Romanov’s Execution

Execution of the Imperial family in the Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg took place on on July 17, 1918. On the orders of Vladimir Lenin, the Romanov and the Tsar’s personal physician Eugene Botkin, his wife’s maid Anna Demidova, and the family’s chef, Ivan Kharitonov, and footman, Alexei Trupp were awakened around 2 a.m., told to dress, and were killed in a half-basement room by a firing squad waiting in an adjoining room.