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Murder of the Romanov family (1918)

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17 Jul 1918 — As anti-Bolshevik forces close in, the Tsar, his wife, their five children and four servants are shot in a cellar and their bodies hidden. A memorial to eleven murdered people, remembered here soberly.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Outbreak of the Russian Civil War (chapter 8 of Russian Revolution)
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The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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SITE OF MEMORY · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

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