Execution of the Romanov family
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Tsar Nicholas II,
his wife Tsarina Alexandra and
their five children
Olga,
Tatiana,
Maria,
Anastasia,
and Alexei
As well as their loyal subjects who chose to accompany them into imprisonment ... notably:
Eugene Botkin,
Anna Demidova,
Alexei Trupp and
Ivan Kharitonov,
As ascertained by the investigator Sokolov they were shot and bayoneted to death in Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16–17 1918.
According to the official state version in the USSR, former Tsar Nicholas Romanov, along with members of his family and retinue, were executed by firing squad, by order of the Ural Regional Soviet, due to the threat of the city being occupied by the Czechoslovak Legion, aka the "Whites".
According to a number of researchers, they were murdered under plans set into motion by Lenin, Yakov Sverdlov and Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Their bodies were then taken to the Koptyaki forest where they were stripped and mutilated.
In 1919, White Army investigation of Sokolov failed to find the gravesite and concluded that the Romonov's remains had been cremated at the mineshaft called Ganina Yama because there was evidence of fire there.
In 1979 and 2007 those remains were found in two unmarked graves in a field called Porosenkov Log.
Thus is the sad ending of a the Tsar of Russia, his family, and servants at the hands of their captors — the victors, who also wrote the sad gruesome history.
No wonder Lenin was murdered by bludgeoning with a hammer.
That which goes around, comes around.