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