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The Execution of the Romanov Family
Yekaterinburg, RussiaJuly 17, 1918
Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, their five children, and four servants were executed by Bolshevik forces in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. The killings ended the 300-year Romanov dynasty. The bodies were buried in secret; the complete remains were not identified until 2007 through DNA analysis, putting to rest decades of impostor claims.