Execution of the Romanov family
July 17, 1918 · Yekaterinburg
The former Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, their five children, and four retainers were shot and bayoneted by Bolsheviks under Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16-17 July 1918, on orders of the Ural Regional Soviet.
Key people
Nicholas II of Russia
Former Emperor, Victim
Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia
Former Empress, Victim
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess, Victim
Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess, Victim
Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess, Victim
Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess, Victim
Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia
Tsarevich, Victim
Yakov Yurovsky
perpetrator
Filipp Goloshchyokin
perpetrator, Ural regional party leader who arranged the killing with Moscow
Alexander Beloborodov
perpetrator, chairman of the Ural Soviet that ordered the killing
