Romanovs Execution

Execution of the Imperial family in the Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg took place on on July 17, 1918. On the orders of Vladimir Lenin, the Romanov and the Tsar s personal physician Eugene Botkin, his wife s maid Anna Demidova, and the family s chef, Ivan Kharitonov, and footman, Alexei Trupp were awakened around 2 a. m., told to dress, and were killed in a halfbasement room by a firing squad waiting in an adjoining room.