All of them had been brutally murdered by Bolsheviks on the morning of July 17, 1918.
«The children—the Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Maria and the young Tsarevich Alexei—had diamonds sewed into their clothes that caused the bullets to ricochet. The firing squad instead tried to finish the survivors off with bayonets. They even shot the dogs, though one, a spaniel named Joy, escaped, and was found days later in the woods by a British soldier. The servants were allowed to escape – yet they refused to betray the Romanovs thus being executed as well».
IIVault13DwellerII
So many times have I seen photos and footage of these royals, and then Im left to ponder on their fate to come so shortly after those images were taken, from another place and time and yet I cant help but try to imagine the horror felt, abeit potentially so breif, that must of been felt, so amplified by the pure shocking surprise at the very end of a lifetime of uninaginable luxury.
Jemapelledima
All of them had been brutally murdered by Bolsheviks on the morning of July 17, 1918.
«The children—the Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Maria and the young Tsarevich Alexei—had diamonds sewed into their clothes that caused the bullets to ricochet. The firing squad instead tried to finish the survivors off with bayonets. They even shot the dogs, though one, a spaniel named Joy, escaped, and was found days later in the woods by a British soldier. The servants were allowed to escape – yet they refused to betray the Romanovs thus being executed as well».
IIVault13DwellerII
So many times have I seen photos and footage of these royals, and then Im left to ponder on their fate to come so shortly after those images were taken, from another place and time and yet I cant help but try to imagine the horror felt, abeit potentially so breif, that must of been felt, so amplified by the pure shocking surprise at the very end of a lifetime of uninaginable luxury.
weezles77
The Last Czars was on amazon prime, great show