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A survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center on 11 July 2018 revealed that 57% of Russians "believe that the execution of the Royal family is a heinous unjustified crime", while 29% said "the last Russian emperor paid too high a price for his mistakes". Among those aged between 18 and 24, 46% believe that Nicholas II had to ...
The collection of jewels and jewelry collected by the Romanov family during their reign are commonly referred to as the "Russian Crown Jewels" [53] and they include official state regalia as well as personal pieces of jewelry worn by Romanov rulers and their family. After the Tsar was deposed and his family murdered, their jewels and jewelry ...
Members of the ruling Russian imperial family, the House of Romanov, were executed by a firing squad led by Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 17, 1918, during both the Russian Civil War and near the end of the First World War. Afterwards, a number of people came forward claiming to have survived the execution.
Russian Federation Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya: Gleb Panfilov: English title: The Romanovs: An Imperial Family Includes footage of the canonization of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 2000. 2002 Russian Federation Russian Ark: Alexander Sokurov: Filmed in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in just one 90 minute shot. 2003 United Kingdom
Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg (city later renamed Sverdlovsk) Ipatiev House (Russian: Дóм Ипáтьева) was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg (city in 1924 renamed Sverdlovsk, in 1991 renamed back to Yekaterinburg) where the abdicated Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918, reigned 1894–1917), all his immediate family, and other members of his household were murdered [1] in July ...
Russian troops under the orders of Tsar Alexander II put down a peasant rebellion led by Anton Petrov. The rebels were protesting the details of the Emancipation reform of 1861. Circassian genocide: 1800s–May 21, 1864 Circassia: 1,500,000-2,000,000 The Russian Empire ethnically cleansed the Circassian people. The survivors fled to the Ottoman ...
Multiple people have reportedly been killed and many more wounded after several gunman opened fire at a concert hall near to Moscow.. The state Tass news agency reported that the shooting occurred ...
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, gives birth to their fifth child and first son, Alexei.Despite pleas from Grand Duke Nicholas and Count Sergei Witte, Nicholas refuses to end the Russo-Japanese War or accept demands for a constitutional monarchy, believing that doing either will make him look weak and put the Romanov dynasty at risk.