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The last tsar of Russian empire |
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On April 8, 1894, Alexandra and Nicholas II were engaged. Alexandra was the daughter of Louis IV, the Grand Duke. She was born in 1872. Her grandmother was Queen Victoria of England. On November 14, 1894, a month after the death of his father Nicholas married Alexandra and officially became the tsar of Russia.The first son of Nicholas and Alexandra was born in 1904. He had four elder sisters. He was called Alexei. The problem of who would rule Russia in case of an accident to Nicholas was solved. However, there was a new problem, as Alexei was diagnosed with hemophilia. Another problem, even more serious appeared in 1917, when Nicholas II was forced to end the Romanov's rule over Russia after three hundred years on March 2, 1917 because of the Revolution. He was promised that his family would not be hit, if he forfeited the throne. He agreed. He was very kind, intelligent and softhearted man. He loved his family more than all. Because of people were still so upset with him, the Soviet authorities ordered the arrest of Nicholas II and all the members of the Romanov dynasty on March 3,1917. The family was to be isolated from the outside world within the confines of Alexander's Palace, complete with an inside and outside guard. However, soon after, rumors were spreading that claimed the imperial family had escaped to England. Therefore, the government sent the family and their servants to Tobolsk, in Siberia, on July 31,1917.After spending about nine months under heavy supervision, the family was going to be transported to Moscow to stand trial for treason against Russia. However, this plan was only a fake, as the family was never intended to make it to Moscow. The real plan was that the Ural Bolsheviks would seize the train on its way to Moscow and take the family to the Ural capital of Yekaterinburg.In Yekaterinburg, the family was put in a prison in one of the town's largest houses, the Ipatiev House. Two months later, when Yekaterinburg was surrounded by the Czech Legion and the White Army who were intent on overthrowing the Bolsheviks and releasing the imperial family, a decision about the family was made. The Bolsheviks sent a telegram to Moscow containing the plans for an execution of the imperial family on July 16, 1918. The consent was received. The family was awakened in the early hours of July 17 and take the cellar for what they thought was a family photc there was no photographer. Yakov Yurovsky read family's death sentence. As soon as he had finished began and minutes later, the family was murdered up the bodies into a truck and buried them in the gravesite. Then their remains were poured over reburied again-all their relatives in Russia were murdered f o direct order of Lenin.
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