The End of a Dynasty: The Legend of the Romanovs

In February 1917, a revolution came to Russia. One month later, Nicholas II, emperor and autocrat of the Russians, resigned from his throne to live a normal life. The family had just celebrated their third generation in power in 1913. With the revolution at home combined with the disastrous failure abroad during World War I, the Romanov dynasty came to an end.

Execution cellar of Ipatiev house / The Romanovs / Anna Anderson / Russian Orthodox Believers.

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The Romanov family were held prisoners by Bolshevik forces, who moved them to different places until that dark, fateful night in the summer of 1918. The entire family was taken out and became victims to a fate they never saw coming.

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