Alexandra feodorovna execution
Alexandra feodorovna execution
Maria feodorovna (dagmar of denmark).
The Devastating True Story of the Romanov Family's Execution
Ahead of the anniversary of the Romanovs' deaths, we're resurfacing our 2018 feature on Russia's last imperial family.
At about 1 a.m. on July 17, 1918, in a fortified mansion in the town of Ekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains, the Romanovs—ex-tsar Nicholas II, ex-tsarina Alexandra, their five children, and their four remaining servants, including the loyal family doctor, Eugene Botkin—were awoken by their Bolshevik captors and told they must dress and gather their belongings for a swift nocturnal departure.
The White armies, which supported the tsar, were approaching; the prisoners could already hear the boom of the big guns.
They gathered in the cellar of the mansion, standing together almost as if they were posing for a family portrait.
Alexandra feodorovna execution photos
Alexandra, who was sick, asked for a chair, and Nicholas asked for another one for his only son, 13-year-old Alexei. Two were brought down. They waited there until, suddenly,