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The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II

Infamous Assassinations · Season 1 · Episode 23
Yekaterinburg, 1918

After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their supporters approached. Factory worker guards were replaced by Cheka executioners and on 17th July 1918, the family were murdered and buried in a nearby wood. For more than 70 years their whereabouts was unknown but new material released from Russia now conclusively reveals their fate.

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Season
1
Episode
23
Air Date
30/Jul/2012
Air Time
Runtime
30 min

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Yekaterinburg, 1918

After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their supporters approached. Factory worker guards were replaced by Cheka executioners and on 17th July 1918, the family were murdered and buried in a nearby wood. For more than 70 years their whereabouts was unknown but new material released from Russia now conclusively reveals their fate.

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