{"id":2557,"date":"2013-07-17T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:52:06","slug":"july-17-murder-of-the-romanovs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/july-17-murder-of-the-romanovs\/","title":{"rendered":"July 17 Anniversary of the Murder of the Romanovs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/July-17-Date-Worth-Remembering-07-17-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2558\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/july-17-murder-of-the-romanovs\/july-17-date-worth-remembering-07-17-2013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/July-17-Date-Worth-Remembering-07-17-2013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,399\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"July 17 Date Worth Remembering 07-17-2013\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Tsar Nicholas II and Family&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/July-17-Date-Worth-Remembering-07-17-2013-300x187.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/July-17-Date-Worth-Remembering-07-17-2013.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2558\" alt=\"July 17 Date Worth Remembering 07-17-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/July-17-Date-Worth-Remembering-07-17-2013.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/July-17-Date-Worth-Remembering-07-17-2013.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/July-17-Date-Worth-Remembering-07-17-2013-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas Romanov, his wife, his five children, and a host of aides were herded into the basement and executed&#8230;\u00a0You may read more of this blog post of mine at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/july-17-date-worth-remembering_739404.html\">\u201cJuly 17: A Date Worth Remembering,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0WeeklyStandard.com, July 17, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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. 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