2023-07-16 10:22:31
The assassination of the last imperial family is still the subject of debate in Russia. On the night of July 16-17, 1918, the tsar, along with Tsarina Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexei, his sisters Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, their doctor and three servants were shot by a group of gunmen led by the Bolshevik general Yakov Yurovski. They were brought down to the basement with the excuse that they were going to be attacked. There they were executed.
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Tsar Nicholas II, emperor and autocrat of all the Russias, forced to abdicate in 1917, shortly after the February revolution, was not a progressive ruler and believed in his divine right to reign, which precipitated his downfall.
It is suggested that it was Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, who ordered the use of acid to make the bodies disappear and bury the remains in secret.
Classic image of Tsar Nicholas II with his family colored by the artist Olga Shirnina
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In 1998 a state funeral was held for the royal family. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized the Romanov family two years later, representing all the Bolshevik martyrs, 25 million deaths attributable to Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin.
among these remains–the tsar, the tsarina, and the princesses Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia– those of prince Alexei and princess Maria were not there. In August 2007, some archaeologists claimed to have found them, but the results of their study are still unknown to this day.
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