Romanovs executed at Yekaterinburg

July 17, 1918

In the cellar of a merchant's house, Nicholas II, his wife, four daughters, and their hemophiliac son were shot by Bolsheviks who feared White armies might rescue them. The bodies were soaked in acid and dumped in a mine. Three centuries of dynasty ended on a stone floor in the Urals, in the middle of the night.