100 years ago - The murder of the Romanov family

Exactly 100 years ago The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment—notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov were murdered in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16-17 July 1918