MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · July 17
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 17
July 17 in history
1918 — Ekaterinburg
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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