Nicholas Romanov, the last Russian tsar, was executed along with his wife, Empress Alexandra, his children and servants who refused to abandon their master, in the early hours of July 17, 1918, at the behest of the Ural Soviet of Workers' Deputies.
Their corpses were dumped in a nearby mine where they remained for the next 80 years until finally being reinterred in St. Petersburg in 1998.
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Emperor Nicholas II and his family. St. Petersburg, 1910s.
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Emperor Nicholas II holding his infant son Prince Alexei.
Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. C. 1910s. A dragon tattoo the emperor made during his visit to Japan in 1891 is barely visible on his right forearm.
Emperor Nicholas II (L) with his wife Empress Alexandra (R) and daughter Princess Olga.
The daughters of Nicholas II.
A captain and his crew greet the family of Emperor Nicholas II as the latter boards a ship.
Princess Maria, the daughter of Emperor Nicholas II.
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Emperor Nicholas II on a hunting trip. Mid-1890s.
Princess Anastasia, the daughter of Emperor Nicholas II.
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Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra seen during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov.
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Prince Alexei, the son of Emperor Nicholas II.
Princess Anastasia, the daughter of Emperor Nicholas II.
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Emperor Nicholas II (second from the right), Empress Alexandra (first from the left) and Grand Duchess Olga during a walk. Petergof, 1896.
Russian Emperor Nicholas II (L) and his son Alexei.
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Emperor Nicholas II (C) with his fiance Alexandra (L) and her sister Elisabeth (R).
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Emperor Nicholas II reading a book at his hunting lodge.
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The Romanov family on the roof of a house in Tobolsk where they were exiled in 1917, prior to their transfer to Yekaterinburg.
This photo of Tsar Nicholas II and his daughters Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana in the winter of 1917 is from the Beinecke Library at Yale.
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One of the last pictures of Nicholas, taken during the summer in 1917 when he was exiled to Tobolsk.
The room where Nicholas and his family were shot dead.
A church built at the site where the remains of Nicholas Romanov and his family were interred in 1918.
