#romanove

[indypendentroyalty]

Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918) and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna.

St. Petersburg, Russia, 1894

[myicaruscomplex]

The room, filled with the smoke and stench of gunpowder, became suddenly quiet. Blood was running in streams from the bodies on the floor. Then there was a movement and a low groan. Alexis, lying on the floor still in the arms of the Czar, feebly moved his hand to clutch his father’s coat. Savagely, one of the executioners kicked the Czarevitch in the head with his heavy boot. Yurovsky stepped up and fired two shots into the boy’s ear. Just at that moment, Anastasia, who had only fainted, regained consciousness and screamed. With bayonets and rifle butts, the entire band turned on her. In a moment, she too lay still. It was ended. The real Anastasia was murdered while still a teenager in one of the bloodiest and cruelest acts of a distinctly bloody and cruel century.

- Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert K. Massie (1968) (x)