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Execution of the Romanov family

Took place on July 16, 1918

108

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The 109th anniversary falls on July 16, 2027, in 265 days.

Members of the Romanov family–the former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, Empress Alexandra, and their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei–were shot and stabbed to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17…

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Nicholas II of Russia

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Roald Amundsen

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