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Murder of the Romanovs

As the Russian Civil War raged in 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were brutally killed by the Bolsheviks.

As civil war raged in Russia, on 17 July 1918, the imprisoned royal family were told they were to be taken to a place of refuge.

But the move was a trick and half an hour later Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and his children lay dead, gunned down and bayonetted.

In 2018, his great niece Olga Romanov told Olga Smirnova about that night, and the family鈥檚 reburial 80 years later.

(Photo: The room where the Romanovs were murdered. Credit: Getty Images)

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