In the night of 16 to 17 July 1918, Bolshevik guards shot the former tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, their five children and four retainers in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. The family had been held under house arrest since Nicholas's abdication in 1917, and the killing took place as anti-Bolshevik forces approached the city during the Russian Civil War. The order came from the Ural Soviet, and the evidence indicates that the central leadership in Moscow approved it. The bodies were hidden, found in 1979 and revealed in 1991, and identified by DNA analysis, with the last two found in 2007. The family was buried in Saint Petersburg in 1998 and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000. Claims of survivors such as Anastasia were disproved.
Before and after
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- from 1 June 1918 to 26 June 1918Battle of Belleau Wood
- from June 1918 to March 1920North Russia intervention
- 14 July 1918Birth of Ingmar Bergman
- 16 July 1918Execution of the Romanov family
- 17 July 1918Death of Nicholas II of Russia
- 18 July 1918Birth of Nelson Mandela
- from August 1918 to July 1920Siberian Intervention
- from 8 August 1918 to 11 November 1918Hundred Days Offensive
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