In retrospect, it was only a matter of time. Forced from power, the once almighty leader had been removed from his palace and imprisoned in a former merchant’s home. There he and his family were stripped of many of their luxuries and subjected to insults of his captors. Revolutionaries seldom are gentle to the deposed.
On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas Romanov, his wife, his five children, and a host of aides were herded into the basement and executed… You may read more of this blog post of mine at: “July 17: A Date Worth Remembering,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 17, 2013.
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