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