Who killed the Romanov family?
The tsar Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 but Lenin ordered their execution in 1918 in case any opposing forces tried to reinstate him, they were killed by a bolshevik firing squad in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918 along with Dr. Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp, and Ivan Kharitonov (people who went with the family into exile) It was believed that daughter Anastasia and son Alexei survived by hiding under the bodies of their murdered relatives and later escaped because their remains weren’t buried along with the families. Their disappearance led to many young girls stepping forward in order to claim that they were the missing Princess, the most successful of them being Anna Anderson who was able to recount some private details of the princesses life but was ultimately proven to be false when her DNA didn’t match that of the Tsar’s. Anastasia’s and Alexei’s remains were later found and identified in 2009, not too far from the burial place of the rest of the family.
